Lesley-Ann Giddings is a soon to be Associate Professor of Chemistry at Smith College, a private liberal arts women’s college. She received her Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute. At Smith College, Giddings bioprospects extreme environments, such as acid rock drainage and Antarctic deserts, for microbial secondary metabolites and characterizes the enzymes involved in their biosynthesis.
Email: lgiddings@smith.edu