Leah Roe

Leah Roe is a PhD candidate in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on protein backbone editing through the development of the Backbone Extension Acyl Rearrangement (BEAR) method, under the guidance of Alanna Schepartz as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow since August 2020. Concurrently, Leah Roe has been engaged as a Graduate Student Researcher with the NSF Center for Genetically Encoded Materials. Prior experience includes a Staff Research Associate position at the University of California, San Francisco, where Leah Roe contributed to the structure determination and mechanism discovery of the anti-CRISPR protein F11, and a Research Affiliate role at Berkeley Lab, focusing on local secondary structure control in peptoid oligomers. Leah Roe's earlier experience includes an internship in peptide synthesis at CS Bio Co. and a Bachelor's degree in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.