The Team

Rick Page, Principal Investigator

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. I was born and raised in California and received my B.S. in Biochemistry from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. During my time at Cal Poly I conducted undergraduate research in organic chemistry examining the regioselectivity of o-thioalkylation reactions. I also conducted research analyzing the photoisomerization of diphenylbutadiene as part of a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates program at Santa Clara University. I attended graduate school at Florida State University and trained in solution and solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) with Tim Cross at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. I received my Ph.D. in 2008 for my work in characterizing membrane proteins by solution and solid state NMR. I carried out postdoctoral research with Saurav Misra at the Cleveland Clinic using NMR and X-ray crystallography to uncover the molecular basis of chaperone-mediated ubiquitination, a key protein quality control pathway. I joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Miami University in 2013 as an Assistant Professor. I was tenured and promoted in 2018 and now as an Associate Professor serve as the Assistant Department Chair.

Graduate Students

Ruvindi De Silva (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

Chamithi Karunanayake (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

Chathura Paththamperuma (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

Monica Rahman (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

Ben Shurina (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

Thai Wright (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

Current Undergraduate Students

Maddi Johnson

Elias Maloof

Jonathan Montgomery

Matt Morris

Matthew Orischak

Madison Rose

Brad Steinman

Diya Yang

Previous Undergraduate Students

Corey Emerson (now a graduate student at Case Western Reserve University)

Kathleen George (now a Chemist at Advanced Testing Laboratories)

Kristen Geye (now a graduate student at Vanderbilt University)

Katherine Makaroff (now a medical student at University of Cincinnati)

Cameron McGlone (now a Postbaccalaureate Fellow at the National Cancer Institute)

Matt Mignery (now a medical student at Case Western Reserve University)

Paige Larney (now a Research Technician at Cleveland Clinic)

Alexis Polce (now a Research Technician at Cleveland Clinic)

Jonathan Timmons (now a Master's student in Pharmacogenomics at Manchester University)

Cameron Williams (now a graduate student at UC Berkeley)

Previous Graduate Students

Huaqun Zhang, PhD 2017 (Cell, Molecular, and Structural Biology)

Jamie VanPelt, PhD 2018 (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

Ben Schmitz, MS 2018 (Cell, Molecular, and Structural Biology)

Mitchell Moseng, PhD 2019 (Chemistry and Biochemistry)