Swarts Lab
People
Principal investigator
Benjamin M. Swarts, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Biography: Ben grew up in Danville, Ohio. He completed a B.A. in Chemistry from the College of Wooster in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Wayne State University in 2010 with Zhongwu Guo. He studied as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley with Carolyn Bertozzi until 2013, after which he joined CMU.
Selected honors and awards: Mid-American Conference (MAC) Outstanding Faculty Award (2023); CMU Student Mentorship Award (2023) NSF CAREER Award (2017); Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2017); CMU CSE Award for Outstanding Research (2017); International Carbohydrate Organization Young Researcher Award (2016); CMU Provost's Award for Outstanding Research (2016); RCSA Cottrell College Science Award (2014).
Contact: Biosciences Building 4112 | ben.swarts@cmich.edu | (989) 774-2525
Graduate students
Kyle Biegas
BCMB Ph.D. program
Karishma Kalera
BCMB Ph.D. program
Priscilla Dzigba
BCMB Ph.D. program
Ulysses Johnson
BCMB Ph.D. program
Caleb Mensah
BCMB Ph.D. program
Carson Bush
MS chemistry program
Undergraduate students
Ekene Osiri
Biochemistry major
Andy Kruskamp
Biochemistry major
Casey Papson
Biochemistry major
Melanie Hall
Biochemistry major
Phoenix Knipe
Biochemistry major
Ki'auna Meyer
Biochemistry major
Muhammad Nizami
Biochemistry major