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.