The Kiessling Lab – October Lab of the Month
Led by Professor Laura Kiessling at MIT, the Kiessling lab has a passion for carbohydrates — the biomolecules coating every cell on Earth. This coat, termed the glycocalyx, serves as a critical conduit of information.
Using chemical biology, the Kiessling lab interrogates ways in which the glycocalyx enables microbes to escape host immune recognition. The group harnesses synthetic chemistry, molecular dynamics simulations, molecular and cell biology, as well as immunology to unpack the importance of glycan-protein interactions at the forefront of many diseases.
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What Current Members Say
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Tess Lamer
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Alberta
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Zoë Adams
Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Scripps Research
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Champak Chatterjee
Professor, Department of Chemistry
University of Washington