Oak Ridge National Lab
Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Alexis Williams received her BS degree in Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology from the University of Tennessee. She spent two years in a post-baccalaureate research program at Oak Ridge National Lab learning protein crystallography and neutron scattering. She received a PhD in Biophysics and Structural Biology from the University of Texas Medical Branch where she was a McLaughlin Infectious Disease and Biodefense Graduate Research Fellow. During her PhD, she was interested in understanding how viruses utilize host factors to evade immune system detection in efforts to further vaccine design. She went on to be an NIH Endocrinology and Gastroenterology Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She was interested in understanding the effects of lipid sensing on the function of nuclear receptors and how molecular glues drive protein polymerization. Alexis is currently an Associate Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences. Her research interests are in designing abiotic interfaces to detect and combat pathogens, understanding how carrier physiochemical properties alter the delivery of cancer therapeutics, and engineering enzymes to aid in the degradation of plastic wastes. She also works with users interested in utilizing cryoEM to study proteins, cells, and soft matter through CNMS and SNS user programs and manages ORNL’s cryoEM sample preparation labs, the G4 Krios Cryo S/TEM, and workstations for data processing.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM MT