Madelaine Paige Thorpe
Adviser: Jeffrey Johnston
Dissertation: Deconvolution of Physicochemical Properties of Cyclic (Depsi)Peptides and Progression of Structure- Activity Relationship of ent-Verticilide

Pragun Tuladhar
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: An Electrochemical Biosensor Array Platform for the Continuous, Dual-Technique Monitoring of Multiple Biomarkers in Organ-On-Chips

Andrey Shults
Adviser: Janet Macdonald
Dissertation: Exploring Mechanisms Behind Phase Formations of Metal Chalcogenide Nanoparticles

William Lowery
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: Development of Improved Electron Transfer Materials in Bioelectrochemical Systems

David Koomen
Adviser: John McLean
Dissertation: Advancing Integration of Multidimensional Separations and High-Resolution Ion Mobility to Benefit Untargeted Small Molecule Analyses for Clinical and Biological Applications

Ruben Torres
Adviser: Sandra Rosenthal
Dissertation: Molecular Mechanisms of Mental Illness: Quantum Dot-based Single Molecule Investigation of the Dopamine Transporter and Its Protein Partners

Kaixuan Xu
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: Electrochemical Investigation of Neurotransmitters for Environmental Toxins and Drug Development

Nadjali Chung
Adviser: Rena Robinson and John McLean
Dissertation: Mass Spectrometry-Based Approaches to Improve Small Molecule Annotation and Analysis

Velia Garcia
Adviser: Walter Chazin
Dissertation: Characterization of the Calcium-Induced Tetramerization of Calprotectin

Griffin Perry
Adviser: Nathan Schley
Dissertation: Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentyl Substituents in Phosphorus and Aluminum Organometallics

Zihang Deng
Adviser: Jeffrey Johnston
Dissertation: Development of New Enantioselective Reactions using Generality as the Guiding Principle

Eli McDonald
Adviser: Lars Plate
Dissertation: Structural and Proteostatic Mechanisms of Cystic Fibrosis Corrector Response

Sabrina Spicer
Adviser: Steven Townsend
Dissertation: Applications and Mechanistic Insights of Oligosaccharide Modulation at the Host-Pathogen Interface

Alexander Hughes
Adviser: Steven Townsend
Dissertation: Total Synthesis of Ibogamine, Tabernanthine, Ervaoffine J, and Ervaoffine K

Olivia Owens Eldridge
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: Development of Electrochemical Biosensors to Study Preterm Birth

Alexandra Koziel
Adviser: Janet Macdonald
Dissertation: Think Smaller: Understanding Selenium Pathways in Metal Chalcogenide Nanocrystal Synthesis" Committee Members

Catherine Elizabeth Adams
Adviser: Steven Townsend
Dissertation: Synthetic strategies toward complex molecule synthesis: from glycan mimetics to complex terpenoids

Andrew Puente
Adviser: Prasad Polavarapu
Dissertation: Studying Chirality, Conformational Flexibility, and Intermolecular Interactions with Chiroptical Spectroscopy

Lauren Wenger
Adviser: Timothy Hanusa
Dissertation: Mechanochemical Exploration of the p-Block

Kayla Hess
Adviser: Lauren Buchanan
Dissertation: Developing new approaches to understanding peptide secondary structure and aggregation via two- dimensional infrared spectroscopy

Christopher Good
Adviser: Richard Caprioli
Dissertation: In Situ Lipidomics of Staphylococcusaureus Osteomyelitis using Imaging Mass Spectrometry

Kelly Richardson
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: The Development of Blood-Brain Barrier Cell Culture Models and Relevant Assessment Tools

John Terrell
Adviser: Carmelo Rizzo
Dissertation: Amine-Containing Anthracyclines Covalently Bind AP Sites in DNA Created by Nitrogen Mustards, Resulting in Reduced Cell Viability and Leading to Rapid Strand Scissor VIA β-/δ-Elimination

Grace Buckey
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: Design and Fabrication of Electrochemical Sensors for Interleukin-6

Jessica Paredes
Adviser: Kevin Schey
Dissertation: Dehydroalanine and Dehydrobutyrine: Post-Translational Modifications Implicated in Aging Lenses and Age-Related Nuclear Cataracts

Bailey Bowser
Adviser: Rena Robinson
Dissertation: Development of Multiplexing Strategies to Facilitate Disease Understanding

Kathryn Kapp
Adviser: Rena Robinson
Dissertation: Plasma Proteomic Factors Associated with Sepsis Survival Outcomes

Callie Dulin
Adviser: Brian Bachmann
Dissertation: Efforts Towards Understanding the Formation of the Eurekanate Sugar and the Early Biosynthesis of Everninomicin D. 

