Trisiani Affandi

Email:

taffandi@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-5113

Advisor/Lab:

Megan McEvoy

Research Interests:

Structural and Functional Characterization of Histidine Kinase CusS of Escherichia Coli

Education:

University of Michigan, B.S. in Chemistry

Entered:

Fall 2011

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry

Logan Ahlstrom

Email:

logana@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-9038

Advisor/Lab:

Osamu Miyashita

Research Interests:

Influence of the crystal environment on protein conformational dynamics

Education:

University of the Pacific, Biochemistry

Entered:

Fall 2008

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Bobbi Anglin

Email:

anglin@pharmacy.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-7265

Advisor/Lab:

Robin Polt

Research Interests:

molecular modeling and pharmacokinetic / pharmacodynamic changes that occur with glycosylation of peptides, specifically those peptides interacting with G-protein coupled receptors

Education:

Auburn University, Med University SC

Entered:

Fall 2007

Home Program:

Drug Discovery & Development

Christopher Cabello

Email:

ccabello@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-5246

Advisor/Lab:

Georg Wondrak

Research Interests:

Drug discovery, signal transduction, and cancer therapeutics

Education:

University of Arizona, B.S. in Honors Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology

University of Michigan, M.S. in Chemistry (Chemical Biology)

Entered:

Fall 2006

Home Program:

Drug Discovery & Development 

Sean Campbell

Email:

seanc@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-4120

Advisor/Lab:

Indraneel Ghosh

Research Interests:

Protein functions in vivo in contrast to in vivo systems, especially protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interfaces

Education:

Johns Hopkins University

Entered:

Fall 2009

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Javier Castillo-Montoya

Email:

jcastillo@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-4120

Advisor/Lab:

Indraneel Ghosh

Research Interests:

Design and development of orthogonal kinase-small molecule pairs to aid in the study of in vivo signaling pathways and identification of human protein kinase substrates

Education:

University of Sonora, B.S.

Entered:

Fall 2011

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Udeep Chawla

Email:

udchawla@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-2537

Advisor/Lab:

Michael Brown

Research Interests:

Membrane Lipids - Protein Interactions

Education:

University of Delhi, B.S. in Life Sciences

Jamia Millia Islamia University, M.S. in Biosciences

Entered:

Fall 2010

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Liu Qi Chen

Email:

lchen@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-0194

Advisor/Lab:

Mark Pagel

Research Interests:

Bioanalytical

Education:

Southern IL University, Edwardsville

Entered:

Fall 2009

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Yuwei Chen

Email:

ychen27@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Danzhou Yang

Research Interests:

Education:

University of Wisconsin

Entered:

Fall 2009

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Iman Daryaei

Email:

imandaryaei@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-0194

Advisor/Lab:

Mark Pagel

Research Interests:

Design and Synthesis of Contrast Agent for Cancer Detection

Education:

University of Tabriz, B.S. in Applied Chemistry

Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Research Center of Iran, M.S. in Organic Chemistry

Entered:

Fall 2011

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Chandi de Silva

Email:

csdesilva@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

N/A

Research Interests:

Education:

University of Colombo, B.S. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Entered:

Fall 2012

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Brendan Frett

Email:

frettb@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Hong-Yu Li

Research Interests:

Synthesis and development of novel kinase inhibitors

Education:

College of Wooster, B.A.

Entered:

Fall 2010

Home Program:

Drug Discovery & Development 

Mahsa Ghaffari

Email:

mahsam@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-4120

Advisor/Lab:

Indraneel Ghosh

Research Interests:

Desighning orthogonal binding to small molecule

Education:

Azad University of Tehran, B.S.

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, M.S.

Entered:

Fall 2011

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Toni Green

Email:

greent1@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-9148

Advisor/Lab:

William Montfort

Research Interests:

Cell signaling, PWR spectroscopy

Education:

University of Colorado,  B.A. in Chemistry with Biochemistry option/B.A. Biology

Entered:

Spring 2008

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Sara Hall

Email:

hallsm@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-8617

Advisor/Lab:

Victor Hruby

Research Interests:

Study on the Interaction of Non-opioid Dynorphin A Analogs with the Bradykinin 2 Receptor 

Education:

Indiana University, B.S.

Entered:

Fall 2010

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry

Jie He

Email:

hejie@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-9979

Advisor/Lab:

N/A

Research Interests:

Education:

Shandong University, B.S. in Pharmacy

Peking University, M.S. in Chemical Biology

Entered:

Fall 2012

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Scott Jenkins

Email:

scottj1@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-9148

Advisor/Lab:

William Montfort

Research Interests:

Drug Discovery. Medicinal Chemistry.
Current project: Small molecule stimulators of soluble guanylate cyclase.

Education:

University of Massachusetts

University Colorado

Entered:

Fall 2007

Home Program:

Drug Discovery & Development

Stephanie Jensen

Email:

StephanieMJensen@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

John Jewett

Research Interests:

A Bioorthogonal Approach to Chemical Virology

Education:

Arizona State University, B.S. in Biochemistry

Entered:

Fall 2011

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Vineela Kadiyala

Email:

kadiyala@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Craig Aspinwall

Research Interests:

Chemical biology, nanosensors

Education:

Nagarjuna University

Entered:

Spring 2007

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Christine Kaiser

Email:

cekaiser@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Laurence Hurley

Research Interests:

Characterizing and Targeting DNA Secondary Structures in KRAS Proximal Promoter

Education:

Arizona State University, B.S. in Biochemistry & Mathematics

Entered:

Fall 2010

Home Program:

Drug Discovery & Development

Nikola Kenjic

Email:

nkenjic@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-7530

Advisor/Lab:

Vahe Bandarian

Research Interests:

