Julia Tanquary advises clients on their biotech innovations. Her passion is discovering groundbreaking technologies and helping inventors bring their ideas from a concept to a patent.
Julia’s doctoral research investigated the role of bacterial toxin-antitoxin complexes in bacterial survival and stress responses, while she sought to identify the cellular targets of these toxins.
Julia spent several months as a Fulbright-English Teaching Assistant in Argentina, where she assisted in University-level English classes.
Julia is fluent in Spanish.
Julia practices under the supervision of registered practitioners.
Education
Eckerd College, B.S., Biology and Spanish, with high honors
Tanquary J., Pavelich I.J., Grabowicz M., Dunham C.M., The Escherichia coli RelB antitoxin C-terminus is essential for RelE toxin suppression and transcriptional repression. JBC, 2025. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2025.110389.
Mattingly J.M.*, Lipońska A.*, Tanquary J.*, Yap M-N.F., Dunham C.M. An unusual structural assembly of the Staphylococcus aureus exoribonuclease YhaM essential for RNA processing and virulence. PNAS, 2025. Under review.
Tanquary, J. and Dunham C.M., “The C-terminus of the Antitoxin RelB is Essential for Inhibiting the Toxic Activity of the RelE Toxin Escherichia coli Enzyme”. 2023, Southeast Enzyme Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Schwartz S.L., Dey D., Tanquary J., Bair C.R., Lowen A.C., Conn G.L., Role of helical structure and dynamics in oligoadenylate synthetase 1 (OAS1) mismatch tolerance and activation by short dsRNAs. PNAS, 2022. 119(3):p. e2107111119.
Tanquary, J., Pavelich I.J., Dunham C.M., “Endogenous activation of bacterial toxins and identification of their mRNA targets”. 2022, Microbes & RNA, Virtual.
Tanquary, J., Pavelich I.J., Dunham C.M., “Molecular targets and functions of bacterial toxins”. 2021, 18th Annual GDBBS DSAC Student Research Symposium, Emory University, Atlanta GA.
Barber K.R., Tanquary, J., Bush K., Shaw A., Woodson M., Sherman M., and Wairkar Y., Active zone proteins are transported via distinct mechanisms regulated by Par-1 kinase. PLoS genetics, 2017. 13(2): p. e1006621.
Honors & Awards
ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation Scholar, Atlanta Chapter, 2021-2024
National Science Foundation – Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP)
National Institutes of Health Training Grant (T32), Emory University
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award, Entre Ríos, Argentina