Sophia Click
Adviser: Sandra Rosenthal
Dissertation: Unraveling the Effects of Morphology at the Core/shell Interface of InP-based Quantum Dots

Emanuel Zlibut
Adviser: John McLean
Dissertation: Structural Mass Spectrometry Approaches for the Study of Complexed Small Molecules

William Weeks
Adviser: Lauren Buchanan
Dissertation: Developing Nonperturbative Spectroscopic Approaches for Characterizing Heterogenous Ensembles During Protein Self-Assembly

Danielle Penk
Adviser: Janet Macdonald
Dissertation: Synthetic and Biological Studies of Hemiketal E2 & Dependence of Metal Precursor Reactivity on Transition Metal Telluride Phase

Christopher Sharp
Adviser: Janet Macdonald
Dissertation: Cation Exchange in Nanocrystals Towards Novel Ternary Copper Chalcogens

Joshua Elder
Adviser: Carmelo Rizzo
Dissertation: Anthracycline Analogs that Target Abasic Sites in DNA

Micaella Jorge
Adviser: David Wright
Dissertation: Strategies for the Development of Multiplexed Diagnostics

Katerina Djambazova
Adviser: Richard Caprioli
Dissertation: Resolving Ganglioside Heterogeneity within Murine Staphylococcus aureus Abscesses using MALDI TIMS IMS

Madison Wright
Adviser: Lars Plate
Dissertation: Investigations Into Time-Resolved Secretory Protein Quality Control Dynamic

Emma Guiberson
Adviser: Richard Caprioli
Dissertation: Discovery of Bile Acid-Associated Molecular Changes in the Murine Gastrointestinal Tract During Clostridioides difficile Infection

Calvin Larson
Adviser: Gary Sulikowski
Dissertation: Stereodivergent Approach to the Total Synthesis of Selected ST and AT ∆13-9-Isofurans

Lianyan Xu
Adviser: Steven Townsend
Dissertation: Modulating Cell Biology with Carbohydrates and their Derivatives

Katherine Almasy
Adviser: Lars Plate
Dissertation: Investigation of Host Protesostasis Dependencies to Inhibit RNA Virus Infection

Kelsey Webb
Adviser: Lauren Buchanan
Dissertation: Examining Peptide and Protein Structure and Dynamics with Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy

Jordan Johnson
Adviser: Prasad Polavarapu
Dissertation: Chiroptical Spectroscopic Studies and Methods for Small Molecules

Bailey Rose
Adviser: John McLean
Dissertation: Multidimensional Analyses for High Confidence Untargeted Molecular Annotation Using Structurally Specific Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry

Josiah McMillen
Adviser: Richard Caprioli
Dissertation: MALDI Technology Development to Enable High Spatial Resolution

Rebecca Moore
Adviser: Steven Townsend
Dissertation: Human Milk Oligosaccharides Combat Group B Streptococcus Infections Seamlessly from Test Tube to Mouse Model

Margaret Calhoun
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: Electrochemical Studies of Biosensor Mediators

Elleansar Okwei
Adviser: Jens Meiler
Dissertation: Improving Computational Protein Modeling Using Experimental NMR Paramagnetic Restraints

Johny Nguyen
Adviser: Steven Townsend
Dissertation: Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Zwitterionic Polysaccharides

Jade Williams
Adviser(s): Jeffrey Johnston and Gary Sulikowski
Dissertation: Total Synthesis of Coelichelin, Cochinmicin I, and Cochinmicin V

Abigail Smith
Adviser: Jeffrey Johnston
Dissertation: The Investigation of "Impossible" Ring Sizes in the Macrocyclooligomerization of Depsipeptides and the Developement and Mechanistic Exploration of RyR2 Selective Inhibitors

Samuel Schmitz
Adviser: Jens Meiler
Dissertation: Computational Methods to Engineer Antibodies for Vaccines and Therapeutics

Oanh Vu
Adviser: Jens Meiler
Dissertation: Discovery and Characterization of Y4R Allosteric Modulators using Computer-Aided Drug Design

Caleb Fast
Adviser: Nathan Schley
Dissertation: Design Iridium Catalysts for Selective C-O Cleavage

Cara Brasher
Adviser: Sandra Rosenthal
Dissertation: Synthesis of Ferroelectric Semiconductor Nanocrystals by Caition Exchange

Alexander Allweil
Adviser: Gary Sulikowski
Dissertation: Synthetic Studies on Hemiketal E2 and 5 Hydroxy Prostaglandin E2 Novel Arachidonic acid Metabolites

Zachary Austin
Adviser: Gary Sulikowski
Dissertation: Total Synthesis of the Delta-13-9-Isofurans: A Stereodivergent Approach

Christopher Stachurski
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: Development of Carbon Materials for Us in Photosystem I-Based Biohybrid Devices

Jenna Payne
Adviser: Jeffrey Johnston
Dissertation: Optimization of an Enantioselective Synthesis of Cyclic Carbamates by CO2 Capture, and Investigation of Aryl Triflamides as Achiral Modifiers in Organocatalysis

