Postdoctoral Alumni. I wanna be a professor.
Click to enlarge	Name: Lucile Fischer, Ph.D. Time in Tor Lab: December 2008 - November 2009 Research Project: Cellular Uptake.
Click to enlarge	Name: S. G. Srivatsan, Ph.D. Time in Tor Lab: December 2005 - Summer 2008 Doctoral Institution: Ph.D., Biochemistry; Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Ph.D. Research Advisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma Ph.D. Thesis: Modeling prebiotic catalysis using adenylated polymers. [LINK] Previous Postdoctoral Experience: University of Bonn Research Project: Enzymatic incorporation of artifical fluorescent nucleotides for quantifying small molecule binding to RNA.
Click to enlarge	Name: Feng Yang, Ph.D. Time in Tor Lab: 2005-2008 Doctoral Institution: Ph.D., Chemistry, Biochemistry; Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Ph.D. Research Advisor: Prof. Yuguo Duo and Prof. Fanzuo Kong Ph.D. Thesis: Carbohydrate Chemistry: Methodology and Application [LINK] Previous Postdoctoral Experience: University of Alberta Research Project: Synthesis of dissacharide mimics. Academic Biography: [LINK]
Click to enlarge	Name: Pradip Chakraborty, Ph.D. Time in Tor Lab: December 2005 - 2008 Doctoral Institution: Ph.D., Chemistry; University of Goettingen Ph.D. Research Advisor: Prof. Ulf Diederichsen Ph.D. Thesis: Design synthesis and structural investigation of nucleobase functionalized beta-peptides. Research Project: Synthesis and biological activities of a radiolabeled cyclic lanthionine enkephalin analogue and cellular uptake of nucleotide-guanidinoglycooside conjugates.
Click to enlarge	Name: Paola Castaldi, Ph.D. (joint with Prof. Thomas Hermann) Time in Tor Lab: Winter 2005-Summer 2007 Doctoral Institution: Ph.D., Chemistry; Imperial College, London Ph.D. Research Advisor: Prof. Susan E. Gibson Ph.D. Thesis: Introduction of Multiple Chiral Centers into Symmetric Small Molecules. Research Project: Synthesis of small-molecule ligands for the bacterial ribosomal decoding-site RNA.
Click to enlarge	Name: David Jaramillo Time in Tor Lab:Spring 2006-Spring 2007 Doctoral Institution: University of Western Sydney Ph.D. Research Advisor: Prof. Janice Aldrich-Wright Ph.D. Thesis: N/A Research Project: Synthesis of novel fluorescent nucleotides.
Click to enlarge	Name: Damien Jouvenot, Ph.D. Time in Tor Lab: Fall 2004 - Spring 2006 Ph.D. Institution: University of Strasbourg Ph.D. Research Advisor: Prof. Jean-Pierre Sauvage Thesis: Current Position: Assistant Professor of Chemistry; University of Grenoble (France)
Click to enlarge	Name: Avi Koller, Ph.D. Time in Tor Lab: Winter 2004 - Spring 2005 Ph.D. Institution: Tel Aviv University Ph.D. Research Advisor: Prof. Yoel Kashman
Click to enlarge	Name: Kenneth Blount, Ph.D. Time in Tor Lab: Summer 2002 - Spring 2005 Ph.D. Institution: University of Colorado, Boulder Ph.D. Research Advisor: Prof. Olke Uhlenbeck Current Position: Research Scientist (with Prof. Ronald Breaker); Yale University
Click to enlarge	Name: Haim Weizman, Ph.D. Time in Tor Lab: 1999 - 2003 Ph.D. Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science Ph.D. Research Advisor: Prof. Avraham Shanzer Current Position: Lecturer; University of California, San Diego
	Name: Katja Michael, Ph.D. Time in Tor Lab: March 1996 - August 1999 Ph.D. Institution: Technical University of Munich Current Position: Assistant Professor of Chemistry; University of Hawaii, Manoa
	Name: Andrei A. Zlota, Ph.D. Time in Tor Lab: December 1993 - July 1994 Ph.D. Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science Ph.D. Research Advisor: Prof. David Milstein Current Position: Principal Process Engineer; Sepracor, Inc.

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