Emily Daniel

Emily Daniel is a 2023-2027 Self Graduate Fellow from Lee’s Summit, Missouri, pursuing a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She studies the proteasome, which is like the garbage disposal of our cells that keeps our cells healthy by maintaining the right amounts of thousands of proteins. In particular, she studies how proteasomes in yeast cells get help from other protein factors to determine how proteins selectively degrade some proteins. Outside the lab, Emily tries to promote a scientific world where scientific research is valued, ethically performed, and used to enact a just society.

Mentor: Jeroen Roelofs, Ph.D., Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology