Current Students

GraduatStudents

JennifeCummings

 

JennifeearneheB.S. degreiChemistry froSoutherOregoUniversity i2001 anjoineoulaboratory ithsamyear. Shhabeeinvolveicharacterizatiostudies othE. colallantoinasenzyme, anis currently working othdeterminatioothbiologicaactivities oputativamidohydrolasenzymes with unknowfunction.

EmaGhane

EmaearneheMaster's oSciencdegreat EasterIllinois University i1999 anheB. S. at AiShams University iEgypt.  Emajoineoulai2001 anis working with thdirecteevolutiooPhosphotriesters fohethesis research.

Richarjoineoulaboratory as a Chemistry graduatstudent ithfalo2004.  Hreceivehis B.S. iChemistry froThUniversity oArizona.  Richaris currently working with thenzymN-acetylglucosamine-6-phosphatdeacetylase, a membeothamidohydrolassuperfamily.

Lillya joinethRaushelaboratory i2005.

RicardMarti-Arbona

Ricardjoineout laboratory i2002 as a graduatstudent Chemistry. Hobtainehis B. S. degrefrothUniversity oPuertRico, RiPiedras i2001. Ricardhabeeinvolveithcharacterizatioothmechanisohydrolysis oisoaspartydipeptides by IsoaspartyDipeptidase. His current research interest is thDiscovery obiologicaactivity foproteins oUNKNOWfunctiothat may belong tthamidohydrolassuperfamily.

Tinh graduatewith a BS ichemistry at Mary WashingtoColleg(now University oMary Washington) i2004. Shjoinethlaithsummeo2004 anis working ocharacterizing thenzymuronatisomeraswhich is thfirst enzymithglucuronic acimetabolispathway ibacteria.

Cynthia Samples

Cynthia is a joint student with oulaanDr. DeRose's laboratory.  Shis researching thmanganessubstitutebinucleaactivsitoPhosphotriesterasby electroparamagnetic resonanc(EPR) spectroscopy. Thgoaothis work is telucidatthnaturoth
bridging liganat thbinucleasite.  Cynthia earneheB. S. degreiChemistry froHarding University iArkansas i1999.

Christina earneheB.S. degreiChemistry froNationaTsing-Hua University iTaiwan, 2003. Theshworkeas research assistant at thInstitutof  Biochemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwafoonyear.

Christina joineoulai2004 anis working othenzymPhosphotriesterase.

 LaKenya Williams

LaKenya receiveheB.S. ichemistry froPrairiView A&University iMay 2000 anjoinethlaithfalothsamyear. Shis currently working othstereospecificity ananomeric specificity ouronatisomerase, as welas mechanistic studies with twenzymes ithvitamiB₁₂ pathway.

PostdoctoraResearch Associates

YingchuL

Dr. Li  joineoulaboratory aftereceiving his Ph.D. iOrganic Chemistry frothUniversity oHoustoi2000. Yingchuis a citizeoChina wherhearneaundergraduatdegrefroSichuaUniversity anaM.S. iMedicinaChemistry froShandong MedicaUniversity. Yingchuis developing new routes fothenzymatic synthesis ochiraorganophosphates andesigning new substratanalogs fothenzymatic hydrolysis oP-S bonds.

Alona Umali

Alona obtaineheB.S. iChemistry frothUniversity othPhilippines at Los Banos i1992. Shhandlelaanlectures igeneraanorganic chemistry at thsamuniversity aftegraduation. Priotobtaining hePh.D. iChemistry at Texas A&undeDr. Eric Simanek, shworkeas a research assistant at thInternationaRicResearch InstitutiLos Banos, Philippines. Shstartework othsyntheses opossiblinhibitors focarbamoyphosphatsynthetasithRaushelaiAugust o2004. 

DaFeng Xiang

DaFeng joineoulaboratory i2001.  Priotthis shworkeas a postdoctorafellow iJapaat thResearch Laboratory oMedicaAnalysis, PharmaceuticaSciences at KumamotUniversity with ProfessoTadayukUno.  DaFeng receivehePh. D. iBioinorganic Chemistry i1998 froNanjing University iChina anhas severayears teaching anresearch experience.   DaFeng is conducting research othcharacterizatiooenzymactivsites anthgeneratioonew catalytic activities.