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Dr. Eller received her Ph.D. from Emory University in the lab of Dr. Brian Dyer. She received her undergraduate degree with a double major in Biochemistry and Chemistry and minor in Math from Campbell University. Dr. Eller’s graduate research focused on understanding the fundamentals of enzyme dynamics, answering questions like: How do enzymes move during catalysis? Are there preferred energy pathways during enzyme catalysis? How does energy flow through enzymes, and on what timescales? She answered these questions through the site-specific attachment of enzymes to gold nanoparticles and excitation of the nanoparticle with a laser, where she monitored the turnover of the enzyme. Dr. Eller was a lab instructor and supplemental instructor while at Campbell University. As a graduate student, she was a teaching assistant for both advanced labs and lectures at Emory University and a co-teacher for a Chemistry summer course at Woodward Academy. In her final year of graduate school, she was awarded the Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, allowing her to teach first-semester chemistry (CHEM-150) at Emory University in the fall semester of 2019. Dr. Eller is now the Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Brewton-Parker College.