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Poulter Group Members

Current Group

 Cross, Jeffrey (Jeff)

Forsyth, Brandon

Neti, Syam

Pan, Jian-Jung (JJ)

Ramamoorthy, Gurusankar (Guru)

Slessor, Kate

Alumni

Postdoctoral Researchers

Professor Oliver J. Muscio
Murray State College, Department of Chemistry
Professor Georges Wolzcunowicz
University of Geneva, Department of Medical Biochemistry
Professor Liliana Chayet
Universidad de Chile, Lab de Bioquimica
Dr. Lai-Su Lee Yeh
Dr. Joseph Craig Argyle
Physician, private practice
Dr. John Roberts
Hoffman-LaRoche, Medicinal Chemistry Research
Professor George Gurria
University of Wisconsin
Dr. F. Mark Laskovics
Girindus American Inc.
Dr. Chi-Hsin R. King
Albany Molecular Research, Inc.
Dr. Ronda M. Sandifer
Reed College, Portland, OR
Dr. Wendy I. Noall
Eli Lilly
Professor Tadashi Aoki
Hiroshima University, Suzugamine Women's College
Dr. Desiree L. Bartlett
Stauffer Chemiceal
Dr. Sonja Klein
Universitat Mainz, Germany
Dr. Vyas M. Dixit
AnalChem Pvt Ltd
Dr. Lawrence Perez
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Dr. Mary M. Sherman
Merck-Frosst Canada
Dr. Matt S. Anderson
Merck Research Laboratories, Department of Biochemistry
Dr. R. Michael Lawrence
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Dr. Ian P. Street
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Dr. Mark Brown
Echelon Biosciences, Inc.
Professor Matthias Mayer
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Dr. Shivanand K. Math
IBC-Advanced Technologies
Dr. Donglu Zhang
Bristol Myers Squibb
Professor Dirk Iwata-Reuyl
Portland State University, Department of Chemistry
Dr. Dan Rogers
CombiChem
Dr. Linsheng Song
Bio-Technical Resources
Dr. William G. Stirtan
Bayer Corp.
Assistant Professor Philip Proteau
Oregon State University, College of Pharmacy, Corvallis, OR
Dr. David Witter
Merck Research Laboratories
Dr. Jeffrey Moore
Abbott Laboratories
Dr. David Owen
Starpharma Pty Ltd
Dr. Barbara Frey
Universitaet Karlsruhe, Institut fuer Organische Chemie,
Dr. Jeffrey R. Mathis
Software Engineer, Perkin-Elmer Informatics, Inc
Dr. Kathleen Rising Manna
Bellarmine University
Dr. Brenda Kellogg
Immunogen
Dr. David Rozema
Mirus Inc.
Dr. Lance E. Steward
Allergan
Professor Kurt Dolence
University of Wyoming
Dr. Julia Dolence
University of Wyoming
Dr. Frederick M. Hahn
USDA, Albany, NY
Dr. Aquilles Leyes
Merck Corp
Andrea Hemmerlin
University of Strasbourg, France
Dr. Julie L. Kadrmas
University of Utah, Huntsman Cancer Institute
Dr. Tom Siepmann
Registered Patent Attorney, Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, L.L.P
Dr. Christopher M. Harris
Abbott Bioresearch Center, Worcester MA
Dr. Jason McCary
Battelle Dugway Operations, Dugway UT
Dr. Weiping Li
Pharmadigm, Inc., Salt Lake City UT
Dr. Hans Erickson
Immunogen Inc., Cambridge MA
Dr. Christina Carrigan
Immunogen, Inc.
Dr. Vallabh Desai
Biocon India limited, India
Dr. Cecile Gauchet
ENDOTIS Pharma
Professor Christian Lherbet
University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Sungwon Lee
LS9
Joel Walker
Acenta Discovery
G. Labadie
Argentina
Steve Rothman
Dupont
H.V. Thulasiram
National Chemical Laboratory
Wenyun Gao
College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, China
Owen McDougall
Boise State University
Rajesh Viswanathan
Case Western University, Cleveland, OH

