Programs
IBMS Discipline
Mentor
Alyssa Schami
Ph.D. Student
Biography
Alyssa is studying Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb), the organism that causes tuberculosis disease. Her research focuses on lipids that reside on the cell envelope of M.tband she is using biochemical methods to study the biosynthesis and transport of these lipids to the bacterial cell envelope. Additionally, she is also working on the selective biochemical removal of specific lipids on the surface of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) in order to improve the efficacy of the vaccine.
Research Topic: Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Publications
Price, A. M., Doner, N. M., Gidda, S. K., Jambunathan, S., James, C. N., Schami, A., … Chapman, K. D. (2019). Mouse Fat-Specific Protein 27 (FSP27) expressed in plant cells localizes to lipid droplets and promotes lipid droplet accumulation and fusion. Biochimie. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biochi.2019.08.002
Education
B.S., Biochemistry, University of North Texas, 2019