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Charles McAnany

B.S., Chemistry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Virginia

Honors

2017

Jefferson Scholars Foundation Dissertation Year Fellow,

Charles McAnany is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Zeitlinger Lab. He joined the Institute in 2019 to apply his knowledge of biomolecular structure to genomics. McAnany has developed a method of visualizing the language of DNA, which uses machine learning to determine the role of each base in the genome to the nucleosome code. He also applies physics-based simulations to understand, in atomic detail, the interactions between proteins and nucleic acids. In his free time, McAnany is an avid photographer, with a full darkroom in his basement capable of processing and printing negatives from his 4x5 camera. He is actively involved in the Alpha Chi Sigma Professional Chemistry Fraternity; he is the secretary for the Kansas City chapter, and serves as the official photographer for the fraternity at its national meetings.