Teresa A. Garrett
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Office: MC-119
- Phone: 437-5738
- Box: 580
- Email: tegarrett@vassar.edu
Ms. Garrett earned a B.S. degree in biochemistry from Florida State University in 1994. She received a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Duke University in 1998. Following a five-year hiatus to study early child development in her two beautiful daughters she had a post-doctoral position at Duke University. This work included participation in the NIH-funded, large-scale collaborative LIPID MAPS (lipidmaps.org). She joined the Vassar faculty in 2007.
Her research involves the biochemistry, structure and biosynthesis of lipids in gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli. Currently she is investigating how E. coli make two minor lipids, N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylserylglutamate. Student researchers are welcome and will learn to grow and manipulate E. coli and other gram-negative bacteria, extract and purify lipids from cells, analyze lipids with mass spectrometry and probe for new enzyme activities.
Ms. Garrett currently teaches General Chemistry (Chem 108/109) and Protein Chemistry (Chem 323).