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.
Hem Thapa, postdoc. 2017 -
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 he is interested in the discovery and engineering of natural product biosynthetic pathways.
Hem's 2019 Biochemistry paper
Hem's 2018 Methods in Enzymology paper
Hem and Dongqi's 2020 ACS Chem Biol paper
Ipsita Mohanty, graduate student. 2017 -
Ipsita completed her Bachelors and Masters in Chemistry from IIT Kharagpur in 2017. She is now working on elucidating how bioactive molecules are naturally synthesized by microbes and plants. She is excited to work on this harmonious integration of biology and chemistry.
Ipsita's 2020 Marine Drugs paper
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.
Hem and Dongqi's 2020 ACS Chem Biol paper
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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.
Hem Thapa, postdoc. 2017 -
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 he is interested in the discovery and engineering of natural product biosynthetic pathways.
Hem's 2019 Biochemistry paper
Hem's 2018 Methods in Enzymology paper
Hem and Dongqi's 2020 ACS Chem Biol paper
Ipsita Mohanty, graduate student. 2017 -
Ipsita completed her Bachelors and Masters in Chemistry from IIT Kharagpur in 2017. She is now working on elucidating how bioactive molecules are naturally synthesized by microbes and plants. She is excited to work on this harmonious integration of biology and chemistry.
Ipsita's 2020 Marine Drugs paper
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.
Hem and Dongqi's 2020 ACS Chem Biol paper
For a more accurate description of personnel bios, click here.
Alumni
Andrew Lail, undergraduate student. 2017 - 19. Current: University of Tennessee
Michelle Kim, high school student. 2018 - 19.
Rohan Gupta, high school student. 2017 - 18.
Michelle Kim, high school student. 2018 - 19.
Rohan Gupta, high school student. 2017 - 18.