Current Lab Members
Dr. Christopher Arnatt, Principle Investigator
Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Director of Chemical Biology Program
Saint Louis University
Postdoc: National Institute of Standards and Technology, NRC fellowship
PhD: Medicinal Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University
BS: Chemistry, Hampden-Sydney College
Christopher graduated summa cum laude from Hampden-Sydney College in 2009 with a B.S. in chemistry with honors. While there, he cultivated his love for research which led him to earn a PhD in medicinal chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013. His graduate research focused on two main areas: compounds for prostate cancer treatment and bivalent chemical probes targeting neurological HIV/AIDS. Christopher was able to expand his research to include more biology and computational modeling which allowed him to be involved in multiple facets of the projects. After graduating in 2013 he received a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Science and Technology to work on fluorescent probes targeting induced pluripotent stem cells.
Christopher then moved from the east coast to St. Louis, Missouri where he joined the Department of Chemistry at Saint Louis University as an Assistant Professor in 2015. He is currently a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at Saint Louis University.
arnattck at slu.edu
Current Graduate Students
Israel Olayide, Graduate Student (Chemistry Program)
Vanja Kalajdzic, Graduate Student (Chemistry Program)
Robert Devine, Graduate Student (Chemical Biology Program)
Angelina Ellis, Graduate Student (Chemistry Program)
Current Undergraduate Researchers
Lavelle Barnes (Chemical Biology & Pharmacology BS Major)
Ivy Yang (Chemical Biology & Pharmacology BS Major)
Josh Good (Chemical Biology & Pharmacology BS Major)
Anna Csiki-Fejer (Chemistry BS Major)
Elian Pena (Biochemistry BS Major)
Lila Ward (Chemistry BS Major)
Alumni
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Shi Chen
Graduate Researchers
Chelsea DeLeon, Ph.D., currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Roth Lab at UNC
Scott Grady, Ph.D., Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana
Elise Stuertz, MS Chemical Biology
Kristin Skubic, MS Chemistry
Austin O'Dea, MS Chemistry
Nick Latzo, MS Chemistry
Michael Green, MS Chemistry
Mitsate Bayero, MS Chemical Biology
Undergraduate Researchers
Patrick Sweeney, currently attending medical school in Memphis, Tennessee
McKenna Wilhlem, graduate student in biochemistry at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
Meghan McHugh
Kevin Skerak
Justyn Craig
Sophia Joseph
Joeseph Gun, graduate student in chemical engineering at Washington University in St, Louis, Missouri
Karissa Skibinski, currently attending medical school
Emily Duncan, currently attending medical school
Sarah Tran
Aidan Cole (Summer 2017, visiting Undergraduate researcher from University of Pittsburgh)
Jodi Pederson (Summer 2018, Visiting Undergraduate Researcher from University of Central Missouri)
Zachary Murphy (Summer 2018, Visiting Undergraduate Researcher from Truman State University)
Onika Olson (Summer 2019, Visiting Undergraduate Researcher from Missouri State University)
Dietrich Olibrice
Rebecca Jagmen
Mitsate Bayero (currently in the accelerated bachelors to masters program for chemical biology at Saint Louis University)
Tyler Thompson
Joanna Gongora
Jacob Butler
Angelina Ellis (Summer 2022, Undergraduate researcher from Webster University, currently a Ph.D. student in the Arnatt Lab)
Varin Gupta
Katie Rosfelder
Olivia Farris