Marnett Research Laboratory

Melissa Turman, Graduate Student

melissa.d.vaught@vanderbilt.edu

I am from Patrick County, Virginia, a rural area on the North Carolina border. After graduating from high school a year early in 1999, I first continued my education at Surry Community College in Dobson, North Carolina where I received an associate degree in the arts in the spring of 2000. From there, I went on to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. I graduated summa cum laude from UNCG in May 2003 with a B.S. in biochemistry and a minor in Spanish. I began at Vanderbilt University in the fall of 2003 as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry. I joined the Marnett Lab in January 2004. Currently, my research is focused on studying novel substrates of cyclooxygenase and the molecular basis of isoform selectivity of substrates and inhibitors of COX-1 and COX-2.