B.S. in Biochemistry – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Garrett grew up in Waterloo, IL, and attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he majored in Biochemistry. At Illinois, Garrett worked in the lab of Dr. Wilfred van der Donk to investigate the kinetics of enolate stabilization by class II lanthipeptide biosynthetic enzymes. Now in the …
B. A. in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology — Hamilton College, 2024 Natalie grew up in Glenmoore, PA and attended undergrad at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. Now in the Blackwell lab, she works on developing novel heterologous systems in Bacillus subtilis to study agr-type quorum sensing in a variety of Gram-positive pathogens. Outside of lab, she enjoys …
B. A. in Chemistry — Carleton College, 2022 Isabel grew up in San José, CA, and moved to MN to attend Carleton College, where she majored in chemistry and worked on organocatalysis mechanism research with Prof. Gretchen Hofmeister. She also spent a summer at Virginia Tech with Prof. Emily Mevers working on natural product discovery. …
B.S. in Biochemistry – Beloit College Kamila grew up in Medellín, Colombia, and the suburbs of Chicago. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Beloit College. She is currently working on the Gram-negative side of the lab where her research focuses on synthesizing novel LasR modulators. Outside of the lab, Kamila likes to read, …
B.S. in Chemistry and Cellular & Molecular Biology — Belhaven University, 2023 Madison is originally from Arkansas and she attended Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi, where she double majored in Chemistry and in Cellular and Molecular Biology. As an undergraduate, she worked with Professor Reid Bishop to study the thermodynamics of Warfarin binding to human …
B.S. in Chemistry — Morningside University, 2021 MHS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology — Johns Hopkins University Alex is from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In the Blackwell lab, she uses cell-based transcriptional reporters and in vitro assays to probe the mechanisms of various Gram-positive quorum sensing modulators. She is also interested in investigating the molecular-level …
B.S. in Biochemistry – Stony Brook University, 2025 Amanda is from Queens, NY and went to Stony Brook University. As an undergraduate, she worked in Prof. Peter Tonge’s lab studying the time-dependent inhibition of leucyl-tRNA synthetase. In the Blackwell lab, her research focus is on understanding the mechanisms of activation and inhibition of LuxR-type receptors …