CURRENT MEMBERS
Principal Investigator
Yulia V. Gerasimova
Dr. Gerasimova has graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and with a PhD in Bioorganic Chemistry from the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She joined the University of Central Florida in 2010 for her Postdoctoral Training and then served as an Adjunct Lecturer and Visiting Assistant Professor at the UCF Chemistry Department. In 2016, Dr. Gerasimova started her independent research at UCF as an Assistant Professor and she was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2022.
Graduate Students
Justine Monsalve – Chemistry PhD Student
Harun Kapidzic – Chemistry PhD Student
Shaleh Alazmi – Chemistry Master Student
Undergraduate Students
Marina Tsukanova – Chemistry
Evangelia Brisby – Forensic Science
Vera Zavadskaya – Chemistry/Biochemistry
Andrea Hernandez Gomez – Chemistry/Biochemistry
Samuel Veleke – Chemistry/Biochemistry
Laila Ghasseminia – Forensic Science
AnnaMarie Knowles – Chemistry/Biochemistry
ALUMNI
Former Postdoctoral Scholars
Dr. Bidhan C. Dhar – currently a Research Scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Dr. Evgeny S. Morozkin – currently at the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Russia
Former Graduate Advisees
PhD in Chemistry
- Dr. Ryan P. Connelly – currently at Meso Scale Diagnostics
Master’s in Chemistry
- Harun Kapidzic – currently a PhD student at the University of Central Florida
- Abryana Fergus – currently at Meso Scale Diagnostics.
- Ryan J. Sapia – currently a PhD student at the Ohio State University
- Mark A. Reed
- Adam J. Reed – currently a PhD student at the Ohio State University
Former Undergraduate Advisees
Bachelor’s in Chemistry
- Christopher Linter
- Mark Richards
- Nicholas Raddi
- Pedro Madalozzo – Honors Undergraduate Thesis; accepted into the PhD program at Yale University
- Gavin Dunton
- Anwar Rahaman
- Nolan Bennett
- Kazuma Rodriguez
- Shannon Beaton – Honors Undergraduate Thesis
- Rohit Karnati – Honors in the Major
- Tamar Yishay – Honors in the Major
- Mary Gomez
- Tyler Lawson
- Nicholas Mandel – currently a PhD student at Tufts University
- Courtney Failla
- Emily Freer
- Shane Palmer – currently at Molecular Diagnostic
- Liam Canning
- Colin Campbell – currently a PhD student at the University of Utah
- Kendra Nixon
- Patricia Rodriguez Sanchez
- Thomas Berhane
- Serena Farnell – Pharmacy Intern
- Renan Paredes
- Charles Verduzco – PharmD
- Maithi Tran – Pharmacy Resident
Bachelor’s in Biology
- Sheila Solarez – Honors in the Major
Allison Williams
Bachelor’s in Forensic Science
- Jiyeong Hong
- Velda Iskandar
Bachelor’s in Biomedical Sciences
- Jaehyun Ahn
- Hafsa Ali
- Jack Mordeson – Honors Undergraduate Thesis
- Michael Greenberg – Honors Undergraduate Thesis, Honors in the Major
- Charles Dowis – Honors in the Major
- Anna Balenko
- Silvana Sidhom
- Rebecca Basch
- Alexander Mabel
Bachelor’s in Health Sciences
- Dima Mutawe
- Nicole Abedrabbo