Fellows

The Chemical Biology Laboratory boasts a wide variety of expertise stemming from outstanding fellows from diverse backgrounds who join the Lab for a Postbaccalaureate or Postdoctoral Fellowship.

	name, group, expertise	academic credentials
Image	Dr. Caleb Anderson (Schneider Group) Supramolecular biomaterials Peptide self-assembly Drug Delivery	Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA
Image	Dr. Sumirtha Balaratnam (Schneekloth Group) Nucleic Acid Structure/Interaction/Functional Analysis Molecular Biology and Genetics Protein Biochemistry; Microscopy and Cell Culture	Ph.D. Chemistry Kent State University, Kent, OH USA B.S. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Image	Dr. Donald Caldwell (Schnermann Group) Organic Methodology Development Small Molecule Synthesis Medicinal Chemistry	Ph.D. Organic Chemistry University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT USA M.S. Organic Chemistry, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA USA B.S. Chemistry, Clarion University, Clarion, PA USA
Image	Dr. Ramesh Chingle (Burke Group) Synthetic Organic/Medicinal/Peptide Chemistry, Chemical Biology/Drug Discovery NMR Spectroscopy	Ph.D. Organic Chemistry Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebéc, Canada M.Sc. Organic Chemistry Goa University, Panaji, Goa, India B.Sc. Chemistry Ponda Education Society College of Arts & Science, Ponda, Goa, India
Image	Dr. Victorien Delannee (Nicklaus Group) Algorithm Data Analysis Database	Ph.D. Computer Science University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France M.S. Bioinformatics and Genomics University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France B.A. Biology and Biochemistry University of Nantes, Nantes, France
Image	Kara Dunne-Dombrink (Schneekloth Group) Nucleic Acid Biochemistry Enzymology Kinetics Molecular & Cellular Biology	B.A. Biochemistry Scripps College, Claremont, CA USA
Image	Dr. Christopher Fullenkamp (Schneekloth Group) Organic Synthesis Medicinal Chemistry	Ph.D. Chemistry Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA B.S. Chemistry, Ball State University, Muncie, IN USA
Image	Kara Gillman (Gildersleeve Group) Immunology Glycobiology	B.A. Biology College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA USA
Image	Dr. Samanthreddy Kedika (Burke Group) Medicinal Chemistry/Peptide Chemistry Chemical Biology Drug Discovery	Ph.D. Medicinal Chemistry University of Houston, Houston, TX USA M.S. Medicinal Chemistry NIPER, Kolkata, India B.S. Pharmacy Kakatiya University, Warangal, India
Image	Dr. Tania Lopez-Silva (Schneider Group) Self-Assembling Peptides Peptide-based Biomaterials and Hydrogels Drug Delivery Immune Response	Ph.D. Chemistry Rice University, Houston, TX USA B.S. Chemistry Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Image	Dr. Pankaj Mahajan (Burke Group) Organic Synthesis Medicinal Chemistry Chemical Biology	Ph.D. Organic Synthesis CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India M. Sc. Organic Chemistry North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, India B.Sc. Chemistry North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, India
Image	Samantha Marglous (Gildersleeve Group) Immunology Antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates	B.S. Biological Chemistry University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
Image	Dr. Sierra Marker (Schnermann Group) Organic Synthesis Small-Molecule Drug Conjugates Fluorophore Chemistry	Ph.D. Chemistry & Chemical Biology Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA M.S. Chemistry & Chemical Biology Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA B.S. Chemistry Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY USA
Image	Dr. Siddharth Matikonda (Schnermann Group) Chemical Biology Bioorthogonal Chemistry Antibody Drug Conjugates Fluorophore Chemistry Small Molecule Synthesis	Ph.D. Chemical Biology University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand Honors Thesis Medicinal Chemistry University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS USA B.S. Pharmacy BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad, India
