{"id":1115,"date":"2025-04-08T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/?page_id=1115"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T20:10:30","slug":"maxwell-packebush","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/?page_id=1115","title":{"rendered":"Maxwell Packebush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>graduate student since winter 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dino-Headshot-Packebush-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"969\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dino-Headshot-Packebush-969x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dino-Headshot-Packebush-969x1024.jpg 969w, https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dino-Headshot-Packebush-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dino-Headshot-Packebush-768x812.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dino-Headshot-Packebush-1453x1536.jpg 1453w, https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dino-Headshot-Packebush-1938x2048.jpg 1938w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 969px) 100vw, 969px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences<br> <a href=\"mailto:maxpackebush@g.ucla.edu\">maxpackebush@g.ucla.edu<\/a><br>Slichter 5863<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a BS in both molecular biology and microbiology from the University of Wyoming. Under Dr. Thomas Boothby at UWyo, I published my work on intrinsically disordered proteins derived from an extremotolerant organism in&nbsp;<em>Scientific Reports<\/em>. After graduation, I did a year-long post-bac at NASA Ames Research Center where I was mentored by Dr. Mark Ditzler. Here, I aimed to identify the role of amyloid formation in early enzyme evolution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My current research interests focus on 1) collecting\/identifying microbes at the fringes of physiological limits (i.e. hydrothermal vents, hypersaline environments, etc.), 2) deciphering microbial metabolisms and their environmental impact, and 3) investigating their relevance to astrobiology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>graduate student since winter 2025 Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences maxpackebush@g.ucla.eduSlichter 5863 I have a BS in both molecular biology and microbiology from the University of Wyoming. Under Dr. Thomas Boothby at UWyo, I published my work on intrinsically disordered proteins derived from an extremotolerant organism in&nbsp;Scientific Reports. After graduation, I did a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/?page_id=1115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maxwell Packebush<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":284,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1115","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1115\/revisions\/1117"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.epss.ucla.edu\/~ttreude\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}