Carol A. Wilkins earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry at Michigan State University, East Lansing, where she is now a faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She serves as a semester director for the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Wilkins developed and teaches a two-semester online graduate course for the MSU Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics Program. Her writing has appeared in Biophysical Chemistry and FEMS Microbiology Ecology.