Emily C Mundorff
Hofstra University, USA
Biography
Emily CMundorff completed her PhD in year 2000 from UC Berkeley.She worked at Maxygen and Codexis as a Bioinformatic Scientist until 2010.While at Codexis she received three Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge awards for her work in support of the directed evolution of enzymes to be used as biocatalysts in pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.She then moved to academia as an HHMI Interdisciplinary Science Fellow at Vassar College from 2011-2012 and is now an Asst. Professor of Chemistry at Hofstra University.She is an inventor on more than 35 patents and has coauthored 14 papers.Her lab is interested in the evolution of new substrate specificities in enzymes.
Abstract
Abstract : Alteration of the substrate specificity of alanine dehydrogenase