Former Postdoctoral Associates and Visiting Scientists

  • Qing-Qing Cheng
  • Yongming Deng
  • Raj Gurung
  • Srinivas Harinath
  • Sipak Joyasawal
  • Donghui Ma
  • Kostiantyn Marichev
  • Robynne "Bobbi" Neff
  • Yong-liang Su
  • Sangeetha Subramani
  • Rui Wang
  • Yang (Kevin) Yu
  • Haifeng Zheng

  • Ryan Burgin
  • Hojae Choi
  • Richard Duffy
  • Xin Guo
  • Penglin Huang
  • Emily McLaughlin
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Albert E. Russell
  • Dmitrijs Shabashov
  • Charles Shanahan
  • Kan Wang
  • Yu Wang
  • Colin White
  • Jianhua Xie
  • Yuanhua Yang
  • Lei Zhou
  • Xinfang Zhou

  • Brant J. Chapman
  • B. Simon Davies
  • David C. Forbes
  • Wenhao Hu
  • Ian M. Phillips
  • Darren J. Timmons
  • Ming Yan

  • Vahid Bagheri
  • Thomas W. Clayton
  • Alexei B. Dyatkin
  • Cassandra Eagle
  • Michail Y. Eismont
  • Doina G. Ene
  • Kenneth G. High
  • Alexey V. Kalinin
  • K.-Ling Loh
  • Charla S. Miertschin
  • Andrei Nefedov
  • Su-Min Oon
  • Chad S. Peterson
  • Marina Protopopova
  • Michael S. Shanklin
  • Larry C. Westrum
  • W. Randy Winchester
  • Qi-Lin Zhou

  • Surendra N. Mahapatro
  • Ruth A. Pickering
  • Bernard Siegfried
  • William H. Tamblyn
  • Jan. W. Terpstra
  • C. Thomas West

  • Thomas W. Clayton – Knox College, IL
  • Yongming Deng – IUPUI at Indianapolis
  • David C. Forbes – University of South Alabama
  • Kenneth G. High – Drury University, Springfield, MO
  • Wenhao Hu – East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
  • Surendra N. Mahapatro – Regis University, Denver
  • Kostiantyn O. Marichev – Georgia State University, Atlanta
  • Emily McLaughlin – Bard College, NY
  • J.P. Morgan – Bloomsburg State University of Pennsylvania
  • Albert E. Russell – Tuskegee University, AL
  • Michael S. Shanklin – Palo Alto College, San Antonio
  • Darren J. Timmons – Virginia Military Institute, VA
  • Yuanhua Wang – Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
  • W. Randy Winchester – Grand Valley State University, MI
  • Xinfang Xu – Soochow University, Suzhou, China
  • Ming Yan – Sun Yet Sen University, Guangzhou, China
  • Qi-Lin Zhou – Nankai University, Tiangen, China

at UTSA

  • Frady Gouany – University of Canberra, Australia
  • Katarzyna Orłowska – Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
  • Gildardo Rivera – Centro de Biotecnologia Genomica-Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico
  • Abudureheman Wusiman – Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi, China

at the University of Maryland

  • Sahar El-Khlafy – Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
  • G. Satyanarayana – Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
  • Jianhua Xie – Nankai University, Tiangin, China

at the University of Arizona

  • Han-Mou Gao – National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
  • Andrew G.H. Wee – University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

at Trinity University

  • Paul Müller – University of Geneva, Switzerland
  • Gregory H.P. Roos – University of Natal, South Africa

Former Graduate Students

The first graduate students were accepted in 2001.

  • Darren Bykowski (PhD 2006, NSERC Graduate Fellow) – Postdoc at Scripps (FL); now at Gilead (Canada)
  • Arthur Catino (PhD 2006, ORGN Graduate Fellow) – NIH Postdoc (Harvard); now Asst. Professor at University of Scranton, PA
  • John Colyer (MS 2004) – Amgen, CA
  • Christine Hedberg (MS 2005) – Amgen, CA
  • Deana Jaber (PhD 2011) – Asst. Professor at Marymont University, VA
  • Kousik Kundu (PhD 2006) – Postdoc at Georgia Tech; now at Nalco, TX
  • Yu Liu (PhD 2012) – Postdoc at University of Delaware; now Assoc. Professor at Rockhurst College, KS
  • Jason Nichols (PhD 2008, ORGN Graduate Fellow) – NIH Postdoc (Berkeley); now at General Electric, NY
  • Huang Qiu (PhD 2016) – Postdoc at Scripps (CA); now Assoc. Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, China
  • Maxim Ratnikov (PhD 2012) – Postdoc at Scripps (CA); now at Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
  • Phong Trong (PhD 2014) – Postdoc at NIH (MD), then Emory Institute for Drug Discovery (GA)
  • Marcela Valenzuela (PhD 2004, NIH & Pfizer Graduate Fellow) – Procter & Gamble, OH
  • Xiaochen Wang (PhD 2012) – Postdoc at Scripps (CA); now Professor at Nankai University, Tianjin, China
  • Thomas Weathers (PhD 2005) – Nalco, TX
  • Xichen Xu (PhD 2014) – Postdoc at University of South Florida; now at Wuhan Institute of Technology

