Suzanne Walker

Walker has made major contributions to understanding the assembly and function of the bacterial cell envelope, and to discovering and characterizing antibiotics that target it. Her group combines chemical technologies, including synthesis and high throughput screening, with biochemistry and genetics to provide fundamental chemical insight, Her lab has also carried out foundational structural and biochemical work on the essential metazoan enzyme O-GlcNAc transferase, laying the groundwork for elucidating its most important cellular functions. Glycobiology is a unifying theme in her research program and she has played a pioneering role in elucidating glycosyltransferase structure, function, and inhibition.