Isabel Cannell

she/her
icannell at wisc.edu
Joined In: 2022
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. In the Blackwell lab, her research focuses on synthesizing AHL-like probes to understand the structure-activity relationship between AHLs and quorum sensing agonism and antagonism in LuxR-type receptors. Outside of lab, she enjoys spending time being active outdoors, playing board games and tabletop roleplaying games, and playing the piano.