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I focus primarily on engineering redox proteins to function as reliable sensors in health and environmental settings. This is primarily done through domain insertion. Domains are the structural, functional or evolutionary units of proteins which hold unique functionalities. By coupling two independent units, we are able to build novel synthetic structures offer new tools with improved, novel, or specific abilities.
Favorite scientist: Marie Curie
Education: Ph.D. student, Biochemistry and Cell Biology Program
BSc. Biology and Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
cn12 at rice dot edu
C. Ajo-Franklin Group Publications:
“Creation of a point-of-care therapeutics sensor using protein engineering, electrochemical sensing and electronic integration,” R. Cai, C. Ngwadom, R. Saxena, J. Soman, C. Bruggeman, D. P. Hickey, R. Verduzco, C. M. Ajo-Franklin. Nature Communications (2024)
“Insertional Profiling of Pyrroloquinoline Quinone Glucose Dehydrogenase for Two-Component Biosensor Engineering“, Chiagoziem Ngwadom, Rong Cai, and Caroline Ajo-Franklin Meet. Abstr. MA2022-01 2222 (2022)