Dr Alamin Mohammed

Alamin is a Senior Scientist in the Protein Engineering group at Etcembly. Alamin has over 4 years’ experience in academia and biotech and has strong research skills in protein engineering (bacterial and mammalian) and biophysical analysis. At Etcembly, Alamin is involved in the expression and purification of TCRs and peptide-HLAs, IB preparations and refolding, biophysical characterisation and assay development.

As a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at St George’s University of London, he developed a high throughput assay to generate libraries, express protein, and test biophysical properties of novel fluorescent sensors in E.coli. Sensors were also expressed and tested in a mammalian cell system to measure their properties in vivo using live cell imaging.

Alamin graduated in Biochemistry at UCL before moving to KCL to study MSc Neuroscience. Alamin obtained his PhD in Genetics and Neuroscience from the University of Birmingham where he used the Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism. Here he utilised the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system to create a novel YFP::CLN7 fusion and carry out the first localisation study of the CLN7 protein.