Principle Investigator
Constance Bailey 🇺🇸
B.A. Reed College, 2010
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 2015
Postdoctoral Fellow University of California Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2016-2018
Graduate Students
Tien Sword (3rd Year Graduate Student) 🇻🇳
B.S. University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Chemistry, 2019
Chemistry Ph.D. Program
Anna-Kay West (3rd Year Graduate Student) 🇯🇲
M.S. Ball State University Organic Chemistry
B.S. Ball State University Biochemistry
Chemistry Ph.D. Program
Mujeeb Wakeel (3rd Year Graduate Student) 🇳🇬
B.Sc. Chemistry, Obafemi Awolowo University, 2019
Chemistry Ph.D. Program
Md Mahbub Kabir Khan (3rd Year Graduate Student) 🇧🇩
M.S. Arkansas State University, Medicinal Chemistry, 2020
M.S. University of Dhaka, Organic Chemistry, 2010
B.S. University of Dhaka, Chemistry 2007
Chemistry PhD Program
Zarin Tasnim (4th Year Graduate Student) 🇧🇩
B.S. University of Dhaka, Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 2016
Chemistry Ph.D. Program
Mitchell Long (1st Year Rotation Student) 🇺🇸
M.S. East Tennessee State, Biology, 2022
B.S. East Tennessee State, Biology and Chemistry 2020
Genome Science and Technology Ph.D. Program
Undergraduate Students
Ghaeath Abbas (Senior) 🇺🇸 🇮🇶
Chemistry
Will Barker (Senior) 🇺🇸
Chemistry
Rahul Nadwani (Senior) 🇺🇸
Chemical Engineering and Biological Sciences
Christopher Lane (Senior) 🇺🇸
Chemistry
Elijah Greene (Sophomore) 🇺🇸
Chemistry
Damian Gooden (Sophomore) 🇺🇸
Chemistry
Former Members
Postdoc:
Erin Drufva (2019-2022), currently Biochemical Engineer Technical Professional at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Graduate Students:
Nolan Spengler (2019-2021)
Brandon Jessie (2018-2019), currently Technical Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Cole Sawyer (Rotation Student 2019), currently PhD student in the Eckert group, ORNL in the Genome Science and Technology program
Matthew Curry (Visiting student summer 2019), currently PhD student in the Roy group, University of Tennessee-Chemistry
Undergraduate Students
Elijah Hix (2018-2022), Currently PhD Student in Biophysics at the University of Chicago
Faith Wilson (2021-2022)
David Rangel (2018-2019)
Jonathan Lochner (2019-2021, Currently: Research Assistant at Vanderbilt University Medical School
Ashton Watkins (2019), currently Pharm.D. Student at University of Tennessee Heath Science Center
Dinesh Velu (2018-2020), Medical Student at East Tennessee State
Shane Miller (2018-2020)
Andrew Amburn (2022), Currently: PhD Student in the Genome Science at Technology Program at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Cletus Mbalida (2021, visiting from Berea College), Currently MPH program at Washington University St. Louis
Megan Hayden (2021-2022)
Maddie Spradley (2020, 2022), Currently Research Assistant at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
REU Students
Maria Martinez (2019), University of Central Florida, currently graduate student at Louisiana State University
Kevin Fleischer (2021), Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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