Meet the Team
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From left to right:
Vinayak Agarwal, PI
Vinny is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech with joint appointments at the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and School of Biological Sciences.
Ipsita Mohanty, graduate student. 2017 -
Ipsita completed her Bachelors and Masters in Chemistry from IIT Kharagpur in 2017. With Garg and Agarwal, she is working on elucidating how bioactive molecules are naturally synthesized. She is excited to work on this harmonious integration of biology and chemistry.
Nguyet Nguyen (Luna), graduate student. 2018 -
Luna graduated from Vietnam National University of Science in 2017 with a Bachelors in Chemistry. As an undergraduate, she worked on purification of natural products. She is now working on elucidating the biosynthesis of marine compounds.
Dongqi Yi, graduate student. 2018 -
Dongqi received her Bachelors in Pharmacy from Nankai University and her Masters in Biotechnology from Northwestern University. She is a joint mechanistic enzymologist with Gutekunst and Agarwal.
Brendan Whalen, graduate student. 2020 -
Brendan graduated in 2020 with a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University. He worked on the production of monoclonal antibodies and drug targets as an undergrad. Now, he is excited to take on the biosynthesis of natural products.
Subhasish Tapadar, research scientist. 2020 -
Subhasish is an experienced synthetic organic chemist with fifteen years of experience in drug discovery & development in many therapeutic areas, including oncology, Alzheimer’s disease, infection, and inflammation. Subhasish’s work is primarily focused on developing epigenetic drugs to treat cancer, and he has made original and significant contributions in this field. Subhasish graduated from Osmania University, India in 2005 and earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry.
Vinayak Agarwal, PI
Vinny is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech with joint appointments at the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and School of Biological Sciences.
Ipsita Mohanty, graduate student. 2017 -
Ipsita completed her Bachelors and Masters in Chemistry from IIT Kharagpur in 2017. With Garg and Agarwal, she is working on elucidating how bioactive molecules are naturally synthesized. She is excited to work on this harmonious integration of biology and chemistry.
Nguyet Nguyen (Luna), graduate student. 2018 -
Luna graduated from Vietnam National University of Science in 2017 with a Bachelors in Chemistry. As an undergraduate, she worked on purification of natural products. She is now working on elucidating the biosynthesis of marine compounds.
Dongqi Yi, graduate student. 2018 -
Dongqi received her Bachelors in Pharmacy from Nankai University and her Masters in Biotechnology from Northwestern University. She is a joint mechanistic enzymologist with Gutekunst and Agarwal.
Brendan Whalen, graduate student. 2020 -
Brendan graduated in 2020 with a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University. He worked on the production of monoclonal antibodies and drug targets as an undergrad. Now, he is excited to take on the biosynthesis of natural products.
Subhasish Tapadar, research scientist. 2020 -
Subhasish is an experienced synthetic organic chemist with fifteen years of experience in drug discovery & development in many therapeutic areas, including oncology, Alzheimer’s disease, infection, and inflammation. Subhasish’s work is primarily focused on developing epigenetic drugs to treat cancer, and he has made original and significant contributions in this field. Subhasish graduated from Osmania University, India in 2005 and earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry.
Alumni
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Hem Thapa, postdoc. 2017 - 2020
Hem graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2011 and earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics at Texas A&M working with Dr. Tim Devarenne. Hem joined the lab in summer 2017, and here, he was interested in the discovery and engineering of natural product biosynthetic pathways. Hem is now at the CDC as a Molecular Biologist working on real world problems. We are so glad to continue to have him close to home. |
Andrew Lail, undergraduate student. 2017 - 19. Current: University of Wisconsin
Michelle Kim, high school student. 2018 - 19.
Rohan Gupta, high school student. 2017 - 18.