Kaitlyn Stepler
Adviser: Rena Robinson
Dissertation: Proteomics to Study Racial Disparities in Alzheimer's Disease

Megan van der Horst
Adviser: David Wright
Dissertation: Use of Microvirin-N for Specific Detection of the Tuberculosis Biomarker Mannose-Capped Lipoarabinomannan

Carson Moore
Adviser: David Wright
Dissertation: Development of Enhanced Survelliance Tools for Low-Resource Malaria Control and Elimination

Jenna DeSousa
Adviser: Steven Townsend
Dissertation: The Design and Development of Novel Methods to Improve Sensitivity of Current Infectious Disease Diagnostics

Margaret Jones
Adviser: Nathan Schley
Dissertation: Advances in Iriduim-Catalyzed C-H Borylation Enabled by 2,2'-Dipyridylarylmethane Ligands

Berkley Ellis
Adviser: John McLean
Dissertation: Accelerating Natural Product Discover and Synthetic Biology Workflows Using Multidimensional Molecular Phenotyping

Quinn Bumpers
Adviser: Gary Sulikowski
Dissertation: Synthetic Studies Toward the Total Synthesis of Xestocyclamine A

Sara Melow
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: Development and Application of Electrochemical Biosensors for Multianalyte Detection in Model Organ Systems

Ross Koby
Adviser: Timothy Hanusa
Dissertation: Mechanochemical Synthesis and Computational investigation of Organo-main Group Species with Delocalized Ligans

Jason Hudlicky
Adviser: Gary Sulikowski
Dissertation: Synthetic Stuides on Bielschowskysin

Eric Huseman
Adviser: Steven Townsend
Dissertation: Synthesis and Preliminary Biological Evaulation of Armetamycin A Disaccharide Decorated Anthracyclines

Andrew Kantor
Adviser: David Wright
Dissertation: Improving Methods of Malaria Diagnosis and Undergraduate Education using Sample Preparation Techniques and Lateral Flow Assays

Rachel Harris
Adviser: John McLean
Dissertation: Analysis of Biopolymers and Synthetic Polymers using Structurally Selective Analytical Techniques in Combination with Mass Spectrometry

Don Davis Jr.
Adviser: John McLean
Dissertation: Multidimensional Separations in Complex Biological Matrices Utilizing Chromatography, Ion Mobility, and Mass Spectrometry

Isaiah Speight
Adviser: Timothy Hanusa
Dissertation: Optimized Synthesis of Mechanochemically Generated Metal Complexes

Benjamin Mueller
Adviser: Nathan Schley
Dissertation: Activation and Transformation of C-F and C-H Bonds Through Late Transition Metal Binding

Ethan McClain
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: Development and Application of Enzymatic Bisensors in the Investigation of Organophosphate Toxicity and Neurotransmission

Marissa Jones
Adviser: Richard Caprioli
Dissertation: Multimodal Imagine Utilizing Maldi IMS, IF, Autofluorescence, and Histological Staining for the Investigation of Lipids Integral to the Adaptive Immune Response

Caleb Jones
Adviser: Nathan Schley
Dissertation: Selectivity of Hydrosilylative Ether Cleavage by Cationic Bis(phosphine) Iridium Complexes

Scott Chapp
Adviser: Nathan Schley
Dissertation: Activation of Inert sp3 C-H, C-O and C-Si Bonds at Cationic Iriduim Complexes

Michael Crocker
Adviser: Jeffrey Johnston
Dissertation: Umpolung Amide Synthesis Mechanistic Studies, Development of a New Aryl Amide Synthesis, and a-Oxy- and a-Thio-nitroalkanes in the BAM-Catalyzed aza-Henry Reaction

Schuyler Chambers
Adviser: Steven Townsend
Dissertation: Harnessing Human Milk Oligosaccharides and Ellagic Acid Glycosides to Combat Group B Streptococcus

Audrey Ynigez-Gutierrez
Adviser: Brian Bachmann
Dissertation: Biosynthetic Derivatization of Antimicrobial Orthosomycins to Engage a Unique Ribosomal Binding Site

Mostafa Khan
Adviser: Rena Robinson
Dissertation: Proteomics and Lipidomics to Study Racial Disparities in Alzheimer's Disease

Caitlin Kent
Adviser: Craig Lindsley
Dissertation: Discovery of a Novel, Selective Inhibitor of the Inward Rectifying Potassium Channel 4.1/5.1 Heterotetramer, Development of a Metabotropic Glutamate Positive Allosteric Modulator, and Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Thiocladospolide A

Dilek Dervishogullari
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: Interfacing Photosystem I with Conductive Three-Dimensional Frameworks for Solar Energy Conversion

Jacuqeline-Mae Picache
Adviser: John McLean
Dissertation: Strategies for Improving Multiomic Metabolite Identifications Using Compound Libraries, Machine Learning, and Structural Mass Spectrometry

