Meet the Lab

Dr. Kathryn Gunn

Principal Investigator

Dr. Gunn did her undergraduate degree in chemistry at the California Institute of Technology where she worked in Dr. Douglas Rees’ lab. She went on to earn her PhD in biological sciences from Northwestern University in Dr. Alfonso Mondragón’s lab. For her postdoctoral work she joined Dr. Saskia Neher’s lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There she worked on lipase structure and mechanism, producing work that has been recognized with multiple fellowships and awards, including a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, two American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowships, and the Porter Prize for Research Excellence from the American Society for Cell Biology. The Gunn Lab at Stony Brook University focuses on the oligomeric diversity of lipases and the role quaternary structure plays in metabolic enzyme regulation.