Ryan Shirey, Ph.D.
Doctoral Thesis: Diagnostics for Onchocerciasis and High-Throughput Screens for Modulators of the Oncoprotein MYC and the Immune Regulators PLD3 and PLD4
Description of Research Focus: Shirey's research focused on developing point-of-care diagnostics for neglected tropical diseases and high-throughput assays to identify small molecule chemotherapeutics and immunoregulators.
Undergraduate Institution: San Diego State University
Noteworthy Publications: Non-Invasive Urine Biomarker Lateral Flow Immunoassay for Monitoring Active Onchocerciasis, ACS Infectious Diseases (2018); Synthetic Fluorescent MYC Probe: Binding Site Elucidation and Development of a High-Throughput Screening Assay, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry (2021); Modulators of immunoregulatory exonucleases PLD3 and PLD4 identified by high-throughput screen, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters (2021)
Honors & Awards: *NSPIRE Fellow, Scripps Research (2020); Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (2018); Dean’s Fellowship, Scripps Research (2016)
Looking Back: "My success would not have been possible without the guidance of my incredible committee (Luke Lairson, Brunie Felding, Thomas Kodadek, and Kim Janda)."
Next Steps: "I will be working as a Bioanalytical Scientist at Avidity Biosciences while continuing to teach chemistry part-time for Clovis Community College."
Be sure to join us at 10 a.m. PDT on Friday, May 20 for our Commencement Ceremony Livestream! Shirey's advisor and mentor, Prof. Kim Janda, will deliver a few words about his graduate experience, and viewers can learn about our 47 other 2022 graduates, who are now setting out to build careers that will profoundly impact the future of biomedical research.
