Prof. Nathan Wittenberg

Principle Investigator

B.S. in Chemistry, University of Minnesota

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University

Postdoctoral:

University of Edinburgh (Chemistry)

University of Minnesota (Chemistry, Electrical Engineering)

Mayo Clinic (Neurology)

Aarshi Singh (Third-Year Candidate)

B.S. in Biochemistry and Chemical Biotechnology, East Stroudsburg University

• Printed nanoarrays to capture and analyze small membrane-bound nanostructures

• Establishing the effects of composition and curvature on antimicrobial peptide (AMP) interactions with lipid membranes

Adeyemi Odudimu (Second-Year Student)

B.S. in Chemistry, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta

M.S. in Industrial Chemistry, University of Ibadan

• Interactions between membrane proteins, gangliosides and relevant antibodies

• Phase separation in giant unilamellar vesicles, effect of cholesterol on lipid membrane component distribution

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Dane Santa (Second-Year Student)

B.S. in Biochemistry, East Stroudsburg University

• between immune cell scavenger proteins and oxidized phospholipids

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Postdoctoral (Current Position)

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Dr. Luke Jordan (Research Specialist, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign) 

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Graduate Students (Current Position)

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Dr. Jennie Cawley (Change Control Analyst, CAR-T, Johnson & Johnson, Raritan, NJ)

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Dr. Ashley Baxter (Lecturer, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD)

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Megan Blauch (QA Laboratory Supervisor, Pharmaloz Manufacturing, Lebanon, PA) 

 

Ariana McDarby (Graduate student, Department of Chemistry Education, North Dakota State University) 

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Undergraduate Students (Current Position)

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Thera Hibbler (Analytical Scientist, PharmaCadence)

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Ryan Antar (Undergraduate student, Lehigh University)

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Shivani Shah (Undergraduate student, Lehigh University)

 

Conner Calzone (Undergraduate student, Lehigh University)

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Hailey Nguyen (Undergraduate student, Knox College)

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Joey Saba (Undergraduate student, Lehigh University)

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Brianne Barker (Graduate student in Immunology, Trinity College, Dublin)

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Matt Grapel (Dental student, New York University)

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Steven Imburgio (Medical student, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Seton                                        Hall University)

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Michael Farley (Medical student, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine) 

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Joe Belcastro (Analyst, Healthcare Leveraged Finance, CIT Group, Inc.)

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Lara Reid (Associate Specialist Engineer, Merck)

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