Alumni
GRADUATE STUDENT & POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW SUPERVISION
COMPLETED
Post-Doctoral Fellows, Visiting Scientists, Technicians
| Name | Position | Dates | Current Employment |
| Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Associates and Visiting Scientists | |||
| Dr. Takaashi Kojima | Visiting Scientist Ph.D. Nagoya Univerity, Japan | 03/12-09/12 | Asst. Professor, Biotechnology, Nagoya Univ., Japan |
| Christos Karamitros | Exchange Student M.S. Agricultural U. of Athens, Greece | 06/12-09/12 | Ph.D. Candidate, U. Gottingen, Germany |
| Dr. Sang Taek Jung | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., UT Austin | 05/11-08/12 | Asst. Professor, Kookmin Univ. Dept. of Bio and Nano Chemistry, S. Korea |
| Dr. Tae Hyun Yoo | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Cal Tech | 05/08-07/11 | Asst. Professor, Ajou Univ. Applied & Biological Chemistry |
| Dr. Sai Reddy | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, EPFL, Switzerland | 11/08-06/10 | Asst. Professor, ETH, Zurich |
| Dr. Supriya Pai | Research Associate Ph.D. Microbiology, UT Austin | 05/10-11/11 | Associate, SAI MedPartners, Philadelphia, PA |
| Dr. Marsha Lewis | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Molecular Biology, UT Austin | 05/10-05/11 | Instructor, School of Biological Sciences, UT Austin |
| Dr. Mridula Rani | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D.,Molecular Biology, UT Austin | 01/10-05/11 | Scientist, Theranos, Palo Alto, CA |
| Dr. Xin Ge | Research Associate Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, McMaster Univ., Canada | 09/08-06/10 | Asst. Professor, UC Riverside, Chemical Engineering |
| Dr. Seung Hyun Kang | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, UC Irvine | 08/09-02/11 | Research Engineer, LG Life Sciences, Daejeon, Korea |
| Dr. Silvia Arredondo | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, UT Austin | 02/10-05/10 | Postdoctoral Fellow, NIAID/NIH |
| Dr. Tomohiro Makino | Visiting Scientist | 05/09-05/10 | Senior Scientist, Asubio Pharmaceuticals, Japan |
| Dr. Jack Borrok | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin | 07/07-05/10 | Scientist, MedImmune, MD |
| Dr. George Skretas | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Princeton | 06/06-06/09 | Investigator, National Research Institute, Athens, Greece |
| Dr. Yariv Mazor | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Tel Aviv University | 01/06-01/09 | Scientist, MedImmune, MD |
| Dr. Ki Jun Jeong | Postdoctoral Fellow Research Associate Ph.D., KAIST, Korea | 09/02-08/05 10/05-06/08 | Asst. Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, KAIST, Taejon, Korea |
| Dr. Bum-Yeol Hwang | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Seoul National Univ. | 08/04-04/08 | Research Associate, UC Berkeley |
| Dr. Lluis Masip | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, UT Austin | 09/06-05/07 | Asst. Professor, Chemical Engineering, Universitat Tarragona, Spain |
| Dr. Vasso Skouridou | Postdoctoral Fellow | 01/05-05/07 | Research Asst Professor, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Tarragona, Spain |
| Dr. Jamie Link | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Caltech | 08/05-07/07 | Asst. Professor, Chemical Engineering, Princeton, NJ |
| Dr. Karl Griswold | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Chemistry & Biochemistry, UT Austin | 08/05-05/07 | Asst. Professor, School of Engineering, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH |
| Dr. Philip Lee | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Microbiology, John Innes Inst., UK | 01/04-09/06 | Senior Scientist, Saphire Energy, CA |
| Dr. Robert Mabry | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Biochemistry, UT Austin | 08/05-01/06 | Senior Scientist, Adimab, Hanover, NH |
| Dr. Arti Pothukuchy | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi, India | 11/04-05/05 | Research Scientist, Accacia International, Austin,TX |
