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Scott lab group, June 2011.
Left to right, back row: Natasha DeVore, Aggi Walsh, Emily Scott
Front row: Fernando Estrada, Aaron Bart, Elyse Petrunak, Andi Skinner, Linda Blake, Eva Stephens
Not pictured: Michelle Jackson and Lindsay Astleford

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
Aaron Bart is an undergraduate majoring in Biochemistry at KU. He is generating structures of human phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase with new inhibitors.
Linda Blake
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 DeVore
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
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 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
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
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
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.