Dr. Chris Travis, Assistant Director of the Mac-In-Fac Core facility
Dr. Chris Travis has joined our department as the new Assistant Director of the Mac-In-Fac Core facility, where he assists with instrument scheduling, new user training, and teaching the BIOC 662 course. In addition, Chris currently works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow under Prof. Marcey Waters in the Department of Chemistry, where he continues his research after finishing his PhD in the same group last year. His work focuses on utilizing chemical biology and structural biology techniques to probe the binding mechanisms of epigenetic reader proteins, providing insight into therapeutic development for these emerging targets. During his graduate studies, he has used extensively most of the techniques available at the Mac-In-Fac.
Before joining UNC, Chris spent time at GSK at a medicinal chemistry co-op working on a program in the pre-clinical stage. As an undergraduate, Chris attended the College of William & Mary, where he worked under Prof. Doug Young to use unnatural amino acid technology to develop and optimize novel bioconjugation reactions.
