Grace Hubbell

Grace attended Lake Superior State University where she conducted undergraduate research in organic synthesis with Dr. R. Adam Mosey. Her synthetic explorations included work on a methodology to access 1,2-disubstituted imidazolines, as well as investigating their reactivity towards specific amino acids as a means to further explore their potential biological activity. She graduated with honors with bachelor's degrees in Biochemistry and Chemistry in spring of 2017. Grace  later went on to Michigan State University for her PhD studies, where she joined the Tepe group in the fall of 2017. Her work has been focused on synthesis of marine alkaloids belonging to the oroidin family, and the development of novel methodologies to access molecules in this family. Currently, she is working on the total synthesis of the ugibohlins. She is also focused on methodology development to access novel small molecules to study their potential as inhibitors of the 20S proteasome.