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

Stephanie Le sple@umass.edu Catalyst encapsulation and activity Office: PSB 250A LinkedIn		Jewel Mendeiros jmmedeiros@umass.edu RNA delivery Office: PSB 250A
Ranit Dutta ranitdutta@umass.edu Stimuli responsive materials Office: PSB 240B LinkedIn		Jayashree Bhagabati jbhagabati@umass.edu ProTAC delivery Office: PSB 240B
Theeraphop (Theo) Prachyathipsakul tprachyathip@umass.edu Antibody Conjugates Office: PSB 240A		Jingyi Qiu jingyiqiu@umass.edu Antibody Conjugates Office: PSB 250A
Ryan Lu hunghsunlu@umass.edu Protein Delivery Office: PSB 240A LinkedIn		Jithu Krishna jithukrishna@umass.edu Targeted protein degradation Office: PSB 250B LinkedIn
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
Trinh Nguyen trinhnguyen@umass.edu Office: PSB 250B		Badal Singh badalsingh@umass.edu Office: PSB 240A LinkedIn
Aniket Majee aniketmajee@umass.edu Office: PSB 250A		Longfei Wang longfeiwang@umass.edu Office: PSB 240A
Susmita Dey susmitadey@umass.edu Office: PSB 240B Joined student of the Thai and Chen Group		Allison Lomeli alomeli@umass.edu Office: PSB 250B
Madhumita Pan madhumitapan@umass.edu Office: PSB 250B

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
Asmita Deb asmitadeb@umass.edu Mentor: Anirudh Devarajan		Amelia Talluri atalluri@umass.edu ProTAC delivery Mentor: Ranit Dutta

Professor S. Thayumanavan

Cheng Song

Jenny He

Amelia Talluri