Khadine A Higgins
Khadine Higgins is a professor of chemistry at Salve Regina University. The Higgins research group is interested in understanding how bacterial cells uptake, transport, and export different transition metals. Dr. Higgins’ research utilizes a variety of chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology techniques to study metal ion homeostasis in bacteria. Her research group is currently working on a metalloregulator from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), KmtR. KmtR is the second Ni(II) and Co(II) responsive metalloregulator associated with export in M. tuberculosis. She earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI . She completed her Ph.D. work in chemistry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst under the guidance of Professor Michael Maroney where she studied wild-type and mutant RcnR proteins using X-ray absorption spectroscopy to examine the metal site structures. She conducted her postdoctoral research with Professor David Giedroc at Indiana University Bloomington studying a putative sulfur transferase from Staphylococcus aureus.
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