Pielak Group BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY Protein-Mediated Molecular Recognition  UNC Chemistry
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Current Postdocs
Dr. Guifang Wang
Dr. Conggang "Charlie" Li

Current Graduate Students
Ms.Mohona Sarkar
Ms. Jillian Tyrrell
Mr. Christopher Barnes
Mr. Yaqiang Wang
Mr. Alex Schlesinger
Ms. Imola Zigoneanu
Mr. Andrew Miklos


Former Graduate Students and where they are now
Ms. Xuhong "Sunny" Wang, Aventis
Dr. Douglas Auld, NIH/NHGR
Dr. Stephen Betz, Neurocrine Biosciences
Dr. Sharon-Hilgen Willis, Integral Molecular, Inc.
Dr. Zoey Fredericks, Amgen
Dr. James R. Beasley, Pharmacopeia
Dr. Jennifer Marmorino
Dr. Donald F. Doyle, Georgia Tech
Dr. Lixin Chen New, England Biolabs
Dr. Aleister Saunders, Drexel
Dr. David S. Cohen
Dr. Jennifer Waldner
Ms. Devon Allen, Diosynth
Dr. Paula Davis-Searles, Diosynth
Mr. Xuming Wang
Dr. Gresham Weatherly, Abbot Labs
Dr. Sorina Morar, GlaxoSmithKline
Dr. Chetan Patel, Eli Lilly
Dr. Dana Albon, Moses Cone Mem Hosp
Dr. Fang Yi, Centocor
Dr. Alina Olteanu, Tulane
Dr. Julie Bryant, Merck
Dr. Brian McNulty, Athenix

Dr. Lisa Charlton, Pitt
Dr. Kristin Slade, Claremont McKenna College
dMr. Matthew Hrabak, Naval Surface Warfare Center

Dr. Rebecca Sutton, MRSA Research Center, U. Chicago


Current Undergraduates
Mr. Alexander Krois
Ms. Yuri Yang
Ms. Kristen Black

 

Former Undergraduates and where they went next
Ms. Tori Williams (Grad. School, Yale)
Ms. Jennifer Fencl (Grad. School, Chemistry, UNC)
Mr. Mark Dransfield (Med. School, UNC)
Ms. Andrea Lee (Graduate School, Biochem., Scripps)
Mr. Richard Bruick (Grad. School, Biochem., Scripps)
Mr. Sudip Parikh (Grad. School, Biochem., Scripps)
Ms. Kara Bortone (Grad. School, Chemistry, U. Texas)
Mr. Harvey Chui (Med. School, UNC)
Mr. Luiz Alcazar-Roman (Grad. School, Yale)
Ms. Shelly Finger (Vet. School, Texas A&M)
Ms. Xecerla Littles (Med. School, Tulane)
Mr. Bryan Fine (Med. School, U South Florida)
Ms. Sonja Trojak (Med. School, UNC)
Mr. Chetan Patel (Grad. School, Chemistry, UNC)
Mr. Sherif Ghobrial (Grad. School, Env. Sci. & Eng., UNC)
Mr. Phil Hardwidge (Grad. School, Immunology, Mayo Clinic)
Ms. Melisa Lehti (Grad. School, Botany, Wisconsin)
Mr. Daniel Hostetter (Grad. School Biochem. Stanford)
Ms. Amret Thompson (Med. School, Wake Forest)
Ms. Kimberly Clay (Med. School, UNC)
Mr. Ikey Kakouras (Duke)
Ms. Maria Lind (Grad. School, UGA)
Mr. Scott Kennedy (Grad. School, UNC)
Mr. Matthew Dedmon (Grad. School, Cambridge, UK)
Mr. Joseph Batchelor (Grad. School, UC Berkeley)
Mr. Chris Kragel (Med. School, ECU)
Mr. C. Michael Minder (Med. School, Duke)
Ms. Michelle Mian (Dental School, Harvard)
Ms. Essraa Bayoumi, (Student, UNC)
Mr. Hao Wu (Student, UNC)
Ms. Hayley Fischer (Med. School, ECU)
Ms. Sandy An (MD/PhD, Wake Forest)
Mr. Evan Lutz (Med. School, ECU)
Ms. Naima Sharaf (Grad. School, Pitt)
Mr. Christopher Barnes (Grad. School, UNC)
Mr. Emmanuel Chan (Technician, UNC)
Ms. Heidi Scronce (Technician, Duke)


So you think you want Pielak on your Graduate Committee?  

You must provide a copy of your prospectus at least two weeks before your oral.

Your prospectus must be twelve or fewer pages (12-point type, double spaced, 1-inch margins). The page total includes figures and figure captions, but not the title page or literature citations.

I must have a complete dissertation (i.e., approved by your advisor) at least two weeks before your defense.

Current Pielak Group



front row: Yuri Yang, Alex Schlesinger, Gary Pielak
second row: Imola Imola Zigoneanu, Alex Krois, Rachel Kreager-Allen, Asha Lakkavaram, Jillian Tyrrell
back row: Andrew Miklos, Evan Lutz, Matt Hrabak, Heidi Scronce, Kristin Slade, Rebecca Ruf
not shown: Guifang Wang, Conggang "Charlie" Li, Chris Barnes, Naima Sharaf, Kristen Black

 

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Gary J. Pielak, CB# 3290, Venable and Kenan Laboratories, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, 919-966-3671