Current CBI Trainees
CBI trainees come to Illinois from highly regarded undergraduate programs, nationwide. Regardless of their undergraduate majors, they have in common the potential to perform cutting-edge discipline-spanning work at the interface of chemistry and biology.
| 2008-2009 Trainees | Home Department | CBI Mentor |
|---|---|---|
Jung-un Baek
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Chemistry | Anne M. Baranger |
Nick Marshall
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Chemistry | Yi Lu |
Amit Sachdeva
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Chemistry | Scott K. Silverman |
Juan Velasquez
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Chemistry | Wilfred van der Donk |
| 2008-2010 Trainees | Home Department | CBI Mentor |
|---|---|---|
![]() Lindsey Johnstone
Research Description: Lantibiotics are a special class of antimicrobial peptides containing unusual amino acid residues, including dehydrobutyrine and dehydroalanine, as well as lanthionine-rings, from which these peptides take their name. The most well-known of these is nisin, a 34-residue peptide that has been used extensively in the food industry as a preservative. I will be studying details of its mode of action. Though it is by far the most studied of the lantibiotics, there is still much to be learned.
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Chemistry | Chad M. Rienstra and Wilfred van der Donk |
![]() Christine Toh
Research Description: The goal of my project is to create multi-component gradients of biomolecules on surfaces that can be used for the stratification of heterogeneous cell populations according to their cell surface composition. These surfaces may ultimately serve as a diagnostic platform to asses the metastatic potential of cancer cells from a tumor biopsy sample and allow for single-cell drug efficacy trials on a patient's exact cancer, leading to personalized, disease-specific chemotherapies.
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Chemistry | Ryan C. Bailey |
2007-2009 Trainees
2006-2008 Trainees
2005-2007 Trainees



