People

Principal Investigator

John MacMillan

John MacMillan


jomacmil@ucsc.edu
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Education and Training

Postdoc: Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Ph.D.: University of California, Davis (Chemistry)

B.Sc.: University of Iowa (Chemistry)

 

Honors, Awards and Grants

Marine Drugs New Investigator Award – 2016 (inaugural)

Martha Steiner Professorship in Medical Sciences – 2015

Matt Suffness New Investigator Award, American Society of Pharmacognosy – 2015

Chilton /Bell Scholar in Biochemistry – 2007

Staff Scientist

Aswad Khadilkar

Aswad Khadilkar
Ph.D. (University of North Texas)
Interests: Natural product isolation, synthesis, medicinal chemistry
askhadil@ucsc.edu
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Postdoctoral Researchers

Rahul Shingare

Rahul Shingare

Ph.D. (CSIR-National Chemistry Laboratory)
Interests: Natural products, total synthesis
rshingar@ucsc.edu
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Graduate Students

Anam Shaikh

Anam Shaikh

B.Sc. (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Interests: Natural products, mechanism of action, biochemistry
anam.shaikh@utsouthwestern.edu
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Akshar Lohith

Akshar Lohith

B.Sc. (University of California Santa Cruz)
Interests: Bioinformatics, image analysis, data integration
alohith@ucsc.edu
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Riley Blue

Riley Blue

B.Sc. (University of California, San Diego)
Interests: Natural product isolation, boron NMR
rmblue@ucsc.edu
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Sahar Hosseinzadeh

Sahar Hosseinzadeh

M.Sc. (University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tehran- Iran)
Interests: Natural products, drug discovery, and cancer research
sahossei@ucsc.edu
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Kaitlyn Vian

Kaitlyn Vian

B.Sc (University of California Santa Cruz)
Interests: Biochemistry
kvian@ucsc.edu
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Rebecca Pelofsky

Rebecca Pelofsky

B.Sc. (University of Miami)
Interests: Marine natural products, genomics,pharmaceuticals, biotechnology
rpelofsk@ucsc.edu
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Duy Vo

Duy Vo

B.Sc. (Hamilton College)
Interests: Natural products, medicinal chemistry
duvo@ucsc.edu
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Leah Bouthillette

Leah Bouthillette

B.Sc. (University of North Carolina at Asheville)
Interests: Natural products, marine microbiology, and medicinal chemistry
lbouthil@ucsc.edu
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Former Members

David Delgadillo, Ph.D. (University of California Santa Cruz)
Victor Aniebok, Ph.D. (University of California Santa Cruz)
Jocelyn Macho, Ph.D. (University of California Santa Cruz)
Scott La, B.Sc. (University of Texas at Austin)
Mario Alvarez, B.Sc. (University of California Santa Cruz)
Alex smith, B.Sc.
Max Goryachok, B.Sc. (University of California Santa Cruz)
Maddie Clowdus, B.Sc. (University of California Santa Cruz)
Felix Hubert, B.Sc. (University of California Santa Cruz)
Janet Mazahery, B.Sc. (University of California Santa Cruz)
Peng Fu, Ph.D.
Veronica Wills Richmond, Ph.D. (University of Iowa)
Aaron Legako, B.Sc. (University of Texas at Austin)
Dominic Colosimo, Ph.D. (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Nathaniel Oswald, Ph.D. (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Yazmin Carrasco, Ph.D. (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Jamie Ludwig, Ph.D. (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Matthew Jamison, Ph.D. (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Youcai Hu, Ph.D.