年卷期:Kathlyn A. Parker was born in 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She received her education and training as a synthetic organic chemist at Northwestern University (BS), Stanford University (PhD), and Columbia University (postdoctoral fellow). She is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Stony Brook University. Her research interests include natural product synthesis, the design and synthesis of “tool compounds” for biology, and the design of monomers for novel polymers.Nicole S. Sampson was born in 1965 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She received her education and training as a chemist and chemical biologist from Harvey Mudd College (BS), the University of California—Berkeley (PhD), and Harvard University (postdoctoral fellow). She is currently Professor and Chair of the Chemistry Department at Stony Brook University. Her research interests include the design of chemical probes of mammalian fertilization and mapping metabolic pathways that enable survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the host.