Diondra Dilworth

About Me

Hello! My name is Diondra Dilworth. I'm a trained organic chemist who's also interested in STEM education/outreach and music among other things. I was born and raised in Las Vegas, NV where I lived the first 18 years of my life. For college, I moved to Cambridge, MA to attend Harvard University where I studied chemistry and computer science. Upon graduation, I moved to New Haven, CT where I am currently an NSF GRFP-Funded PhD Candidate in Chemistry in Prof. Scott Miller's group. My research is part of C-GEM (Center for Genetically Encoded Materials), an NSF-funded interdisciplinary multi-institution collaboration effort tasked to answer the holy-grail question: can the ribosome, nature's protein synthesizing machine, be re-engineered to rapidly synthesize sequence-defined polymers with chemically-, biologically-, or otherwise relevant structures, functions, and/or utilities? With the help of talented chemical biologists, structural biologists, computational biologists, and molecular biologists in universities across the United States, I hope to use my synthetic chemistry skills to make the answer to that question "Yes!".