Louise Goupil

Louise Goupil is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco, within the College of Arts and Sciences. Her research and teaching focus on biochemical and molecular mechanisms in parasitic organisms and cell signaling pathways.

• BS (2011) and PhD (2016) in Chemical Biology from University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco, respectively.

Her research explores the role of cysteine proteases in parasitic flatworms, biochemical pathways in planarian digestion, and signal transduction dynamics. Recent work highlights her contributions to understanding enzyme function in neglected diseases and MAPK pathway regulation.

Her publications span topics such as protease biology, antiparasitic drug discovery, and cell signaling, with a focus on mechanisms relevant to parasitic helminths and model organisms like Schmidtea mediterranea.