Matt Joyner is a professor at Pepperdine University, he have the great privilege to combine his love for science and research with the daily opportunity to share his interests with students and colleagues. He attended Lubbock Christian University in Lubbock, Texas as an undergraduate and he earned Bachelor of Science degrees in both chemistry and mathematics. As an undergraduate at Lubbock Christian he had the great opportunity to conduct research with Dr. Julie Marshall in the area of peanut flavor chemistry. That experience opened his eyes to the world of scientific research and he have never been the same since then. From there he moved to the University of Oklahoma, where he earned a Ph.D. in chemistry and biochemistry under the direction of Dr. Robert Cichewicz. In his lab he learned how to study small organic molecules in biological systems as well as how to think and communicate as a scientist. In 2011 he began working at Pepperdine University as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and he can imagine few places more conducive to learning as an educator and a scientist

Chemistry and biochemistry of natural products