Robert D. Boyd

Graduate Student in Chemistry

A.S. Industrial Biotechnology and A.S. Chemistry, Solano Community College, 2015
B.S. Biochemistry, Sonoma State University, 2017
M.S. Chemistry, California State University, Los Angeles, 2019

Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
136 Roger Adams Laboratory
600 S. Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801

Email: rdboyd3@illinois.edu
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-boyd-03057916b/

Brief Biography

Robert Boyd received A.S. degrees at Solano Community College in 2015 and a B.S. degree in biochemistry from Sonoma State University in 2017. He obtained his M.S. degree in chemistry from California State University, Los Angeles in 2019. He joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a graduate student in chemistry in Fall 2019, where he joined the laboratory of Prof. Scott K. Silverman to study DNAzymes.

Research Interests

In my research project, I am identifying DNAzymes that alkylate DNA and RNA nucleobases by reductive amination.