Erome is a postdoctoral research scholar at the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Pharmacy. She is a member of the Van Lanen and Thorson research groups studying the biosynthesis of antimicrobial and antitumor natural products. Her research interests include chemical biology, protein engineering, biocatalysis bioorganic chemistry, and natural products. During her postdoc tenure she has worked as an Office of Technology and Commercialization (OTC) Fellow and served as a postdoc liaison to the Graduate Student Congress for the Society of Postdoctoral Scholars (SOPS) in which she now serves as president. She earned her PhD from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with professor Jiantao Guo where she received training in biochemistry, chemical biology and biocatalysis. She is also an astronomy enthusiast and enjoys reading, and music.