| Dr. Barrett Harvey | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Molecular Biology, UT Austin | 01/04-08/04 | Asst. Professor, Dept of Molecular Medicine, UT Health Science Center, Houston, TX |
| Dr. Yasuaki Kawarasaki | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Agricultural Engineering, Nagoya U., Japan | 07/02-07/04 | Assoc. Professor, Genetic Engineering, Shizuoka U., Shizuoka, Japan |
| Dr. Edgardo Farinas | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Chemistry, U. Illinois- Chicago | 05/03-07/04 | Assoc. Professor, Department of Chemistry, NJ Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ |
| Dr. Andrew Hayhurst | Postdoctoral Fellow Sr. Research Associate, Ph.D., National Inst for Medical Research, UK | 09/98-12/03 | Assoc. Scientist, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research & Adjunt Professor, UT Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX |
| Dr. Matt P. Delisa | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., U. Maryland | 01/01-06/03 | Assoc. Professor, Chemical Engineering, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY |
| Dr. Kitty Braat | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Uttracth | 11/00-10/02 | Principal Scientist, Symbiogen, Netherlands |
| Dr. Eva Strauch | Exchange Student and Ph.D. student, U. Wurzburg, Germany | 10/01-07/02 | Postdoctoral Fellow, U. Washington |
| Zephyr Koch | Research Assistant | 05/01-05/02 | unknown |
| Dr. Patrik Samuelson | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Royal Inst. Of Technology, Sweden | 09/99-12/01 | Assoc. Professor, Dept of Biotechnology, Royal Inst. Of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Dr. Scott Happe | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., St. Louis Univ. | 04/99-4/01 | Sr. Scientist, Stratagene, Austin, TX |
| Dr. Gang Chen | Research Scientist Ph.D. UT Austin | 05/97-06/00 | Sr. Scientist, Pfizer, San Diego, CA |
| Dr. Richard Loo | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., U. Tronto | 05/97-06/00 | Co-founder, Vive Nano, Toronto, Canada |
| Dr. Laura Segatori | Exchange Student and Ph.D. student, U. Bologna, Italy | 06/99-05/00 | Asst. Professor, Chemical Engineering, Rice Univ., Houston, TX |
| Dr. Michael Cieslewitz | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., U. Illinois | 05/97-02/99 | Group Leader, GSK, Chapel Hill, NC |
| Eileen Fehskens | Research Scientist M.S. Yale | 08/97-05/99 | Self employed |
| Dr. Hua Zhang | Postdoctoral Fellow | 11/96-9/98 | unknown |
| Anna Maria Caruana | Research Associate M.S.., U. of Malta, Malta | 03/98-10/98 | Research Assocaite, University College, London, England |
| Dr. Jose Cotto | Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D., Northwestern U. | 08/97-08/98 | Research Scientist, Abbott Labs, Puerto Rico |
| Dr. Amihay Freeman | Visiting Professor | 10/95-5/96 | Professor, Dept of Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Dr. Pascal Valax | Research Associate Ph.D. UT Austin | 01/95-11/96 | Director of Bioprocessing, Merck-Serono, Vevey, Switzerland |
| Dr. Patricia Phelps | Research Associate Ph.D., | 10/90-08/93 | Instructor, Biology, Austin Community College, Austin, TX |
| Graduate Students Supervision Completed | |||
Sean Carroll Dissertation: "Antibody Engineering for Complement Inhibition Therapy" |
Ph.D. | 08/2012 | On Leave |
Mark Pogson (Co-supervised with B.L. Iverson) Dissertation: "Novel Approaches Towards Engineering Therapeutic Proteases" |
Ph.D. | 05/2012 | Post-doc at ETH Switzerland |
Mark Gebhard Dissertation: "Novel High Throughput Methods for the Engineering of Hydrolases" |
Ph.D. | 05/2011 | Post-doc at UT Austin |
Haixin Li Dissertation: "Protease Engineering in E.Coli" |
Ph.D. | 12/2012 | Medical Resident |
Jason Cantor Dissertation: "Novel Strategies Towards Engineering Therapeutic Enzymes with Reduced Immunogenicity for Cancer Therapy" |
Ph.D. | 12/2012 | Post-doc at Whitehead w/D. Sabatini |
Li Zhou Dissertation: "Mechanistic Analysis of Selective Inhibition of RNA Processing in E.coli" |
Ph.D. | 08/2010 | Post-doc at Scripps w/J. Williamson |
