Gracie Thornhill earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry with a minor in Biology from Stephen F. Austin State University in May 2025. During her undergraduate studies, she participated in the CheMIE REU Program at Texas State University and later served as a Post-Baccalaureate Intern in the Biochemistry and Biotechnology Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2023 to 2025. Her research contributed to multiple publications in Toxicological Sciences and Analytical Chemistry. In the fall of 2025, she joined the Prentice Group.

Awards

• ASBMB Honor Society ΧΩΛ, 2023
• Deans Excellence Award, SFASU College of Sciences and Mathematics 2022-23

Publications

• Emilio S. Rivera, Erick S. LeBrun, Joshua D. Breidenbach, Emilia Solomon, Claire K. Sanders, Tara Harvey, Chi Yen Tseng, M. Grace Thornhill, Brett R. Blackwell, Ethan M. McBride, Kes A. Luchini, Marc Alvarez, Robert F. Williams, Jeremy L. Norris, Phillip M. Mach, Trevor G. Glaros, Feature-agnostic metabolomics for determining effective subcytotoxic doses of common pesticides in human cells, Toxicological Sciences, 2024 202 (1), 85-95, https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfae101
• Joshua D. Breidenbach, Emilio S. Rivera, Tara Harvey, Abigale S. Mikolitis, Chi Yen Tseng, Claire K. Sanders, Emilia Solomon, Cheryl D. Gleasner, M. Grace Thornhill, Kes A. Luchini, Ethan M. McBride, Brett R. Blackwell, Erick S. LeBrun, Phillip M. Mach, and Trevor G. Glaros, The Addition of Transcriptomics to the Bead-Enabled Accelerated Monophasic Multi-Omics Method: A Step toward Universal Sample Preparation, Analytical Chemistry 2024 96 (46), 18343-18348, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c02835

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