BRADLEY MOORE

Natalie was born and raised in San Diego, California. She graduated from Princeton University in 2020 with a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. While at Princeton, Natalie conducted her senior thesis project in collaboration with the Hay lab at Georgia Tech, studying chemically mediated interactions between sea cucumbers and adjacent coral communities. She started her PhD in 2020 and joined the Moore lab in 2022. For her PhD, she is excited to continue exploring corals, with a focus on genomics and isoprenoid biosynthesis.

Anna was born in Canton, Ohio, and received her B.S. degree in Biochemistry from Messiah University. During her time as an undergraduate, she spent summers at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, investigating mechanisms of action of frontline drugs for multiple sclerosis in the lab of Dr. Richard Ransohoff. Inspired by her undergraduate organic chemistry classes, she pursued a PhD in chemical biology under the tutelage of Professor Jennifer Prescher at the University of California, Irvine. Here, she developed new probes for visualizing and recording cells in living animals using protein engineering, synthetic chemistry, and molecular and cellular biology methods. She joined the Moore lab in February 2022, where she is currently expanding her protein engineering repertoire and revisiting her neuroscience roots by engineering biosynthetic pathways enzymes from marine microbes for production of new neuroactive small molecule therapeutics. Outside of lab, you can find her goofing around at swim practice, optimizing her investment portfolio, or watching "high quality trash" reality TV shows and selected sports like football or formula 1 with her husband, Ryan and their cat, Steven.

Hannah received her B.S. in Environmental Science with a minor in Chemistry from UC Santa Barbara in 2018. After undergrad, she worked in the Hughes Lab at UC Irvine studying angiogenesis and the creation of an organ-on-a-chip model to create 3D vascularized tissues that are suitable for drug screening. Hannah joined the Moore lab in Fall 2021 and is interested in exploring natural products chemistry in macroalgae, specifically in Native Hawaiian species, and studying the intersection of marine systems and human health.

Rebecca received her BSc. and MSc. in Chemistry from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. During her time in Heidelberg, she spent 8 months at UC Berkeley for her Master's thesis in the group of Prof. Dean Toste working on photoredox chemistry inside the cavity of a supramolecular Ga4L6-assembly. In 2015, she then moved to Switzerland to start her Ph.D. at ETH Zürich in the group of Prof. Helma Wennemers where she developed a new bioorthogonal ligation reactions based on isonitriles and chlorooximes. After her Ph.D., she went back to California and joined the Moore Lab in October 2020 as a Postdoc to study stereoselective enzymatic halogenation reactions of unactivated carbon skeletons in fresh water microalgae.

April was born in Bay City, Michigan. She earned her B.S. in biochemistry from Saginaw Valley State University in 2015 where she completed an honors thesis on the genetic basis for isoprene production in firs and conducted research in water quality assessment for bacterial contamination. April completed her Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from the University of Michigan under the supervision of Prof. Alison Narayan. Her thesis research was focused on characterizing biosynthetic enzymes in the production of paralytic shellfish toxins in cyanobacteria. April joined the Moore lab in September 2020 and is studying the biosynthesis and chemical ecology of algal polybrominated compounds.

Immo was born in Lueneburg in Northern Germany. He received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig working on optical superresolution microscopy in the group of Prof. Philip Tinnefeld. At the same university he obtained his master’s degree in biological chemistry working on photoaffinity labeling of small peptides under Prof. Thomas Lindel. For pursuing his PhD he joined the group of Prof. Jeroen Dickschat at the University of Bonn to work in the fields of natural products chemistry and biosynthesis with a focus on fungal isoprenoids. He joined the Moore lab in October 2019.

For a current list of publications visit his google scholar page.

Vik was born in Columbus, Ohio. He received his B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry from the University of Michigan Dearborn in 2011. After undergraduate he spent a few years working as a synthetic chemist at Cayman Chemical in Ann Arbor, MI, working on the total synthesis of prostacyclins. Vik obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, working in the Sherman Lab where he characterized bacterial cytochromes P450 and their molecular basis for selectivity in the biosynthesis of non-symmetrical diketopiperazine dimers. Vik joined the Moore lab in March 2020 and is currently exploring the biosynthesis of sponge-derived natural products. Being from the midwest, Vik misses the cold weather, and despite the unforgiving California sun enjoys dark beer, and spicy noodle soups.