Expertise

Research Interests:

  • synthesis, study, and design of antibiotics that inhibit bacterial cell wall biosynthesis; peptidoglycan biosynthesis and bacterial cell morphology; development of HBV capsid-binding probes and assembly-directed antivirals; oxidized phospholipids in disease and diagnostics
Past Affiliations

Research Scientist, Discovery Chemistry Research
2000 - 2002

Senior Organic Chemist, Discovery Chemistry Research
1994 - 2000

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry, Scripps Research Institute (past)
1992 - 1994

Professor, Biochemistry Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Department, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Division of Physical Sciences, University of California San Diego (past)

Associate Professor, Biochemistry Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Department, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Biochemistry, Cellular Biochemistry, Molecular Biochemistry
Degrees
PhD, Indiana University Bloomington, Organic Chemistry, 1992
MS, Yale University, Organic Chemistry, 1988
BA, Kalamazoo College, Chemistry, 1984
Keywords
antibiotics natural products drug resistance biochemistry & molecular biology organic chemistry
Associations
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Chemical Society