Jacob Anderson
- Ph.D. Candidate
Jacob received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 2017. He is a Chemical Biology student in Harvard's MD-PhD program. Before graduate school, Jacob worked in Nils Walter's laboratory using TIRF microscopy to measure kinetics of oligonucleotide binding and in Adriaan Bax's laboratory, measuring hydrogen exchange rates of backbone amides in intrinsically disordered proteins. Jacob joined the Brown lab in May 2020 and worked on mammalian cilia and von Willebrand factor. Jacob received an NIH F30 Award in 2022 and the James Tolbert Shipley Prize in 2025.
Alumni Category
- Students
Jacob joined the lab in May 2020 as our first Ph.D. student. He worked to determine cryo-EM structures of mammalian cilia and elucidated the mechanism of von Willebrand factor polymerization in collaboration with Tim Springer's lab. He received an NIH F30 Award in 2022 and defended his thesis in August 2023. He was awarded the James Tolbert Shipley Prize in 2025.