Visiting graduate students are usually six months to one year.

  • Arnold B. Bohorquez – Universidad Industrial de Santander, Columbia
  • Fernando Henrique de Souza Gama – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Changcheng Jing – ECNU, Shanghai, China
  • Marianne Lankelma – University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Yuxiao (Ruby) Liu – East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
  • Yu Qian – ECNU, Shanghai, China
  • Coonrad Raab – University of Natal, South Africa
  • Yeray Alexai Rodríguez Núñez – Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
  • Qiang Sha – Nanjing University of Science & Technology, China
  • Daan van Leusen – University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Joffrey Wolf – University of Toulouse, France

Former Undergraduate Student Co-Authors

⚬ = co-author of more than one publication   |   ★ = obtained Ph.D. degree or in Ph. D. program   |   (N) = student from The Netherlands

  • Ammar Al-Sayyed ⚬
  • Alejandra Carranco ⚬
  • Kory Chandler
  • Alexandra Crawford ⚬ ★
  • Isa Faghihi
  • E.C. (Steven) Garcia ⚬
  • Nicole Greco ⚬ ★
  • Harry Herrera
  • Ranad Humeidi ★
  • Joseph Jensen ⚬
  • Marianne Lankelma ⚬
  • Karlos Lopez ★
  • Lynée Massey ⚬ ★
  • Linh Tram ⚬ ★
  • Todd Ramey
  • Melina Rosado
  • Kan Wang ⚬
  • Brook Willett
  • Julietta Yedoyan ⚬ ★
  • Matthew Yglelias

⚬ = co-author of more than one publication   |   ★ = obtained Ph.D. degree or in Ph. D. program   |   (N) = student from The Netherlands

  • Quentin Abrahams
  • Kanwarpal Bakshi
  • Grace Chiou ⚬ ★
  • Linda Farkas ⚬
  • Penjamin Ghorbani
  • Petra Goldman
  • Sid Gottipamula
  • Matthew Helper ⚬ ★
  • Ben Hohenstaufen ⚬
  • Noel Jee
  • John Leszynski ⚬
  • Yan Li
  • Conrad Lubek ⚬
  • Michael Mandler ⚬ ★
  • Savanah Mason ⚬
  • Brian Nettles ★
  • Carolyn Weigel
  • K.-H. Wu ★
  • David Yim

⚬ = co-author of more than one publication   |   ★ = obtained Ph.D. degree or in Ph. D. program   |   (N) = student from The Netherlands

  • Markus Arndt
  • Ehrhard Babbert
  • Jon Brekan ★
  • Luisa Gronenberg ⚬ ★
  • A. Holstrom
  • Jennifer Tumonis
  • M. Yan

⚬ = co-author of more than one publication   |   ★ = obtained Ph.D. degree or in Ph. D. program   |   (N) = student from The Netherlands

  • Chris Autry
  • Scott Bailey ★
  • Kathleen Bassett
  • Jeff Bode ⚬ ★
  • William Boone
  • Kyria Boundy ★
  • Bridget Brandes ⚬ ★
  • David Brinker
  • Kathlynn Brown ⚬ ★
  • Fina Canas
  • Aladia Caughey
  • Elizabeth Claxton ⚬
  • Kirsten Daniels
  • Alvy Devia
  • Gene Devora ⚬ ★
  • Keith DeVries ★
  • Ate Dursma ★ (N)
  • Judy Guy ⚬ ★
  • Nancy Harn ⚬
  • Johannes Hoorn
  • Michael Jarstfer ⚬ ★
  • Amy Kazala ⚬ ★
  • Michelle Kwan ⚬
  • Patty Lewis
  • Jonathan Lin
  • Alan Marnett ⚬ ★
  • Carey Nesloney ⚬ ★
  • Lucas Nishioka
  • Antonio Osborn
  • Dann Parker ⚬
  • Matthew Pearson ⚬
  • Hoan Pho ⚬
  • Deborah Pierson
  • Roland J. Pieters ⚬ ★ (N)
  • Thomas Pillow ★
  • Conrad Raab ⚬ ★
  • Ann Redwine
  • Daniel Ruppar ⚬
  • Marjorie See ⚬
  • Coenraad Spaans ★ (N)
  • Sarah Stanley ⚬
  • Jack Taunton ⚬ ★
  • Jason Tedrow ⚬ ★
  • Arjan van Basten (N)
  • Arjan van Oeveren ★ (N)
  • Fieke van der Heide ⚬ (N)
  • Melissa Vasbinder ⚬ ★
  • William Veal
  • Justin Vitale ⚬ ★
  • Thomas Wandless ★
  • Linette Watkins ⚬ ★
  • Welmoed Wolthuis ★
  • Keith Xavier ⚬
  • Chien Yang
  • Michael Zlokazov ★

