Sarah O'Connor
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Not to be confused with Sarah Connor.
Sarah E. O'Connor FRS is an American molecular biologist working to understand the molecular machinery involved in assembling important plant natural products – vinblastine, morphine, iridoids, secologanin – and how changing the enzymes involved in this pathway lead to diverse analogs. She was a Project Leader at the John Innes Centre in the UK between 2011 and 2019. O'Connor was appointed by the Max Planck Society in 2018 to head the Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, taking up her role during 2019.[1]
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Nationality | American |
Known for | plant biosynthesis, enzymology, mutagenesis |
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Institutions | John Innes Centre, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology |
Doctoral advisor | Barbara Imperiali |
Website | https://www.sarahoconnor.org/ |
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