Scott Wasko

Graduate Student Researcher
Biomolecular Science & Engineering

Education

B.A. Biology, Cornell, 2001

Contact Information

Phone: (805) 893-5787
Email: wasko@lifesci.ucsb.edu

Biomolecular Science & Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9611

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Area of Research

I work on whelk egg capsule biopolymer (WECB), a highly elastic protein polymer with self-healing mechanical properties similar to those of the byssal threads. However, WECB recovers from stresses much more rapidly, almost instantaneously. These mechanical properties are present only in the mature capsule, immature WECB must processing step(s). I am working on sequencing and characterizing the protein components and determining the processing of the mature WECB.