Image	Dr. Monessha Nambiar (Schneider Group) Peptide Synthesis Biomaterials	Ph.D. Chemistry Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA B.Sc. Nanotechnology Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Image	Nick O'Brien (Gildersleeve Group) Cancer immunology Protein engineering Anti-glycan antibodies	B.A. Biochemistry Columbia University, New York, NY USA
Image	Dr. (Feyisola) Paul Olatunji (Schneekloth Group) Organic Chemistry Medicinal Chemistry	Ph.D. Organic Chemistry Washington State University, Pullman, Washington USA B.Sc. (Honors) Chemistry Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria
Image	Dr. Shaifaly Parmar (Schneekloth Group) Molecular Biology Cellular Biology	Ph.D. Biotechnology Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India M.Sc. Biotechnology Banasthali University, Jaipur, India B.Sc. Biotechnology Barkatullah University, Bhopal, India
Image	Dr. Chiragkumar Patel (Nicklaus Group) Chemoinformatics Bioinformatics Database and tool development	Ph.D. Bioinformatics Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India M.Phil. Bioinformatics Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India M.Sc. Bioinformatics Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India B.Sc. Microbiology Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India
Image	Dr. Minervo Perez-Lopez (Meier Group) Assay Development Kinase Biology Mass Spectrometry Phosphoprotemics	Ph.D. Chemical Biology Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA B.S. Pre-Professional Health Benedictine University, Lisle, IL USA
Image	Dr. Curran Rhodes (Schneekloth Group) Peptide Synthesis High-Throughput Screening Medicinal Chemistry	Ph.D. Chemistry The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA B.S. Biochemistry Ohio University, Athens, OH USA
Image	Dr. Srijani Sarkar (Schneider Group) Peptide Nucleic Acids Nucleic Acids Biochemistry Peptide Hydrogels Medicinal Chemistry	Ph.D. Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA M.Sc. Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), Kanpur, India B.Sc. Chemistry Presidency University, Kolkata, India
Image	Srinath Seshadri (Schneekloth Group) Nucleic Acid Biochemistry High-throughput drug discovery	B.A. Biochemistry Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH USA
Image	Dr. Pradeep Shrestha (Schnermann Group) Drug Delivery Photochemistry Organic Synthesis	Ph.D. Organic Chemistry Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa USA M.Sc. Organic Chemistry Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal B.Sc. Chemistry Trichandra Campus, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Image	Dr. Christopher Sibley (Schneekloth Group) Organic Synthesis Medicinal Chemistry RNA Biology	Ph.D. Organic Chemistry Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA USA B.S. Biochemistry Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA USA
Image	Dr. Ravichandra Tagirasa (Yoo Group) Human Immunology T-cell Biology	Ph.D. Immunology Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India M.Sc. Medical Biochemistry JIPMER, Pondicherry, India B.Sc. Biochemistry SJGDC, Kunool, Andhra Pradesh, India
Image	Dr. Sebastian Temme (Gildersleeve Group) Glycochemistry Bioorganic chemistry	Ph.D. Chemistry Brandeis University, Waltham, MA USA B.S. Chemistry University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA
Image	Dr. Supuni Thalalla-Gamage (Meier Group) Nucleic Acid Biochemistry Epitranscriptomics Molecular Biology	Ph.D. Biochemistry Wayne State University, Detroit, MI USA B.Sc. Chemical Biology University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Image	Dr. Xiaoyi (Eileen) Wang (Schneider Group) Peptide/Protein Synthesis Organic Synthesis Native Chemical Ligation Hydrogel Technology	Ph.D. Organic Chemistry The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia M. Res. Drug Discovery & Development Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom B.Sc. Pharmaceutical Engineering Nanjing Tech University, Jiangsu, PR China
Image	Dr. Mo Yang (Schneekloth Group) Small Molecule Microarrays Biomaterials Surface Chemistry	Ph.D. Material Science Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China B.S. Polymer Materials and Engineering Jilin University, Jilin Province, PR China

name, group, expertise

academic credentials

Dr. Caleb Anderson
(Schneider Group)

