Kim Reynolds

Kim Reynolds is a faculty member in the Jenkins Department of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University, joining in 2025. She previously led an independent research group at UT Southwestern, where she established her expertise in protein function, evolution, and design.

Her educational background includes a PhD in Biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Biochemistry from Rice University. Her postdoctoral work was conducted at The Scripps Research Institute and UT Southwestern.

Her research focuses on high-throughput assays of protein function, bacterial functional genomics, and modeling fitness landscapes. She integrates computational and experimental approaches to understand how cellular context shapes protein behavior and uses this knowledge to design synthetic proteins, allosteric regulators, and minimal cellular systems. Her work bridges biophysics, systems biology, and synthetic biology.

While no specific publications or students are listed in the provided text, her independent lab (Reynolds Lab) indicates an active research program with likely ongoing projects and mentorship. She has contributed to key insights in protein allostery and statistical sequence modeling.

• PhD, Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley
• BA, Biochemistry, Rice University

Her scientific contributions include modeling GPCR conformational changes and identifying conserved surface residues as allosteric hotspots through statistical analysis of protein sequences. These findings have implications for drug design and understanding protein regulation.

She has been an independent investigator since 2014 and is transitioning to a new faculty role at Johns Hopkins, indicating continued growth and recognition in her field.