Principal Investigator
Akif Tezcan
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
2001-2005 – Burroughs-Wellcome and Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
2001 Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
1995 B.A., Macalester College
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Ulrich Markel
B.S. Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University
M.S. Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University
Ph.D. Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University (Schwaneberg Lab)
Dr. Suppachai Srisantitham
B.S. Chemistry, Chulalongkorn University
Ph.D. Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Suess Lab)
Graduate Students
Yiying Li
B.S. Chemistry, Wuhan University
Alex Hoffnagle
B.A. Biochemistry, B.A. Biophysics, M.S. Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Iris Zhang
B.S. Chemistry, Zhejiang University
Yui Na
B.S. Pharmacological chemistry, UC San Diego
Vanessa Eng
B.S. Chemistry, University of Portland
Sarah Narehood
B.S. Chemistry, Emory University
Co-advised with Dr. Mark Herzik
Debaditya “Deb” Sinha
B.S., M.S. Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Thiruvananthapuram
Yizhou Li
B.S. Chemistry, UC Irvine
Ivy Tsai
B.S. M.S. Chemistry, National Taiwan University
Undergraduate Researchers
Max Neeley
Hometown: Mill Valley
Class of ‘24
Shaivi Bandatmakur
Hometown: Irvine
Class of ‘24
Alyssa Walker
Hometown: Tigard, Oregon
Class of ‘24
Yifan He
Hometown: Shandong, China
Class of ‘25