STAFF
Cyrille Gineste - Senior Scientist
Library Design and Synthesis, Organic Chemistry, and Peptide Chemistry
"I develop new chemistries useful in generating innovative libraries, which will be screened for several activities as antibiotic, antiviral and, enzymatic inhibitors. I synthesize novel linkers for solid phase chemistry and work at the development of methods to follow and quantify reactions. And finally I help graduate students in their research."
Leslie Craddock - Senior Scientist
Automated and Manual Peptide Chemistry
Chuck Arrington - Research Scientist
Mass Spectroscopy and Liquid Chromatography
Robbie Van Sciver - Technician
Sara Higgins Fitzgerald - Postdoc (previous REU)
Computational Chemistry to aid in Library Design
"My research is aimed at developing and utilizing computational tools to aid in the various library design and drug discovery projects currently underway in the Geysen lab. This has included the development of the Diversity Space methodology, which enables library-level similarity comparisons that facilitate such applications as scaffold hopping and surrogate synthesis."
STUDENTS
Kalyani Jambunathan - 5th Year Grad Student
Studying Antibody antigen Interactions
"Research currently involves synthesizing epitopes and coupling them to carrier proteins to render them immunogenic and to monitor the immune response they generate in the model system, mice. The long term goal is to investigate strategies to modulate the antibody response with the help of small molecules"
Tanya Watson - 4th Year Grad Student
Library Design and Synthesis
Spencer McMinn - 2nd Year Grad Student (previous REU)
Reaction Screening and Optimization
Joe Jablonski - 2nd Year Grad Student (previous REU)
Library Design and Synthesis
Galina Boyarinova - Undergraduate
Library Synthesis and Peptide Chemistry
Past Geysen Lab Members
Catherine Prudom - PhD May 2007
currently an NIH postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University in Nashville TN
Glenn Foulds - Senior Scientist
currently employed at AllChemie
Suzy Perala - PhD May 2006
currently employed at UVA in EHS
Crystal Olson - MS 2005
Warefta Hasan - Undergraduate
currently a graduate student at Northwestern University
Chris Bagley - Undergraduate
currently in the US Navy
Drew Cohan - Undergraduate
James East - Undergraduate
currently graduate student in the Macdonald Lab at UVA
Qin Sun - Graduate Student
no longer in Geysen Lab
Katherine "Kat" Prokop - REU 2005 from La Salle University, PA
Traci Strohecker - REU 2005 from Cedar Crest College, PA
Joe Houck - REU 2006 from Juniata College, PA
Frances Hocutt - REU 2006 from Harvey Mudd College, CA