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
Education
- BS, University of Central Florida
- MS, University of Central Florida
- PhD, University of Miami
- NIH Fellowship, University of Miami