Adam Zahm

Adam has returned to the mountain time zone of his youth to join the English lab following nearly two decades of research training in Philadelphia. He is happy to be back in the thin air and looks forward to exploring the Wasatch Range with his partner Julia. In his spare time, Adam enjoys hang gliding, photographing birds, and lying perfectly still under sleeping animals.

Research

Adam is developing two broad molecular biology platforms for the advancement of directed evolution applications. The first is a screening platform for identifying small, synthetic transcriptional response elements in human cells. The second is a pipeline for the high-fidelity sequencing of single DNA molecules via Nanopore.