2023-24 New Faculty

Caitlyn Bowman-Cornelius is a biochemist who studies the astounding metabolic changes that happen during pregnancy and early postnatal life. She uses a combination of physiology, analytical chemistry, and molecular and cell biology to explore how cells get energy and make the building blocks needed for specialized functions. Her passion for metabolic biochemistry started during her undergraduate training in biology at Juniata College and grew in the lab of her PhD mentor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Caitlyn completed postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania where she developed stable-isotope tracing approaches and analytical chemistry workflows to study maternal-fetal metabolism and cardiovascular disease in mice. At Williams, the Bowman Lab will work together to quantify macronutrient use and metabolic fuel-switching in mouse models at key points during the life cycle and to model this in cultured cells. Caitlyn has previously taught Human Physiology and Cell Biology courses, and she’s delighted to teach metabolic biochemistry and related courses here at Williams. She wants her students to appreciate the metabolic logic by which cells and organisms function. Outside the lab, Caitlyn enjoys hiking and observing local flora and fauna.