The Biological Chemistry Program at The University of Arizona

Biological Chemistry Program

Students participating in the program have a Home Program in either the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (CBC), or the Department of Pharmacology Toxicology.

Logan Ahlstrom

Email:

logana@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-9038

Advisor/Lab:

Miyashita

Research Interests:

Intrinsic disorder in proteins

Education:

University of the Pacific

Entered:

Fall 2008

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Bobbi Anglin

Email:

banglin@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-7265

Advisor/Lab:

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:

Med Chem

Mital Bhakta

Email:

mbhakta@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-7265

Advisor/Lab:

Segal

Research Interests:

Cys2-His2 Zinc Finger-DNA recognition

Education:

St. Mary's University

Entered:

Fall 2004

Home Program:

Med Chem

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Katherine Block

Email:

kmblock@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-5246

Advisor/Lab:

Jacobson

Research Interests:

Applying organic chemistry to concepts from cell signaling and pharmacology to develop new therapeutic agents. I am also very interested in botanical medicine.

Education:

University of Missouri-St Louis

Entered:

Fall 2004

Home Program:

Med Chem

Davide Botta

Email:

botta@pharmacy.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-5968

Advisor/Lab:

M. Jacobson

Research Interests:

Drug Discovery, Development and Design

Education:

BS Biochemistry, BA French, Benedictine College

Entered:

Fall 2004

Home Program:

Med Chem

Christopher Cabello

Email:

ccabello@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-5246

Advisor/Lab:

Wondrak

Research Interests:

Drug discovery, signal transduction, and cancer therapeutics

Education:

B.S. Honors Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Arizona M.S. Chemistry (Chemical Biology), University of Michigan

Entered:

Fall 2006

Home Program:

Med Chem

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Sean Campbell

Email:

seanc@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab: Rotation

Research Interests:

Education:

Johns Hopkins Univiversity

Entered:

Fall 2009

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Julio Cardenas

Email:

cardenaj@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-5968

Advisor/Lab:

Pagel

Research Interests:

I am interested in design, characterize and apply new molecular imaging contrast agents to asses the response to anti-cancer therapy, both in vitro and in vivo. In particular, my projects are/ wil be focused on MRI and Optical imaging.

Education:

La Salle University, Mexico City

Entered:

Fall 2007

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Liu Qi Chen

Email:

lchen@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Rotation

Research Interests:

Education:

Southern IL University, Edwardsville

Entered:

Fall 2009

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

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Brad Fritz

Email:

bfritz@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-9148

Advisor/Lab:

Montfort

Research Interests:

Protein structure and function, nitric oxide signaling

Education:

BS Chemistry/BA Music, University of Northern Iowa

Entered:

Fall 2005

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Jennifer Furman

Email:

jennyf@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

429-9760

Advisor/Lab:

Ghosh

Research Interests:

Biosensor design for the direct detection of DNA

Education:

B.S. Chemistry, Arizona State University

Entered:

Fall 2005

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

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Chris Giron

Email:

cgiron@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Rotation

Research Interests:

Education:

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Entered:

Fall 2009

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Toni Green

Email:

greent1@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-9148

Advisor/Lab:

Montfort

Research Interests:

Cell signaling, PWR spectroscopy

Education:

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

Entered:

Spring 2008

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

David Harris

Email:

viddy@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-0230

Advisor/Lab:

Christie

Research Interests:

Bio-Organic, Natural Products, and Drug Development

Education:

B.S. Pharm Chemistry, Brigham Young University

Entered:

Fall 2006

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

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Katie Holso

Email:

khelsel@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-1170

Advisor/Lab:

Cordes

Research Interests:

Protein and small-molecule evolution, phage display selection systems, and protein folding (an obvious choice!).

Education:

The University of Arizona

Entered:

Fall 2008

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Scott Jenkins

Email:

scottj1@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-9148

Advisor/Lab:

Montfort

Research Interests:

Design and synthesis of compounds that target the i-motif in the c-Myc promoter

Education:

U Massachusetts, U Colorado

Entered:

Fall 2007

Home Program:

Med Chem

Benjamin Jester

Email:

bjester@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-4120

Advisor/Lab:

Ghosh

Research Interests:

Analytical biosensors, probing protein structure/function relationships

Education:

B.A. Biochemistry, Tufts University (London)

Entered:

Fall 2006

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemstry

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Erin Johnson

Email:

erinj@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-4659

Advisor/Lab:

Wysocki

Research Interests:

Proteomics, mass spectrometry, Affinity Capture Mass Spectrometry

Education:

BS Biochemistry Cedar Crest College

Entered:

Spring 2008

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemstry

Rebecca Johnson

Email:

beccamay@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Rotation

Research Interests:

disease related research and drug targets/ development

Education:

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Entered:

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemstry

Vineela Kadiyala

Email:

kadiyala@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Dr.Catharine Smith's

Research Interests:

Chemical biology, nanosensors

Education:

Nagarjuna University

Entered:

Fall 2007

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemstry

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Mike Kimzey

Email:

kimzey@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-9905

Advisor/Lab:

Lau/Galbraith

Research Interests:

Protein Microarrays

Education:

University of California, Santa Barbara

Entered:

Fall 2005

Home Program:

Med Chem

Wenzhou Li

Email:

lwz@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-4659

Advisor/Lab:

Wysocki

Research Interests:

Education:

Fudan University

Entered:

Fall 2007

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemstry

Daniel LaJoie

Email:

dmlajoie@email.arizona.edu

advisor:

rotation

Research Interests:

Toxins, Toxinology, Protein Evolution, Flying Monkeys, Protein Structure

Education:

Date entered:

Fall 2009

Home Program:

Xin Ma

Email:

maxin@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Research Interests:

I am interested in Mass spectroscopy and interaction between proteins.

