Frances H. Arnold, Caltech; The Frances H. Arnold Research Group, Caltech; Josefina Cano, Microbios como fábricas vivientes. She then worked for about 18 months as a postdoc with the late UC Berkeley chemist Ignacio Tinoco, who researched the structure of RNA, or ribonucleic acid. Outside of these twenty canonical protein building blocks are countless noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs), either found in nature or created by man. Dr. Frances Arnold got involved in biotechnology through a Berkeley group called the Center for Biotechnology Research, doing her Ph.D. work on affinity chromatography.
The standard proteinogenic amino acids grant access to a myriad of chemistries that harmonize to create life. Dual Affiliation with Division of Biology and Biological Engineering. Interest in ncAAs has grown as research has unveile Protein engineering through chemical, genetic and computational manipulation Frances Arnold is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where her research focuses on enzyme engineering by directed evolution, with applications in sustainable fuels and chemicals.