Douglas Mitchell (scientist)

Douglas A. Mitchell is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds an affiliate appointment in the Department of Microbiology and is a faculty member of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.[1] His research focuses on the chemical biology of natural products. He is known mainly for his work on the biosynthetic enzymology of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) and genome-guided natural product discovery.[2]

For other people named Douglas Mitchell, see Douglas Mitchell (disambiguation).
Douglas A. Mitchell
Born (1980-01-01) January 1, 1980
NationalityUnited States
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Diego
Scientific career
FieldsChemical Biology
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Doctoral advisorMichael Marletta

Early life and education

Mitchell was born in western Pennsylvania and obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. He obtained his PhD in 2006 from the University of California, Berkeley and worked with Michael Marletta on the nitric oxide-dependent post-translational modifications of proteins. For postdoctoral studies, he worked with Jack Dixon at the University of California, San Diego and pursued the study of Streptococcal toxin biosynthesis. In 2009, he began his independent career at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. In 2015, he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Research interests
  • Natural products
  • Genome-mining
  • Antibiotic resistance
  • Mechanistic enzymology

Notable awards

References
  1. "Douglas A. Mitchell - Chemistry at Illinois". www.chemistry.illinois.edu. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  2. "Douglas A Mitchell - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  3. Ahlberg, Liz. "University of Illinois chemist named Packard Fellow". illinois.edu. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  4. "Mitchell, Douglas A. - The David and Lucile Packard Foundation". packard.org. Retrieved 5 August 2017.


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