Graduate Students

PhDs

Dr. Richard B. Anderson, 1973
"Protonation of Pyrimidines"
Dr. Charles J. Spillner, Jr.; 1973
"A Model Substituted Cyclopropanemethyl Cation"
Solano Community College
Dr. Gary D. Frederick, 1975
"Protonation Studies of Pyrimidines"
Brigham Young University, Hawaii
Dr. John M. Hughes, 1975
"Model Studies of the Biosynthesis of Non-Head-to-Tail Terpenes"
Hewlett Packard
Dr. Clyde L. Livingston, 1978
"Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Nucleic Acid Interactions."
Monsanto Agricultural Company
Professor Dennis M. Satterwhite, 1979
"Studies on the Mechanisms of the Reactions of Isopentenyl Pyrophosphate Isomerase and Farnesyl Pyrophosphate Synthetase"
Lewis-Clark State University
Dr. Richard Gaughan, 1980
"The Synthesis of Terpene Analogs"
Exxon Research & Engineering Co
Dr. Chi-Hsin R. King, 1980
"Model Studies of Terpene Biosynthesis. The Stereochemistry of Intermolecular and Intramolecular Electrophilic Condensation Reactions"
Albany Molecular Research, Inc.
Dr. Paul L. Wiggins, 1980
"The Synthesis of Fluorinated Terpenes and the Mechanism of Farnesyl Pyrophosphate Synthetase"
Ethyl Corporation
Professor Eugene A. Mash, Jr., 1980
"Studies with Analogs of Isopentenyl Pyrophosphate"
University of Arizona, Tucson, Department of Chemistry
Dr. Michael D. Thompson, 1981
"The Synthesis of Presqualene Analogs"
Amylin Pharmaceuticals
Dr. Timothy R. Neal, 1981
"The Synthesis of Bisubstrate Analogs of Farnesyl Pyrophosphate Synthetase"
Ricera Inc
Dr. Richard H. Griffey, 1984
"Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Nitrogen-15 Escherichia coli Transfer Ribonucleic Acids"
ISIS Corporation
Dr. Todd L. Capson, 1987
"Synthesis and Evaluation of Ammonium Analogs of Carbocationic Intermediates in Squalene Biosynthesis"
University of Utah, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Dr. Andrew B. Woodside, 1987
"Studies of Dimethylallyl-L-Tryptophan Synthetase with Fluorinated Analogs of Dimethylallyl Diphosphate"
Owens Corning
Dr. Kay E. Stremler, 1987
"Substrate Analogs for Isoprenoid Enzymes"
Stremler International Solutions, LLC
Dr. Manfred Muehlbacher, 1987
"Active-Site-Directed Irreversible Inhibitors of Isopentenyl Diphosphate Isomerase"
Reinhalteverband Salzburg Central Laboratories
Professor Darrell R. Davis, 1988
"Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Undermodified Escherichia coli Transfer Ribonucleic Acids"
University of Utah, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Dr. Zheng Huang, 1988
"Structure and Biosynthesis of Botryococcenes"
Merck Frosst Centre for Therapeutic Research
Professor V. Jo Davisson, 1988
"Cyclization Reactions Catalyzed by Farnesyl Diphosphate Synthetase"
Purdue University, Department of Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy
Professor William H. Gmeiner, 1988
"NMR Studies of Nucleic Acids"
Wake Forest University, School of Medicine
Dr. Douglas S. Mautz, 1990
"Phosphorothioate Substrate Analogues for Isoprenoid Enzymes"
Forest Research Institute
Dr. Carmen L. Rodriguez, 1990
"Model Studies in the Terpene Biosynthetic Pathway. Determination of the Lifetime of an Allylic Carbocation"
Arco Corp., New Process Research & Development
Dr. Donglu Zhang, 1990
"Biosynthesis of Archaebacterial Membrane Lipids. Ether Formation by a Prenyl Transfer Reaction"
Bristol Myers Squibb
Dr. John Gebler, 1990
"Mechanism of Dimethylallyl Tryptophan Synthase"
Waters Corp
Dr. Stylianos Mavromoustakos, 1991
"Model and Structural Studies of Transfer Ribonucleic Acids"
Intercollege, Cyprus, Greece
Dr. Xiangjun Lu, 1992
"Mechanism-Based Inactivation of Isopentenyl Diphosphate Isomerase"
Research Biochemicals International, a Sigma-Aldrich Company
Dr. Dale J. Christensen, 1993
"Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Investigation of Peptide Structure and Enzyme Mechanism"
Cognosci
Dr. Anjun Chen, 1994
"Archaebacterial Prenyltransferases: Isolation and Characterization of Farnesyl/Geranylgeranyl Diphosphate Synthase, Geranylgeranylglyceryl Phosphate Synthase, and Their Genes"
Canova Bioconsulting
Dr. Eugene Yi, 1995
"Mechanistic Studies of Squalene Synthase Using Phosphorothioate Substrate Analogs"
