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Steffen Lindert, Ph.D., center, here with his faculty mentors Jen Meiler, Ph.D., left, and Phoebe Stewart, Ph.D., is the first doctoral graduate for the Chemical and Physical Biology program, which launched in 2001. Lindert's dissertation is titled “CryoEM guided de-novo protein folding.”