PNNL

Andrea Steiger joined PNNL as a postdoctoral research associate in 2019. Her doctoral work from the University of Oregon focused on the development of novel chemical tools for studying the biology of small signaling molecules, and she is particularly interested in chemical probes for the detection of specific biological functions.

At PNNL, Steiger designs and employs activity-based probes for phenotype-dependent isolation of functionally interesting microbes from complex microbiomes, including soil and gut. She is interested in using chemical biology tools to study microbial function within complex environments.

• Chemical Biology
• Organic Chemistry
• Microbiology

• PhD in Chemistry, University of Oregon
• MS in Chemistry, University of Oregon
• BS in Chemistry, The College of Wooster

• Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation, 2016

• Pluth, M.D.; Steiger, A.K.; Zhao, Y. Issued 07/28/2020. Compounds for Carbonyl Sulfide/Carbon Disulfide/Hydrogen Sulfide Release and Methods of Making and Using the Same. US Patent No. 10725055.

2020

• Steiger A.K., S.J. Fansler, C. Whidbey, C.J. Miller, and A.T. Wright. 2020. "Probe-Enabled Approaches for Function-Dependent Cell Sorting and Characterization of Microbiome Subpopulations." In Chemical Tools for Imaging, Manipulating, and Tracking Biological Systems: Diverse Methods for Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Systems: Methods in Enzymology, edited by D.M. Chenoweth. 89-107. San Diego, California:Academic Press. PNNL-SA-150390. doi:10.1016/bs.mie.2020.03.014