The Alabi Lab @ Cornell University
Christopher A. Alabi
Associate Professor
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences
Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Field member)
Department of Biomedical Engineering (Field member)
Cornell University
E-mail: caa238@cornell.edu | Phone: 607-255-7889 | Office: 356 Olin Hall
PhD California Institute of Technology, 2009
Postdoctoral Fellow MIT, 2009-2013
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Emily Hoff
PhD Polymer Science and Engineering
University of Southern Missisipi
C-GEM researcher on novel non-alpha amino acids
Dr. Pavan K. Bangalore
DST-INSPIRE Doctoral Program (PhD)
CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
Automated synthesis of sequence-defined oligomers
Graduate Students
Meghan K. O'Leary
BS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Buffalo, 2017
Targeted antimicrobials against P. aeruginosa
Adithya M. Rangamani
B.Tech Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2018
Sequence-defined oligocarbamates (SeDOCs) from sustainable monomers
CSP Researcher
R. Kenton Weigel
BS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Virginia, 2018
Sequence-defined oligocarbamates (SeDOCs)
Javon E. Walker
BS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 2018
Intracellular processing of cell-penetrating oligothioetheramides
NSF GRFP
Azmain Alamgir
BS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Northwestern University, 2019
Intracellular delivery of proteins
Sabrina Chen
BS Chemical Engineering
Cornell University, 2020
Antiviral fusion inhibitory peptide-lipid conjugates
Souvik Ghosal
B.Sc. (Chemistry major) in Presidency University, India
M.Sc. in Chemistry, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, 2019
Antimicrobial PROTACs and antibody-drug conjugates
Suthara Ramachandran
B.Tech. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Manipal University, 2016
Intracellular delivery of proteins
Undergraduate Students
Ashley Ahmed - Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Class of 2022
Jeanette Wang - Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Class of 2023
Harrison Chan - Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Class of 2023
Christine Lambert - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Class of 2023
Alumni
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Mintu Porel (2014-2017), Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
Dr. Sudipta Biswas (2016-2020), Research scientist, PRISM, San Diego
Graduate Students
Christine Artim, PhD 2020, Pall Corporation
Josh Walker, PhD 2019, Postdoc @ Berkeley, Schepartz lab
Michelle Sorkin, PhD 2019, Sr. Scientist @ Berkeley lights
Ngoc N. Phan, PhD 2019, DuPont, Specialty Product Division
Joseph Brown, PhD 2019, Postdoc @ MIT, Pentelute lab
Dana Thornlow, PhD 2019, Postdoc @ Harvard Medical
Master's Students
Maximilian Nguyen (MS 2015-2018), PhD student at Princeton
Xavier Marinaro (M Eng 2015-2016), Senior Consultant, Boston Strategic Partners, Inc.
Ji Min Yang (M Eng 2015-2016), Celltrion
Ashlee Greene (MS 2014-2015), PhD Student, Little Lab, University of Pittsburgh
Ninad Patil (M Eng 2014-2015), Bristol-Myers Squibb
Undergraduates
Vishal Sundaram - (Class of 2021)
Jae Bucknor - (Class of 2021), PhD Student, University of Michigan
Manisha Kunala - (Class of 2020), Regeneron
Sabrina Chen - (Class of 2020)
Nana Antwi - (Class of 2020), Columbia University
Chris Mulvaney - (Class of 2020)
Francis Ledesma (Class of 2019), PhD student at Berkeley
Connie Li (Class of 2019), Merck & Co.
Jacqueline Plesset (Class of 2019), PhD student at UPenn
Nicole Torosian (Class of 2019), Pfizer
Sneha Kabaria (Class of 2019), Merck & Co.
Ameer Basrai (Class of 2018), Analyst, Roivant Sciences
Daniel DeCorla (Class of 2018)
Joe Hassler (Class of 2018), PhD Student, University of Minnesota
Alexis Marquez (Class of 2018), Process Engineer, Intel
Vincent Rigoglioso (Class of 2018), PhD Student, Boydston Group, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Akash Vaidya (Class of 2018), PhD Student, Korley Group, University of Delaware
Charles Jackan (Class of 2018)
Grace He (Class of 2017), Proctor & Gamble
Jason Herritt (Class of 2017), Merck
Xavier Marinaro (Class of 2016), Senior Consultant, Boston Strategic Partners, Inc.
Grace Tan (Class of 2016), PhD Student, Larson Group, University of Michigan
REU Students
Ka'Shawn Robertson, Saint Augustine's University (Summer 2019)
John Bohn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Summer 2018)
Mathias Rodriguez, University of Central Florida (Summer 2018)
Angela Pacherille, State University of New York at Plattsburg (Summer 2017)
Natavia Crandall, Cornell University (Summer 2016)