SCHORN-ALANJARY, MICHELLE

• B.A. History of Science and Medicine, Yale University
• M.A.S. Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Ph.D. Marine Chemical Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Bio

Michelle was born and raised in San Diego and developed a love for the ocean at a young age. She got her start in marine science in high school volunteering in the lab of Dr. Lihini Aluwihare at SIO. She went on to obtain her Bachelor's degree at Yale University, where she became fascinated with nature's molecules through a course called Rainforest Expedition and Lab. After graduation, Michelle worked at a sequencing start up company, Ion Torrent. In 2012, Michelle started her Ph.D. at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography with Dr. Bradley Moore where she combined her passion for the ocean, knowledge of sequencing, and interest in nature's chemistry. After obtaining her Ph.D., Michelle received a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for her postdoctoral training with Dr. Detmer Sipkema at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, exploring sponge microbiomes and their natural product potential. Michelle has now returned to SIO as Operations Coordinator for the Scripps Center for Oceans and Human Health and the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine.

Selected Publications

• Schorn, M., Zettler, J., Noel, J. P., Dorrestein, P. C., Moore, B. S., & Kaysser, L. (2014). Genetic basis for the biosynthesis of the pharmaceutically important class of epoxyketone proteasome inhibitors. ACS Chemical Biology, 9(1), 301–309. https://doi.org/10.1021/cb400699p
• Schorn, M. A., Alanjary, M. M., Aguinaldo, K., Korobeynikov, A., Podell, S., Patin, N., Lincecum, T., Jensen, P. R., Ziemert, N., & Moore, B. S. (2016). Sequencing rare marine actinomycete genomes reveals high density of unique natural product biosynthetic gene clusters. Microbiology, 162(12), 2075–2086. https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.000386
• Schorn, M. A., Jordan, P. A., Podell, S., Blanton, J. M., Agarwal, V., Biggs, J. S., Allen, E. E., & Moore, B. S. (2019). Comparative Genomics of Cyanobacterial Symbionts Reveals Distinct, Specialized Metabolism in Tropical Sponges. mBio, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00821-19
• Schorn, M. A., Verhoeven, S., Ridder, L., Huber, F., Acharya, D. D., Aksenov, A. A., Aleti, G., Moghaddam, J. A., Aron, A. T., Aziz, S., Bauermeister, A., Bauman, K. D., Baunach, M., Beemelmanns, C., Beman, J. M., Berlanga-Clavero, M. V., Blacutt, A. A., Bode, H. B., Boullie, A., … van der Hooft, J. J. J. (2021). A community resource for paired genomic and metabolomic data mining. Nature Chemical Biology, 17(4), 363–368. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-020-00724-z
• Rothberg, J. M., Hinz, W., Rearick, T. M., Schultz, J., Mileski, W., Davey, M., Leamon, J. H., Johnson, K., Milgrew, M. J., Edwards, M., Hoon, J., Simons, J. F., Marran, D., Myers, J. W., Davidson, J. F., Branting, A., Nobile, J. R., Puc, B. P., Light, D., … Bustillo, J. (2011). An integrated semiconductor device enabling non-optical genome sequencing. Nature, 475(7356), 348–352. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10242