The Knapp Laboratory at Illinois College
Welcome to the Knapp Laboratory at Illinois College. Resistance to antibiotics is a growing problem, and finding new compounds is desperately needed. One approach our lab takes is to focus on bioprospecting - finding new sources of organisms that could produce novel compounds. We work both in the field and the laboratory to isolate organisms with the potential to inhibit bacterial growth.
The Knapp laboratory is run by Dr. Gwen Knapp, Ph.D. She has a B.S. in Molecular Biology from Purdue University and her Ph.D. is in Biochemistry from Texas A&M University, where she studied protein-protein interactions with Dr. James Hu. Her postdoctoral studies were at Wadsworth Center, where she had a NRSA F32 fellowship to study gene expression in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Dr. Knapp teaches microbiology, immunology and virology at Illinois College and has upwards of five students in her laboratory at a time.Â
