Sarah O'Connor

Sarah O'Connor
FRS
Sarah O'Connor FRS
Nationality	American
Known for	plant biosynthesis, enzymology, mutagenesis
Awards	Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry; Wain Medal; Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry; Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award;
	Scientific career
Institutions	John Innes Centre, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Doctoral advisor	Barbara Imperiali
Website	https://www.sarahoconnor.org/

Sarah E. O'Connor FRS is an American molecular biologist working to understand the molecular machinery involved in assembling important plant natural products – vinblastine, morphine, iridoids, secologanin – and how changing the enzymes involved in this pathway lead to diverse analogs. She was a Project Leader at the John Innes Centre in the UK between 2011 and 2019. O'Connor was appointed by the Max Planck Society in 2018 to head the Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, taking up her role during 2019.^[1]

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[1] "Sarah O'Connor will become new director at our institute". Retrieved 2018-12-20.

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