Research Scientists:

o  Dr. Sushil Kumar Dwivedi: sdwive2@mtu.edu

Graduate Students:

 

o   Ph.D. student Dilka Liyana Arachchige: dliyanaa@mtu.edu

o   Ph.D. student Mohamed Mahmoud: memad@mtu.edu

o   Ph.D. student Adenike Mary Olowolagba: aolowola@mtu.edu

o   Ph.D. student Mahmood Norouzi: norouzi@mtu.edu

o   Ph.D. student Adonis Amoli: aamoli@mtu.edu

o   Master student Omowunmi Aworinde: oraworin@mtu.edu

Undergraduate Students:

 

o   May Waters: mayw@mtu.edu

o   Sophia Jaeger: sjjaeger@mtu.edu

o   Joe Peters: jvpeters@mtu.edu

High School Students:

o   Crystal Wang: cjwang@mtu.edu

Previous Group Members:

 

Ø  High school student alumni:

o   Jiani Tang: jianit@mtu.edu

o   James Xia: jdxia@mtu.edu

o   Alicia Guo: axguo@mtu.edu

 

Ø  Undergraduate researcher alumni:

o   Sorangel Rodríguez: sory_20@hotmail.com (undergraduate research associate, 2006)

o   Wilbel Brewer: wjbrewer@mtu.edu (undergraduate research associate, 2007)

o   Adrian Smith: adrsmith@mtu.edu  (undergraduate research associate, 2008)

o   Sarah Leibenguth: (undergraduate research associate, 2008)

o   Gregg Hasman: gdhasman@mtu.edu, (undergraduate research associate, 2009)

o   Nathan Conner: nrconner@mtu.edu, (undergraduate research associate, 2011-2012)

o   Logan Mikesell: ldmikese@mtu.edu, (undergraduate research associate, 2016-2017)

o   Tyler Phillips: tjphilli@mtu.edu, (undergraduate research associate, 2017-2018)

o   Aslan May: ajmay@mtu.edu, (undergraduate research associate, 2017-2018)

o   Taylor Johnston: trjohnst@mtu.edu, (undergraduate research associate, 2017-2018)

o   Adam Pap: adpap@mtu.edu, (undergraduate research associate, 2017-2018)

o   Claes Whisman, ngwhisma@mtu.edu, (undergraduate reserach associate, 2018-2019)

o   William Carstens, wwcarste@mtu.edu, (undergraduate research associate, 2018)

o   Emma Durocher: erduroch@mtu.edu (undergraduate research associate, 2019)

o   Jerry Medford: jrmedfor@mtu.edu (undergraduate research associate, 2019)

o   Steve Beuther: sjbeuthe@mtu.edu (undergraduate research associate, 2020)

o   Lexi Rule: amrule@mtu.edu  (undergraduate research associate, 2020)

o   Adrian Lara-Ramirez: alara@mtu.edu (undergraduate research associate, 2020)

o   Emma Durocher: erduroch@mtu.edu (undergraduate research associate, 2020)

o   Kyle Usimaki: kdusimak@mtu.edu (undergraduate research associate, 2021)

o   Ryen White: walterw@mtu.edu (undergraduate research associate, 2021-2022)

o   Tara Vohs: tavohs@mtu.edu (undergraduate research associate, 2020-2022)

o   Jenna Cunnien: jmcunnie@mtu.edu (undergraduate research associate, 2022)

 

Ø  Master student alumni:

 

o   Qi Gao: qgao@mtu.edu

o   Ya Wen:

o   Zhen Chen:

o   Feifei Cai: graduated with Master degree in May 2007

o   Cong Li: congli@mtu.edu (graduated with a Master degree in December 2016, and is working as a researcher in California Peptide Research, Inc.)

o   Fei Xie: feix@mtu.edu, graduated with a Master degree in July 2019.

