Assistant Professor of Chemistry
jebridwe@umich.eduOffice Information:
4817 CHEM
phone: 734-763-1125
Chemical Biology; Catalysis; Inorganic Chemistry; Biomacromolecular Chemistry; Imaging & Spectroscopy; Photochemistry; Energy & Environmental Chemistry; Chemistry
Education/Degree:
PhD - Texas A&M UniversityPost Doc - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
My goal is to investigate how chlorophyll is modified to absorb a broader range of light and how organisms build and tailor sunscreen pigments that provide protection from harmful UV-radiation. As each of these processes requires microbes to intricately translate environmental signals into a response, I also aim to gain molecular insight into how light-dependent gene regulation is accomplished. My research proposal encompasses the breadth of my training, which has centered on using anaerobic techniques to understand how metalloproteins function in biosynthetic pathways.