People

Sean F. Brady, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Tri-Institutional Professor
Evnin Professor
Head, Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules

James Peek

Research Associate

PhD, Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Toronto
BS, Human Biology, University of Toronto

Area of research: Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance

Yozen Hernandez

Bioinformatics Specialist II

PhD, Bioinformatics, Boston University
BA, Computer Science, Hunter College-CUNY

Melinda Ternei

Research Assistant

MS, Biotechnology, Hunter College

Adrián Morales-Amador

Postdoctoral Associate

PhD, Health Sciences, Universidad de La Laguna
BS, Chemistry, Universidad de La Laguna

Area of research: Natural Products and Marine Biotoxins

Robert E. Boer

Postdoctoral Associate

PhD, Chemistry, Vanderbilt University

BS, Chemistry, Loyola University Maryland

Area of Research: Synthesis of Bioinformatic Natural Products

Yaoyu Ding

Postdoctoral Associate

PhD, Chemical biology, King’s College London

BS, Pharmaceutical engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology

Area of Research: Development of throughput approach for synBNP synthesis

Chase Kayrouz

Postdoctoral Fellow

PhD, Chemistry, Princeton University

BS, Chemical Engineering, The Ohio State University

Area of Research: Discovery of new biosynthetic pathways from the metagenome

Sebastian Kaiser

Postdoctoral Associate

PhD, Evolutionary Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology

MS, Molecular Biology, Lund University

BS, Biology, University of Mainz

Area of Research: Evolution of enzymes that produce clinically important antibiotics

Kaylyn Spotton

Graduate Fellow

Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology
MS, Chemical Biology, Stevens Institute of Technology
BS, Chemical Biology, Stevens Institute of Technology

Area of research: Synthesis of bioinformatic natural products

Antonio Collado

Graduate Fellow

Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology
BS, Biochemistry, Hofstra University

Area of research: Synthesis of bioinformatic natural products

Katie Bishop

Graduate Fellow

Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology
BA, Biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania

Area of research: Synthesis of bioinformatic natural products