 

Ø  Ph.D. student alumni:

o   Dr. Venkat R. Donuru: vrdonuru@mtu.edu (graduated with a Ph. D. degree in January 2010. He did a postdoctoral research at Pennsylvania State University for two years before he starts to work as a research scientist in Eli Lilly and Company).

o   Dr. Singaravelu Velayudham: svelayud@mtu.edu (graduated with a Ph. D. degree in January 2011).

o   Dr. Jianheng Bi: jbi1@mtu.edu (graduated with a Ph.D. degree in August 2018). He is working in Amazon.  Please look at his publication through the like below by opening a new window:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=B8IIyGQAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

o   Dr. Giri Kumar Vegesna: gkvegesn@mtu.edu, graduated with Ph.D. degree in January 2014, and was a postdoctoral associate at Unviersity of California in Berkeley.  Please look at his publications through the link below by opening a new window:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Df03xnkAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

 

o   Dr. Jingtuo Zhang: jingtuoz@mtu.edu, graduated with Ph.D. degree in January 2015, and did postdocroal research at University of California at Berkeley for two years. He is working as a Research and Project manager in Emergent BioSolutions Inc.  Please look at his publications through the link below by opening a new window:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=hmWc_LIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

 

o   Dr. Mingxi Fang: mfang@mtu.edu, graduated with Ph.D. degree in December 2018, and is conducting postdoctoral research at Stanford University after his graduation.  Please look at his publications through the link below by opening a new window:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=wPB-zvgAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

 

o   Dr. Wafa Mazi: wamazi@mtu.edu, graduated with Ph.D. degree in May 2019.  Please look at her publications through the link below by opening a new window. 

                   https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=eDDOKJsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

 

o   Dr. Shuai Xia: shuaix@mtu.edu, graduated with Ph.D. degree in February 2020.  Please look at his publications through the link below by opening a new window:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=2Q3bg48AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

 

o   Dr. Shulin Wan: swan@mtu.edu, graduated with Ph.D. degree in December 2020. He is working as a senior scientist in Biolegend Inc, San Diego, CA.  Please look at his publications through the link below by opening a new window:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=BAgsJTIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

 

Ø  Postdoctoral associate and visiting scholar alumni:

o   Dr. Cuihua Xue: (postdoctoral associate, November 2003 - November 2007.  She is working as a research scientist in Bayer).

o   Dr. Ge Meng: gemeng@mtu.edu (postdoctoral associate, 2008.  Now she is an associate Professor at Xian Jiantong University, Xian, China)

o   Dr. Shilei Zhu: shileiz@mtu.edu, postdoctoral associate, 2009-2012, Dr. Zhu is working at The University of Maryland.

o   Dr. Shuwei Zhang: shuweiz@mtu.edu, postdoctoral associate, May 2015 - August 2016.

o   Professor Xiujie Liu: Liuxiujie@hotmail.com

o   Dr. Jianbo Wang: postdoctoral associate, February 2017- March 2018, jianbow@mtu.edu

o   Dr. Yanbo Zeng: visiting scholar, June 2018 - December 2018, yanboze@mtu.edu

o   Dr. Yunnan Yan: visiting scholar, September 2018 - October 2019, yunnany@mtu.edu

o   Dr. Yibin Zhang: research scientist, September 2017- February 2020, yibinz@mtu.edu

 

 

A postdoctoral position available:

 

A post-doctoral position is available for a highly motivated individual.  The candidate should have strong synthetic organic chemistry background.   Research in the Liu lab encompasses a broad spectrum of synthetic chemistry and methodology to prepare highly water-soluble near-infrared fluorescent probes for insightful understanding of cellular functions, and conducts fluorescence cellular imaging and visualization of the fruit fly Drosophila guttifera, which are obtained from Professor Thomas Werner’s lab. Qualified candidates should have a PhD in organic chemistry and be well grounded in analytical techniques.  The candidate must be able to conduct independent research while collaborating with others in a large interdisciplinary laboratory. The initial appointment will be for one year with the intention of extending this position for additional one or two years. Qualified applicants should send a cover letter, resume and list of references to:

 

Haiying Liu, Professor, Ph.D.

Department of Chemistry

Michigan Technological University

Houghton, Michigan 49931

E-mail: hyliu@mtu.edu

Phone: 906-487-3451