Current Trainees

The table below provides details on each trainee, their departmental affiliation, research sponsor and collaborator, and research focus.

Joe Argus

Pathology

Advisory: Steven Bensinger

Collaborator: Steven Clarke

Area of Study: Understanding the Effect of SREBP’s on Cellular Metabolism

Albert Chan

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Advisor: Robert Clubb

Collaborator: Mike Jung

Area of Study: Drug Discovery of Staphylococcus aureus Sortase A Enzyme

Ilya Yakovlev

Organic Chemistry

Advisor: Timothy J. Deming

Collaborator: Genhong Cheng

Area of Study: Scalable Polymerization Approaches Towards Polypeptide Synthesis

Tristan Rose

Chemistry

Advisor: Patrick Harran

Collaborator: Ken Bradley

Area of Study: Constructing Complex Peptidomimetics by Cationic Isomerization of Peptide Macrocycles

Michael Lerch

Physical Chemistry

Advisor: Wayne Hubbell

Collaborator: Ernest Wright

Area of Study: Developing and using high pressure electron paramagnetic resonance tools to study membrane protein conformational thermodynamics and kinetics

Ryan Hollibaugh

Organic Chemistry

Advisor: Patrick Harran

Collaborator: Steven Clarke

Area of Study: Development of a Small Molecule Inhibitor of Ghrelin O-Octanoacyl Transferase

Elizabeth Noey

Organic Chemistry

Advisor: K.N. Houk

Collaborator: James Liao

Area of Study: Designing acetolactate synthase mutant to synthesize branched higher alcohols for biofuels

Ashay Patel

Organic Chemistry

Advisor: K.N. Houk

Collaborator: Yi Tang

Area of Study: Mechanism and Catalysis of Biological Occurring Pericyclic Reactions

Sara Weitz

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology

Advisor: Shimon Weiss

Collaborator: Feng Guo

Area of Study: Development of a Fluorescent Probe to Visualize miRNA Biogenesis in Live Cells

Ralph Cacho

Chemical Engineering

Advisory: Yi Tang

Collaborator: Mike Jung

Area of Study: Investigation of the Biosynthesis of Echinocandin B by Aspergilus nidulans var roseus

Cuiwen He

Chemistry

Advisory: Catherine Clarke

Collaborator: Jing Huang

Area of Study: Characterization of Coq9 in Yeast QBiosynthesis

Uland Lau

Biomedical Engineering

Advisor: Heather Maynard

Collaborator: April Pyle

Area of Study: Expanding the Capabilities of High Pressure Electron Paramagnetic Resonance as a Tool to Study Protein Conformational Dynamics

Amanda Silberstein

Organic Chemistry

Advisor: Neil Garg

Collaborator: Aric Gregson, M.D.

Area of Study: The Development of Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions and their Application to the Synthesis of Anti-Malarial Compounds