Supramolecular biomaterials
Peptide self-assembly
Drug Delivery

Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA

B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA

Dr. Sumirtha Balaratnam
(Schneekloth Group)

Nucleic Acid Structure/Interaction/Functional Analysis
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Protein Biochemistry; Microscopy and Cell Culture

Ph.D. Chemistry
Kent State University, Kent, OH USA

B.S. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Dr. Donald Caldwell
(Schnermann Group)

Organic Methodology Development
Small Molecule Synthesis
Medicinal Chemistry

Ph.D. Organic Chemistry
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT USA

M.S. Organic Chemistry,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA USA

B.S. Chemistry, Clarion University, Clarion, PA USA

Dr. Ramesh Chingle
(Burke Group)

Synthetic Organic/Medicinal/Peptide Chemistry,
Chemical Biology/Drug Discovery
NMR Spectroscopy

Ph.D. Organic Chemistry
Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebéc, Canada

M.Sc. Organic Chemistry
Goa University, Panaji, Goa, India

B.Sc. Chemistry
Ponda Education Society College of Arts & Science, Ponda, Goa, India

Dr. Victorien Delannee
(Nicklaus Group)

Algorithm
Data Analysis
Database

Ph.D. Computer Science
University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France

M.S. Bioinformatics and Genomics
University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France

B.A. Biology and Biochemistry
University of Nantes, Nantes, France

Kara Dunne-Dombrink
(Schneekloth Group)

Nucleic Acid Biochemistry
Enzymology
Kinetics
Molecular & Cellular Biology

B.A. Biochemistry
Scripps College, Claremont, CA USA

Dr. Christopher Fullenkamp
(Schneekloth Group)

Organic Synthesis
Medicinal Chemistry

Ph.D. Chemistry
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA

B.S. Chemistry,
Ball State University, Muncie, IN USA

Kara Gillman
(Gildersleeve Group)

Immunology
Glycobiology

B.A. Biology
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA USA

Dr. Samanthreddy Kedika
(Burke Group)

Medicinal Chemistry/Peptide Chemistry
Chemical Biology
Drug Discovery

Ph.D. Medicinal Chemistry
University of Houston, Houston, TX USA

M.S. Medicinal Chemistry
NIPER, Kolkata, India

B.S. Pharmacy
Kakatiya University, Warangal, India

Dr. Tania Lopez-Silva
(Schneider Group)

Self-Assembling Peptides
Peptide-based Biomaterials and Hydrogels
Drug Delivery
Immune Response

Ph.D. Chemistry
Rice University, Houston, TX USA

B.S. Chemistry
Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

Dr. Pankaj Mahajan
(Burke Group)

Organic Synthesis
Medicinal Chemistry
Chemical Biology

Ph.D. Organic Synthesis
CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India

M. Sc. Organic Chemistry
North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, India

B.Sc. Chemistry
North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, India

Samantha Marglous
(Gildersleeve Group)

Immunology
Antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates

B.S. Biological Chemistry
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA

Dr. Sierra Marker
(Schnermann Group)

Organic Synthesis
Small-Molecule Drug Conjugates
Fluorophore Chemistry

Ph.D. Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA

M.S. Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA

B.S. Chemistry
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY USA

Dr. Siddharth Matikonda
(Schnermann Group)

Chemical Biology
Bioorthogonal Chemistry
Antibody Drug Conjugates
Fluorophore Chemistry
Small Molecule Synthesis

Ph.D. Chemical Biology
University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Honors Thesis Medicinal Chemistry
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS USA

B.S. Pharmacy
BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad, India

Dr. Monessha Nambiar
(Schneider Group)

Peptide Synthesis
Biomaterials

Ph.D. Chemistry
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA

B.Sc. Nanotechnology
Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Nick O'Brien
(Gildersleeve Group)

