Dr. Thyme is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. Her long-term research goals are to uncover the molecular basis of complex neurodevelopmental diseases and eventually create therapies. She has a broad background in biochemistry, molecular biology, neurobiology, and computational techniques. As a graduate student in Dr. David Baker’s lab (2006-2012), Dr. Thyme fused computational and experimental approaches to redesign biomolecular interactions, mastering a wide range of approaches including enzymology, directed protein evolution, multiple coding languages, and high-throughput computing. Her training was funded by an NSF graduate research fellowship and recognized by receipt of the Harold M. Weintraub award. This foundation provided her with a fundamental understanding of protein structure and function and the skills to engineer therapeutics.
