Assistant Professor
Queen's University
Avena Ross received her BSc with honours in Chemistry from the University of Auckland in 2006 before moving to Edmonton Canada to complete a PhD in Organic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. John Vederas (FRS) where she studied the synthesis of potent peptide antibiotics called lantibiotics. Dr. Ross was an NSERC post doctoral fellow in the lab of Prof. Brad Moore at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD from 2012-2014 where she investigated the biosynthesis of peptide natural products from marine bacteria. In 2015 Dr. Ross returned to Canada to commence her independent career in the Department of Chemistry at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. The Ross group is interested in mining marine proteobacteria for new bioactive molecules and probing the mechanisms by which they are produced.
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Saturday, October 24, 2020
1:15pm – 3:00pm EDT