Sara Eslami

GRADUATE STUDENT, Chemical Biology Interface Training Program              

  • B.A. 2017: Wellesley College

  • seslami2[at]illinois.edu

  • Sara grew up in Waukesha, Wisconsin and received her B.A. in Biochemistry at Wellesley College in Boston. While in Boston, her research ranged from synthesizing an inverse agonist of GLP-1R to exploring the interactions between commensals and pathobionts in the nasal microbiota. Her research in the van der Donk lab focuses on genome mining for RiPPs in gram-negative bacteria as well as studying small LanBs.