Biography
Year Entered MCW: 2023
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Research Interests
Previously, Robin completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. For four years, she studied under the direction of Dr. Christopher Veldkamp looking at chemokine structural determination, where she published two articles. Robin started at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2023, where she continued her work in structural biology, gained more experience in NMR spectroscopy, cryo-EM, and protein purification under the direction of Dr. Brian Volkman.
Publications
NMR indicates the N-termini of PSGL1 and CCR7 bind competitively to the chemokine CCL21. Robin N. Witt, Kaileigh S. Nickel, John R. Binns, Alexander M. Gray, Alyssa M. Hintz, Noah F. Kofron, Steven F. Steigleder, Francis C. Peterson, and Christopher T. Veldkamp. Biochemistry and Biophysical Reports 2023 35, 101524. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrep.2023.101524.