Members of the Rosenzweig Lab

Principal Investigator

Amy C. Rosenzweig

Email: amyr at northwestern dot edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education

B.A. Chemistry, 1988, Amherst College
Ph.D. Chemistry, 1994, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professional Appointments

Weinberg Family Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences, Northwestern University, 2012-present
Professor, Departments of Molecular Biosciences and of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2005-present
Irving M. Klotz Research Professor, Northwestern University, 2004-2006
Associate Professor, Departments of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology and of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2002-2005
Assistant Professor, Departments of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology and of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 1997–2002
Harvard Medical School and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1994–1997

Recent Honors and Awards

Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007
American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate  Education, 2006
Honorary Degree, Doctor of Science, Amherst College, 2005
MacArthur Fellow, 2003
Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, 2001
David and Lucile Packard Fellow, 1999

Professor Rosenzweig is also Faculty Director of the Keck Biophysics Facility, a state of the art instrumentation laboratory at Northwestern.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Amie K. Boal

B.A. Chemistry, 2002, Pomona College
Ph.D. Chemistry, 2008, California Institute of Technology
Email: a-boal at northwestern dot edu
Research area: Metallocofactor assembly and radical enzymes


Megen A. Culpepper

B.A. Chemistry, 2000, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Research Scientist, 2000-2004, Coatings and Adhesive Corporation
Ph.D. Chemistry, 2009, University of Kansas
Email: m-culpepper at northwestern dot edu
Research area:
Biological methane oxidation


Aaron T. Smith

B.A. Chemistry, 2007, Boston University
Ph.D. Chemistry, 2012, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: aaron.smith at northwestern dot edu
Research area:
Active metal transport


Ingrid Span

Dipl. Chemistry, 2008, Technische Universität München
Ph.D. Chemistry, 2012, Technische Universität München
Email: ingrid.span at northwestern dot edu
Research area: Biological methane oxidation


Graduate Students

Thomas J. Lawton

B.A. Chemistry, 2006, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Email: ThomasLawton2016 at u dot northwestern dot edu
Research area: Nitrogen metabolism


Eliza L. Zielazinski

B.S. Chemistry, 2007, Case Western Reserve University
Email: elizazielazinski2008 at u dot northwestern dot edu
Research area:Active metal transport


Sarah Sirajuddin

B.A. Chemistry, 2008, Kalamazoo College
Email: s-sirajuddin at u dot northwestern dot edu
Research area: Biological methane oxidation


Grace E. Kenney

S.B. Chemistry, 2007, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E-mail: gkenney at u dot northwestern dot edu
Research area: Copper acquisition by methanotrophs


Undergraduate Students

Paula Ham

Anthropology major, class of 2013
Research area: Biological methane oxidation


Kate Kurgan

Chemistry major, class of 2014
Research area: Biological methane oxidation


Linlin Sun

Chemistry major, class of 2014
Research area: Biological methane oxidation


Rosenzweig Lab Alumni

Former Graduate Students

Walter C. Voegtli (1997-2002, Group Leader, Array Biopharma Inc., Boulder, CO)

Matthew T. Miller (1998-2003, Director, Laboratory of Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography and Research Associate Professor, Rutgers University)

Amy K. Wernimont (1999-2003, Senior Research Associate, Structural Genomics Consortium, Toronto, Canada)

Raquel L. Lieberman (1998-2005, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Carnie Abajian (2000-2006, analyst, CNA Corporation, Alexandria, VA)

Amanda Hakemian (2002-2008, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Marshfield)

Stephen M. Smith (2003-2011, Scientist, Dow Chemical)

Uchechi E. Ukaegbu (2004-2009, postdoctoral fellow, Columbia University)

Matthew E. Traverso (2005-2010, Scientist, Intel)

Sorabh Agarwal (2006-2011, postdoctoral fellow, University of Utah)

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

Audrey L. Lamb (1998-2002, Associate Professor, University of Kansas)

Monika Sommerhalter (2002-2006, Assistant Professor, California State University, East Bay

Shannon Henery (2002-2004, Scientist, EMD Millipore, Seattle, WA)

Liliya A. Yatsunyk (2003-2007, Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College)

Matthew H. Sazinsky (2004-2007, NRSA fellow, Assistant Professor, Pomona College)

Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian (2006-2011, Scientist, EcoLab)