Cancer immunology
Protein engineering
Anti-glycan antibodies

B.A. Biochemistry
Columbia University, New York, NY USA

Dr. (Feyisola) Paul Olatunji
(Schneekloth Group)

Organic Chemistry
Medicinal Chemistry

Ph.D. Organic Chemistry
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington USA

B.Sc. (Honors) Chemistry
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria

Dr. Shaifaly Parmar
(Schneekloth Group)

Molecular Biology
Cellular Biology

Ph.D. Biotechnology
Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India

M.Sc. Biotechnology
Banasthali University, Jaipur, India

B.Sc. Biotechnology
Barkatullah University, Bhopal, India

Dr. Chiragkumar Patel
(Nicklaus Group)

Chemoinformatics
Bioinformatics
Database and tool development

Ph.D. Bioinformatics
Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India

M.Phil. Bioinformatics
Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India

M.Sc. Bioinformatics
Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India

B.Sc. Microbiology
Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India

Dr. Minervo Perez-Lopez
(Meier Group)

Assay Development
Kinase Biology
Mass Spectrometry
Phosphoprotemics

Ph.D. Chemical Biology
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA

B.S. Pre-Professional Health
Benedictine University, Lisle, IL USA

Dr. Curran Rhodes
(Schneekloth Group)

Peptide Synthesis
High-Throughput Screening
Medicinal Chemistry

Ph.D. Chemistry
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA

B.S. Biochemistry
Ohio University, Athens, OH USA

Dr. Srijani Sarkar
(Schneider Group)

Peptide Nucleic Acids
Nucleic Acids Biochemistry
Peptide Hydrogels
Medicinal Chemistry

Ph.D. Chemistry
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

M.Sc. Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), Kanpur, India

B.Sc. Chemistry
Presidency University, Kolkata, India

Srinath Seshadri
(Schneekloth Group)

Nucleic Acid Biochemistry
High-throughput drug discovery

B.A. Biochemistry
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH USA

Dr. Pradeep Shrestha
(Schnermann Group)

Drug Delivery
Photochemistry
Organic Synthesis

Ph.D. Organic Chemistry
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa USA

M.Sc. Organic Chemistry
Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal

B.Sc. Chemistry
Trichandra Campus, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Dr. Christopher Sibley
(Schneekloth Group)

Organic Synthesis
Medicinal Chemistry
RNA Biology

Ph.D. Organic Chemistry
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA USA

B.S. Biochemistry
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA USA

Dr. Ravichandra Tagirasa
(Yoo Group)

Human Immunology
T-cell Biology

Ph.D. Immunology
Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India

M.Sc. Medical Biochemistry
JIPMER, Pondicherry, India

B.Sc. Biochemistry
SJGDC, Kunool, Andhra Pradesh, India

Dr. Sebastian Temme
(Gildersleeve Group)

Glycochemistry
Bioorganic chemistry

Ph.D. Chemistry
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA USA

B.S. Chemistry
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA

Dr. Supuni Thalalla-Gamage
(Meier Group)

Nucleic Acid Biochemistry
Epitranscriptomics
Molecular Biology

Ph.D. Biochemistry
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI USA

B.Sc. Chemical Biology
University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Dr. Xiaoyi (Eileen) Wang
(Schneider Group)

Peptide/Protein Synthesis
Organic Synthesis
Native Chemical Ligation
Hydrogel Technology

Ph.D. Organic Chemistry
The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

M. Res. Drug Discovery & Development
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

B.Sc. Pharmaceutical Engineering
Nanjing Tech University, Jiangsu, PR China

Dr. Mo Yang
(Schneekloth Group)

Small Molecule Microarrays
Biomaterials
Surface Chemistry

Ph.D. Material Science
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China

B.S. Polymer Materials and Engineering
Jilin University, Jilin Province, PR China

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