Sam Berry

Sam Berry

PhD candidate in Biophysics

Harvard University

About

I’m a PhD student in Biophysics at Harvard, where I am interested in the structure, function and evolution of proteins. I am currently working with Rachelle Gaudet and Debora Marks on learning the sequence determinants of substrate selectivity in a model bacterial transporter using deep mutagenesis coupled with evolutionary sequence modeling. My broader goal is to be a small part of the huge project to link our understanding of the “jigglings and wigglings of atoms” to the scale of evolution over billions of years.

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Interests
  • Biochemistry
  • Structural biology
  • Evolution
  • Bioinformatics
Education
  • PhD candidate in Biophysics, current

    Harvard University

  • B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, 2019

    Yale University

Publications

(2023). High-resolution structures map the metal import pathway in an Nramp transporter. In eLife.

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(2023). Coordination of bacterial cell wall and outer membrane biosynthesis. In Nature.

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(2019). HOPS-dependent endosomal fusion required for efficient cytosolic delivery of therapeutic peptides and small proteins. In PNAS.

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