Elena Pazos Chantrero

Visiting Graduate Student
(June-October 2010)

B.S. Chemistry, University of Santiago de Compostela, 2006

Email: pazos.elena@gmail.com

Brief Biography

Elena Pazos Chantrero studied chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, obtaining her degree in July 2006. She started her Ph.D. degree in the Department of Organic Chemistry of the University of Santiago de Compostela in October 2006, working under the supervision of Prof. José Luis Mascareñas and Dr. M. Eugenio Vázquez. In 2008 she spent four months as a visiting Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin in the group of Prof. Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson. She was a visiting Ph.D. student from June through October 2010 in the group of Prof. Scott K. Silverman at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

Research Interests

My Ph.D. research at the University of Santiago de Compostela involves the design and synthesis of new fluorescent peptides to study protein-protein interactions. In the group of Prof. Silverman, my efforts aimed to identify and characterize deoxyribozymes that covalently attach small-molecule substrates to RNA.