Group Members

Graduate Students

Tyler Roche
tyler.roche@gatech.edu

Astrobiology, Alternative Nucleic Acids, Origin of Life

2012 Pomona College, B.A., Molecular Biology

Bryce Clifton
bclifton3@gatech.edu

California State U. Northridge, B.S.

Research Scientists & Postdocs

Suneesh Karunakaran
skarunakara3@gatech.edu

proto-nucleic acids, self assembly, chirality 

2013 CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, India  Ph.D., Chemistry

2006 University of Calicut, India M.S., Chemsitry 

2004 University of Calicut, India  B.S., Chemistry 
 

Gary Newnam
gn27@mail.gatech.edu

Laboratory Manager

1990 Purdue University, B.S., Genetic Bioengineering

Cesar Menor Salvan
Sujay Nandi
snandi37@gatech.edu

Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta, USA

2022: Research Associate , IISER Kolkata, India

2020: IISER Kolkata, India  Ph.D... more

Sajena Saraswathy
sajena.saraswathy@chemistry.gatech.edu
2021: CSIR-NIIST, Kerala, India  Ph.D. Chemical Sciences
 
2013:Calicut University Campus, Kerala, India  M.Sc. Applied Chemistry
 
2011: PSMO College, Kerala, India  B.Sc. Chemistry