Staff Scientist
Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Lab website: Bloom Lab
Topic: Experimental evolution
Bernadeta Dadonaite is a staff research scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. She has a DPhil from University of Oxford where she studied the mechanism behind influenza virus genome packaging. She joined Jesse Bloom’s group at Fred Hutch in 2020 where she studies evolution of viral entry proteins. Her recent work focused on high-throughput characterization of mutation effects on SRAS-CoV-2 spike and H5N1 hemagglutinin proteins including defining mutations that facilitate virus immune evasion, lead to changes in receptor binding, affect protein stability, and ability to mediate cell entry.