Schuyler Chambers, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Schuyler Chambers, PhD

Assistant Professor

Schuyler Chambers received her BS in Chemistry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2016) and her PhD in Organic Chemistry from Vanderbilt University (2021). She then worked as an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University (2021-2025), before joining the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Creighton University in Fall 2025.
 

Research Focus

Research in the Chambers Lab harnesses synthetic carbohydrate chemistry to interrogate the biology of bacterial communities and bacterial polysaccharides. Broadly, the research program has two major facets: 1) the design and synthesis of carbohydrate-based tools to study glycobiology and antimicrobial resistance, and 2) the development of non-perturbative biochemical isolation methods to characterize unknown bacterial polysaccharides and biopolymers. Our research reveals the structural composition of biofilm communities and extracellular polysaccharides produced by pathogenic microbes, so that we can better translate our chemical understanding of these biopolymers into the design and synthesis of drug-delivery agents and antibiotic adjuvants to combat antibiotic resistant infections.
 

Department

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Position

Assistant Professor

Publications

  • Nature Communications
    Verma Preeti, etal Insights into phosphoethanolamine cellulose synthesis and secretion across the Gram-negative cell envelope
    15:1 2024
  • ACS Central Science
    Moore Rebecca E., etal The Utility of Human Milk Oligosaccharides against Group B Streptococcus Infections of Reproductive Tissues and Cognate Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
    9:9 2023
  • ChemBioChem
    Visser Joshua A., etal Nordihydroguaiaretic Acid (NDGA) Inhibits CsgA Polymerization, Bacterial Amyloid Biogenesis, and Biofilm Formation
    24:18 2023
  • ACS Infectious Diseases
    Stephens Victoria R., etal Environmental Toxicant Exposure Paralyzes Human Placental Macrophage Responses to Microbial Threat
    9:12 2023
  • Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology
    Lu Jacky, etal Cover Feature: The Innate Immune Glycoprotein Lactoferrin Represses the Helicobacter pylori cag Type IV Secretion System (ChemBioChem 18/2021)
    22:18, p. 2737 - 2737 2021
  • Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology
    Lu Jacky, etal Front Cover: Antibacterial and Anti‐biofilm Activity of the Human Breast Milk Glycoprotein Lactoferrin against Group B Streptococcus (ChemBioChem 12/2021)
    22:12, p. 2010 - 2010 2021
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
    Lu Jacky, etal Analysis of Susceptibility to the Antimicrobial and Anti-Biofilm Activity of Human Milk Lactoferrin in Clinical Strains of Streptococcus agalactiae With Diverse Capsular and Sequence Types
    11 2021
  • ChemBioChem
    Lu Jacky, etal The Innate Immune Glycoprotein Lactoferrin Represses the Helicobacter pylori cag Type IV Secretion System
    22:18 2021
  • Journal of Organic Chemistry
    Moore Rebecca E., etal Leveraging Stereoelectronic Effects in Biofilm Eradication: Synthetic β-Amino Human Milk Oligosaccharides Impede Microbial Adhesion As Observed by Scanning Electron Microscopy
    85:24 2021
  • ChemBioChem
    Lu Jacky, etal Antibacterial and Anti-biofilm Activity of the Human Breast Milk Glycoprotein Lactoferrin against Group B Streptococcus
    22:12 2021
  • BMC Microbiology
    Boone Ranashia L., etal Analysis of virulence phenotypes and antibiotic resistance in clinical strains of Acinetobacter baumannii isolated in Nashville, Tennessee
    21:1 2021
  • ACS Infectious Diseases
    Avery Tyra M., etal Analysis of Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Activity of Human Milk Lactoferrin Compared to Bovine Lactoferrin against Multidrug Resistant and Susceptible Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolates
    7:8 2021
  • ACS Infectious Diseases
    Noble Kristen, etal Group B Streptococcus cpsE Is Required for Serotype v Capsule Production and Aids in Biofilm Formation and Ascending Infection of the Reproductive Tract during Pregnancy
    7:9 2021
  • Carbohydrate Research
    Chambers Schuyler A., etal Bioorthogonal human milk oligosaccharide probes for antimicrobial target identification within Streptococcus agalactiae
    488 2020
  • mBio
    Chambers Schuyler A., etal A solution to antifolate resistance in group B streptococcus: Untargeted metabolomics identifies human milk oligosaccharide-induced perturbations that result in potentiation of trimethoprim
    11:2 2020
  • MethodsX
    Chambers Schuyler A., etal Two-step conversion of unprotected oligosaccharides to generate bioorthogonal oligosaccharide tool compounds
    7 2020
  • ACS Infectious Diseases
    Guevara Miriam A., etal Vitamin D and Streptococci: The Interface of Nutrition, Host Immune Response, and Antimicrobial Activity in Response to Infection
    6:12 2020
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
    Chambers Schuyler A., etal Synthetic Ellagic Acid Glycosides Inhibit Early Stage Adhesion of Streptococcus agalactiae Biofilms as Observed by Scanning Electron Microscopy
    26:44 2020
  • ACS Infectious Diseases
    Lu Jacky, etal Lactoferrin: A Critical Mediator of Both Host Immune Response and Antimicrobial Activity in Response to Streptococcal Infections
    6:7 2020
  • Biochemical Society Transactions
    Chambers Schuyler A., etal Like mother, like microbe: Human milk oligosaccharide mediated microbiome symbiosis
    48:3 2020
  • ACS Chemical Neuroscience
    Chambers Schuyler A., etal The DARK Side of Total Synthesis: Strategies and Tactics in Psychoactive Drug Production
    9:10 2018