Laura Maconnel

Laura Maconnel is a biologist and researcher of sexual drugs, even designing a few, though all of them going horribly awry. This has led to a total of five incidents (so far) with Warehouse 13.

Past
Not much is known about her childhood, but it is known that she was always interested in biology in school and excelled in learning in general, earning her chance to go to Harvard. After her time at Harvard, she began working at a company which studied different plants. She went on many excursions to Africa and South America to study rare plants, looking for plants who may have medicinal properties.

First Warehouse Involvement - Case 872634982
In early December 1992, during a trip to Africa, Laura discovered a prehistoric plant which had been preserved for tens of thousands of years. She decided to take it back to the United States to study it further. Upon studying it at home, she realized that she was thinking more and more about sex. Once she realized it was the plant's pollen that was causing this effect, she thought it would be great to make it into a medicine which would increase sexual libido in women. After sixteen failed attempts, she finally produced the Prehistoric Plant Pollen, though the effects were not as she planned. Instead of purely increasing her sexual libido, it turned her into a sexually rapacious sleepwalker. It didn't take long before the Warehouse found out, and Artie took both the pollen and the plant away, telling her that the plant was a prehistoric object and experimenting on it was illegal.

Working at Global Dynamics
After a couple of years, in 1995, Laura received a job offer from Global Dynamics, which she readily accepted. Over the years, she climbed up the ladder to lead GD's scientific experiment department. Despite her past failures, she decided to continue her attempts to create a medicine to increase sexual libido for both men and women amid her other quests for other medicinal plants. During her spare hours, she studied every drug which was said to increase sexual libido in both genders. This eventually led to her incident with the Extract of Male Angler Fish. After four attempts at drugs to increase sexual libido, she was fired from GD. She is currently unemployed, though the Warehouse has kept her information in case of future incidents.