William Perry
Adviser: Richard Caprioli
Dissertation: Imaging Mass Spectrometry of Staphylococcus Aureus Infection: Mapping Pathogenic Adaptations that Circumvent Immunity

Jade Bing
Adviser: Jeffrey Johnston
Dissertation: Stereocontrolled Approaches to Beta-Fluoroamines and a Formal Synthesis of the Anti-HIV and Antibacterial Peptide (-)-Feglymycin

Christopher Fullenkamp
Adviser: Gary Sulikowski
Dissertation: Total Synthesis of 9-dechlorochrysophaentin Reveals a Novel Mechanism of Inhibiting Cell Wall Biosynthesis

Andrew Kellum
Adviser: Michael Stone
Dissertation: Structural Effects of Secondary DNA Damage Products

Lucas Thai
Adviser: Sandra Rosenthal
Dissertation: Single Particle Investigation of Dopamine Transporters, Transitioning from Cultured Cells to Living Brain Tissue

Jordan Rhodes
Adviser: Sandra Rosenthal
Dissertation: Phase-Controlled Synthesis of Iron Sulfide Nanocrystals

Evan Robinson
Adviser: Janet Macdonald
Dissertation: Phase and Morphological Control of Copper(I) Chalcogenide Nanocrystals

Nathaniel Freymeyer
Adviser: Sandra Rosenthal
Dissertation: Ultrafast Fluorescence Upconversion of Alloyed III-V/II-VI Core/Shell Quantum Dots

James Poland
Adviser: John McLean
Dissertation: Method Development towards Probing the Gut Metabolome using Reverse Phase Liquid Chromatography - Ion Mobility - Mass Spectrometry

Carson Reed
Adviser: Craig Lindsley
Dissertation: Discovery and Development of Novel, Selective Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 7 Negative and Positive Allosteric Modulators; A General, Enantioselective Synthesis of 2-Substituted Thiomorpholines and Thiomorpholine 1,1-Dioxides; and Total Synthesis of Natural (-)- and Unnatural (+)-Melearoride A

Jeanette Bertron
Adviser: Craig Lindsley
Dissertation: Development of an Improved In Vivo Tool Compound, VU6001221, for Non-competitive Inhibition of CHT; Discovery and Development of M1 PAMs: Benzomorpholine and Tetrahydroquinoline Series; Development of Novel, Brain-Penetrant, Human and Mouse PAR4 Antagonists

Michael Lampley
Adviser: Eva Harth
Dissertation: Development and Manipulation of Photoresponsive Polymer Networks Through Light-Mediated Polymerizations
Research & devlopment chemist at Blacklidge Emulsions

Mark Fulton
Adviser: Craig Lindsley
Dissertation: Challenges in the Discovery and Optimization of mGlu2/4 Heterodimer Positive Allosteric Modulators and Total Synthesis of Epi- and Pericoannosin A
Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University

Jennifer Benoy
Adviser: Gary Sulikowski
Dissertation: Total Synthesis and Biological Significance of Prostaglandin D2 and E2 Metabolites
Postdoctoral associate at University of Minnesota

Kelly Craft 
Adviser: Steven Townsend
Dissertation: Human Milk Oligosaccharides as a Defense Against Infectious Disease
Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University

Laken Williams 
Adviser: Eva Harth
Dissertation: Developing Highly Tunable Polymer-based Networks for Drug Delivery Applications
Product development scientist at The Clorox Company (Pleasanton, CA)

James Wepy 
Adviser: Lawrence Marnett
Dissertation: Lysoophospholipases as Mediators of Bioactive Lipid Metabolism and Signaling
Senior scientist at Pfizer, Inc. (Boston, MA)

Dorothy Ackerman
Adviser: Steven Townsend
Dissertation: Human Milk Oligosaccharides as a Defense Against Group B Streptococcus
Postdoctoral research associate at NIH-NCI (Jeffrey Gildersleeve)

Brett Covington
Adviser: Brian Bachmann
Dissertation: Expediting Natural Product Discovery with Mass-Spectrometry based Metabolomic Analyses
Postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University

Robert Davis 
Adviser: Gary Sulikowski
Dissertation: Synthesis of Four Diastereomeric Linoleic Triols and Development of a Large Scale Convergent Approach to Apoptolidinone C
Senior research scientist at Treehouse Biotech, Denver, CO

Suzanne Batiste 
Adviser: Jeffrey Johnston
Dissertation: Rapid Synthesis by Rational Design: An Ion-Templated Macrocyclooligomerization-Based Approach to Prepare Collections of Natural Product-Like Cyclodepsipeptides, Leading to the Discovery of a New Antiarrhythmic Small Molecule
NIH postdoctoral fellow at CalTech (Gregory Fu)

Westley Bauer 
Adviser: David Wright
Dissertation: Development of Platform Technologies and Sample Preparation Methods to Improve Diagnosis of the “Big Three” Infectious Diseases of Poverty
Senior scientist I at H.B. Fuller (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN)

