Garrett Barksdale

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER

  • B.S. 2025 (expected): University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • gjb7[at]illinois.edu

  • Garrett grew up in Waterloo, Illinois. He is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in biochemistry with a minor in chemistry and a certificate in quantitative biology. He joined the van der Donk lab in Fall 2022 as a laboratory technician. In Spring 2023, he began working with Alexis to investigate the kinetics of CylM.