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Christopher J. Thibodeaux is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at McGill University. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Louisiana State University in 2002, followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010. Thibodeaux completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from 2011 to 2016. His research focuses on the biosynthesis of antimicrobial natural products and the biological processes that contribute to bacterial virulence, with a particular interest in the role of protein conformational dynamics in enzymatic function. He employs a diverse set of experimental tools from biochemistry, analytical chemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology to investigate these mechanisms. Thibodeaux aims to understand how structural dynamics influence enzyme function, employing mass spectrometry-based techniques and biophysical methods in his research. He is also committed to training students in various methodologies relevant to academia, industry, and medicine. In addition to his research, he is involved in teaching courses like Instrumental Analysis and Advanced Bio-Organic Chemistry, which cover modern analytical techniques and biologically relevant molecules, respectively.
Department: Department of Medicine. Program: Experimental Medicine.