James Dodds 
Adviser: John McLean
Dissertation: Investigation of Separation Strategies for Bioanalytical methods: Chromatography, Ion Mobility and Mass Spectrometry
Postdoctoral research associate at Vanderbilt University

Amanda Duran
Adviser: Jens Meiler
Dissertation: Improving Membrane Protein Modeling and Design Using Empirical Data    
Protein engineering scientist at Cyrus Biotechnology, Seattle, WA

Axel Fischer 
Adviser: Jens Meiler
Dissertation: In silico prediction of protein structures and ensembles
Software engineer at Renaissance Technologies LLC                             

Darwin Fu 
Adviser: Jens Meiler
Dissertation:Improving Protein-Small Molecule Structure Predictions with Ensemble Methods, or Using Computers to Guess How Tiny Things Fit Together
Postdoctoral research associate at Vanderbilt University

Michael Goodman
Adviser: Lawrence Marnett
Dissertation: Investigations of the Enzymatic Mechanisms and Inhibition of Prostaglandin E2 Biosynthesis
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of California, Davis

Matthew Knowe 
Adviser: Jeffrey Johnston
Dissertation: Enantioselective desymmetrization of carboxylic acids by Bronsted base catalysis
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Vanderbilt University (Ned Porter)
Principal scientist at StemSynergy (medicinal chemistry)

Katrina Leaptrot 
Adviser: John McLean
Dissertation: Development of a Spatially Multiplexed Ion Mobility Spectrometer and Utilization of Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry for Conformational Analyses of Lipids and Other Biomolecules
Postdoctoral research associate at Vanderbilt University

Bian Li 
Adviser: Jens Meiler
Dissertation: Structure prediction and variant interpretation of membrane proteins aided by machine learning algorithms
Postdoctoral research associate at Yale University

Christine Markwalter 
Adviser: David Wright
Dissertation: Strategies for Improving Diagnosis of Malaria and Schistosomiasis in Low-Resource Settings
Postdoctoral research associate at the Global Health Institute, Duke University

Thomas Struble 

Adviser: Jeffery Johnston
Dissertation: Enantioselective synthesis of carbon-oxygen and carbon-nitrogen bonds using Brønsted acid/base catalysis, investigations of intermediates, and mechanistic insight to stereodivergent catalysis unveiled by DFT.
Postdoctoral research associate at MIT (Klavs Jensen)

Nicholas Boyde 
Adviser: Timothy Hanusa
Dissertation: Synthesis and reactions of sterically encumbered inorganic and organometallic complexes
Assistant professor of chemistry, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma

Kristin Droege 
Adviser: Richard Armstrong
Dissertation: The Structural Dynamics of human Lipoxygenases Enzymatic and Regulatory Mechanisms
Staff at Vanderbilt University, Center for Teaching

Kelly Gilmore 
Adviser: Eva Harth
Dissertation: Development of Drug Delivery Vehicles for Biomedical Applications.                             
Principal chemist at Ecolab, St. Paul, MN

Connor Lamberson 
Adviser: Ned Porter           
Dissertation: Studies of Lipid Peroxidation, its Link to Human Pathologies, and Isotopic Reinforcement of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids as a Strategy to Reduce Oxidative Damage           
Special agent forensic scientist at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation

Adam Travis 
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: Governing the Biological Interactions of Monolayer Protected Gold Nanoparticles by Controlling the Composition and Spatial Structure of the Thiolate Shell
Analyst at the Tennessee Department of Agriculture

Alexis Wong 
Adviser: David Wright
Dissertation:Probing the Cellular Uptake of DNA Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles
Scientist I at Ultivue, Inc. (Cambridge, MA)

Anna Bitting 
Adviser: David Wright                         
Dissertation: Strategies to Improve Malaria Diagnostics at the Point of Care by Understanding Protein Behavior and Developing Low-Resource DNA Detection Methods
Environmental scientist at the Alabama Department of Environmental Management

Laura Engerer 
Adviser: Timothy Hanusa
Dissertation: Investigations of non-covalent bonding: Synthesis aided calculations                             
Postdoctoral research associate (teaching) at Valparaiso U

Shane Finn 
Adviser: Janet Macdonald
Dissertation: The Development of Petaled MoS2 as a Versatile and Sustainable Electrocatalyst for Alternative Energy Technologies.
Chemist II at the Tennessee Department of Agriculture
R&D chemist at Chemours (New Johnsonville, TN)

Allison Galassie 
Adviser: Andrew Link
Dissertation: Quantitative proteomic analysis of the human immune response following influenza vaccination
Lab scientist at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (Atlanta, GA) 

Lauren Gibson Toote 
Adviser: David Wright
Dissertation: Development of Sensitive Biomolecule Detection Strategies for Low-Resource Settings
Assistant professor of chemistry & biochemistry, Elizabethtown College (Elizabethtown, PA)

