GRADUATE STUDENTS
ALIREZA JAFAR ESMAELLI
Joined the lab in January 2023.
Stimuli-responsive hydrogels for wound healing and drug delivery.
DONA IMANGA UPAMADI EDIRISINGHE
Joined the lab in 2021.
Stimuli-responsive hydrogels.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Protein evolution.
KEMI KAURUKI
Joined the lab in January 2023.
JENNIFER JANKOWSKI
Stimuli-responsive hydrogels.
Joined the lab in Fall 2022.
EMMA HERRERO
Stimuli-responsive hydrogels.
Joined the lab in January 2022.
QUENTEN CHICON
Joined the lab in September 2019.
Antimicrobial hydrogel project
REU student (summer 2021)
ALUMNI
CHEYENE MUENZEL
Antimicrobial hydrogel project.
Recipient of Renee Crown University Honors Award.
Joined the lab in January 2021; graduated May 2022.
JONATHAN SOULE
Stimuli-responsive hydrogels for osteoarthritis treatment.
REU student in summer 2022.
KHOUDIA CISSE
Stimuli-responsive hydrogels for wound healing.
ACS Seed project, summer 2022.
ALEXIS ECKHART
Joined the lab in September 2019.
RNR project, TIGR4 biofilm, stimuli-responsive hydrogels.
Recipient of the SOURCE award.
Graduated in December 2021, now at Moderna in Norwood, MA.
MATTHEW WALSH
Joined the lab in September 2018.
Recipient of the SOURCE award.
Graduated in December 2020.
AGRIM MANGLA
REU student through BioInspired Institute at SU (summer 2021, from Colgate University),
pH-sensitive hydrogel
ALANA HUYNH
REU student (summer 2021, from Ursinus College), phosphoester hydrolysis
JENNIFER YOON
Joined the lab in 2017.
myoglobin project
metal homeostasis in S. pneumoniae
Postdoc in the Justin Kim lab at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Now at Amgen, Cambridge, MA.
EMILY DYER
Manganese homeostasis
Forensic chemist since March 2021.
KAMERON SHRUM
Joined the lab in 2021.
Antimicrobial hydrogel project
DR. AREETHA D’SOUZA
PhD Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, 2017
Joined the lab in August 2018.
Now at Vanderbilt at the Chazin lab (starting May 2021).
CHRISTOS COSTEAS
Joined the lab in May 2018
Myoglobin project
Defended his Capstone thesis in May 2020.
CARA CHESTER
Joined the lab in September 2018. DFsc project
Defended her Capstone thesis in May 2020.
MAGDELYNN MEGE
Joined the lab in summer 2018.
TIGR4 biofilm project
Defended her Capstone thesis in December 2019.
JACKY WU
RNR project.
Hydrogels for wound healing.
Now PhD student at the Department of Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston.
QUYEN PHAM
Syracuse City School District high school (summer 2019)
ACS Project Seed
Now undergraduate student at SU!
JOYCE QUON
REU student from California State University of Los Angeles (summer 2018).
RNR project, stopped-flow
LIZZY ORTIZ
Upstate Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation program (summer 2018). Lizzy is from Laredo Community College.
Myoglobin project
CHANH DO
Syracuse City School District high school (summer 2018)
M. tuberculosis catalase
JOEL REMPILLO
2016 – 2018
Design of mononuclear non-heme enzyme for oxygen activation.
PhD program at Yale (Biological and Biomedical Sciences).
ALEX STERNISHA
2014 – 2016
Antimicrobial hydrogels
M.D./Ph.D program at UTSW
DENIS CIPURKO
REU student from Loyola Chicago (summer 2017)
The role of serine to threonine substitution in NrdF protein of ribonucleotide reductase enzyme.
KATHARINA HIEBLER
iREU student from University of Graz (summer 2015)
Functional tuning of the catalytic residue pKa in a de novo designed esterase.
GARRICK CENTOLA
REU student from University of Rochester (summer 2015)
Antimicrobial hydrogels