Marsha Lewis Dissertation: "Engineering Peptide Detection and Allosteric Activation" |
Ph.D. | 05/2012 | Instructor, Biological Sciences, UT Austin |
Karthik Veeravalli Dissertation: "Engineering of De Novo Pathways for Biosynthesis of Glutathione Analogues in E.coli" |
Ph.D. | 05/2012 | Research Scientist, Genentech |
Mridula Rani (Co-supervised w/B.L. Iverson) Dissertation: "Engineering Antibodies for Pathogen Neutralization and Detection" |
Ph.D. | 12/2009 | Research Scientist, Theranos |
Sang Taek Jung Dissertation: "Engineering og Agylcosylated Antibody Fc for Effector Functions" |
Ph.D. | 08/2009 | Asst. Professor, Kookmin University, Dept. of Bio and Nano Chemsitry, S. Korea |
Tom Van Blarcom Dissertation: "Antibody Discovery and Engineering Using the Anchored Periplasmic Expression (APEx) E.coli" |
Ph.D. | 06/2009 | Research Scientist, Rinat/Pfizer |
Silvia Arredondo Dissertation: "Engineering and Characterization of Disulfide Bond Isomerases in E.coli" |
Ph.D. | 05/2009 | Post-doc at NIH w/L. Miller |
Clinton E. Leysath Dissertation: "Structure and Engineering of Antibodies to the Protective Antigen of the B. Anthracis Toxin" |
Ph.D. | 08/2008 | Post-doc at NIAID w/S. Leppla |
Min-Jeong Seo Dissertation: "Development of Screening Systems for Optimizing the Expressionof Antibodies in E.coli" |
Ph.D. | 08/2008 | Management Consultant, Capital Management, Seoul, S. Korea |
Eva-Maria Strauch Dissertation: "Characterization and Application of the Twin Arginine Transporter (TAT) Pathway for Protein Secretion)" |
Ph.D. | 12/2007 | Post-doc at U. Washington with D. Baker |
Christian Cobaugh (Co-supervised w/B.L. Iverson) Dissertation: "Single Scaffold Antibody Libraries Created with High Rates of Mutagenesis or Diversity Focused for Peptide Recognition" |
Ph.D. | 12/2007 | Senior Scientist, Alexion Pharmaceuticals |
Meng Zhao Dissertation: "The Role of RNase E Inhibitors RraA and RraB ont he Degradation of RNA in Bacteria" |
Ph.D. | 05/2007 | Clinical Fellow, Ohio State University |
Navin Varadarajan (Co-supervised w/B.L. Iverson) Dissertation: "Engineering Substrate Selectivity in the Protease OmpT" |
Ph.D. | 12/2006 | Asst. Professor, Chemical Engineering Dept, Univ. of Houston |
Brian Ribnicky Dissertation: "Engineering Protein Function and Expression by Flow Cytometry" |
Ph.D. | 12/2006 | Engineer, Genentech |
Danielle Tullman-Ercek Dissertation: "The Twin Arginine Transporter (TAT) Pathway of E.coli" |
Ph.D. | 12/2006 | Asst. Professor, Chemical Engineering Dept., UC Berkeley |
Lluis Masip Dissertation: "Engineering of Novel Pathways for Protein Oxidation" |
Ph.D. | 08/2006 | Asst. Professor, Universitat Tarragona (Rovira I Virgilli), Spain |
Robert Mabry (Co-supervised w/B.L. Iverson) Dissertation: "Engineering Therapeutic Antibody Fragments Targeting the Antrax Toxin" |
Ph.D. | 08/2005 | Scientist, Adimab |
Junjun Gao Dissertation: "Functional and Structural Studies of Proetin Inhibitors of RNase E activity that Globally Modulate mRNA abundance in E.coli" |
Ph.D. | 08/2005 | Research Scientist, Roche |
Rozamond Sweeney (Co-supervised w/B.L. Iverson) Dissertation: "Biological Approaches to Synthesis and ASsembly of Semiconductor and Metallic Nanomaterials" |
Ph.D. | 08/2005 | Management Consultant |
Laura Segatori Dissertation: "Structure, Function and Engineering of Disulfide Bond Isomerization in E.coli" |
Ph.D. | 08/2005 | Asst. Professor, Chemical Engineering Dept., Rice University |
Karl Griswold (Co-supervised w/B.L. Iverson) Dissertation: "Engineering Highly Active Enzymes with Altered Substrate Selectivities" |
Ph.D. | 08/2005 | Asst. Professor, Engineering, Dartmouth |
Raphael Levy Dissertation: "Enhancement of Antibody Fragments Expression in E.coli: Innovative Cytoplasmic Screening Approaches" |
Ph.D. | 05/2004 | Senior Scientist, Zoma |
Jongsik Gam (Co-supervised w/B.L. Iverson) Dissertation: "Toward High Throughput Directed Evolution of Protease Specificity Using Flourescence Activated Sorting" |
Ph.D. | 05/2004 | Research ASsociate, KRIBB, Korea |
