Jana L. Markley

Jana earned her B.Sc. from Oklahoma State University in 2010, where she graduated as a Niblack Research Scholar and the Chemistry Department's Outstanding Senior. In 2010, she entered the graduate program at the University of Kansas and joined the laboratory of Prof. Paul Hanson, where her research focused on the development of phosphorus-based tether methods for the synthesis of polyol-containing natural products. After completing her Ph.D. (2016), Jana began a postdoctoral fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis in the laboratory of Assistant Professor Timothy Wencewicz, working on the synthesis and biological evaluation of small molecule inhibitors of tetracycline-inactivating enzymes.