Beisel lab photo (ca. September 2016).
Front row (left to right): Ahmed, Brooke, Malay, Chase, Pari, Michelle, Chunyu, Atul
Back row (left to right): Jennie, Steven, Matt, Colin, Ryan, Tom, Cameron
Principal Investigator
Chase Beisel
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
B.S. Iowa State University
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
cbeisel@ncsu.edu
Lab manager
Fani Ttofali
B.S. University of Colorado, Denver
fttofal@ncsu.edu
Postdoctoral fellows
Dr. Jennie Fagen
B.S. University of Florida
Ph.D. University of Florida
jrfagen@ncsu.edu
Dr. Janetta Hakovirta
B.S. University of Vermont
Ph.D. University of Helsinki
jrhakovi@ncsu.edu
Dr. Chunyu Liao
B.S. Hubei University of Technology
M.S. Huazhong Agricultural University
Ph.D. Iowa State University
cliao4@ncsu.edu
Dr. Colin Maxwell
B.S. University of Oregon
PhD. Duke University
cmaxwel2@ncsu.edu
Dr. Atul Singh
B.S. Purvanchal University
M.S. Bananas Hindu University
PhD. Seoul National University
aksingh6@ncsu.edu
Graduate students
Daphne Collias
Chemical Engineering
B.S. University of Delaware
Scott Collins
Chemical Engineering
B.S. University of Washington
Thomas Jacobsen
GAANN Molecular Biotechnology fellow
Jointly advised with Dr. Greg Reeves
Chemical Engineering
B.S. Clarkson University
tjacobs@ncsu.edu
Ryan Leenay
NIH MBTP training fellow
Chemical Engineering
B.S. University of Wisconsin
rtleenay@ncsu.edu
Justin Vento
NIH MBTP training fellow
Chemical Engineering
B.S. Manhattan College
jmvento@ncsu.edu
Matthew Waller
Chemical Engineering
B.S. Virginia Tech
mcwaller@ncsu.edu
Undergraduate students
Cameron Bright
Chemical Engineering
cpbright@ncsu.edu
Nathan Colbert
Chemical Engineering
nwcolber@ncsu.edu
Malay Shah
Chemical Engineering
skmalay@ncsu.edu
Rebecca Slotkowski
Chemical Engineering
raslotko@ncsu.edu
Alumni (with last known whereabouts)
Dr. Taliman Afroz (grad student) – Scientist I at Great Basin Scientific (Salt Lake City, UT)
Kelsey Boykin (undergrad) – Engineer at Hospira (Clayton, NC)
Laura Cueto Burdiel (visiting researcher) – Graduate student at Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC
Steven Denny (undergrad) – Graduate student in Chemical Engineering at Columbia University
Dr. Ahmed Gomaa (grad student) – Consultant, Emendo
Jordan Hall (undergrad) – Graduate student in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside
Heidi Klumpe (undergrad) – Graduate student in Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology
Dr. Michelle Luo (grad student) – Scientist, Emmune
Dr. Ken Maksimchuk (postdoc) – Investigator, Enzymology/Biology at GSK
Brooke McGirr (undergrad) – Graduate student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia
Adam Mullis (undergrad) – Graduate student in Chemical Engineering at Iowa State University
Pari Palizhati (undergrad) – Graduate student in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Megan Smithmyer (undergrad) – Graduate student in Chemical Engineering at University of Delaware