Meet the Team

  • PI

    Wen Zhu

    Principal Investigator

  • Postdoc

    Shiwangi Maurya

    Postdoctoral Scholar
    Enzyme conformational dynamics

  • Postdoc

    Sanath Kandy

    Postdoctoral Scholar
    Metalloenzymology and biosynthesis

  • Graduate Student

    Lilly Cheek

    Graduate Student
    Protein-peptide interactions in metalloenzymes

  • Graduate Student

    Caitlin Padgett

    Graduate Student
    Novel chemistry in metalloenzymes

  • Graduate Student

    Lucciano Pearce

    Graduate Student
    Protein dynamics in multidomain enzymes

  • Graduate students

    Asher Paul

    Graduate Student
    Metalloenzymes in biosynthetic pathways

  • Graduate Student

    Sarai Faulkner

    Graduate Student
    Dynamic regulation in disease-linked enzymes

  • Undergraduate

    Jack Slonimski

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Undergraduate

    Amanda Altree

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • SAM

    Cat

 Alumni

  • Jalen Garner, MS (2023 Fall- 2025 Spring)
    Alanaya Nardone, MS (2023 Spring -2024 Spring)

  • Yvonne Lin (2024 Spring - 2025 Spring)
    Dylan Bernowitz (2023 Spring-2024 Spring)
    Emma Cagwin (2023 Spring)

  • Chloe Litwak (2023 Spring)
    Emily Ferguson (2023 Spring)