2013 Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant

Home Department: Chemistry
Supported by: anonymous donor
Mentor: Steven Boxer, Professor of Chemistry

Oliver Hamto is a rising senior. His research in the Boxer lab focuses on a fluorescent protein that emits in the red zone of the visible spectrum: mCherry. The study aims to apply mCherry constructs to split protein methods previously developed in the same lab for green fluorescent proteins. In his spare time, he likes to get involved with the Pilipino-American community on- and off-campus.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 26, 2013:

Cherry Picking: Proteolytic and Chaotropic Disassembly of Monomeric Red Fluorescent Proteins

Oliver Hamto1, Luke Oltrogge1, Steven Boxer1
[Department of Chemistry1, Stanford University]