I am a chem/biochem prof at the University of Oregon. My lab's primary goal is to understand how proteins evolve. My background is in biophysics (PhD) and evolutionary biology (postdoc).
Here are some links to recent work if you want to see the sort of work we do. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.14.512271
https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.27.514099
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2208029119