Institute for Systems Biology
Dr. Pamela Cassidy, 1995
"Kinetic Mechanism and Inhibitors of Protein Farnesyltransferase"
University of Utah, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Dr. Frederick M. Hahn, 1996
"Isopentenyl Diphosphate Isomerase: A Comparative Study"
USDA, Albany, NY
Dr. Jonathon Baker, 1998
"Isoprenoid Biosynthesis: Identification and Characterization IPP:DMAPP Isomerase From Rhodobacter, Characterization of a Eukaryotic IPP:DMAPP Isomerase and Phylogenetic Analysis of Pathway Enzymes"
ORYZON Genomics
Professor Michael Jarstfer, 1998
"Squalene Synthase: Analysis of the Enzyme Catalyzed Rearrangement of Presqualene Diphosphate and Analysis of the Squalene Synthase Peptide Sequence"
University of North Carolina, Chappel Hill, Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products
Associate Professor Owen McDougal, 1998
"Conus Peptides Investigated by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Methods"
Southern Oregon University, Department of Chemistry
Assistant. Professor Mark Pugh, 1998
"Bisubstrate Analogs and Inhibitors of Farnesyl Diphosphate Synthase"
Brigham Young University, Idaho, Department of Chemistry
Assistant Professor Hong Wang, 1998
"Dimethylallyltryptophan Synthase: Mechanism Study and Product Analysis"
University of Colorad, Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus
Assistant Professor Brian Blagg, 1999
"Intermediates in Isoprenoid Biosynthesis"
University of Kansas, Medicinal Chemistry
Assistant Professor Suzanne Fernandez, 1999
"Site-Directed Mutagenesis Studies of Farnesyl Diphosphate Synthase"
DeSales University
Assistant Professor Evette Radisky, 1999
"Elucidation of a Kinetic Mechanism for Squalene Synthase"
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
Assistant Professor Timothy Soderberg, 2000
"Invertigation of Two Enzymes Catalyzing Transfer of Isoprenoid Groups to Nonisoprenoid Acceptors"
University of Minnesota at Morris, Department of Chemistry
Dr. Lisa Eubanks, 2002
"Investigation of Enzymes in the Isoprenoid Biosynthetic Pathways: DXP Synthase and Protein Prenyltransferases"
Scripps Research Institute, Department of Chemistry
Dr. Andrew T. Koppisch, 2002
"Enzymology of MEP Synthase"
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division
Dr. Susan Rivera, 2002
"Chrysanthemyl Diphosphate Synthase: Steady-State Kinetic Characterization and Mechanistic Studies of the Recombinant Non-Head-To-Tail Monoterpene Synthase from Chrysanthemum Cinerariaefolium"
CNA Corporation
Dr. Chad Testa, 2002
"A Synthetic Mevalonate Operon for Studying the Methyl Erythritol Phosphate Pathway"
Echelon Biosciences, Inc
Dr. Richard Phan, 2003
"Syntheses and Enzymatic Studies of Thioisoprenes and Bisubstrate Analogs as New Alternative Substrates/Inhibitors for the Enzyme Farnesyl Diphosphate Synthase"
CSTE-DTC-DP-WD-CT-E, Dugway Proving Grounds
Dr. James Barkley, 2003
"Type I and Type II IPP Isomerases from Methanothermobacter Thermautotrophicus, Synechocystis 6803, and Halobacterium SP. NRC-1"
SJ Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah
Professor Rita Cornish, 2003
"Genetic Identification and Characterization of Genes Involved in the 2-C-Methyl-D-Erythritol 4-Phosphate Pathway for Early Isoprenoid Biosythesis in Salmonella Typhimurium"
Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center
David Fox, 2005
"Synthesis of 1-Deoxy-D-Xylulose 5-Phosphoric Acid Analogs for Mechanistic Studies with Methylerythritol Phosphate Synthase from Escherichia Coli"
Agnew National Security
Jonathan Johnston, 2007
"Mechanistic Investigations of Types I and II Isopentenyl Diphosphate Isomerase"
University of California, San Francisco
Rochelle Hawkins-Bohaty, 2008
"A General Approach to Immobilize Proteins Regio- and Chemoselectivity to Gold Surfaces Using Protein Franesyltransferase"
American Chemical Society, Chemical and Engineering News
Nichole Heaps, 2008
"Synthesis and Evaluation of Alternative Substrates for Farnesyl Diphosphate Synthase and Isopentenyl Diphosphate Isomerase"
Sapphire Energy Inc.
Mo Chen, 2009
"Parallel Characterization of Thermophilic Isopentenyl Phosphate Kinases from Archaea"
University of Pennsylvania

