Annie Blobaum, Postdoctoral Student

annie.blobaum@vanderbilt.edu

I was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1977, though I call Morgantown, West Virginia my true home.  I received my Bachelor of Arts degrees from West Virginia University in chemistry and biology in 1999.  I spent four years during my undergraduate tenure at WVU working with Dr. Solveig Ericson at the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center.  Following a year as lab technician at the MBRCC, I moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan.  In 2004, I completed my dissertation in the department of pharmacology in the laboratory of Dr. Paul Hollenberg at the University of Michigan.  My thesis was entitled “Mechanism-based inactivation of cytochromes P450 2E1 and 2E1 T303A by tert-butyl acetylenes,” and in 2003 and 2004 I was awarded both excellence in teaching and excellence in research/service honors from the University of Michigan Medical School.

I am currently a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Lawrence J. Marnett in the biochemistry department at Vanderbilt University and my work here focuses on the determinants for the selectivity of cyclooxygenase enzyme inhibition by structurally novel COX-2 inhibitors.

I thoroughly enjoy all the music and entertainment in Nashville and spend most of my free time with my favorite friend – my horse, Tex.