Dr. Jesse Zalatan

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Biography

Jesse Zalatan studies the physical organizing principles of biological networks in cellular signaling, metabolism, and gene regulation. His lab employs a variety of methods from physical organic chemistry, mechanistic enzymology, biochemistry, and synthetic biology. Jesse completed his graduate work at Stanford University from 2002 to 2008, where he developed comparative models to understand the mechanisms of evolution of enzymes that catalyze phosphoryl transfer reactions. In 2008, he moved to UCSF to join the laboratory of Wendell Lim, focusing on mechanisms that control the specificity of cellular signaling networks and developing CRISPR-Cas tools for programmable control of gene expression networks. He joined the chemistry faculty at the University of Washington in 2014.

Research Interests

Awards

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Burroughs Wellcome Career Award

Courses

CHEM 239 Organic Chemistry CHEM 573 Current Research Topics Organic Biological Chemistry CHEM 436 Chemical Biology CHEM 536 Chemical Biology

Requirements for University of Washington

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:80
IELTS
Overall
Required:6.5
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:105
Overall
Required:105
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university
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Specialization Notes

Standard Graduate School requirements for University of Washington apply to most departments listed unless specified otherwise by the program.