Deb Berthold

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

  • B.S. & B.A.: Michigan State University

  • Ph.D.: Duke University

  • berthold[at]Illinois.edu

  • Originally from Ohio, Deb received her B.S. and B.A. from Michigan State University, and her Ph.D. from Duke University in North Carolina. She worked at UC-Berkeley, Australian National University, Stockholm University, and UCLA before coming to the University of Illinois in 2005. She has studied several membrane-bound redox enzymes of photosynthetic and respiratory electron transfer, her favorite of which is the non-heme diiron terminal oxidase of plant mitochondria known as the alternative oxidase. For more than a decade, Deb has produced sizeable quantities of isotopically-labeled membrane and soluble protein in a cost-effective manner for structural studies by solid state NMR. She is now applying her skill with protein expression in E. coli to RiPPs and their biosynthetic gene clusters.