Current Lab Members

Dr. Christopher Arnatt, Principle Investigator

Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology

Director of Chemical Biology Program

Saint Louis University

Postdoc: National Institute of Standards and Technology, NRC fellowship           

PhD: Medicinal Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University

BS: Chemistry, Hampden-Sydney College

Christopher graduated summa cum laude from Hampden-Sydney College in 2009 with a B.S. in chemistry with honors. While there, he cultivated his love for research which led him to earn a PhD in medicinal chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013. His graduate research focused on two main areas: compounds for prostate cancer treatment and bivalent chemical probes targeting neurological HIV/AIDS. Christopher was able to expand his research to include more biology and computational modeling which allowed him to be involved in multiple facets of the projects. After graduating in 2013 he received a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Science and Technology to work on fluorescent probes targeting induced pluripotent stem cells.

Christopher then moved from the east coast to St. Louis, Missouri where he joined the Department of Chemistry at Saint Louis University as an Assistant Professor in 2015. He is currently a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at Saint Louis University.

arnattck at slu.edu

Israel Olayide, Graduate Student (Chemistry Program)

Vanja Kalajdzic, Graduate Student (Chemistry Program)

Robert Devine, Graduate Student (Chemical Biology Program)

Elise Stuertz, Graduate Student (Chemical Biology Program)

Angelina Ellis, Graduate Student (Chemistry Program)

, Undergraduate Researcher

, Undergraduate Researcher

Alumni

Postdoctoral Researchers

  • Dr. Shi Chen

Graduate Researchers

  • Chelsea DeLeon, Ph.D., currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Roth Lab at UNC

  • Scott Grady, Ph.D., Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana

  • Kristin Skubic, MS Chemistry

  • Austin O'Dea, MS Chemistry

  • Nick Latzo, MS Chemistry

  • Michael Green, MS Chemistry

  • Mitsate Bayero, MS Chemical Biology

Undergraduate Researchers

  • Patrick Sweeney, currently attending medical school in Memphis, Tennessee

  • McKenna Wilhlem, graduate student in biochemistry at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri

  • Meghan McHugh

  • Kevin Skerak

  • Justyn Craig

  • Sophia Joseph

  • Joeseph Gun, graduate student in chemical engineering at Washington University in St, Louis, Missouri

  • Karissa Skibinski, currently attending medical school

  • Emily Duncan, currently attending medical school

  • Sarah Tran

  • Aidan Cole (Summer 2017, visiting Undergraduate researcher from University of Pittsburgh)

  • Jodi Pederson (Summer 2018, Visiting Undergraduate Researcher from University of Central Missouri)

  • Zachary Murphy (Summer 2018, Visiting Undergraduate Researcher from Truman State University)

  • Onika Olson (Summer 2019, Visiting Undergraduate Researcher from Missouri State University)

  • Dietrich Olibrice

  • Rebecca Jagmen

  • Mitsate Bayero (currently in the accelerated bachelors to masters program for chemical biology at Saint Louis University)

  • Tyler Thompson

  • Joanna Gongora

  • Jacob Butler

  • Angelina Ellis (Summer 2022, Undergraduate researcher from Webster University, currently a Ph.D. student in the Arnatt Lab)

  • Varin Gupta

  • Katie Rosfelder