David Pan

Graduate Student, Chemistry, 1st year Email David | Home town: West Windsor, New Jersey B.A. Chemistry; B.A. Biological Sciences, Cornell University, 2025  David received his B.A. in Chemistry and Biological Sciences from Cornell University where he studied the biochemical basis …

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Arya Bhakare

Graduate Student, Chemistry, 1st year Email Arya | Home town: Katy, Texas Arya graduated with a B.S.A from University of Texas at Austin, where she worked in the Anslyn lab on chiroptical methods to expedite enantiomeric yield determination. She took several …

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Joshua Sokol

Graduate Student, Chemistry, 1st year Email Joshua Hometown: Overland Park, KS B.S. Chemistry; B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, 2024 Josh received his B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from Pennsylvania State University where he worked in …

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Nourhan Daigham

Graduate Student, Molecular Biology, 5th year Email Nourhan | B.S., Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Rutgers University, NJ Nourhan obtained her bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry from Rutgers University in 2016. After graduation, she worked in the laboratory of …

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Cole Lazarus

Graduate Student, Chemistry, 4th year Email Cole | Hometown: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania B.S., Biochemistry, University of Delaware, 2021   Cole obtained his B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Delaware, where he worked in the lab of Prof. Zhihao Zhuang, developing …

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Zoe Merz

Graduate Student, Chemistry, 3rd year NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention Email Zoe | Hometown: Carlsbad, California B.S., Chemical Biology, UC Berkeley Zoe obtained her bachelor’s degree in chemical biology from UC Berkeley in 2021, where she worked in the …

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Kaylee Cappuccio

Graduate Student, Chemistry, 3rd year Email Kaylee | Hometown: Amsterdam, NY B.S., Chemistry and Neuroscience, Binghamton University, 2022 Kaylee got her B.S. from Binghamton University where she researched biosensor development and the behavioral effects of high fructose corn syrup consumption …

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Zhe Jiang

Graduate Student, Chemistry, 3rd year Email Zhe | Hometown: Hangzhou, China  B.S., Chemical Biology, Peking University, China Zhe studied total synthesis during his undergraduate period. After graduation, he joined an epigenetic lab to study RNA sequencing. Currently, he started his …

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Girum Erkalo

Graduate Student, Chemistry, 3rd year Email Girum | Hometown: Lancaster, Pennsylvania/ Ethiopia B.S., Chemistry, Millersville University of Pennsylvania Girum is interested in developing new chemical biology tools and using them to study biological mechanisms at the molecular level. Outside the …

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Alan Tong

Graduate Student, Chemistry, 2nd year NSF Graduate Research Fellow Email Alan | Hometown: Clarksburg, MD   B.S., Chemistry; B.S., Biology, Stanford University   During his undergraduate studies, Alan worked with Prof. Lynette Cegelski at Stanford University where he studied vancomycin-arginine conjugates …

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