Evan Gizzie 
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: Enhancing Electron Transfer at the Protein/Electrode Interface: Applications in Bioderived Solar Energy Conversion and Electrochemical Biosensors
Postdoctoral research associate at Northwestern University

Jessica Moore 
Adviser: Richard Caprioli
Dissertation: Imaging Mass Spectrometry and Microbial Pathogenesis: The Effect of Calprotectin on Pathogen-Host Interactions
Research fellow at Vanderbilt University

Susan Ramos-Hunter
Adviser: Gary Sulikowski
Dissertation: Development of Molecular Tools for the Investigation of G protein-gated Inwardly Rectifying Potassium (GIRK) Channels
Postdoctoral research associate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA)

Norie Sugitani 
Adviser: Walter Chazin
Dissertation: Structural and biophysical characterization of the nucleotide excision repair factor XPA
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Michael Turo
Adviser: Janet Macdonald
Dissertation: Crystal-Bound Ligands in Nanocrystal Synthesis
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of California, San Diego

Dain Beezer 
Adviser: Eva Harth
Dissertation: Development of Novel Poly(glycidol) Hydrogels for Applications in Regenerative Medicine and Drug Delivery
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Houston (Harth)

Katherine Chong 
Adviser: Gary Sulikowski
Dissertation:Studies toward a unified synthesis of apoptolidinone C and glycosylated variants
Scientist at Enanta Pharmaceuticals (Boston, MA)

Jacob Lockhart 
Adviser: Eva Harth
Dissertation: Synthesis of Nanomaterials and Macromolecular Architectures for Dual Drug Delivery Systems, Biosensors, and Antimicrobial Films
Senior scientist at INVISTA-Koch Industries (Columbia, SC)

Michelle Mitchener 
Adviser: Lawrence Marnett
Dissertation: A. Competition and Allostery Govern Substrate Selectivity of Cyclooxygenase-2; B. Enzymatic Oxidation of M1dG in the Genome
Postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University

Kellie Nance 
Adviser: Craig Lindsley
Dissertation: Discovery, Optimization, and Validation Efforts Towards Positive Allosteric Modulators of the Glucagon-like Peptide 1 Receptor, Discovery of a Novel Series of Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Noncompetitive Antagonists, and Total Synthesis of Melearoride A
Postdoctoral research associate at NIH-NCI (Meier)

Kim Fong 
Adviser: David Wright
Dissertation: Investigations of antimalarial inhibition of hemozoin formation in Plasmodium falciparum

Mary Keithly 
Adviser: Richard Armstrong
Dissertation:Structure, substrate selectivity, and catalytic mechanism of the fosfomycin resistance enzyme, FosB, from Gram-positive pathogens
Assistant professor of chemistry at Missouri Southern State University

Sandeepkumar Kothiwale
Adviser: Jens Meiler
Dissertation: A novel knowledge based conformation sampling algorithm and its applications in drug discovery            
Data scientist at Hospital Corporation of America

Jose Montenegro Burke 
Adviser: John McLean
Dissertation: Enhanced separations strategies for complex sample characterization using ion mobility-mass spectrometry
Postdoctoral research associate at the Scripps Research Institute

Dustin Politica 
Adviser: Michael Stone
Dissertation: Structural Consequences of the C8-Guanine DNA Adduct formed by 3-Nitrobenzanthrone; an Environmental Carcinogen
Postdoctoral research associate at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching
Currently a content developer at MacMillan Learning, Inc.

David Rizzo 
Adviser: Richard Caprioli
Dissertation: High Mass Accuracy Coupled to Spatially-Directed Proteomics for Improved Protein Identifications in Imaging Mass Spectrometry Experiments
Senior scientist at AbbVie (North Chicago, IL)

Francisco Rodriguez Mena 
Adviser: Hassane Mchaourab
Dissertation: Spectroscopic Study of the Conformational Changes Involved in the Activation of CaMKII
Clinical research data specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Daniel Sprague 
Adviser: Jeffery Johnston
Dissertation: Chiral Proton Catalysis: New Applications in Enantioselective Hetero-Diels-Alder Reactions, Amino Acid Synthesis, and Progress Toward the Synthesis of Fluorinated Tetrahydroisoquinoline Alkaloids
Medical student at the Medical College of Wisconsin

Brittany Allison 
Adviser Jens Meiler
Dissertation: Computational Design of Protein-Ligand Interfaces Using RosettaLigand
Postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University

Jeremiah Beam 
Adviser: Charles Lukehart
Dissertation: Confined-Plume Chemical Deposition of Transition Metal Borides and Chalcogenides Initiated by Pulsed, Infrared, Tabletop Lasers
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Saskatchewan

Chad Chumbley 
Adviser: Richard Caprioli
Dissertation: Absolute Quantitative Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry and Imaging Mass Spectrometry of Pharmaceutical Drugs Directly from Biological Specimens
Chemist at the Drug Enforcement Administration

