Biology Seminar Series: Sarah Slavoff - "Dark Matter of the Human Proteome"

Dr. Sarah Slavoff is a tenured Associate Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. She received her Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry at the Massachusetts of Institute of Technology working with Alice Ting, where she developed technologies for enzymatic biotinylation and fluorophore labeling of interacting proteins. During her NIH postdoctoral fellowship with Alan Saghatelian at Harvard University, Dr. Slavoff developed the first high-sensitivity proteomic technology for detection of previously unannotated human microproteins – short genes missed by standard genome annotation methods, but with outsize biological importance. Since starting her independent research group at Yale in 2014, Dr. Slavoff has continued to innovate new quantitative and chemical approaches for functional microprotein discovery, as well as cellular and molecular characterization of microproteins. Dr. Slavoff has been named a Searle Scholar, a Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group Distinguished Investigator, a Mark Foundation Emerging Leader, and an American Chemical Society ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator, among other accoladesa.