Current Members | The Thayumanavan Group

Principal Investigator

Professor S. Thayumanavan

thai@chem.umass.edu

Office: PSB 273

Thai grew up in the state of Tamil Nadu in India, where he spent early childhood near the city of Tirunelveli and his college years in the beautiful temple city of Madurai. He obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Chemistry from The American College in Madurai. Following this, he obtained his Ph.D. degree working in organolithium chemistry, under the guidance of Professor Peter Beak at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After a postdoctoral stint with Professor Seth R. Marder at the California Institute of Technology, working on developing optoelectronic materials, he started his independent career as an Assistant Professor at Tulane University. After four years at Tulane, he moved the lab to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2003.

Group Assistant

Cheng Song

thaiasst@chem.umass.edu

Office: PSB 275

Graduate Students

Theeraphop (Theo) Prachyathipsakul tprachyathip@umass.edu Antibody Conjugates Office: PSB 240A		Jewel Mendeiros jmmedeiros@umass.edu RNA delivery Office: PSB 250A
Jayashree Bhagabati jbhagabati@umass.edu ProTAC delivery Office: PSB 240B		Ryan Lu hunghsunlu@umass.edu Protein Degradation Office: PSB 240A LinkedIn
Jithu Krishna jithukrishna@umass.edu Targeted protein degradation Office: PSB 250B LinkedIn		Jingyi Qiu jingyiqiu@umass.edu Antibody Conjugates Office: PSB 250A
Prachi Gupta prachigupta@umass.edu Stimuli Responsive Materials Office: PSB 240B LinkedIn		Yasin Alp yalp@umass.edu Protein and RNA delivery Office: PSB 240A LinkedIn
Anirudh Devarajan adevarajan@umass.edu Protein delivery Office: PSB 250B LinkedIn		Minelise Rivera De Jesus mriveradejes@umass.edu Protein delivery Office: PSB 240B
Aniket Majee Antibody conjugates/protein delivery aniketmajee@umass.edu Office: PSB 250A		Badal Singh badalsingh@umass.edu Protein degradation Office: PSB 240A LinkedIn
Susmita Dey susmitadey@umass.edu Office: PSB 240B Joint student of the Thai and Chen Group		Allison Lomeli alomeli@umass.edu Office: PSB 250B
Madhumita Pan Protein degradation madhumitapan@umass.edu Office: PSB 250B		Longfei Wang longfeiwang@umass.edu Protein degradation Office: PSB 240A

Undergraduates

Jenny He jennyhe@umass.edu Cell membrane protein degradation Mentor: Jithu Krishna		Anushka Jain anushkajain@umass.edu Cell membrane protein degradation Mentor: Badal Singh
Keith Duong kaduong@umass.edu Mentor: Anirudh Devarajan		Bhumi Patel Mentor: Madhumita Pan
Charuvi Singh cpsingh@umass.edu Antibody conjugates/protein delivery Mentor: Aniket Majee		Joshitha Gopalakrishnan jgopalakrish@umass.edu Mentor: Allison Lomeli
Sunny Periyasamy speriyasamy@umass.edu Mentor: Prachi Gupta		Tanmaya Mahesh tmahesh@umass.edu Mentor: Ryan Lu

Professor S. Thayumanavan

Cheng Song

Jenny He

Keith Duong

Charuvi Singh

Joshitha Gopalakrishnan

Sunny Periyasamy

Tanmaya Mahesh