Brandon Hosford
Brandon Hosford
Education
M.S. Chemistry, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (2023)
B.S.A. University of Texas at Austin (2020) - Advisor: Prof. Eric Anslyn
Biography
Originally from Houston, Texas, Brandon received his B.S.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in Chemistry with an Elements of Computing Certificate. During the latter half of his degree, Brandon worked in the Eric Anslyn Lab researching the use of amino acid-like monomers in ribosome-mediated polymerization; a method of creating sequence-defined polymers. After graduating, Brandon joined Erisyon - a startup founded by Eric Anslyn and a few other researchers at UT Austin developing a new technology for protein sequencing with single molecule resolution.
At UMN, Brandon is in the Switchable Catalysis subgroup in the Lamb Lab, working on the combination of multiple polymerization mechanisms to make interesting block copolymers. He also serves as the chair of the Analysis and Compliance Committee for the Joint Safety Team (JST), and is the treasurer for the POLY/PMSE student chapter. In his spare time, Brandon likes playing disc golf and taking too many pictures of his cats.
Awards/Fellowships
ACS Grad Student and Postdoctoral Scholars Recognition Program - Research Safety (August 2024)
Lester C. and Joan M. Krogh Excellence Fellowship (2024-2025)
Department of Chemistry Graduate Student Travel Award (July 2024)
Graduate Student Reseach Symposium (GSRS) Paul and Gerda Gassman Award Winner (June 2024)
Publications in the Lamb Group
Combining photocontrolled-cationic and anionic-group-transfer polymerizations using a universal mediator: enabling access to two- and three-mechanism block copolymers
Hosford, B. M.†; Ramos, W.†; Lamb, J. R.* Chem. Sci. 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D4SC02511C.
Publications Outside the Group
2. Lee, J.; Coronado, J.; Cho, N.; Lim, J.; Hosford, B. M.: Seo, S.; Kim, D. S.; Kofman, C.; Moore, J.; Ellington, A.; Anslyn, E. V.; Jewett, M., Ribosome-mediated biosynthesis of pyridazinone oligomers in vitro, Nat. Comm. 2022, 13, 6322
1. Hosford, Brandon. 2021. Methods, Systems and Kits for Polypeptide Processing and Analysis. WO2021/236716A2. Filed May 19, 2020, Issued November 25, 2021.