Principal Investigator
Matthew R. Pratt, Ph.D.
● B.S. in Biochemistry and Math 1999, University of Arizona, Tucson (Robin Polt), ● Ph.D. in Chemistry 2004, University of California, Berkeley (Carolyn Bertozzi), ● American Cancer Society Fellow 2005-2009, Rockefeller University (Tom Muir), ● Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Postdocs
Graduate Students
Binyou Wang
● B.S. in Chemistry 2019, Nankai University (Weimin Xuan)
Group Job: qTOF & pH meter
Eldon Hard
● B.S. in Biochemistry and Neuroscience 2020, Syracuse University (John Franck)
Group Job: Chemical inventory
Afraah Javed
● B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2019, UC Irvine (Michael T. Green)
Group Job: Biotage & HPLCs
Gilbert Ampomah
● Bsc in Chemistry 2020, KNUST, Ghana (Lawrence S. Borquaye)
Group Job: Waste & plate reader
Ramon Gudiño Garcia
● B.S. in Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry 2021, National Autonomous University of Mexico (Alica Hernadez Campos and Rafael Castillo)
Group Job: Balances, water bath & solicitors
Geoffrey Lang
● B.S. in Chemistry 2020, USC (Matthew Pratt)
Group Job: Fridges, freezers & lyophilizer
Rhianna Haynie-Cion
● B.S. in Biochemistry 2021, UCSB (Thomas Weimbs & Ryoko Oono)
Group Job: Incubators & peptide synthesizer
Michelle (Shelley) Helmeke
● B.S. in Biochemistry 2022, Creighton University (Julianne Strauss-Soukup)
Group Job: Centrifuges
Ethan Chi
● B.S. in Biochemistry 2023, University of Nevada Las Vegas (Gary Kleiger)
Group Job: qTOF trainee
Lab Mascot
Flannel
Group Job: Providing the perfect balance between comfort and style
Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
Franziska Meier, Ph.D. (Scientist, emb Biotech GmbH)
Paul Levine, Ph.D. (Scientist IV & Core Leader of Peptide Chemistry, Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington)
Lisa Walter, Ph.D. (Assistant Vice President, RBC Capital Associates)
Ricardo Palos Pacheco, Ph.D. (Group Leader, Bio-Rad Laboratories)
Ananya Rakshit, Ph.D. (Postdoc, Palmer Lab, University of Colorado Boulder)
Matthew Sarnowski, Ph.D. (Medicinal Chemist, Sanford Burnham Prebys)
Giuliano Cutolo, Ph.D. (Senior Bioconjugation Scientist, Abbot)
Graduate Students
Balyn Zaro, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, UCSF)
Tharindumala Abeywardana, Ph.D. (Scientist III, Thermo Fisher Scientific)
Leslie Bateman, Ph.D. (Senior Scientist, Neomorph Inc)
Nicholas Marotta, Ph.D.
Yu Hsuan Lin, Ph.D. (Senior Scientist, Merck)
Yuka Lewis, M.S. (Research Associate, Werewolf Therapeutics)
Kelly Chuh, Ph.D.
Cesar De Leon, Ph.D. (Senior Scientist, Merck)
Anna Batt, Ph.D (Scientist, Vaxcyte)
Narek Darabedian, Ph.D. (Principal Scientist, Norvartis)
Ana Galesic, Ph.D. (Postdoc Harper Lab, Harvard)
Emma Jackson, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow, Bristol Myers Squibb)
Nichole Pedowitz, Ph.D. (Postdoc Bogyo Lab, Stanford)
Aaron Balana, Ph.D. (Scientist III, Genentech)
Stuart Moon, Ph.D. (Lecturer, USC)
Murielle “Moira” Morales, Ph.D. (Postdoc Griffin Lab, UC Irvine)