Congratulations to our recent graduates.
December 2024
Nishit Banka (Romero)
High Throughput Screening and ML-Aided Engineering of Transcription Factor-Based Biosensors
William Breining (Lynn)
Design and Synthesis of Novel Azlactone-Functionalized Materials
Thomas Derrah (Bertram)
Heterogeneous Reactivity of Dinitrogen Pentoxide with Sodium Chloride and Nitrate‐Containing Solutions
Cassandra Doody (Blackwell)
Small Molecule Modulation of LuxR-type Quorum Sensing Receptors
Emma Eisenbraun (Blackwell)
Development and Characterization of Peptide Quorum Sensing Modulators in Gram-Positive Bacteria
Eric Kohn (Martell)
Development of Single‐Round Selection Protocols for the Discovery of Aptamers With Enhanced Affinity and Conformational Responsiveness
Princess Merenini (Choi)
Electrode Materials and Electrochemical Systems Design for Ion Storage in Aqueous Electrolytes
Katelyn Michael (Jin)
Development and Implementation of Redox Reservoirs for Modular Electrochemical Synthesis and Tandem Advanced Oxidation Processes
Willa Mihalyi-Koch (Jin)
Tuning the Structure, Symmetry, and Chirality of Low-Dimensional Metal Halide Perovskites and Nanostructures for Optoelectronic and Spin-Orbitronic Applications
Kathleen Nickson (Garand)
Developing Automated Spectral Assignment Programs for Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy
Tyler Ogorek (Golden)
Synthesis and Optimization of Heterocycles That Target New and Old World Alphaviruses and Hit Development Efforts Aimed at Inhibiting Coronavirus
Yunrui Qiu (Huang)
Modeling Dynamics of Multi-Body Systems via Machine Learning and Non‐Markovian Approaches
Isabella Whitworth (Smith)
Advancing Technologies to Study RNA and Its Protein Interactome
May 2025
Sara Alektiar (Wickens)
Leveraging C(sp2)–H Bonds to Access Radical Intermediates
Emily Chapman (Ge)
Top-Down Proteomics Strategies for the Characterization of Endogenous Cardiac Proteins and Protein Complexes
Tahoe Fiala (Yoon)
Illuminating Asymmetry: Development and Prediction of Excited-State Organic Reactions
Keaton Mertz (Coon)
Mass Spectrometer Instrumentation Developments for Proteomics Applications
Leah Nkulu (Stahl)
Merging Organic Synthesis, High-Throughput Experimentation and Data Science to Improve the Uptake of C(sp3)–H Functionalization Reactions in Medicinal Chemistry
Surajudeen Omolabake (Stahl)
Aerobic Oxidation Coupled With Liquid—Liquid Chromatography Enables the Recovery of Valuable Chemicals From Lignin
Riley Petersen (Butcher)
Poly(UG) RNA Structure and Dynamics
Matthew Ryan (Zanni)
Characterization of Potassium Ion Channel Proteins with 2D IR Spectroscopy
Austin Salome (Coon)
Development of Mass Spectrometry‐Based Techniques to Characterize Protein Complexes
Lia Serrano (Coon)
Rapid Mass Spectrometry-Based Analyses of Complex Mixtures for Translational Applications
Jennifer Whetter (Boros)
Ligands for Low-Temperature, Stable Chelation of Rare Earth Radiometals and Radiofluorination
Kenneth Wilson (Garand)
Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Autodetachment Dynamics of Cryogenically Cooled Anions
August 2025
Guadalupe(Lupe) Aguirre-Figueroa (Blackwell)
The Development of Chemical Tools to Study Cell-Cell Communication and Virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia multivorans
Hyeonjeong (Olivia) Bae (Boydston)
Functional Polymers Across the Lifecycle: Mechanophore Reactivity, Additive-Based 3D Printing, and Enzymatic Degradation
Ryan Belson (Choi)
Electrochemical Ion Removal and Recovery for Lithium and Phosphate
Samantha Bruffy (Buller)
Leveraging Threonine Transaldolases for the Synthesis of Novel β-Hydroxy Non-Canonical Amino Acids and Derivatives
Minhua Cao (Boros)
Metallophores as Tools for Antibiotic Drug Development and the Study of Bacterial Metal Homeostasis
Jedidiah Chung (Martell)
Development of Protein-Based Materials for Scaffolded Catalysis
Ray Czerwinski (Goldsmith)
Advances in Single-Molecule Measurement Techniques: Approaches, Applications, and Challenges
Lauren Ehehalt (Weix)
Decarbonylative Cross-Electrophile Coupling Methods to Form C–C Bonds
Sifei Fang (Martell)
Directed Evolution of Enzymes for Improved Proximity Labeling
Ryan Hall (Brunold)
Spectroscopic and Computational Insights Into the Chemistry and Biochemistry of Coenzyme B12
Chris Hanneman (Stahl)
Development of C–H Oxygenation Strategies for Late-Stage Functionalization With Application to Metabolite Synthesis
Inhyuk Jang (Yethiraj)
Machine Learning Meets Statistical Mechanics: Exploring Phase Behavior Through Local Affinity
Jed Kim (Schomaker)
Expanding Nitrene Transfer Chemistry: Selective C–H Aminations With Cost‐Effective Metals
Min Ji Kim (Wickens)
Alkene Functionalization via Alkene-Thianthrene Adducts
Philip Lampkin (Gellman)
Flexible and Foldamer Catalysts
Kwanpyung (Kwan) Lee (Schmidt)
Computational Modeling of Electrochemical Biomass Upgrading
John Mannone (Gellman)
An Assortment of Peptide Related Topics: Encapsulation of Transmembrane Helices, Heterochiral Quaternary Contacts, and Thioamide Containing Antigens
Rylie Morris (Gellman)
Exploring the Activity of Peptide Agonists of Class B GPCRs With Sidechain Appendages
Anand Ode (Hamers)
Electron Emission From Metal-Diamond Nanocomposites
Ellie Plachinski (Yoon)
Controlling Photochemical Reactions: The Effect of Brønsted Acids on [2+2] Cycloadditions
Emily Reasoner (Jin)
Nanomaterials-Enabled Strategies for the Enrichment of Low‐Abundance Proteins
Olga Riusech (Li)
Label-Free and Derivatization-Assisted Techniques for the Analysis of Small Molecules via Mass Spectrometry
Margaret Tetzloff (Boydston)
Expanding the Applications of Metal-Free Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization Through Functional Chain-Transfer Agents, Initiators, and Monomers
Jairo Villalona (Buller)
Overwriting Natural Evolution by Inverting the Chemoselectivity of an Engineered Tryptophan Synthase β-Subunit
Wenxin Wu (Li)
From Sample to Signal: Development of Integrated Neuropeptidomics to Study Crustacean Signaling
Ruiwen Xu (Gellman)
Interrogation of Intermolecular Interactions in Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation
Mingyi Xue (Huang)
Feature-Based Deep Learning Approaches to Facilitate Drug Discovery
Jordan York (Blackwell)
New Approaches to Modulating Staphylococcal Virulence and Antibiotic Susceptibility
Haoran Zhang (Li)
Nanomaterial-Enabled Analytical Frameworks With Multifaceted Mass Spectrometry