Susanna Barrett (2019)
Graduate Student, Chemical Biology
B.S. Biochemistry, Scripps College
Susanna grew up in St. Louis, MO. She attended Scripps College, a women’s college in the suburbs of Los Angeles, CA. While there, she worked in Dr. Aaron Leconte’s lab developing a quantitative method to investigate mutant Taq polymerase fidelity. In the Mitchell group, she works on engineering novel lasso peptide-based tools. Outside of lab she enjoys baking sourdough bread, camping, and playing with her cat, Theo.