Group Members

Prof. Neil Kelleher

Senior Associates

• Dr. Andrew Forbes, Ph.D.
  Director: Center for Top Down Proteomics
   
• Richard LeDuc
  Research Programmer
  NIDA Center for Neuroproteomics

Postdoctoral Associates

• Dr. Benjamin Garcia, Ph.D.
  July 2005 - Present
   
• Dr. David Iwig, Ph.D.
  August 2006 - Present
   
• Dr. Bryan Parks, Ph.D.
  June 2005 - Present
   
• Dr. James Pesavento, Ph.D.
  May 2006 - Present

Graduate Students

Physical and Life Sciences

• Michael Boyne
  Chemical Biology
  Ph.D. candidate, April 2003 - present
   
• Stefanie Bumpus
  Chemical Biology
  Ph.D. candidate, August 2005 - present
   
• Brad Evans
  Biochemistry
  Ph.D. candidate, August 2005 - present
   
• Jon Ferguson
  Chemical Biology
  Ph.D. candidate, January 2003 - present
   
• Lihua Jiang
  Chemical Biology
  Ph.D. candidate, May 2002 - present
   
• Violet Lee
  Analytical Chemistry
  Ph.D. candidate, August 2005 - present
   
• Dana Robinson
  Analytical Chemistry
  Ph.D. candidate, 2000 - present
   
• Michael Roth
  Chemical Biology
  Ph.D. candidate, May 2002 - present
   
• Paul Thomas
  Analytical Chemistry
  Ph.D. candidate, August 2004 - present
   
• Nertila Siuti
  Biochemistry
  Ph.D. candidate, January 2005 - present
   
• Craig Wenger
  Analytical Chemistry
  Ph.D. candidate, August 2005 - present

Computer Science

• Yong-Bin Kim
  M.S. in Computer Science , Mar. 1, 2000 - Jan. 15, 2002
  Ph.D. candidate (de juro advisor, Geneva Belford)
  

• Leonid Zamdborg
  Biophysics and Computational Biology
  M.D./Ph.D. candidate, January 2006 - present

Undergraduates

Physical and Life Sciences

• Kristina Govorovska
  Molecular and Cellular Biology
   
• Joshua Norris
  Chemistry
   
• Krystal Rampalli
  Molecular and Cellular Biology
   
• Nikita Sanghrajka
  Molecular and Cellular Biology

Computer Science

• Eric Bluhm
   
• Bryan Early
   
• Kevin Glowacz
   
• Ian Spauling
   
• Vinayak Viswanathan

Former Group Members

Postdoctoral Associates

• Dr. Karen Topp
  Laboratory Instructor
  Department of Physics - Bowdoin College
   
• Dr. Jay P. Charlebois
  Analytical Development
  Pharmaceutical Sciences - ImClone Systems, Inc.
   
• Dr. Charles Eric Thomas
  Moffit Cancer Center
  Tampa, FL
   
• Dr. Pieter Dorrestein
  Faculty Position
  University of California, San Diego

Chemistry Ph.D. Students

• Fanyu Meng
  Ph.D. Chemistry 2003
  Biomarker Discovery Group
  Merck and Co., New Jersey
   
• Steven Patrie
  Ph.D. Chemistry 2004
  Department of Pathology - University of Chicago
   
• Matthew Mazur
  Ph.D. Chemistry 2004
  Merck and Co., New Jersey
   
• Leah Miller
  Ph.D. Chemistry 2005
  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine
   
• Shaun McLoughlin
  Ph.D. Chemistry 2005
  Abbott Laboratory
  Chicago, IL
   
• Leslie Hicks
  Ph.D. Chemistry, 2005
  Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
  St. Louis, MO
   
• Yi Du
  Ph.D. Chemistry, 2005
  Merck Research Laboratories

Chemistry M.S. Students

• Derek van der Molen
  M.S. Chemistry, 2003
  Instructor
  Department of Chemistry - Parkland College
   
• Elizabeth Trippe
  M.S. Chemical Biology
   
• Lt. Courtney Bullock
  M.S. Chemical Biology
  U.S. Air Force

Biochemistry M.S. Students

• Benjamin J. Cargile
  Graduate Student
  North Carolina State University

Computer Science M.S. Students

• Yun Li
  M.S. in Computer Science
  Celera Genomics, Inc.
   
• Gregory Taylor
  M.S. in Computer Science
  Bioinformatics
  University of Washington Biodefense Initiative
   
• Ryan Fellers
  M.S. in Computer Science
  Avanade
  Chicago, IL

Undergraduates: Physical and Life Sciences

• Jeffrey Johnson
  Graduate Student
  Scripps Research Institute
   
• Chris Manakas
  Medical School
   
• Colleen Dewey
  Lab Technician
  National Institutes of Health
   
• Carl Lindberg
  Argonne National Laboratory
   
• David Whipple
  Industrial Engineer
  Proctor and Gamble
   
• Kenneth Bota
  Clark Atlanta University
   
• Kathryn Torrey
  Molecular and Cellular Biology
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   
• Nicole Friel
  Biology
   
• James Streeky
  Chemistry
   
• Jonathan Blackhall
  Chemistry
  Carle Hospital
   
• Jonell Smith
  Graduate Student
  Purdue University
   
• Phillip Compton
  Graduate Student
  University of Virgina

Undergraduates: Computer Science

• Andrew Birck
  Software Developer
  Microsoft
   
• William Lam
  Graduate Student
  University of Washington
   
• Ryan McCarthy
  Software Company
  Chicago, IL
   
• Ryan Gillespie
  Working towards H.S. Teacher Certification
   
• Joe Sola
  Surreal, Inc.
   
• Lee Bynum
  W.M. Keck Center for Comparitive and Functional Genomics
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   
• Ernest Seyoung Sohn
   
• Christopher Strouse
  Peace Corps
   
• Brian Cis
  Winston & Strawn, LLP.
   
• Tom Januszyk
  Chicago Board of Trade

Other Former Members

• Joel Tadmor
  Mathematics
   
• Jennifer Firestine
   
• Yuan Wang
   
• Jun Wang
   
• John Ashton