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, HHMI Leading Edge Fellow, and the Porter Prize for Research Excellence from the American Society for Cell Biology. Dr. Gunn is now embarking on the new adventure of starting her own lab at Stony Brook University where her group will study oligomeric regulation of lipases.