Current Members

Principle Investigator: Linda S. Shimizu  
Professor
NIH Post-doctoral Fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1997
B. A. Wellesley College, 1990

 

Graduate Students:   We are looking for 2-3 new students to join our efforts.  Please apply to the graduate program and contact Dr. Shimizu for more information.   

 

Vaibhavi Samant
2023 – Present
B. Sc., Sathaye College
M.Sc. University of Mumbai, India

 

Kazi Md Zubaer

2024 – Present

B.S. & M.S. University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

M.Sc. Ball State University

Undergraduate and Visiting Students:

Contact Dr. Shimizu if you are interested in joining our research projects.

Izzie Rushton – Senior, doing a thesis on the kinetic assembly of terphenyl bis-urea macrocycles using UV-vis spectroscopy

Paras Srivastava – Senior, doing a thesis on the synthesis of phenylethynylene bis-urea macrocycles and probing reactions in crystals.

Nicole Craft – Sophomore, gaining experience in monitoring supramolecular assembly using temperature-dependent absorption studies.

Anna Cully – Sophomore, gaining experience in synthesis and prediction of molecules binding with proteins by docking studies.  

Joshua Parsons – Senior, gaining experience in docking small molecules with LY6K and learning synthetic techniques.