Plants are increasingly vulnerable to environmental stressors—such as pathogen infection, drought, and heat—from climate change. These challenges threaten global food security and limit the carbon sequestration potential of plants. Dr. Ellen Rim's research goal is to sustainably enhance plant productivity and resilience through protein engineering. The Rim lab engineers proteins involved in plant immune and hormone signaling pathways using directed evolution in high-throughput single cell systems.
Home Department: Biophysics
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Curved crease origami at cellular scales enables hyper-extensibility of Lacrymaria olor
Event: Cell Bio 2023 - An ASCB | EMBO Meeting
Home Department: undeclared
Mentor: Laura Prolo (Neurosurgery)
Home Department: Structural Biology
Faculty Advisor: Adam de la Zerda
Talk Title: Contrast-enhanced optical coherence tomography with picomolar sensitivity enables functional 3D imaging of deep tumor microvasculature and lymphatic drainage in live animal models
Event: World Molecualr Imaging Congress (WMIC) 2016
Awarded in 2009
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Markus Covert (Bioengineering) and Alfred Spormann (Chemical Engineering)
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Markus Covert
Talk Title: Host Genetic Interactions During Viral Infection: A Systems Virology Approach to Lambda Phage Infection of E. Coli
Event: AIChE Annual Meeting 2010
