About

Stephanie Dappenbrook was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. She completed 2 years of undergraduate work in chemistry before taking a paid staff position on a political campaign during the 2008 presidential election. Three primary elections later, she found herself stationed in Greensboro for the general election. Following the election victory, she enrolled at UNCG to complete undergraduate degrees in biology and biochemistry. She is now enrolled as a master's student in Biochemistry at UNCG. She has undertaken undergraduate research in the biology department, was a peer tutor for numerous subjects, and was awarded the Supplemental Instruction Program Leader of the Year for 2011. She has been a lab instructor for General Chemistry labs I and II since January 2011, where she began teaching as an undergraduate.

Research Interests

As an undergraduate, Stephanie worked in Biology with Dr. Gideon Wasserberg and graduate student Theo Tamini, seeking to determine whether or not anthropogenic disturbances affect disease transmission. She now works with Dr. Jason Reddick, studying the gram-positive bacterium, Bacillus subtilis strain 168, conducting research on endospore formation. Her focus is a gene on the mother cell metabolic gene operon, mmgC. The mmg operon controls the expression of genes related to the degradation of fatty acids during stress-induced sporulation.