Lab Members - Deborah Leon-Rossell

Deborah

Deborah Leon-Rossell started her undergraduate career at the University of Havana, Cuba, as a Pharmacy student. At the University of Havana, she researched the antioxidant properties of phycocyanin, a light absorbing pigment from cyanobacteria. She transferred to Missouri State University where she earned her B.S. in Chemistry. She came to UCLA for graduate school in Biochemistry and joined the laboratory of Dr. Loo in the summer of 2005.

In the Loo lab her research focuses on Elucidating and Characterizing the S-Layer of the Archaeon Methanosarcina acetivorans by using in vivo biotinylation labeling, affinity purification, 1D SDS-PAGE, and near-western blotting analysis combined with LC-MS/MS.