Loyola Marymount University is a top-ranked national university by U.S. News and World Report, which places LMU among the top six Jesuit universities in the country and in the top six private universities in California. Founded in 1911, LMU is a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount university with more than 7,100 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. LMU offers 56 undergraduate majors and 56 minor programs, along with 46 master’s degree programs, three doctorate programs and 12 credential/authorization programs. LMU’s intercollegiate athletics teams compete in the West Coast Conference with 14 Division I varsity sports.

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Dr. Katie Mouzakis earned her B.S. in Chemistry-Biology (joint major) from Harvey Mudd College; not far from her hometown of Rancho Cucamonga, CA. She received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (UW Madison). During her graduate and postdoctoral work (also at UW Madison), she used biochemical, biophysical, and computational methods to study viral RNA structures and their functions. Concurrently, she gained invaluable teaching experience through the HHMI Teaching Fellows Program. Dr. Mouzakis comes to LMU from Durango, CO, where she was an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Fort Lewis College (FLC). At FLC she established an undergraduate-driven, externally-funded research program, was awarded the FLC New Faculty Teaching Award, and was named a 2017 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement for her innovative research and educational programs. Her work is published in numerous journals, including Nucleic Acids Research, PNAS, and RNA. Dr. Mouzakis joined LMU’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 2018. She is thrilled to continue work she loves, teaching and doing research with undergraduates, as a faculty member at LMU.

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