Chemistry PhD Program (Chemical Biology) Michelle Thaxton graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 2022, receiving her B.S. in Biochemistry. She studied screening to identify compounds capable of preventing the aggregation of Aβ42 and Islet Amyloid Polypeptide in Alzheimer’s disease and type 2 diabetes respectively. She then worked for two years in the Rao Lab focused […]
Biochemistry, Molecular, and Structural Biology PhD Program Adrian received his B.S. in Biochemistry (2023) from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and he is beginning the first year of the BMSB PhD Program in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. His undergraduate work focused on site-directed mutagenesis of specific 70S ribosomal proteins in preparation for smFRET experiments […]
Chemistry PhD Program (Chemical Biology) B.S in Chemistry, B.S in Biology, and B.F.A Studio Art from Chapman University. Beginning her PhD in Chemistry. During her undergraduate career, she pursued research in computational chemistry. Her research focused on the oxidant sensing and selectivity of zinc-sulfur complexes implicated in bacterial redox sensing. Utilizing both molecular modelling as […]
Biochemistry, Molecular, and Structural Biology PhD Program Aubrey graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with a minor in Health Sciences from Chapman University. As a member of Chapman’s food protection lab, she studied the optimization of DNA extraction methods for the detection of canned tuna species under Dr. Rosalee Hellberg. Aubrey joined […]