Kathleen S Rein
Title: Professor
Office: CP 312
Phone: 305-348-6682
Email: reink@fiu.edu
Department(s): Chemistry and Biochemistry
Lab: OE 314 — 305-348-4033
Education
- B.S., University of Central Florida
- M.S., University of Central Florida
- Ph.D., University of Miami
- NIH Fellowship, University of Miami
Research Areas
Dr. Kathleen (Kelly) Rein is a bioorganic and natural products chemist with a particular interest in algal toxins, their biosynthesis, metabolism, pharmacology, fate in the environment and endogenous function. These may be cyanobacterial toxins such as the hepatotoxic microcystins or marine dinoflagellate toxins such as the brevetoxins from the Florida Red Tide organism Karenia
- Biochemistry
- Med/Pharm Chemistry
- Marine natural products chemistry
- Identification
- Pharmacology and Biosynthesis