Markita Landry
Faculty Scientist
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Biochemist Faculty Scientist, Innovative Genomics Institute
Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator
Building: Gilman Hall, Room 106
Phone: (919) 349-4877
landry@berkeley.edu
http://landrylab.com/
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Biography
Markita Landry is an assistant professor in the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She received a B.S. in Chemistry, and a B.A. in Physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She is a recent recipient of early career awards from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, The Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, the DARPA Young Investigator program, the Beckman Young Investigator program, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is a Sloan Research Fellow, an FFAR New Innovator, and is a Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator.
Research Interests
My current research centers on the development of synthetic nanoparticle-polymer conjugates for imaging neuromodulation in the brain, and for the delivery of functional biomolecules and nutrients into living systems. The Landry lab exploits the highly tunable chemical and physical properties of nanomaterials for the creation of bio-mimetic structures, molecular imaging, and gene editing.
Recent Publications
Related News
Landry Receives Blavatnik National Award
Markita Landry, a faculty scientist with MBIB, has been named the 2024 Laureate in Chemical Sciences by the Blavatinik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences.
Congratulations 2021 Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators
Four faculty scientists in the Biosciences Area were included in The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Program, awarding $21 million to 21 University of California, Berkeley researchers.
Markita Landry Awarded Vilcek Prize
The Vilcek Foundation has honored Markita del Carpio Landry, faculty scientist in Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging and assistant professor at UC Berkeley, with the 2022 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science. Landry’s work centers on understanding aberrations in neurotransmitter signaling—a fundamental component in psychiatric disorders such as depression, and schizophrenia, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer disease. She has also led work that has elucidated transport phenomena in plants, which has applications in agricultural biotechnology with regard to the development of food and medicine.
