KOUTMOU LAB MEMBERS
DR. KRISTIN KOUTMOU
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Dow Early Career Professor of Chemistry
Co-Director of Chemical Biology Interface T32 (CBI)
Associate Director of the Program in Chemical Biology
Affiliate member of the Dept. of Biological Chemistry
DR. DANIEL EYLER
Lab manager
ROJA GUNDEPUDI
Lab technician
DR. CHATHURI PATHIRAGE
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. student, Chemistry
RACHEL GILES
Ph.D. student, Chemistry
LAURA SNYDER
MINLI RUAN
Ph.D. student, Biological Chemistry
AMELIA COCHRAN
Ph.D. student, Chemistry
KALEY SIMCOX
Ph.D. student, Chemistry
MADDY ZAMECNIK
Ph.D. student, Chemistry
XIAOYAN LI
Ph.D. student, Chemistry
SEAN STROBLE
Undergraduate student
DAVID MUZYKA
Undergraduate student
LAB ALUMNI
Frances Acevedo Mariani - M.S. in Chemistry, and now is the Sr. Program Coordinator for Undergraduate Training at The Broad Institute (MIT/Harvard)
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Olivia Bachteal - undergraduate - Specialist, Supply Chain Management at Merck
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Abigail Bojanowski - undergraduate - enrolled medical school at Wayne State University
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Dr. Monika Franco - PhD Chemical Biology, Senior Policy Analyst at the Association for Molecular Pathology
Julia Hopkins - undergraduate - enrolled in medical school at Medical College of Wisconsin
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Dr. Joshua Jones - PhD in Chemistry, Advisor SMDD, Eli Lilly
Dr. Taslima Khan - lab technician - earned PhD in Chemical Biology at the University of Michigan; currently Scientist at Sartorius
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Ryan McNassor - undergraduate - enrolled medical school at Case Western Reserve
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Luke Miller - M.S. in Chemical Biology, founded NuChic Cosmetics, currently enrolled as M.S. student in Philosophy at the Central European University, Vienna, Austria
Dr. Jeremy Monroe - PhD in Chemistry, Senior Scientist, Nucleic Acids at ReCode Therapeutics
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Dr. Meredith Purchal - PhD in Chemical Biology, Post-doctoral fellow at New England Biolabs
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Dr. Tyler Smith - PhD in Chemistry, Scientist I - RNA technology development at Life Edit Therapeutics
Dr. Mehmet Tardu - post-doctoral fellow - Recipient of EU FP7 Marie Curie Actions/TÜBÄ°TAK “2236-CoCirculation2” award, Assistant Professor at the University of Istanbul, Turkey
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Zehzong Wan - M.S. in Chemistry, lab technician in Dr. Bin Tian’s lab at the Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania
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