Enzymes and Enzymes Kinetics

Education:

University of Florida, B.S. in Biochemistry

Entered:

Fall 2011

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry

Vlad Kumirov

Email:

kumirov@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-1170

Advisor/Lab:

Matthew Cordes

Research Interests:

Structural Analysis of Protein folds by NMR

Education:

University of Arizona, B.S. in Chemistry

Entered:

Fall 2010

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Vishnu Kumarasamy

Email:

vishnuk@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Danzhou Yang

Research Interests:

The role of G quadruplex in the proto oncogene promoter region

Education:

Anna Unversity, B.Tech. in Industrial Biotechnology

Florida Institute of Technology, M.S. in Biotechnology

Entered:

Fall 2012

Home Program:

Drug Discovery & Development

Daniel Lajoie

Email:

dmlajoie@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-1170

Advisor/Lab:

Matthew Cordes

Research Interests:

Education:

Entered:

Fall 2009

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry

Zachary Miles

Email:

zmiles@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-7530

Advisor/Lab:

Vahe Bandarian

Research Interests:

Spectroscopic and Mechanistic Characterization of oQ Reductase

Education:

University of Wisconsin, B.S.

Entered:

Fall 2009

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemstry

Micah Nelp

Email:

nelp@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-7530

Advisor/Lab:

Vahe Bandarian

Research Interests:

Education:

Entered:

Fall 2010

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemstry

Keith Olson

Email:

keitholson@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-8617

Advisor/Lab:

Victor Hruby

Research Interests:

Exploiting Biased Signaling Modalities at the Opioid Receptors for the Design of Novel Pain Therapeutics

Education:

Beloit College, B.S. in Biochemistry & Psychology

Entered:

Fall 2011

Home Program:

CBC/Chemstry

Buket Onel

Email:

bonel@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Danzhou Yang

Research Interests:

Targeting DNA G-quadruplex structure in oncogene promoters

Education:

Balikesir University, B.S.

Boston University, M.S.

Entered:

Fall 2011

Home Program:

CBC/Chemstry

Katherine Parent

Email:

klparent@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-8247

Advisor/Lab:

N/A

Research Interests:

Analytical Chemistry

Education:

Arizona State University, B.S. in Chemistry

Entered:

Fall 2012

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Rahul Purohit

Email:

rpurohit@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-9148

Advisor/Lab:

 William Montfort

Research Interests:

Protein Structure and Function

Education:

Panjab University

Entered:

Fall 2008

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Nina Patrick

Email:

ninapat@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Catherine Smith

Research Interests:

How KDACs facilitate GR-activated transcription through deacetylation of steroid receptor coactivator (SRC) proteins

Education:

Lehigh University, B.S. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Entered:

Fall 2010

Home Program:

Drug Discovery & Development

Kayla Polzin

Email:

kpolzin@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-5113

Advisor/Lab:

Megan McEvoy

Research Interests:

Study of the structure and function of metalloproteins in bacteria

Education:

Willamette University, B.S.

Entered:

Fall 2010

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry

Cyf Ramos-Colon

Email:

cyfnrc@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Victor Hruby

Research Interests:

D Synthesis and discovery of new compounds for the treatment of pain targeting the bradykinin 1 receptor using non-opioid dynorphin A peptide analogs

Education:

University of Arizona, B.S. in Chemistry

Entered:

Fall 2011

Home Program:

Drug Discovery & Development

Elizabeth Resituyo

Email:

eresty@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-4120

Advisor/Lab:

Indraneel Ghosh

Research Interests:

Designing inhibitors of protein/protein interaction, bivalent inhibitors and phage display selection systems

Education:

University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras

Entered:

Fall 2008

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry

Santosh Shah

Email:

sshah142@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-0246

Advisor/Lab:

Nancy Horton

Research Interests:

Structural and Functional study of restriction endonuclease SgrAI

Education:

Whittier College, B.A.

University of Arizona, M.S.

Entered:

Fall 2008

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry

Breland Smith

Email:

brelands@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-5323

Advisor/Lab:

Christopher Hulme

Research Interests:

Synthetic organic chemistry and medicinal chemistry

Education:

Illinois State University, B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry

Entered:

Fall 2009

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry

Katie Stewart

Email:

khelsel@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-1170

Advisor/Lab:

Matthew Cordes

Research Interests:

Sequence Hydrophobicity Progressively Increases Protein Fold Degeneracy: A Case Study of the Arc Repressor Protein

Education:

University of Arizona, B.S. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics

Entered:

Fall 2008

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry

Elyssia Steinwinter-Gallagher

Email:

elyssias@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-1335

Advisor/Lab:

Craig Aspinwall

Research Interests:

Capillary Electrophoresis and Capillary Liquid Chromatography for Cellular and Neurochemical Analyses

Education:

University of Arizona, B.S. in Chemistry Molecular and Celluar Biology

Entered:

Fall 2007

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Juliana The

Email:

thej@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-9148

Advisor/Lab:

William Montfort

Research Interests:

Structural Studies of Thioredoxin S-Nitrosation and S-Nitrosothiol Detection Using Phosphine Chemistry

Education:

University of California (LA), B.S. in Biochemistry

Entered:

Fall 2007

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry

Andrew Vanschoiack

Email:

vansca@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-4629

Advisor/Lab:

Vicki Wysocki

Research Interests:

Elucidating the Biosignature of Coccidioides spp.

Education:

Seattle Pacific University, B.S. in Chemistry & Biochemistry

Entered:

Fall 2009

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Jessica Wales

Email:

jwales@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

62621-2537

Advisor/Lab:

William Montfort

Research Interests:

Structural Characterization of CD47

Education:

State University of New York, B.S.

Entered:

Spring 2012

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry