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Anastasia Manesis received a B.S. in Biochemistry and a B.A. in Asian Studies from Northeastern University in 2013, graduating as a Huntington 100 Fellow. She then moved to Ohio State University, where she completed her Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 2018, earning the Graduate Student Award for Mentoring Excellence. Following her doctoral studies, Manesis continued her research as a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University through the Life Sciences Research Foundation from 2020 to 2023. In 2023, she began her independent career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois. Her research focuses on bioinspired inorganic chemistry, metalloproteins, and the mechanisms of multiheme enzymes, exploring novel metallocofactors within large protein superfamilies using advanced genome mining and bioinformatics. Dr. Manesis's lab emphasizes the functional roles of metalloenzymes in microbial metabolism, particularly regarding oxidative stress response and metal homeostasis. Her students engage in a variety of techniques including heterologous protein expression and purification, various spectroscopies, protein crystallography, bioinformatics, kinetic analysis, and computational approaches.
University of Illinois • Urbana, IL
Started independent career in the Department of Chemistry.
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