Dr. Alexey Silakov

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Principal Investigator
Office: 331 Chemistry Building
University park, PA, 16802
e-mail: aus40 at psu dot edu
Office phone: (814) 86537248

Dr. Michael Gorka

Assistant Research Professor
Research: Design and in vivo implementation of [FeFe] hydrogenases. Photosynthesis research.

Dr. Karim Walters

Assistant Research Professor
Research: Spectroscopic investigation of Fe/2OG enzymes

Jesse Taylor

Graduate student: jdt5466@psu.edu
Research: Hydrogen-driven catalysis

Tristen Rumbaugh

Graduate student
Research: Design and in vivo implementation of [FeFe] hydrogenases

Rinat Khundoker

Graduate student
Research: Exploration of the superfamily of [FeFe] hydrogenases

Kyle Jorgensen

Graduate student
Research: Underlying principles of O2-tolerance in [FeFe] hydrogenases

Phalgun Vedantham

Graduate student
Research: Spectroscopic investigation of the active site of Fe/2OG enzymes

Eric Mole

Undergraduate student
Research: Design and in vivo implementation of [FeFe] hydrogenases

Ela Garbioglu

MS Graduate student
Research: MD Simulations of [FeFe] hydrogenases

 

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Former Members:

Patrick Corrigan

Graduate student, 2017-2022
Research: Oxygen tolerance of [FeFe] hydrogenases

Sarah Bevilacqua

Research Technologist, 2020
Research: [FeFe] hydrogenase

Alexandra (Alex) Loverdi

Undergraduate student, 2019
Research: Detection of radicals in eCigarettes

Calvin Mendel

Graduate student, 2018
Research: Hydrogenases

Lauren Ebersol

Graduate student, 2016-2019
Research: Site-Direct Spin Labeling

Aneesa Bokhari

Graduate student, 2016-2017
Research: Site-Direct Spin Labeling

Jeffrey McNeill

REU student, summer 2017
Research: Site-Direct Spin Labeling

Jonathan L. Tirsch

REU student, summer 2017
Research: Fe-Fe hydrogenase

Dr. Elizabeth Onderko

Postdoctoral fellow
Research: Metalloenzymes, Site-Direct Spin Labeling