Dr. Andrew McShan
Dr. McShan is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology. They obtained their Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology at the University of Kansas in the lab of Dr. Roberto De Guzman studying bacterial type III section systems. They then moved to Philadelphia and were a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Nikolaos Sgourakis at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia & The University of Pennsylvania studying antigen presentation of classical peptide/MHC-I molecules. Currently, Dr. McShan’s lab focusses on understansing how lipid antigens are selected and loaded onto CD1 molecules in various cellular compartments, solving macromolecular structures of CD1 complexes with different disease-associated lipids antigens, as well as many other projects.
Dr. Jeffrey Skolnick
Dr. Skolnick is a Regents’ Professor; Mary and Maisie Gibson Chair & GRA Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Yale University in 1978 and has since held faculty positions at several institutions. Skolnick’s research focuses on developing and applying computational methods for studying protein structure, function, and evolution, making significant contributions to protein structure prediction, protein-protein interactions, and drug discovery. He has authored over 400 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Biophysical Society, and the International Society for Computational Biology.