Markita Landry

Markita Landry, a renowned Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, holds an impressive educational background. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics and Single Molecule Biophysics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously, she worked as an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

At Berkeley, Landry leads the Landry Lab, where she combines a synthetic organic chemistry approach with the development of cutting-edge optical and electronic tools to study biomolecules’ structure-function relationships. Landry's research focus ranges from developing sensors for studying neurochemical dynamics to real-time monitoring of growth-promoting molecules in plants.

Landry's expertise includes Chemical Engineering, Single Molecule Biophysics, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, and Neuroengineering. Landry is also a consultant, a former graduate student in Chemical Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a former undergraduate researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.