Scott Edmands

Scott Edmands has been a laboratory instructor in chemistry and biochemistry at Smith since 2009. His research background in cancer research, molecular and cellular biology, as well as years of teaching in chemistry, inform his approach to teaching biochemistry labs. Through the Smith Biochemistry lab courses, Prof. Edmands works to nurture understanding of research techniques, from basic to advanced, while also providing context for how they fit into larger systems of understanding. He has developed/implemented course-based research curricula to investigate problems in protein purification, impacts of “folding environment” on the thermodynamics of protein folding, and combined computational/wet lab approaches to predicting and characterizing proteins with previously unknown functions.