Nolan Kennedy

Nolan Kennedy

My work focuses on the 1,2-propanediol utilization bacterial microcompartment and the thousands of individual protein subunits that assemble into the compartment shell. My work will look at how the proteins forming these unique organelles assemble into larger structures, such as rods, sheets, or complete compartments. Once the rules governing the assembly of these structures are elucidated, we hope to utilize them to create designer protein structures for scaffolding or drug delivery.