Cody Covington
Adviser: Prasad Polavarapu
Dissertation: Chiroptical Spectroscopic Studies on Surfactants, Other Aggregating Systems, and Natural Products
Research adjunct faculty at Austin Peay State University

David Crisostomo
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Investigations of Monolayer Protected Gold Nanoparticles and Shewanella oneidensis
Lecturer at Auburn University

Michael Danneman 
Adviser: Jeffery Johnston
Dissertation: Applications of Chiral Amidine Catalysis Towards the Synthesis of Small Molecule Dissertation: Therapeutics and Recent Advances in Vicinal Diamine Synthesis
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Columbia University (T. Rovis)
Currently discovery scientist at Moderna Therapeutics (Cambridge, MA)

Nichole Lareau 
Adviser: John McLean
Dissertation: Development of Ion Mobility and Mass Spectrometry Strategies in Support of Integrated Omics and Systems Biology
Investigator at GlaxoSmithKline (Philadelphia, PA)

Emilianne McCranie Limbrick 
Adviser: Brian Bachmann
Dissertation: Investigations of Orthosomycin Biosynthesis
Assistant professor of chemistry at Mercer University (Macon, GA)

Marta Wenzler 
Adviser: Gary Sulikowski
Dissertation: Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Upenamide
Process research chemist at Regis Technologies (Morton Grove, IL)

Jenny Nesbitt 
Adviser: David Wright
Dissertation: Oceanic inspiration for biomaterial formation – investigations into biomimetic synthesis and characterization of inorganic oxide materials inspired by sea sponges and diatoms
Postdoctoral research associate at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Kenneth Schwieter 
Adviser: Jeffery Johnston
Dissertation: Toward On-Demand Peptide Synthesis: Development and Application of Enantioselective Syntheses of Unnatural α-Amino Amides
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Currently a product manager of emerging chemical synthesis at MilliporeSigma (Milwaukee, WI)

William Beavers 
Adviser: Lawrence Marnett
Dissertation: omega-Alkynyl Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: Surrogates to Study Protein Adduction by Endogenously Generated Lipid Electrophiles
Postdoctoral research associate at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Eric Skaar)

Robert Boer 
Adviser: Gary Sulikowski
Dissertation: Approaches toward the Chemical Synthesis of Novel Arachidonic Acid Metabolites Hemiketal D2 and Hemiketal E2
Postdoctoral research Associate at NIH-NCI

Cynthia McNees 
Adviser: Brian Bachmann
Dissertation: New Methods to Induce and Detect Microbial Secondary Metabolite Production
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Kentucky

Keersten Ricks 
Adviser: David Wright
Dissertation: Development of Rapid Immunoassays for Improved Point-of-Care
National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (Frederick, Maryland)

Sarah Stow 
Adviser: John McLean
Dissertation: Strategies for Selecting Computational Protocols in Support of Small Molecule Structural Analysis by Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry
Staff scientist at Agilent Technologies

Toshia Wrenn 
Adviser: Sandra Rosenthal
Dissertation: Synthesis and optimization of quantum dot-based technologies: Solid-state photovoltaics and ferroelectric particles
Assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Sten Heinze 
Adviser: Jens Meiler
Dissertation: Improvements for BCL::Fold de novo protein structure prediction
Postdoctoral research associate at the Ohio State University

Joseph Keene 
Adviser: Sandra Rosenthal
Dissertation: Effects of Surface and Chemical Composition on the Charge Carriers of Alloyed Quantum Dots
Assistant professor of chemistry at Mercer University

Amy Ng 
Adviser: Sandra Rosenthal
Dissertation: Characterization of Nanocrystal-Based Photovoltaics: Electron Microscopy & Electron Beam-Induced Current via Scanning Electron Microscopy
Postdoctoral research associate at the Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, D.C.)

Jeffrey Niezgoda 
Adviser: Sandra Rosenthal
Dissertation:The Implementation of Quantum Dots in Photovoltaics: From Semiconductor-Plasmon Interactions to Current Visualization
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Virginia
Currently assistant professor of chemistry at St. Joseph’s University (Philadelphia, PA)

Jacek Pecyna 
Adviser: Piotr Kaszynski
Dissertation: Polar and Ionic Liquid Crystals Based On The [Closo-1-CB9H10]– And [Closo-1-CB11H12]–Boron Clusters
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Colorado

Timothy Senter 
Adviser: Craig Lindsley
Dissertation: A general and stereoselective approach for the construction of nitrogen-containing herterocycles: Applications towards the total synthesis of alkaloid natural products
Postdoctoral research associate at MIT (Stephen Buchwald)
Currently a research fellow at Vertex (Boston, MA)

Matthew Casey 
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: Investigations of Vanadium Dioxide as a Catalytic Electrode and Support
Technology analyst – patents at UT-Southwestern Medical Center

