Area of research
Biomedical Engineering · Catalysis
Research interest
Research topics from publications: Bioorthogonal Metabolic Labeling Experiments to Introduce Undergraduate Students to Interdisciplinarity at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology. Representative work: Chemists have always designed and deployed cross-disciplinary approaches that interface chemistry with other disciplines to proffer solutions to many human problems. We designed a laboratory experiment that implements chemistry concepts in a biological model to prime undergraduate students to appreciate interdisciplinarity as an approach to solving complex problems in contemporary society. The experiments can also be implemented with graduate students transitioning to chemical biology research. The experiment introduces students to classical and emerging chemistry and molecular biology techniques─mammalian cell culture, bioorthogonal metabolic labeling, azide–alkyne cycloaddition reaction (“