 

Masters

Larry L. Marsh, 1973
"Model Studies of Non-Head-to-Tail Terpenes. Solvolysis of Chrysanthemyl Derivatives"
Top Dog Construction
Peter S. Borromeo, 1980
"Solvolysis and Product Studies of N-Methyl-4-(spiro[2.4]heptane-4-oxo)pyridinium Iodide"
Eli Lilly
Dr. John C. Gebler, 1987
"Enzymatic Synthesis of Dimethylallyl Tryptophan"
Waters Corp
Zheng Wu, 1997
"Synthesis and Evaluation of Substrate Analogs for Prenoid Enzymes"
University of Texas at Dallas
Michael Kidd, 2005
"The Cloning, Purification, and Kinetic Analysis of Archaeal Geranylgeranyl Diphosphate Synthase"
Saint Louis University
Travis Helm, 2006
"The Machanistic Characterization of a Type II Isopentenyl-dimethylallyl Diphosphate Isomerase from the Thermophilic Eubacteria Thermus Thermophilus"
Ohio State University
 

Undergraduate Researchers

M. Belt
E. Bruenger
J. Vasek
A. Weiner
M. Wolczunowicz
H. Coffman
J. Ernstsen
L. Petersen
W. Perrin
B. Patrick
M. Yan
H. Wu
D. Pori
J. Fullmer
J. Clark
B. Cromar
R. Dickson
D. Golub
R. Goodfellow
D. Heckendorn
D. James
J. Krafcik
A. Learned
S. Moesinger
D. M. Pearce
K. Rilling
B. Smith
K. Stromberg
A. K. Sugino
K. Trentleman
A. T. Le
M. Kelleher
S. Nelson
M. Zabriskie
N. Spencer
C. Roshek
C. Persons
L. Pennacchio
M. Jarstfer
A. Galbraith
S. Meyenberg
L. Alcazar-Roman
D. Weibel
J. Fullmer
M. Morrison
A. Riemer
J. Carpenter
O. Stephens
S. Phillips
A. Derdowski
R. Davis
D. Sandberg
D. Buckthal
B. Tataeko
C. Lingard
A. Sanderson
J. Morgan
N. Wang
K. Olsen

 

Last Updated: 6/3/21