| 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; Assoc. Prof: Georgia Tech 2017-on |
| Neha Garg, PhD |
2008-2013 |
Exploring and Understanding Lantibiotic Biosynthesis |
Postdoc with Pieter Dorrestein, UCSD; Assoc. Prof: Georgia Tech 2017-on |
| Yue Hao, PhD |
2010-2015 |
Studies of Tailoring Enzymes Involved in Ribosomal Peptide Synthesis |
Staff Scientist 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, U.S.A. |
| 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; Assoc. 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; Senior Scientist, Stealth Startup |
| 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 |
Staff Fellow at the Food and Drug Administration, MD |
| Dillon Cogan, PhD |
2013-2019 |
Mechanistic interrogations of ribosomal and non-ribosomal natural product enzymes |
Postdoc with Chaitan Khosla, Stanford University; Asst. Prof., University of Southern California |
| Paola Estrada, PhD |
2014-2019 |
Metabolite biosynthetic enzymes: catalysis, substrate specificity and protein engineering |
Postdoc with Mohammed Donia, Princeton University |
| Lisa Adilijiang, MS |
2015-2017 |
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| Dustin Buntrock, MS |
2017-2018 |
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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; Scientist, BigHat Biosciences |
| Andrea Hernandez Garcia, PhD |
2017-2023 |
Structural and mechanistic studies of class III lanthipeptide biosynthesis, an α-N methyltransferase, and a SABATH Yerba mate methyltransferase |
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| Kaylee Kuzelka, PhD |
2020-2025 |
Structural Analysis Via X-Ray Crystallography of an Engineered Carbon Methlytransfersae, A Phytoxic Phosphonate and its Modifying Enzyme, and a Chimeric Tyrosinase |
Postdoc with David Eisenberg, UCLA |
