| Name |
Year |
Thesis |
Current Position |
| John Paul Yu, MD/PhD |
2001-2006 |
“Structure and function of Lantibiotic Biosynthesis and Immunity” |
Assistant Professor: Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin, USA |
| Michael Lasker, MD/PhD |
2001-2006 |
“Structural and Biochemical Studies of the Innate Immune Pathway” |
Surgeon: University of California at Davis Medical Center |
| Yaozhong Zou, PhD |
2003-2008 |
“Structural Studies of Enzymes Involved in Drug Resistance and Antibiotic Biosynthesis” |
Postdoc with Brian Kobilka, HHMI/Stanford; Permanent address: Pfizer Pharmaceuticals |
| Brian Bae, PhD |
2005-2009 |
“Structural Studies of Archaeal DNA Replication.” |
Postdoc with Seth Darst, Rockefeller University |
| Zhi Li, PhD |
2008-2012 |
“Structural Studies on the Biosynthesis and Biological Functions of Natural Products.” |
Postdoc with Hening Lin, HHMI/Cornell; Permanent address: Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| Vinayak Agarwal, PhD |
2007-2012 |
“Structural studies of enzymes involved in antibiotic resistance and phosphonate degradation” |
Helen Hay-Whitney postdoc with Brad Moore, UCSD, Scripps; Asst. Prof: Georgia Tech 2017-on |
| Neha Garg, PhD |
2008-2013 |
“Exploring and Understanding Lantibiotic Biosynthesis” |
Postdoc with Pieter Dorrestein, UCSD; Asst. Prof: Georgia Tech 2017-on |
| Yue Hao, PhD |
2010-2015 |
“Studies of Tailoring Enzymes Involved in Ribosomal Peptide Synthesis” |
Postdoctoral fellow at Amgen, Cambridge MA |
| David Park, PhD |
2012-2016 |
“Structural and Biochemical Studies on Enzymes Involved in Natural Product Biosynthesis and Cellular Respiration” |
Instructor of Biology at Ferrum College |
| Jon Chekan, PhD |
2012-2016 |
“Biochemical and Structural Studies on Proteins Involved in the Production of Natural Products and Degradation of Polysaccharides” |
Postdoc with Brad Moore, UCSD, Scripps; Asst. Prof: University of North Carolina at Greensboro 2020-on |
| Nektaria Petronikolou, PhD |
2013-2018 |
“Structural and Biochemical Studies of Enzymes Involved in the Biosynthesis of Value-added Products” |
Postdoc with Danica Fujimori, UCSF; Associate Scientist, Nektar Therapeutics |
| Iti Kapoor, PhD |
2014-2018 |
“Biochemical and synthetic chemical approaches to studying the biosynthesis and regulation of bacterial secondary metabolites ” |
Postdoc with Theodore Jardetzky, Stanford University |
| Phillip Olivares, PhD |
2013-2019 |
“Homeostasis of primary and secondary metabolites” |
ORISE Fellow at Federal Drug Administration, MD |
| Dillon Cogan, PhD |
2013-2019 |
“Mechanistic interrogations of ribosomal and non-ribosomal natural product enzymes ” |
Postdoc with Chaitan Khosla, Stanford University |
| Paola Estrada, PhD |
2014-2019 |
“Metabolite biosynthetic enzymes: catalysis, substrate specificity and protein engineering” |
Postdoc with Mohamed Donia, Princeton University |
| Lisa Adilijiang, MS |
2015-2017 |
— |
— |
| Dustin Buntrock, MS |
2017-2018 |
— |
Instructor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Chayanid (Ing) Ongpipattanakul, PhD |
2016-2021 |
Investigations into the Molecular Basis of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions in Natural Product Biosynthesis |
Postdoc with Charles Craik, UCSF |
