The Keiderling Group
Other Researchers
Various researchers spend shorter times in the Group, some as students for MS degrees and others working part-time during their BS programs. In addition we have been lucky to have had numerous collaborators, several of which were in the lab for extended periods listed below.
Visitors
Heng Chi
PhD UIC
2000s Visited several times from permanent position, Asst. Prof. Huai’an Jiangsu Pharmacy College with continuing collaboration on beta strand peptides and labeling
Currently a continuing faculty member/ Instrument Center administrator.
Evelien Van deVondel
PhD Antwerp
From Antwerp, Belgium, to do added work on her PhD,
currently working in the pharmaceutical industry.
Ahmed Lakhani
PhD UIC
2017 from Calumet College St. Joseph and continued, extended work elsewhere.
Allen Walker
2017 undergrad Calumet College St. Joseph – pedagogical peptide DFT calcs
Jarek Sebestic
PhD, Staff CAS
from Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences Prague during specific periods, VCD of nitrosylated alpha-Syn models
continuing his peptide synthesis and spectroscopy research
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Viktoria Babenko
PhD Warsaw
2013 from Univ. Warsaw for PhD work on fibrils, completed PhD in 2015, currently working as a postdoc at Imperial College London.
Aleksandra Fulara
PhD Warsaw, Ghent
2011 from Univ. Warsaw to add to PhD work on fibrils, moved to Univ. Ghent, in Belgium for PhD and then Nuance Communications postdoc work.
Flavio Moran
PhD, Professor, Univ. Padova
Returned to Univ. Padova after sabbatical at UIC, specializing in nano-materials.
Dana Alrahmahi
BS biochem 2015
undergrad research
Saad Chaudry
BS biochem 2013
undergrad research, Med School, Caribbean
Hong Nguyen (Kim)
BS biochem 2014
undergrad research, Med Chem Midwestern- Pharmacy
Heewhan Shin
BS biochem 2013
undergrad research, Peptide fibrils, then PhD UIC crystallography, Yang group
Long Nguyen
BS biochem 2014
undergrad research, UIC Pharmacy
Schultz, Bill
BS UIC, 1980?
undergrad research, MVCD or U(BH4)4, M.D. UIC Med School, Rockford
Fearon, Maureen
BS/MS UIC, 1980?
undergrad research, small molecule VCD, M.D., Loyola Med. School, Chicago
Undergraduate Students
Technician
Tibudan Martin
BS Biology, Previously Trech. UIC Medical Center
(2008-10, Sr. Tech.)
Research - Biochemical analyses with antibody labeled nanoparticle Raman,
Current: 2010 move to U of Chicago as Transplant research Technician
MS Students
Vic HEINTZ
MS, ABD UIC
small molecule VCD studies and computerized instruments, left for Staff Scientist Xerox Corp., retired, doing computing consulting and exploring a second career in science teaching
Zhihua HUANG
MS UIC(?)
move to IITRI, Chicago, Pharmokinetic HPLC MS studies
Dongfang HUO
MS UIC (?), PhD UIUC (Food Chemistry ?)
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Josef KAPITAN
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small peptide DFT VCD modelling, returned to Prague, finish PhD at Charles Univ. 2005-06, with Vladimir Baumruk, then Postdoc Glasgow, with Laurence Barron, Current: lecturer Optics, Univ. Olomouc, Czech
Loretta MICKLEY
BS, MS UIC, PhD U. Chicago
Atmospheric Science, Current: Senior Research Fellow at Harvard U., -Atmospheric Chemistry modelling
Irene PAHIGIANNIS
MS UIC
left for position at Searle
Ann-Marie SOURIGES
DUT, MST Univ Bordeaux
The vibrational circular dichroism of 2,2'-disubstituted-1,1'-binapthyls.” Return to France: IBM Printer Div. Paris, then Ricoh, France
Regan STERN
MS(?) EECS-UIC
in computer consultation(?)
Fernando Tobias
MS UIC 2015
modelling peptide aggregation fibril formation, Move to PhD in MassSpec lipidomics studies with Stephanie Cologna, then postdoc Ohio State, and now Staff MS Support, Northwestern Univ.
Tewolde Siele TEWOLDE
PhD in Med Chem
Transferred to PhD in Med Chem
Toan Trinh
MS UIC, 2015
peptide synthesis
Yue (Luna) Wei
MS UIC, 2014
vibrational computations, left for UIC Biostatistics, then 2016 Univ. Pittsburgh PhD? Current: Novartis in Shanghai, Biostatician
Sungsool WI
PhD UIC
Switch to Lucio Freidman group, then postdoc Berkeley, Nat. Mag. Lab, VirginiaTech Currently: Florida State, National Magnet Lab.
Ligang YANG
MS, ABD UIC
Did first RNA VCD, did some Math/Computer study. Left orig: Morgan Stanley's Global High Yields New York