Projects | Katie Amberg-Johnson | Professional Portfolio

I led a team in the GSK Immunohack challenge whose goal was to increase vaccinations. We won!

Hackathon Vaccinations

I used Gradient Boosted Decision Trees to create a predictive model for bacterial pollution based on State of Hawaii water sampling data.

Data Science

To identify the molecular target of actinonin, we selected resistant mutants in Toxoplasma gondii that could survive high amounts of drug.

Malaria Actinonin FtsH1

A cell-based screen to identify small molecules that inhibited Plasmodium falciparum plastid organelle biogenesis.

Malaria Apicoplast Replication

I worked on creating a variant of the Core-Binding Domain of σ54 that lacked the C-terminal helix.

σ54 AMGEN Scholars Program

I performed a molecular tweezers experiment on the transcription initiation protein, σ54, to determine the number of unfolding events.

Molecular Tweezers σ54