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Haijun Liu

Ph.D Biochemistry LSU

Courses: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology BIOL3020; Advanced Biochemistry BIOL4070/5070; Structural Biology BIOL5930; Bioenergetics

Current members

Anna Williams

Amit Srivastava

Anna Williams

Ph.D candidate, 2023

Protein mass spectrometry and structural biology of photosynthetic protein complexes involved in excitation energy transfer and regulations

Youngwoo Lee

Amit Srivastava

Anna Williams

Research Scientist

Protein mass spectrometry, quantitative proteomics. Plant biochemistry and photobiology. Development of structural mass spectrometry in combination cryo-EM for protein structure discovery

Amit Srivastava

Amit Srivastava

Amit Srivastava

Research Scientist 

Specialized in cyanobacteria physiology, photosynthesis, and photoreceptors engineering. Expertise in molecular biology, protein biochemistry and spectroscopy. Prestigious awards of DAAD and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship

Yiheng Du

Eddie Poggenburg

Amit Srivastava

Ph.D student 2026 

Research interest: structural protein bioinformatics, computational biochemistry

Jeongsu park

Eddie Poggenburg

Eddie Poggenburg

Undergraduate 2022, biomedical,

higher plant Photosystem II, biochemistry

Eddie Poggenburg

Eddie Poggenburg

Eddie Poggenburg

Undergraduate 2022, Neural Science, premed major


Daniel Jekov

sabrina zapasnikas

sabrina zapasnikas

Undergraduate 2022, premed major


sabrina zapasnikas

sabrina zapasnikas

sabrina zapasnikas

Undergraduate 2022, premed major


Hemalatha Ponnam

sabrina zapasnikas

Hemalatha Ponnam

Hemalatha Ponnam is a graduate student in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology at Saint Louis University with a background in biochemistry and clinical molecular laboratories. Her research interests focus on integrating enzymology, genomics, and computational analysis to understand biological systems and support translational research. 

Hemalatha Ponnam is a graduate student in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology at Saint Louis University with a background in biochemistry and clinical molecular laboratories. Her research interests focus on integrating enzymology, genomics, and computational analysis to understand biological systems and support translational research. She is particularly interested in applying statistical and machine-learning approaches to analyze complex biological datasets.


Previous lab members

Dr. Fatima Akram

Dr. Rupal S. Tomar

Dr. Rupal S. Tomar

Postdoctoral Research Associate

current: Assistant Professor Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan. 

Dr. Rupal S. Tomar

Dr. Rupal S. Tomar

Dr. Rupal S. Tomar

Postdoctoral Research Associate, loves to spend time with her family and watch cricket, movies and traveling.

Current: Assistant Professor

Centre for Scientific and Applied Research,

IPS Academy

Indore, (M.P)

Davis Guilliams

Dr. Rupal S. Tomar

Dr. Anica Dadwal

Summer intern (2024) Biomedical research, in my free time, I like to ride my bike in Forest Park and do calligraphy.

Current: WashU Endocrine Neoplasia lab.

Dr. Anica Dadwal

Ryan Peter Britto

Dr. Anica Dadwal

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Current: University of Alberta

Dr. Bibek subedi

Ryan Peter Britto

Ryan Peter Britto

Postdoctoral Research Associate 

Terminated: October 31, 2025

Ryan Peter Britto

Ryan Peter Britto

Ryan Peter Britto

Summer intern 2025 student (2023, Health Sciences, Veterinary medicine) 

Xinyan su

Larry qian

Xinyan su

Undergraduate student (2018, chemistry) researcher Washington University in St. Louis. Likes to play dungeons and dragons and watch movies during his leisure time. Favorite sport is tennis and swimming.

2022 ACS Analytical chemistry undergraduate research award!

Current: UC-Berkeley, Ph.D student. 

Katie Lee

Larry qian

Xinyan su

Undergraduate student (2018, Biochemistry major, linguistics minor) researcher in Washington University in St. Louis. St. Louis youth Symphony. Enjoys spending my free time playing the clarinet and being outdoors

Larry qian

Larry qian

Mateo blair

Undergraduate student (2021, computer science) researcher Washington University in St. Louis

Mateo blair

Nisha ravikumar

Mateo blair

Undergraduate student researcher (2018, Biochemistry, Spanish) in Washington University in St. Louis. An avid fan of fútbol and follow the English Premier League very closely. Likes to spend my free time playing or watching soccer, working out and hiking.

Nisha ravikumar

Nisha ravikumar

Nisha ravikumar

Summer intern student (2021, Health Sciences, Pre-Professional) University of Missouri Columbia

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