Education

• Carleton College (BA, Biology with a concentration in Neuroscience)
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln (MS, Nutrition and Exercise)

Academic Interests

• Health and Human Performance
• Sports and Fitness

Professional Memberships

• WeCoach
• Women’s Basketball Coaches Association

Presentations/Publications

• Wynn, Emily & Purfeerst, Emma & Christensen, Alan. (2020). Mitochondrial DNA Repair in an Arabidopsis thaliana
• Uracil N-Glycosylase Mutant. Plants (Basel, Switzerland). 9. 10.3390/plants9020261.
• Kanakkanthara, Arun & Kurmi, Kiran & Ekstrom, Thomas & Hou, Xueting & Purfeerst, Emma & Heinzen, Ethan & Correia, Cristina & Huntoon, Catherine & O’Brien, Daniel & Hendrickson, Andrea & Dowdy, Sean & Li, Hu & Oberg, Ann & Hitosugi, Taro & Kaufmann, Scott & Weroha, S. & Karnitz, Larry. (2019). BRCA1 Deficiency Upregulates NNMT Which Reprograms Metabolism and Sensitizes Ovarian Cancer Cells to Mitochondrial Metabolic Targeting Agents. Cancer Research. 79. canres.1405.2019. 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-19-1405.
• Strehle, Mackenzie & Purfeerst, Emma & Christensen, Alan. (2018). A rapid and efficient method for enriching mitochondrial DNA from plants. Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 3. 239-242. 10.1080/23802359.2018.1438856.

Additional Campus Responsibilities

• Head Women’s Basketball Coach
• Senior Woman Administrator

Hobbies/Interests

• Traveling
• Sports
• Reading
• Jigsaw Puzzles