CV

Education

Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin (2021)
B.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder (2015)

Research Positions

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University (2021 - present)

• Project: Image processing algorithms with application to cryo-EM
  Advisors: Dr. Amit Singer

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Texas at Austin (2016 - 2021)

• Project: Systems-level structural biology of macromolecular machines using single particle cryo-EM
  Advisors: Dr. David Taylor and Dr. Edward Marcotte

Guest Researcher, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) at Boulder (2015-2016)

• Project: Molecular diffusion through a crowded matrix
  Advisors: Dr. Jeeseong Hwang and Dr. Loren Hough

Undergraduate Researcher, University of Colorado at Boulder (2013-2015)

• Project: Mechanisms of selective transport through nuclear pore complex mimics
  Advisor: Dr. Loren Hough

Publications

Sae-Lee W., McCafferty C.L., Verbeke E.J., Havugimana P.C., Papoulas O., McWhite C.D., Houser J.R., Vanuytsel K., Murphy G.J., Drew K., Emili A., Taylor D.W., Marcotte E.M. (2022).
The protein organization of a red blood cell.
Cell Reports

Lucas M.J., Pan H.S., Verbeke E.J., Partipilo G, Helfman E.C., Kann L, Keitz B.K., Taylor D.W., Webb L.J. (2022).
Cross-Seeding Controls Aβ Fibril Populations and Resulting Functions.
J. Phys. Chem. B.

McCafferty, C.M., Verbeke, E.J., Marcotte, E.M., Taylor, D.W. (2020).
Structural Biology in the Multi-Omics Era.
J. Chem. Inf. Model.

Lucas, M.J.*, Pan, H.S.*, Verbeke, E.J.*, Webb, L.J., Taylor, D.W., Keitz, K.K. (2020).
Functionalized Mesoporous Silicas Direct Structural Polymorphism of Amyloid-β Fibrils.
Langmuir

Verbeke, E.J., Zhou, Y., Horton, A.P., Mallam, A.L, Taylor, D.W., Marcotte, E.M. (2020).
Separating distinct structures of multiple macromolecular assemblies from cryo-EM projections.
J. Struct. Biol.

Yi, X.*, Verbeke, E.J.*, Chang, Y.*, Dickinson, D.J., Taylor, D.W. (2019).
Electron microscopy snapshots of single particles from single cells.
J. Biol. Chem.

Verbeke, E.J., Mallam, A.L., Drew, K., Marcotte, E.M., and Taylor, D.W. (2018).
Classification of Single Particles from Human Cell Extract Reveals Distinct Structures.
Cell Reports

Wall, K.P., Pagratis, M., Armstrong, G., Balsbaugh, J.L., Verbeke, E., Pearson, C.G., Hough, L.E. (2016).
Molecular Determinants of Tubulin’s C-Terminal Tail Conformational Ensemble.
ACS Chem. Biol.

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant: Physical Methods of Biochemistry (2018)
• Teaching Assistant: Physical Methods of Biochemistry (2017)

Awards

• University Graduate Continuing Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2020
• Understanding Biology Through Structure travel award, 2020
• Gordon Research Conference travel award, 2019
• David Bruton Jr. Graduate School Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2018
• Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2014
• HHMI Undergraduate Research Fellow, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2013

Talks and Conferences

• Cryo-EM Summer Workshop, Flatiron Institute, NYC, June 2023

• SIAM conference on Mathematics of Data Science, San Diego, September 2022

• IPAM long program on Computational Microscopy, UCLA, September 2022 - December 2022

• Gordon Research Seminar and Conference for 3DEM, Castelldefels, Spain, June 2022
  Title: Don’t Purify in Vein! Structural Insights from Red Blood Cell Lysate

• Understanding Biology Through Structure, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 2020 (meeting cancelled)
  Title: Developments in shotgun cryo-EM - probing the diversity of protein structures from lysates of red blood cells

• Gordon Research Seminar and Conference for 3DEM, Hong Kong, China, June 2019
  Title: Separating distinct structures of multiple macromolecular assemblies from cryo-EM projections

Full CV contact: ev9102[at]princeton.edu