Research Group
Scott lab group, June 2011.
Left to right, back row: Natasha DeVore, Aggi Walsh, Emily ScottFront row: Fernando Estrada, Aaron Bart, Elyse Petrunak, Andi Skinner, Linda Blake, Eva Stephens
Not pictured: Michelle Jackson and Lindsay Astleford
Lindsay Astleford
is an undergraduate at KU. She started research in the Scott laboratory over the summer of 2010 and is
learning basic biochemical techniques.
Aaron Bart
is an undergraduate majoring in Biochemistry at KU. He is generating structures
of human phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase with new inhibitors.
Linda Blake
graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Chemistry from
Seattle Pacific University and is currently a Ph.D. student in the
KU Department of Medicinal Chemistry. Linda is the recipient of AFPE
and IAMI fellowships. Her current research project focuses on the
development of selective and potent inhibitors of human cytochrome P450
2A13 as a chemopreventative of nicotine-associated lung cancer.
Natasha Michno DeVore
graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Chemistry from Evangel University.
Natasha then earned a M.S. in Medicinal Chemistry for her research in the
Scott Lab working on the functional and structural differences between the
human cytochrome P450 enzymes 2A6 and 2A13. Natasha earned her Ph.D. in
Molecular Biosciences also working in the Scott Lab on structure and function
of CYP2A enzymes and CYP17A1. Natasha is currently a postdoctoral fellow
in the Scott Lab and continuing studies on CYP17A1.
Fernando Estrada
earned a B.S. in biochemistry at Kansas State University and
a Ph.D. from the biochemistry program in the KU Department of Molecular Biosciences.
As a Madison and Lila Self graduate fellow, he completed his dissertation titled
"NMR characterization of Bunyavirus cytoplasmic tails" in Roberto De Guzman's laboratory,
winning several awards. He is currently applying solution NMR techniques to mammalian
(membrane) cytochrome P450 enzymes.
Michelle Jackson
Michelle Jackson graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from Johnson C. Smith University.
She joined the KU Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program
at KU the summer of 2011 and is spending the next year doing cytochrome P450 research in the Scott Lab.
Elyse Petrunak
graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from Susquehanna University
and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry.
Elyse is working on the structure and function of several different cytochrome
P450 enzymes.
Eva Stephens
graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry from Rockhurst University and is currently a graduate
student in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at KU. Eva is the recipient of a Smissman
Fellowship. She is currently undertaking research to define the interactions of human
CYP2A enzymes with a panel of inhibitors.
Aggi Walsh
earned a B.A. in Biological Sciences from Brandeis. She earned a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and
Toxicology from the University of California Davis for research focused on the regulation of
cytochrome P450 enzymes. In the Scott Laboratory she is pursuing expression and purification
of a variety of cytochrome P450 enzymes.