People
John MacMillan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Chilton/Bell Endowed Scholar in Biochemistry
Phone: 214-658-8653
E-mail: john.Macmillan@utsouthwestern.edu
Address: 5323 Harry Hines Blvd
Mail code 9038
Education:
B.Sc. University of Iowa (Research advisor: David Wiemer
Ph.D. University of California, Davis (Research advisor: Tadeusz F. Molinski)
Post-Doc. Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Research advisor: Wiliam
Fenical)
Ana Paula Espindola, Ph.D.
Education:
Ph.D. Marine Natural Product Chemistry - UCSD-SIO
M.Sc. Plant Natural Product Chemistry - UFPR (Brazil)
B.S. Pharmaceutical Sciences - UFPR (Brazil)
Interests:
Natural products isolation and structure elucidation; uses of NMR in natural product chemistry (new pulse sequences, hyphenated techiniques), computer softwares.
Matthew Jamison
Education:
B.S. Biochemistry - UT Dallas
Interests:
Natural Products chemistry and isolation and NMR techniques.
Yazmin Carrasco
Education:
B.S. Chemistry - UT El Paso
Interests:
The discovery of new biologically active natural products from marine organisms and the development of synthetic small molecules.
Jamie Rogers
Education:
B.A. Chemistry - Illinois Wesleyan University
Interests:
Discovery and characterization of biologically active natural products and Medicinal Chemistry
Robert Arnold Jr.
Education:
B.S. Microbiology - University of Tenesse
Interests:
Explore the chemical diversity of microorganisms from the ocean
Nathan Stewart
Education:
B.S. Biology - Okhlahoma Christian University
Interests:
Discovery of new and interesting marine microorganisms and assessing the biological funcionality of their metabolites

Karen & Maggie (honorary group members)
Ex group members
Leigh Nicosia - SURF student - 2007
Kevin Arendt - SURF student - 2008
Travis Mendel - SURF student - 2009
Jordan Chinai - SURF student - 2009
Nermine Rofael - Technician - 2007-2009
