personnel

Pankaj Gaur. He joined the lab in October 2020 after completing a PhD in Chemistry at the IIT Mandi. After photochemistry postdoc at the Institute of Organic Chemistry & Biochemistry in Prague, he will be using his skills to make new caged compounds.

Karthik Sambath. He joined the lab in July 2019 after completing a PhD in Chemistry at the IIT Kharagpur where he trained as a photochemist. After photochemistry postdocs in Ohio and New Jersey, he will be using his skills to make new caged compounds

Recent alumni.

Lorenzo Sansalone. He joined the lab in July 2018 after completing a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Miami where he developed several photochemical probes. He left my lab the Department of Neuroscience in August 2020 to become a neuroscientist at the NIH in Bethesda.

Jun Zhao. He joined the lab in May 2018 after a postdoc at the NIMH at the NIH. he did his PhD at the Institute of Biophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He used his skills on several projects to develop many light-activated probes. Sadly he left my lab during the Covid pandemic for personal reasons.

Macarena Gomez de Salazar. She joined the lab in July 2019 after completing a PhD in Neuropharmacology at the University of Barcelona. She returned home to Spain in March 2020 during the Covid pandemic to take care of her parents in Madrid.

Ek Raj Thapaliya. He joined the lab in June 2017 after completing a PhD in chemistry at the University of Miami where he developed several photochemical probes. He made novel caged drugs and photoswitches. In May 2019 Ek Raj moved to a new position at NCI in Frederick.

Matt Richers. He joined the lab in November 2014 after obtaining his PhD in organic chemistry from Rutgers University where he developed new synthetic methods. He synthesized new caging chromophores and optical switches. In November 2018 this New Jersey Boy started a job at Fisher Scientific in San Francisco!

Adriana Petriz Reyes. She joined the lab in June 2016 after completing a PhD in neuroscience at the Instituto de Neurobiologia at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

Pradeep Chauhan. He joined the lab in August 2016 after a PhD in natural product total synthesis for Steven Weinreb at Penn State. He worked together with Adriana on making "cloaked caged glutamate". Their work was completed by collaboration with Alex Mourot in Paris. It resulted in a nice in vivo uncaging paper in PNAS in 2020.

Stefan Passlick. He joined the lab in October 2014 after graduating summa cum laude from the Institute of Cellular Neurosciences at the University of Bonn where he studied the physiology of NG2 cells. He left the lab in Sep 2018 to go on a world tour having helped test several new photochemical probes. In 2019 he started a postdoc back in Bonn.

Joe Amatrudo. He joined the lab in February 2013 after completing a PhD in neuroscience at Boston University. He left the lab and took at job with Scientifica having established wavelength-selective two-photon uncaging of GABA.

Hitesh Agarwal. He joined the lab in December 2012 after a postdoc at Ohio State University and a PhD at University of Rhode Island in medicinal chemistry. Hitesh developed a new caging chromophore for the control of calcium signaling. He became an assistant professor at Southern University in April 2016.

Jeremy Olson. He joined the lab in January 2012 after a postdoc at RTI International (Research Triangle Park, NC) and a PhD at SUNY Buffalo. Jeremy developed a new caging chromophore, DEAC450, resulting in five papers. He became an assistant professor Judson College in August 2014. In 2019 he moved to the University of North Georgia as an assistant professor.

Sarah Crowe. She received her PhD in May 2013 having published 4 first author papers using imaging techniques to study familial Alzheimer's disease. She took a postdoc in the Dept of Biology at Drexel University. Following this Sarah is now Leica's national director of post-installation services for STED and 2PM!

Jonathan Wachtel. He joined the lab in December 2011 after completing a BS in Neuroscience at Oberlin College. Jonathan used 2-photon microscopy to study synaptic plasticity in vivo. In August 2013 he became a medical student at Stonybrook. In 2018 he became a resident at Stonybrook.

Atsuya Momotake (Assistant Professor, University of Tsukuba), Srinivas Kantevari (Group leader, IICT, Hyderabad) Lesya Fedoryak (University of Kiev), Yossi Buskila (University of Sydney), Mike Van Linn (DEA, Washington DC) are also alumni of the lab.