⚬ = co-author of more than one publication   |   ★ = obtained Ph.D. degree or in Ph. D. program   |   (N) = student from The Netherlands

  • David Alexander
  • Thomas Bade ⚬ ★
  • Vahid Bagheri ⚬ ★
  • Nancy Ball
  • Rosalyn Barents
  • Stephen Bishop
  • Mark Boelkins
  • Richard Bosch ⚬ ★
  • Richard Broene ⚬ ★
  • William Bryker
  • William Buhro ⚬ ★
  • Stan Busman ⚬ ★
  • Mitchell Chinn ⚬ ★
  • Mark Colsman ⚬ ★
  • Bruce Cook ⚬ ★
  • Jose da Conceicao ⚬ ★
  • James Davidson ⚬ ★
  • James DeBoer ⚬
  • Donald DeBruyn ⚬
  • Joseph Dellaria ⚬ ★
  • Keith DeVries ★
  • Thomas DeWeert ⚬
  • Fred Van Doornik
  • Roberta Dorow ⚬ ★
  • Robert Dow ⚬ ★
  • Russell Dykstra ⚬
  • Robert Elliott ⚬ ★
  • William Fobare ⚬ ★
  • Christine Funkes
  • John Griffin ⚬ ★
  • James Hammond ★
  • David Hedstrand ⚬ ★
  • James Herman
  • Matthew Hester
  • Sarah Hoffmann
  • James Hoekstra ⚬
  • J. Kalmbacher
  • Dale Kooistra ⚬ ★
  • Diane LePoire ⚬
  • James Majiecko ★
  • Charles McOsker ⚬ ★
  • Rex Mowat ★
  • Cynthia Nelson
  • Abayomi Obubela ★
  • Mark Oppenhuizen ⚬
  • David Pater
  • William Patrie ⚬ ★
  • Peter Raynolds ★
  • Randy Rodenhouse
  • Donald Scholten
  • Paul Seites ⚬
  • Daniel Smith
  • Gordon Spoelhof
  • Mark Trudell ⚬ ★
  • Michael Van Lente ★
  • Sat Van Tran
  • Craig VanZyl ⚬
  • Linda Wang ★
  • JoAnn Whitefleet ⚬ ★
  • Wendell Wierenga ⚬ ★
  • Steve Williams ⚬
  • Charles Winter ⚬ ★
  • Mary Zaleta ⚬ ★
  • Steven Zonnebelt
  • Laura Zuidema

  • Jeffrey Bode (1996, Chemistry)
  • William Boone (1992, Chemistry)
  • Keith DeVries (1986, Chemistry)
  • John H. Griffin (1984, Chemistry)
  • Luisa Gronenberg (2003, Chemistry)
  • Judy K. Guy (1986, Biochemistry)
  • David Hedstrand (1977, Chemistry)
  • Michael Mandler (2015, Chemistry)
  • Lynee Massey (2019, Chemistry)
  • Charles C. McOsker (1976, Biochemistry)
  • William J. Patrie (1979, Biochemistry)
  • Thomas J. Wandless (1989, Chemistry)

  • Jeffrey Bode – ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Richard Broene – Bowdoin College
  • William E. Buhro – Washington University, St. Louis
  • Michael Jarstfer – Medicinal Chemistry, University of North Carolina
  • Annalise Franz – University of California, Davis
  • Roland J. Pieters – University of Utrech, The Netherlands
  • Sarah Stanley – Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
  • Jack Taunton – University of California, San Francisco
  • Mark L. Trudell – University of New Orleans
  • Thomas J. Wandless – Stanford University
  • Linette Watkins – James Madison University
  • Charles H. Winter – Wayne State University