Graduate Students

Class of 2023

Blake Levy
251 Roger Adams Lab

B.A. in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology,
Hamilton College
Graduate Student, Chemical Biology
Matthews Fellow

Suja Thakali
252 Roger Adams Lab

B.A. in Chemistry,
Kalamazoo College
Graduate Student, Chemical Biology

Brooke Bouwens 
2200 Institute for Genomic Biology  

B.S. in Biology-Chemistry, 
Manchester University
Graduate Student, Biochemistry

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Class of 2022

Jeffrey Celis-Chance
251 Roger Adams Lab

B.S. in Chemistry,
California State University, San Bernardino
Graduate Student, Chemical Biology
Roger Adams Fellow

Rachel Schaaf
257 Roger Adams Lab

B.A. in Chemistry and Mathematics,
Colgate University
Graduate Student, Organic Chemistry
Roger Adams Fellow

Class of 2021

Morgan Gugger
252 Roger Adams Lab

B.S. in Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Graduate Student, Chemical Biology
NIH CBI TP Fellow

Kayla Landers
277 Roger Adams Lab
(joint student with Prof. Sarlah)

B.S. in Chemistry,
California State University, Long Beach
Graduate Student, Organic Chemistry
NIH CBI TP Fellow

Kyle Abo
258 Roger Adams Lab

B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Villanova University
Graduate Student, Organic Chemistry
Roger Adams Fellow

Sam Albright
253 Roger Adams Lab

B.S. in Chemistry,
San Diego State University
Graduate Student, Organic Chemistry
Roger Adams Fellow

Class of 2020

Thomas Trzupek
253 Roger Adams Lab

B.A. in Chemistry,
Northwestern University 
Graduate Student, Organic Chemistry
Roger Adams Fellow


Class of 2019

Brett Cain
254 Roger Adams Lab

B.S. in Chemistry and Microbiology,
University of Hawaii
Graduate Student, Organic Chemistry
Roger Adams Fellow

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Amanda Smith
258 Roger Adams Lab

B.S. in Chemistry,
Wheaton College
Graduate Student, Chemical Biology
Roger Adams Fellow

Michael Patrick Mulligan
2200 Institute for Genomic Biology

B.S. in Chemistry
University of Notre Dame
Graduate Student, Chemical Biology
NIH CBI TP Fellow

Sydney Anne McKee
259 Roger Adams Lab

B.S. in Chemistry,
Ohio State University
Graduate Student, Organic Chemistry
NIH CBI TP Fellow / Springborn Fellow

Class of 2018

Rebecca Ulrich
249 Roger Adams Lab

B.S. in Biochemistry,
High Point University
Graduate Student, Organic Chemistry
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Virginia Bartow Fellow​