Gracie Thornhill

Analytical Chemistry Graduate Student

Hometown

Education
B.S. in Biochemistry, minor in Biology from Stephen F. Austin State University, May 2023

REU intern in Texas State University’s CheMIE REU Program, June-August 2022

Post-Bachelors Intern in the Biochemistry and Biotechnology Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, July 2023-July 2025

Contact

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m.thornhill@ufl.edu

Gracie Thornhill earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry with a minor in Biology from Stephen F. Austin State University in May 2023. 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
• Post-Bachelors Intern in the Biochemistry and Biotechnology Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, July 2023-2025

Publications

1. 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
2. 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
3. Salvator Palmisano, Joshua D. Breidenbach, Brett R. Blackwel, Tara Harvey, Kes A. Luchini, M. Grace Thornhill, Erick S. LeBrun, Phillip Mach, Trevor Glaros, and Emilio S. Rivera, Hepatocellular Metabolic Profile: Understanding Post-Thawing Metabolic Shift in Primary Hepatocytes In Vitro, Cells 2025 14 (11), 803, https://doi.org/10.3390/cells14110803

Posters

1. “Modelling, Cloning, and Expression of the J domain of C. elegans Rme-8 Protein”
   • Texas Academy of Science Meeting, March 2022
   • Stephen F. Austin State University’s Undergraduate Research Conference
     • Finalist in the College of Science and Mathematics, April 2022
   • Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering’s Young Researcher Conference
     • 2^nd Place in Undergraduate Poster Division, May 2022
2. “Researching Copper Toxicity and Metallobiology of Saprolegnia parasitica”
   • Texas State University’s REU Poster Symposium, August 2022
3. “Computer modelling of the interaction between CeRme-8 J domain region and CeHsp70-1”
   • Stephen F. Austin State University’s Undergraduate Research Conference, April 2023
     • Finalist in the College of Science and Mathematics           
4. “Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics Uncovers a Cellular Response to Subacute Doses of Organophosphate Pesticides”
   • Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Bioscience Day, September 2023
5. “Feature-Agnostic Metabolomics for Dose Range Finding Experiments in Sub-cytotoxic Doses of Common Pesticides in Primary Human Cells”
   • American Society for Mass Spectrometry’s 72^nd Annual Conference, June 2024