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Dr Sarah M. Barry is a Reader in Chemical Biology at King's College London, Department of Chemistry. Her research focuses on bacterial metabolism, particularly natural product biosynthesis, and she leads an interdisciplinary research group. Dr Barry is an organic chemist who completed her BSc (Hons) in Science (Chemistry Major) at University College Dublin, followed by a PhD at the University of Sydney. Her postdoctoral work at the University of Warwick developed her interest in enzymology of natural product biosynthesis. Her research interests include natural product synthesis and biosynthesis, antimicrobial resistance, enzymology, biocatalysis, synthetic organic chemistry, and microbiology. She teaches Organic Chemistry 2 and 3 at the undergraduate level.