"Dr. Kristi McQuade earned a B.S. in chemistry from McKendree University, which inducted her into its “Academy of Excellence” in 2011. As an undergraduate she spent two summers at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory doing research on glucose transport in the red blood cells of the marine polychaete Glycera dibranchiata. She earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison working in the laboratory of Dr. M. Thomas Record, where she focused on the kinetics of transcription initiation by bacterial RNA polymerase. She then spent two years as a post-doctoral research associate in Dr. Pramod K. Srivastava’s lab at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. There she explored peptide transport in the antigen presentation pathway. Prior to joining Bradley, she taught chemistry and biochemistry courses for one year at Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA. Dr. McQuade joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Bradley University in 2000 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007. She has taken two sabbatical leaves at the USDA National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR) collaborating first with Dave Kendra (2007-2008) and later with Daren Brown (2016) in her project exploring stress response mechanisms in the corn rot fungus Fusarium verticillioides."

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