Click on a name below for more information about members of the Blodgett Lab.
Josh Blodgett, PhD
Principal Investigator, Associate Professor of Biology
- Phone: 314-935-6233
- Email: jblodgett@nospam.wustl.edu
Josh Blodgett is interested in a number of interdisciplinary questions surrounding bacterial small molecule production. These inquiries broadly span the fields of biology, chemistry, and ecology including Chemical Ecology; Biosynthesis, Regulation and Metabolism; Bioengineering and Synthetic Biology; Drug and Agricultural Lead Discovery.
Tahina Ranaivoarisoa
Senior Scientist and Lab Manager
- Phone: 3149357313
- Email: ranaivoarisoao@nospam.wustl.edu
Chris Harper
PhD Candidate, DBBS graduate student-Plant and Microbial Biosciences program
- Email: cpharper@nospam.wustl.edu
Former Lab Members
If you are a former Blodgett Lab member and want to update your current position, please send the information to gerrity@wustl.edu.
Ashby deButts
WashU Undergrad Research 2016-2017
Current:
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Lab authorship:
Construction of a new integrating vector from actinophage ϕOZJ and its use in multiplex Streptomyces transformation: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10295-019-02246-7
John D’Alessandro
Research Technician 2015-2017
Current:
University of MO-Columbia, Doctoral program in Bioengineering
Lab authorship:
Construction of a new integrating vector from actinophage ϕOZJ and its use in multiplex Streptomyces transformation: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10295-019-02246-7
Draft Genome Sequence of Streptomyces sp. Strain JV178, a Producer of Clifednamide-Type Polycyclic Tetramate Macrolactams: https://doi.org/10.1128/genomea.01401-17
Bioinformatic and Functional Evaluation of Actinobacterial Piperazate Metabolism: https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.8b01086
Yifei Hu
WashU Undergrad Research/Technician 2015-2016
Current:
University of Chicago, MD/PhD program
Awards:
BioSURF Fellow- 2015, ACS Oustanding Junior in Chemistry- 2015, Goldwater Scholar- 2015, Gutsche Award in Organic Chemistry- 2016
Lab authorship:
Bioinformatic and Functional Evaluation of Actinobacterial Piperazate Metabolism: https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.8b01086
Discovery of unusual dimeric piperazyl cyclopeptides encoded by a Lentzea flaviverrucosa DSM 44664 biosynthetic supercluster: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2117941119
Gabriel Ferreira
WashU-Govt of Brazil Exchange 2015
Current:
SENAI Innovation Institute for Biosynthetics