Hale S. Hasdemir

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Home Department: Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology

Office Address: 3115 Beckman Institute, 405 N Matthews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Email Address: halesh2@illinois.edu

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/hale-hasdemir

Doctoral researcher

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3041 Beckman Institute, 405 N Matthews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801


Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology (Urbana, IL)
  • PhD in Biophysics and Quantitative Biology - Dec, 2024 (Expected)

Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • BS in Chemistry (Double Major) - June, 2019
  • BS in Molecular Biology and Genetics - June, 2018

Research Interests

Protein Engineering
  • Viral Capsid Engineering for Gene Therapy (Co-op at Vertex Pharmaceuticals)
  • Computational Antibody Engineering

Molecular Docking, Protein-Small Molecule Interactions, Free Energy Methods
  • Free Energy Calculations for Drug Design with FEP+
  • High-Throughput Virtual Screening for Hit Finding and Evaluation

Protein-Membrane interactions

Awards

  • Biochemistry Graduate Student Travel Grant (2021-2022)