Andrew Harris 
Adviser: Charles Lukehart
Recent Advances in Chemical Synthesis Methodology of Inorganic Materials and Theoretical Dissertation: Computations of Metal Nanoparticle/Carbon Interfaces
Postdoctoral research associate at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (Gaithersburg, MD)

Amy Millsap 
Adviser: Carmelo Rizzo
Dissertation: Translesion Synthesis of N2 and C8-Deoxyguanosine Adducts of the Dietary Mutagen 2-Amino-3-methylimidizo-[4,5-f]-quinoline (IQ): Participation in Observed Mutagenic Spectra
Assistant professor of chemistry, environmental science and geology at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Noah Orfield 
Adviser: Sandra Rosenthal
Dissertation: Correlation of the Atomic Structure and Photoluminescence of the Same Colloidal Quantum Dot
Postdoctoral research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratories
Currently a policy fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Nicholar Rightmire
Adviser: Timothy Hanusa
Dissertation: Investigations into the Mechanochemical Synthesis of Sterically Bulky Allyl Complexes
Postdoctoral research associate at University of California, Irvine (W.J. Evans)
Currently a formulation chemist at Loadmaster Lubricants (St. Paul, MN)

Benjamin Spears 
Adviser: Eva Harth
Dissertation: Precise Polymer Networks: An Investigation Encompassing Hydrogels, Proteins, and Nanoparticles
Lead chemist at SeLux Diagnostics, Inc

Brandon Vara 
Adviser: Jeffery Johnston
Enantioselective Reaction Development using Chiral Brønsted Acid/Base Organocatalysis and Dissertation: Their Application to Target Molecule Synthesis
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Pennsylvania
Principal scientist at Merck Pharmaceuticals  (medicinal chemistry) (Boston, MA)

Mariusz Butkiewicz 
Adviser: Jens Meiler
Dissertation: Advancing Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship Strategies in ligand-based Computer-Aided Drug Design
Postdoctoral research associate at Case Western Reserve
Currently a bioinformatics staff scientist at Geisinger (Washington, D.C.)

Kerri Grove 
Adviser: Richard Caprioli
Dissertation: Molecular Imaging for the Elucidation of Lipid and Protein Changes that Occur in Diabetic Nephropathy and Assessment of Drug Efficacy
Investigator at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (Emeryville, CA)

Stephen Jackson 
Adviser: David Wright
DNA-functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Enhanced Molecular Sensing
Research chemist at the Centers for Disease Control (Atlanta, GA)

Matthew O’Reilly 
Adviser: Craig Lindsley
Dissertation: Application of Organocatalysis to the Synthesis of Pharmaceutically Relevant Scaffolds; and Discover of Selective Phospholipase D Inhibitors with Optimized in Vivo Properties
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (Helen Blackwell)
Currently an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls

Amanda Doody 
Adviser: Jeffery Johnston
Dissertation: Synthetic Pursuit of the Tridecapeptide Feglymycin and the Manzamine Alkaloid Kauluamine
Lab coordinator, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)

Jay Forsythe 
Adviser: John McLean
Dissertation: Advanced Strategies for Imaging Mass Spectrometry and Ion Mobility – Mass Spectrometry
Postdoctoral research associate, Georgia Institute of Technology
Currently an assistant professor of chemistry at the College of Charleston

Daniel Hermanson 
Adviser: Lawrence Marnett
Dissertation: Substrate-selective inhibition of cyclooxygenase-2: Molecular determinants, probe development, and in vivo effects
Postdoctoral research associate Scripps Research Institute (B. Cravatt)            
Currently an associate application scientist at Thermo-Fisher Scientific (La Jolla, CA)

Kelly Hines 
Adviser: John McLean
Dissertation: Biomolecular Signatures of Disease via Ion Mobility and Mass Spectrometry Techniques
Staff scientist at the Mayo Clinic
Senior fellow at the University of Washington

Gabriel LeBlanc 
Adviser: David Cliffel
Dissertation: Biohybrid Electrodes Based on Photosystem I for Solar Energy Conversion
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Texas-Austin
Assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Tulsa

Marta Szulik 
Adviser: Michael Stone
Dissertation: Oxidation of Cytosine in DNA
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Utah

Christopher Gulka 
Adviser: David Wright
Dissertation: Gold as a Sensing Platform for Rapid Detection of Explosives and Malarial Biomarkers
Staff scientist at Sofregen Medical (Medford, MA)

Glenna Kramer 
Adviser: Brian Bachmann
Dissertation: Pharmacology and Chemical Probe Development of the K-26 Family of Natural Product Angiotensin-I Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
Postdoctoral research associate at University of Toronto

Liang Li 
Adviser Michael Stone
Dissertation: Sequence Dependency of Structural Perturbations Induced By an Aflatoxin FAPY Lesion
Senior scientist at Biosynthesis Inc.