Deepak Kumar
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
M. S. Kurukshetra University
dkumar9@utk.edu
people
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor 
Tessa R. Calhoun
ORCID: 000-0002-4952-0010
418 Mossman Bldg.
(865) 974-3685
Postdoctoral Researchers
Graduate Students
Jazmine Baxter
B. S. Biochemistry
Spelman College, 2024
jbaxte28@vols.utk.edu
Sadhana Bhat
M. S. Chemistry
Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College, 2019
sbhat4@vols.utk.edu
Emily Campbell
B. S. Chemistry
Lander University, 2023
ecampb47@vols.utk.edu
Aiden Jeffries
B. S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Liberty University, 2024
ajeffri3@vols.utk.edu
Kyra Pulver
B. S. Chemistry
University of Nevada, Reno, 2019
kpulver@vols.utk.edu
Former Members
- El Page (Ph.D. graduate stduent, 2020-2025)
- Emily Donnelly (undergraduate researcher, 2024)
- Grant Foley (M.S. graduate student, 2021-2024)
- Marea Blake (Ph.D. graduate student, 2019-2024)
- Brendan Miklos (graduate student, 2022-2023)
- Mikala Blackmon (undergraduate researcher, 2022-2023)
- Brandon Shaw (undergraduate researcher, 2022-2023)
- Jackson McLemore (undergraduate researcher, 2022-2023)
- Anna Curtis (REU, summer 2022)
- Julianna Cox (REU, summer 2022)
- Muhammad Redwan Hassan (Ph.D. graduate student, 2017-2022)
- Alexis Sanwick (graduate student, 2021-2022)
- James Russell (undergraduate researcher, 2019-2022)
- Aveiona Allen (undergraduate researcher, 2020-2021)
- Brandon Colon (Ph.D. graduate student, 2016-2021)
- Hannah Castillo (REU, summer 2021)
- Lindsey Miller (Ph.D. graduate student, 2015-2020; undergraduate researcher, 2014-2015)
- Brandon Woitas (M.S. graduate student, 2017-2019)
- Kevin Mendes (graduate student, 2019)
- Madeline Bellers (undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019)
- Victoria Stromberg (undergraduate researcher, 2019)
- Ira Seth Sherrill (undergraduate researcher, 2016-2018)
- Kevin Higgins (M.S. graduate student, 2013-2018)
- Sergio Axel Cruz (REU, summer 2018)
- Brianna Watson (Ph.D. graduate student, 2013-2018)
- Ryan Hughes (undergraduate researcher, 2017-2018)
- Malik Abu Hatab (undergraduate researcher, 2018)
- Dinesh Velu (undergraduate researcher, 2017)
- Taylor Lewis (REU, summer 2017)
- Grace Sarabia (researcher, summer 2017)
- Lauren Finney (undergraduate researcher, 2015-2017)
- Brittany Ramsey (undergraduate researcher, 2016)
- Joselyn Resto-Santana (REU, summer 2016)
- Sharon Ayioka (REU, summer 2015)
- Tyler Thompson (graduate student, 2013-2015)
- Alexandra Novak (graduate student, 2014-2015)
- Philip Belcher (graduate student, 2013-2015)
- Brittney Wright (undergraduate researcher, 2014)
- Anna Fraser (undergraduate researcher 2014)
- Richard Prince (undergraduate researcher, 2013-2014)
- Stephanie Armas (REU, summer 2014)
- Milos Nikolic (undergraduate researcher, summer 2013)
- Peter Johnsen (undergraduate researcher, summer 2012)
- Marcos Cisneros (undergraduate researcher, summer 2012)