Allison Keys

Allison Keys

Graduate Student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alli graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Chemistry in 2019 where she worked with Polly Fordyce and studied transcription factor binding in yeast. Next she obtained an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford in 2020 where she worked with Russ Altman to perform protein binding affinity prediction. She is now a Ph.D. student in the CSB program and is jointly advised in the Kiessling and Kulik labs. Currently, she is modeling the energetics of aromatic protein residue interactions with carbohydrates.

Interests
  • protein-sugar interactions
  • biochemistry
Education
  • MS in Computer Science, 2020

    Stanford University

  • BS in Chemistry, 2019

    Stanford University

Publications

  1. The Energetic Landscape of CH–π Interactions in Protein–Carbohydrate Binding (2024)
  2. CH−π Interactions Are Required for Human Galectin-3 Function (2024)