My research focuses mainly on the isolation and procurement of natural products of bacteria from Lechuguilla Cave and various Hawaiin caves. I work in the Melancon lab at UNM whose main focus is Natural Products and their Synthesis. I currently have three students working under my direction on a project where we work to isolate possible actinobacteria from exotic cave samples and work to identify them using 16S sequencing. Further work on this project will continue to screen the possible Actinobacteria samples we find for natural products.
Pictured here is an onsite image of a microbial community in Lechuguilla Cave.
Photo Copyright 2002 by Kenneth Ingham, used by permission
Bioinformatics Research
I conducted Bioinformatics Research in a course taught by Dr. Paul Szauter for the Genomics Education Partnership (http://gep.wustl.edu/) at Washington University in St. Louis. Below are some images and links for my project reports.
Gene Finding Report : http://www.discoveryandinnovation.com/bioinformatics/results2/Kaitlin_Leddy/Kaitlin_Leddy_report1.html
GEP Submission Annotation: http://www.discoveryandinnovation.com/bioinformatics/pdf/GEPAnnotation-KAL%20Final.pdf
Gene Finding Report done for JosephDeAguero: http://www.discoveryandinnovation.com/bioinformatics/results2/Joseph_DeAguero/Joseph_DeAguero_report1.html
I conducted Bioinformatics Research in a course taught by Dr. Paul Szauter for the Genomics Education Partnership (http://gep.wustl.edu/) at Washington University in St. Louis. Below are some images and links for my project reports.
Gene Finding Report : http://www.discoveryandinnovation.com/bioinformatics/results2/Kaitlin_Leddy/Kaitlin_Leddy_report1.html
GEP Submission Annotation: http://www.discoveryandinnovation.com/bioinformatics/pdf/GEPAnnotation-KAL%20Final.pdf
Gene Finding Report done for JosephDeAguero: http://www.discoveryandinnovation.com/bioinformatics/results2/Joseph_DeAguero/Joseph_DeAguero_report1.html