
Postdocs

Dr. Carlismari Grundmann
CIRM Fellow
Jan 2024

Dr. Ethan Older
NIH K12 IRACDA Fellow
NIH T32 Fellow
Jan 2025
Graduate Students


Robbie Shepherd
Chemistry & Biochemistry
NSF GRFP
March 2023
Jason Guerrrero
CB3
June 2023



Laura Rodríguez-Velandia
Chemistry & Biochemistry
March 2024
Jorge Hernandez Garcia
CB3
IMSD Fellow
March 2025
Silvia Xie
CB3
March 2025
Undergraduates

Dalia Riad
Oct 2024 - Present
Fyn Eisley
Dec 2024 - Present


Limar Gad
Dec 2024 - Present
Teddy Shen
April 2025 - Present



Uma Joshi
Jan 2026 - Present
Nadia Diaz
Dec 2025 - Present
Christian Ryan-Trejo
MPC2SC Fellow
Summer 2026
Mascot

Teddy Sanchez
Feb 2021 - Present
Former Members
Dr. Allyson McAtamney - Ph.D. in Chemistry & Biochemistry (Current: Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mount Holyoke College) (2022- 2026)
Dr. Hannah Lusk - Ph.D. in Chemistry & Biochemistry (Current: Clinical Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco) (2020- 2024)
Dr. Gordon Luu - Ph.D. in Chemistry & Biochemistry (Current: Senior Scientist I, AbbVie) (2019- 2023)
Dr. Jessica Cleary Little - Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy (Current: Associate Director, Microbial Metabolomics, Duchossois Family Institute, University of Chicago) (2015- 2020)
Dr. Katherine Zink - Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy (Current: Senior Scientist at Enveda Biosciences) (2016- 2020)
Dr. Alanna Condren - Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry (Current: Scientist III at BASF) (2016- 2020)
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Sarah Levy - M.Sc. in Chemistry & Biochemistry (Spring 2022-Spring 2023, Fall 2025)
Casey Heaney - M.Sc. in Chemistry & Biochemistry (Current: Senior lab assistant, Boundless Bio)(Spring 2022-Winter 2023)
Cynthia Grim - M.Sc. in Pharmacognosy (Current: Thermo Fisher Scientific) (Spring 2019-Spring 2020)
Melissa Galey - M.Sc. in Pharmacognosy (Current: Forensic toxicologist, Indiana State Dept of Toxicology)(Spring 2017-Fall 2019)
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Conrad Fihn- IRACDA postdoctoral fellow (Current: Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Bates College) (Nov 2023-June 2026)
Cat McCaughey- Postdoctoral researcher (May 2021- Aug 2023) (Current: Flavor Trait Discovery Scientist, Driscoll's)
Jacob Porter- Postdoctoral researcher (Current: Senior research associate, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute) (Aug 2020-Dec 2021)
Abigail (Abbie) Green-Saxena- Visiting Research Assistant Professor. (Dec 2017-June 2018)
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Alex Tabag - Postbaccalaureate fellow (2023-2024)
Itzel Lizama Chamu - Junior research specialist (2021-2022)
Valya Petukhova - Senior research specialist (2016-2020)
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Samantha Sandoval- Undergraduate volunteer (Nov 2025-June 2026)
Jesus Jimenez- MPC2SC summer undergraduate fellow (Summer 2025)
Chloe Whipple- Undergraduate volunteer (Jan - June 2025)
Eowyn Acres- Undergraduate volunteer (Oct 2021- Fall 2024)
Carlo De Silva- ACCESS summer undergraduate fellow (Summer 2024)
Clarice Park- Undergraduate volunteer (Fall 2022-Summer 2023)
Sania Colbert - UC-HBCU summer undergraduate fellow (summer 2023)
Celine Ertekin - Undergraduate volunteer (Current: IMSD Fellow at Georgetown)(Fall 2021-Spring 2023)
Ben Golet - Undergraduate volunteer (Winter-Spring 2022)
Lana Ibrahem - ACCESS summer undergraduate fellow (Summer 2022)
Kiley Cleland - ACCESS summer undergraduate fellow (Summer 2021)
Itzel Lizama Chamu - L@S Ganas undergraduate fellow (Spring 2018-Fall 2020)
Fabian Trejo - L@S Ganas undergraduate fellow (Fall 2019-Spring 2020)
Shreya Kishore - Virtual summer student from Haverford College (Summer 2020)
Leslie Martinez - L@S Ganas undergraduate fellow (Spring 2019-Spring 2020)
Sindhu Konkapaka- Undergraduate volunteer (Fall 2017-Spring 2018)
Zade Kurdieh- Honors College student, CURA and Capstone project. (Spring 2017-Spring 2018)
Natalia Rivera Sanchez- UIC Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) (Summer 2017)
Shilpa Kolachina- Honors College student, CURA and Capstone project. (Fall 2015- Spring 2017)
Sofia Angiole Cavalcante- Brazil Scientific Mobility Program (Summer 2016)
Shreya Thakkar- Undergraduate Volunteer (Fall 2015)
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London Fihn- Mascot (Nov 2023-June 2026)(Current: Fihn lab mascot, Bates College)
Visitors
Marianne Schelvis - Volunteer (Fall 2025)
Kate Weckwerth - CB3 Rotation Student (Fall 2025)
Charlie Ferguson - CB3 Rotation Student (Fall 2025)
Ayyam Ibrahim - CB3 Rotation Student (Winter 2024)
Prof. Jaime Rodriguez - Visitor from University of A Coruña (July 2023)
Alexandre Bastin - Visitor from University of Liege (Winter-Spring 2023)
Maria Clara Arrieta Echeverri - Visitor from Universidad EAFIT (Summer 2022)
Laura Paola Rodriguez Velandia - Visitor from Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano (Winter/Spring 2022)
Isabel Chauvin - Pharmacognosy Rotation Student (Fall 2020)
Caleb Anderson- Pharmacognosy Rotation Student (Fall 2019)
Antonio Hernandez- Pharmacognosy Rotation Student (Spring 2019)
Christine Mlot- Visitor from UW Madison (Jan 2019)
Paul Boudreau, PhD- Visitor from Harvard (February 2018)
Haley Williams- Visitor from U Arizona (July 2017)
Kyle Mangano- Pharmacognosy (Biotech) Rotation Student (Fall 2016)
Amanda Robinson- Volunteer (Summer 2016)
Jessica Ochoa- Visitor from UC Santa Cruz (Dec 2015)
Joe Spraker- Visitor from U Wisconsin-Madision (Dec 2015)
Tanja Florin- Pharmacognosy (Biotech) Rotation Student (Fall 2015)