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

Jayashree Bhagabati jbhagabati@umass.edu ProTAC delivery Office: PSB 240B LinkedIn		Jewel Medeiros jmmedeiros@umass.edu RNA delivery Office: PSB 250A LinkedIn
Jithu Krishna jithukrishna@umass.edu Targeted protein degradation Office: PSB 250B LinkedIn		Yasin Alp yalp@umass.edu Target protein degradation Office: PSB 240A LinkedIn
Prachi Gupta prachigupta@umass.edu Stimuli Responsive Materials & Target protein degradation Office: PSB 240B LinkedIn		Minelise Rivera De Jesus mriveradejes@umass.edu Target protein degradation Office: PSB 240B
Anirudh Devarajan adevarajan@umass.edu Protein delivery & Degradation Office: PSB 250B LinkedIn		Badal Singh badalsingh@umass.edu Targeted protein degradation Office: PSB 250A
Aniket Majee aniketmajee@umass.edu Protein delivery-/ Antibody-nanogel conjugates Office: PSB 250A		Longfei Wang longfeiwang@umass.edu Targeted protein degradation & Protein delivery Office: PSB 250B
Madhumita Pan madhumitapan@umass.edu Targeted protein degradation & Membrane protein delivery Office: PSB 250B		Susmita Dey susmitadey@umass.edu Nanopore sensor Office: PSB 240B Joint student of the Thai and Chen Group
Priyanath Das priyanathdas@umass.edu Polymer synthesis Office: PSB 240B		Sayani Das sayanidas@umass.edu RNA delivery & Lipid nanoparticle Office: PSB 250B Joint student of the Thai and Gao Group

Undergraduate Students

Keith Duong kaduong@umass.edu Protein degradation Mentor: Anirudh Devarajan		Bhumi Patel bpatel@umass.edu Protein delivery Mentor: Madhumita Pan
Charuvi Singh cpsingh@umass.edu Protein delivery Mentor: Aniket Majee		Joshitha Gopalakrishnan jgopalakrish@umass.edu Protein delivery Mentor: Allison Lomeli
Sunny Periyasamy speriyasamy@umass.edu Stimuli Responsive Materials Mentor: Prachi Gupta		Adam Tajdi atajdi@umass.edu Protein degradation Mentor: Badal Singh