Ms Maribel EK Okiye

Okiye is a 4th-year dual Ph.D. and Master's student within the Departments of Chemistry and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan. Currently, Maribel works under the mentorship of Drs Davi. H Sherman and Ashootosh Tripathi studying microbial interactions through natural products within the oral cavity. In her research, Maribel uses a combination of bioinformatics, microbiology, enzymology, and natural product and analytical chemisries to explore the metabolite profiles of disease and healthy oral cavities.