Matt Shoulders News Today

As J-WAFS Grand Challenge awardees, Matt Shoulders of MIT’s Department of Chemistry will lead an interdisciplinary team of researchers to improve RuBisCO — the photosynthesis enzyme thought to be the holy grail for improving agricultural yield.

MLK Visiting Scholar Brandon Ogbunu is studying protein folding and evolution in the MIT Department of Chemistry. Ogbunu’s research combines evolutionary biology, genetics, and epidemiology and uses experimental evolution, mathematical modeling, and computational biology to investigate disease.

Matthew Shoulders grew up in the Appalachian Mountains on a small Virginia farm where he and his five ...