Alumni
Graduate Students
Andrea Benvin Stadler
Ph.D. 2008
DNA Templated Supramolecular Assemblies of Cyanine Dyes
Rong Cao
Ph.D. 2003
Biomolecular Recognition: From Cyanine Dye-DNA Complexes to Recyclable Enzymes
Tudor Constantin
Ph.D. 2009
Selection and Characterization of RNA Aptamers that Bind Fluorogenic Cyanine Dyes
Bashkar Datta
Ph.D. 2004
Molecular Recognition Involving Guanine-Quartets and Hybrid Aptamers
Junriz Delos Santos
Ph.D. 2013
Biomolecular Labeling with Fluorescent Dyes: Making the Most of Nucleic Acid Architectures
Isil Dilek
Ph.D. 2003
Supramolecular Structures Involving Peptide Nucleic Acid
Anisha Gupta
Ph.D. 2013
PNA and the Rule of Four: Quadruplex, Duplex and Chimeric Complexes
Stuart Kushon
Ph.D. 2002
A Thermodynamic and Kinetic Study of the Binding of PNA Probes to DNA and RNA Hairpin Structures
Sabrina Lusvarghi
Ph.D. 2009
From Molecules to Organisms: Molecular Recognition Using Proteins, Peptides and Peptide Nucleic Acids
Violeta Marin
Ph.D. 2005
Thermodynamic and Kinetic Investigation of Nucleic Acid Molecular Recognition by Synthetic Oligomers and Small Molecules
Halimatu Mohammed
Ph.D. 2012
PNA-DNA Heteroquadruplex Formation: Optimization of PNA Structure, Recognition by Cyanine Dyes and Evaluation of Molecular Crowding Effects
Connor Murphy
Ph.D. 2010 (Biological Sciences)
Optimization of Guanine Quadruplex-targeted Peptide Nucleic Acids
Kelly Robertson
Ph.D. 2007
Nucleic Acid Reagents for Imaging and Detection
Kristen (Hannah) Roy
Ph.D. 2006
The Effects of Nucleic Acid Template and Dye Structure on Cyanine Dye Aggregation: An NMR and Optical Spectroscopic Investigation
Subhadeep Roy
Ph.D. 2007
Exploring Interactions of Peptide Nucleic Acids with Quadruplex Forming DNA Motifs
Nathaniel Shank
Ph.D. 2012
Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorescent Probes for Biomolecule Detection
Last Known Position: Postdoctoral Associate, NIH (D. Appella)
Hayriye (Ozhalici) Ünal
Ph.D. 2010
Combining Biomolecules and Fluorogenic Cynanine Dyes into Novel Flourescent Labels
Miaomiao Wang
Ph.D. 2002
Interactions of Cyanine Dyes with DNA or PNA Duplexes: Formation of Supramolecular Structures
Kim Zanotti
Ph.D. 2011
Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorescent Probes for Biomolecule Detection
Visiting Researchers
Xiaoliang Zhang
2013
Visiting Professors
Dr. Massimiliano Lamberto
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Monmouth University
2012
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Wendy Brotherton
2012-2013
Dr. Tumul Srivastava
2012
Last Known Position: PNA Innovations
