Alex Carlin

Computational biologist and musician who loves making things

A surprised me (center) and Steve Bertolani (right) in our lab at Davis. Photo credit: James Lucas

Science

• Data driven protein engineering with machine learning tools
• Biophysical modeling of glycoside hydrolase enzymes
• Computational enzyme design using Rosetta, all in Jupyter notebooks
• Course in protein engineering
• Automated Sanger sequence verification of designed DNA sequences using bioinformatics tools
• Dense multiplexed PacBio sequencing for protein design
• Enzyme Design Kit: Python tools for enzyme design

Apps & Hardware

• RetroCorder: A tape recorder for music that time-travels
• Wheels: iOS app for capturing songwriting ideas
• TinyLab: open source laboratory robotics

Music

• The Gold Souls, 2015–2017, songwriting and guitar
  Live videos: “Just A Little Bit” and ”Time You Admit“
• Adams Street Jazz Band, summer 2012, guitar and vocals
• Mister Wiggles, summer 2015, bass

Writing

• Big Boogie, short essays on blues guitar techniques

Contact

• <my-last-name>@ucdavis.edu