Roberto Chica

Research Interests

• Protein Engineering, Computational Protein Design

Current Research Projects

• Development of multistate computational protein design methods for the engineering of protein energy landscapes
• Designer biocatalysts for asymmetric synthesis of unnatural amino acids
• Fluorescent protein engineering and biosensors for biological imaging
• De novo enzyme design

Tools and Expertises

• Molecular modeling
• Protein biophysics
• Enzyme kinetics
• Molecular biology