Graduate Student
Jess Soule
Jess received a B.S. in biochemistry from UMass Boston in 2017 and an M.S in chemistry in 2019 where she worked in the labs of Prof. Marianna Török and Prof. Daniel Dowling, respectively. Fleeing the Boston winters, Jess drove across the country with her cat, a ripe source of shed whiskers for crystallography experiments, to Los Angeles to pursue her Ph.D. in chemistry. Now, Jess uses a combination of crystallography, electron microscopy, and biochemical techniques to study proteins involved in iron acquisition and detoxification in Gram-positive bacteria.