Education:

College of Chemistry & Molecular Engineering, China

Entered:

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemstry

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Reid McCarty

Email:

mccartyr@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-7530

Advisor/Lab:

Bandarian

Research Interests:

Biosynthesis of antibiotics in streptomyces bacteria, molecular evolution of secondary metabolic biosynthetic pathway

Education:

University of Arizona

Entered:

Fall 2007

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemstry

Tiffany Mealman

Email:

tmealman@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-3933

Advisor/Lab:

Wysocki/McEvoy

Research Interests:

Education:

Seattle Pacific University BS - Chemistry

Entered:

Fall 2007

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemstry

Zachary Miles

Email:

zmiles@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Research Interests:

Education:

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Entered:

Fall 2009

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemstry

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Perrin Mok

Email:

pmok@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Ghosh

Research Interests:

The designing of biosensors for the detection of biomolecules

Education:

Gonzaga University

Entered:

Fall 2008

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemstry

Ivan Ogloblin

Email:

ogloblin@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-5747

Advisor/Lab:

Wirth

Research Interests:

Bioanalytical chemistry, separation techniques

Education:

Chemistry, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University

Entered:

Fall 2006

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Jason Porter

Email:

jrporter@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-4120

Advisor/Lab:

Ghosh

Research Interests:

Chemical Biology

Education:

Millersville University

Entered:

Fall 2004

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

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Rahul Purohit

Email:

rpurohit@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-9148

Advisor/Lab:

Montfort

Research Interests:

Protein Structure and Function

Education:

Panjab University

Entered:

Fall 2008

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Alberto Rascon

Email:

arascon@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-7530

Advisor/Lab:

Miesfeld

Research Interests:

Echanistic Enzymology

Education:

BS Chemistry, concentration in Biochemistry, CSUB

Entered:

Fall 2004

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry

Femina Rauf

Email:

feminaw@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-1335

Advisor/Lab:

Aspinwall

Research Interests:

Chemical Biology

Education:

University of Peradeniya

Entered:

Fall 2005

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

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Elizabeth Resituyo

Email:

eresty@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-4120

Advisor/Lab:

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

Christian Roessler

Email:

Roessler@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-1170

Advisor/Lab:

Cordes

Research Interests:

Protein structure determination; effects of small molecule ligands on protein function; microscale applications of quantum mechanics

Education:

Ithaca College

Entered:

Fall 2004

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry

Santosh Shah

Email:

sshah142@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-0246

Advisor/Lab:

Horton

Research Interests:

Structure-function of DNA binding proteins, and DNA repair mechanism

Education:

Whittier College

Entered:

Fall 2008

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry

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Carolyn Shomin

Email:

carolyns@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

GhoshE

Research Interests:

Drug Discovery, Design and Development

Education:

B.S. Chemistry/Mathematics, Benedictine College

Entered:

Fall 2006

Home Program:

Med Chem

Breland Smith

Email:

brelands@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Rotation

Research Interests:

Education:

Illinois State University, Normal Illinois

Entered:

Fall 2009

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry

Jamin Steffen

Email:

jsteffen@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

626-5869

Advisor/Lab:

M. Jacobson

Research Interests:

Drug Discovery, Design and Development

Education:

B.S. Pharm Sci, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Entered:

Fall 2006

Home Program:

Med Chem

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Elyssia Steinwinter

Email:

elyssias@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Aspinwall

Research Interests:

Bioanalytical Chemistry

Education:

B.S., Chemistry and MCB, University of Arizona

Entered:

Fall 2007

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Frank Tedeschi

Email:

fatedesc@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Rotation

Research Interests:

organic synthesis, enzyme kinetics, signal tranduction, protein-protein interactions, and anything generally related to biochemistry or science.

Education:

Oakland University

Entered:

Fall 2009

Home Program:

Juliana The

Email:

thej@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

621-9148

Advisor/Lab:

Montfort

Research Interests:

My research interests are: mechanisms of allosteric protein regulation, structural biology, protein dynamics, nitric oxide signaling.

Education:

California State Univ-Long Beach

Entered:

Fall 2007

Home Program:

CBC/Biochemistry

Andrew Vanschoiack

Email:

vansca@email.arizona.edu

Telephone:

Advisor/Lab:

Rotation

Research Interests:

Proteomics and Glycomics

Education:

Entered:

Fall 2009

Home Program:

CBC/Chemistry

Biological Chemistry Program

Student Profiles

Logan Ahlstrom

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Bobbi Anglin

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Mital Bhakta

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Katherine Block

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Davide Botta

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Christopher Cabello

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Sean Campbell

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Julio Cardenas

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Liu Qi Chen

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Brad Fritz

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