Professor Godert has always been fascinated with how complex life seems, and yet how elegantly simple it can be at the chemical level. Underlying all the biology that nature does is organic chemistry, and Professor Godert is interested in studying the chemical workings of these
biological systems. As a model, bacteria are much simpler to study than
humans, and they also do some of the same, and often more, chemical
reactions that human cells do. Professor Godert is interested in
elucidating functions of bacterial proteins, and then studying how these
proteins work. This inter-disciplinary research combines a number of
areas of science including organic chemistry, molecular biology and
biochemistry.

Education:
2001 B.S. Canisius College, Chemistry and Computer Science
2004 M.S. Cornell University, Chemistry
2006 Ph.D. Cornell University, Chemistry

Select Publications:
Godert, A.M., Jin, M., McLafferty, F.W., Begley, T.P. "An Interesting Twist on Sulfur Transfer in the Biosynthesis of the Thio-Quinolobactin Siderophore" Journal of Bacteriology (2006) submitted.

Godert, A.M., Angelino, N., Woloszynska-Read A., Morey, S.R., James, S.R., Karpf, A.R., Sufrin, J.R. "An improved synthesis of Psammaplin A" Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 16 (2006): 3330-3333.

Settembre, E.C., Dorrestein, P.C., Park, J., Augustine (Godert), A.M., Begley, T.P., Ealick, S.E. "Structural and Mechanistic Studies on ThiO, a Glycine Oxidase Essential for Thiamin Biosynthesis in Bacillus Subtilis" Biochemistry 42 (2003): 2971-2981.

Courses Taught:
Organic Chemistry
Biochemistry
Natural Products
Physical Chemistry
Forensics