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Sylvia Kunakom, PhD

Postdoc at the Joint Genome Institute

About

Recent graduate of the Eustaquio Lab, now employed at the Joint Genome Institute.

Selected Publications

  1. Heterologous Production of Lasso Peptide Capistruin in a Burkholderia Host
    Sylvia Kunakom and Alessandra S. Eustáquio
    ACS Synthetic Biology 2020 9 (2), 241-248
  2. Burkholderia as a Source of Natural Products
    Sylvia Kunakom and Alessandra S. Eustáquio
    Journal of Natural Products 2019 82 (7), 2018-2037
  3. Natural products and synthetic biology: where we are and where we need to go 
    Sylvia Kunakom and Alessandra S. Eustáquio
    mSystems 2019 4:e00113-19.

Education

PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago)

M.Sc. (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen, Germany)

B.A. in Chemistry (Macalester College)