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Brief Bio
Dr. Christopher Cartmell is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on bioactive natural product discovery leveraging microfluidic approaches for high-throughput screening. Dr. Cartmell earned his undergraduate degree at Bangor University initially trained in natural product synthesis before undertaking a PhD at the University of St Andrews working for Prof Rebecca Goss. During this time, he worked developing novel approaches for natural product analogue generation, combining synthetic biology and synthetic chemistry with microbiology in an approach coined GenoChemetics.
He was awarded a Mitacs Accelerate Postdoctoral fellowship where he worked with then, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair Russell Kerr at the University of Prince Edward Island developing microfluidic approaches to for in-situ cultivation and subsequent discovery of novel marine natural products. After a brief period working at Northeastern University’s Antimicrobial Discovery Center, he moved to the University of Arizona.