Current Trainers

Courtney Aldrich

Medicinal Chemistry, Lab Website

Antibiotics; tuberculosis; synthesis; enzymology; natural product biosynthesis

Elizabeth Ambrose

Medicinal Chemistry, Lab website

Chemical and biological warfare agent mitigation; antimicrobials; computer-aided drug design 

Edgar Arriaga

Chemistry, Lab website

Subcellular analysis; subcellular metabolism; subcellular proteomics; autophagy; mitochondria; aging 

Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran

Chemistry, Lab website

Chemical biology, metalloenzymes, small-molecule discovery, protein engineering, inorganic & organometallic chemistry, spectroscopy, catalysis 

Erin Carlson

Chemistry, Lab website

Antibiotic resistance, bacterial pathogensis and growth, nano-bio interactions 

Yue Chen

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Lab website

Quantitative and chemical proteomics, metabolic sensing mechanisms in protein homeostasis and epigenetics 

Adam Duerfeldt

Medicinal Chemistry, Lab website

Antibiotics, gram-negative accumulation, eye drug discovery, medicinal chemistry 

Mark Distefano

Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry, Lab website

Post-translational modification, protein prenylation 

Michael Freeman

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, Lab website

Natural product biosynthesis & discovery; microbiology; enzymology; mass spectrometry 

Varun Gadkari

Chemistry, Lab website

Analytical chemistry, bioanalytical chemistry, biological chemistry, chemical biology, biophysics, structural biology 

Gunda Georg

Medicinal Chemistry, Lab website

Medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, high throughput screening, combinatorial chemistry, chemical biology, organic chemistry, natural products chemistry, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, contraception

Wendy Gordon

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Lab website

Protein crystallography, single molecule spectroscopy, bioluminescent biosensors, Cas/CRISPR gene-editing, mechanobiology 

Timothy Griffin

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Lab website

Proteomics, mass spectrometry, protein chemistry 

Daniel Harki

Medicinal Chemistry, Lab website

Syntheic-organic and medicinal chemistry; chemical biology; nucleic acids; cancer stem cells 

Christy L. Haynes

Chemistry, Lab website

Bioanalytical/Biophysical 

Michael Latham

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Lab website

Structural, dynamics, and functional characterization of DNA damage repair complexes 

Nicholas Levinson

Pharmacology, Lab website

Structure and dynamics of protein kinases and kinase inhibitors 

Louis Mansky

Institue for Molecular Virology (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics), Lab website

Molecular and cell biology of human retroviruses 

Luiza Mendonca

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Lab website

Cryoelectron microscopy and tomography (cryoEM/ET), Correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM), structural biology, virology 

Laurie Parker

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Lab website

Bioanalytical method development for measuring enzyme activity in cells and in high throughput 

Valerie Pierre

Chemistry, Lab website

Novel diagnostic tools and antimicrobial drugs for bacterial infections 

William Pomerantz

Chemistry, Lab website

Modulating protein-protein interactions through the use of small molecules and bio-inspired peptide scaffolds 

Theresa Reineke

Chemistry, Lab website

Nucleic acid delivery, sustainable polymers, oral drug delivery 

Courtney Roberts

Chemistry, Lab website

Organic chemistry, catalysis, inorganic & organometallic chemistry

Sapna Sarupia

Chemistry, Lab website

Molecular modeling, computer simulations, statistical mechanics 

Mike Sheedlo

Pharmacology, Lab website

Structural Biology, Cryo-EM, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Bacterial Toxins and Virulence Factors 

Claudia Schmidt-Dannert

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Lab website

Biosynthesis and biochemical engineering 

Buckhard Seelig

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Lab website

Protein engineering, directed evolution; de novo enzymes 

Michael Smanski

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Lab website

Synthetic biology; Natural products biosynthesis 

Natalia Tretyakova

Medicinal Chemistry, Cancer Center, Lab website

DNA and protein adducts, biological mass spectrometry 

Carston Wagner

Medicinal Chemistry, Chemistry, Lab website

Drug Design and Delivery Enzymology Nano-biotechnology