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With a background in organic chemistry and chemical biology, I am interested in engineering microbial metabolic pathways to produce valuable chemicals on industrial scales. During my Ph.D. in the Liu and Chatterjee Labs at Boston College, I developed methods to biosynthesize a boron-containing tryptophan isostere and then optimized bacterial and mammalian expression platforms to incorporate this noncanonical amino acid into proteins. In the Keasling Lab, my goal is to engineer polyketide synthases to generate new-to-nature chemical scaffolds to address the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.