Becca joined the Guttman Lab via  UW BPSD – Biological Physics, Structure & Design

 

Publications

De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxins. Torres SV, Valle MB, Mackessy SP, Menzies SK, Casewell NR, Ahmadi S, Burlet NJ, Muratspahić E, Sappington I, Overath MD, Rivera-de-Torre E, Ledergerber J, Laustsen AH, Boddum K, Bera AK, Kang A, Brackenbrough E, Cardoso IA, Crittenden EP, Edge RJ, Decarreau J, Ragotte RJ, Pillai AS, Abedi M, Han HL, Gerben SR, Murray A, Skotheim R, Stuart L, Stewart L, Fryer TJA, Jenkins TP, Baker D.Res Sq [Preprint]. 2024 May 17:rs.3.rs-4402792. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4402792/v1. Update in: Nature. 2025 Mar;639(8053):225-231. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08393-x.
 

De novo design of allosterically switchable protein assemblies. Pillai A, Idris A, Philomin A, Weidle C, Skotheim R, Leung PJY, Broerman A, Demakis C, Borst AJ, Praetorius F, Baker D. Nature. 2024 Aug;632(8026):911-920. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07813-2. Epub 2024 Aug 14.
 

Computational design of bifaceted protein nanomaterials. Rankovic S, Carr KD, Decarreau J, Skotheim R, Kibler RD, Ols S, Lee S, Chun JH, Tooley MR, Dauparas J, Eisenach HE, Glögl M, Weidle C, Borst AJ, Baker D, King NP.bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Dec 21:2024.10.18.619149. doi: 10.1101/2024.10.18.619149. Update in: Nat Mater. 2025 Oct;24(10):1635-1643. doi: 10.1038/s41563-025-02295-7.
 

Computational design of non-porous pH-responsive antibody nanoparticles. Yang EC, Divine R, Miranda MC, Borst AJ, Sheffler W, Zhang JZ, Decarreau J, Saragovi A, Abedi M, Goldbach N, Ahlrichs M, Dobbins C, Hand A, Cheng S, Lamb M, Levine PM, Chan S, Skotheim R, Fallas J, Ueda G, Lubner J, Somiya M, Khmelinskaia A, King NP, Baker D.Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2024 Sep;31(9):1404-1412. doi: 10.1038/s41594-024-01288-5. Epub 2024 May 9.
 

Fast and versatile sequence-independent protein docking for nanomaterials design using RPXDock. Sheffler W, Yang EC, Dowling Q, Hsia Y, Fries CN, Stanislaw J, Langowski MD, Brandys M, Li Z, Skotheim R, Borst AJ, Khmelinskaia A, King NP, Baker D.PLoS Comput Biol. 2023 May 22;19(5):e1010680. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010680. eCollection 2023 May.