Lab Members

  • Chatterjee Lab, 2021 (Top from left: Breanna Shirtliff, Li-Yin Lai, Nidhi Satishkumar; Bottom from left: Som Chatterjee, Nagaraja Mukkayyan, Raymond Poon)

    Chatterjee Lab, 2021 (Top from left: Breanna Shirtliff, Li-Yin Lai, Nidhi Satishkumar; Bottom from left: Som Chatterjee, Nagaraja Mukkayyan, Raymond Poon)

  • Chatterjee Lab, 2019 (From Left: Nagaraja Mukkayyan, Raymond Poon, Zahra Zubair-Nazami, Aditi Chatterjee, Nidhi Satishkumar, Som Chatterjee)

    Chatterjee Lab, 2019 (From Left: Nagaraja Mukkayyan, Raymond Poon, Zahra Zubair-Nazami, Aditi Chatterjee, Nidhi Satishkumar, Som Chatterjee)

 

Li-Yin Lai, PhDLi-Yin Lai, PhD
llai@umaryland.edu

Li-Yin Lai received her Bachelor’s degree from Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan. She received her  Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences from Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. In 2021, she earned her Ph.D. in Microbiology from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Currently, her research focuses on mechanisms of antibiotic tolerance in Staphylococcus aureus.

 

Raymond Poon, BSRaymond Poon, BS
rpoon1@umaryland.edu

Raymond graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with an undergraduate degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology and a concentration in Immunology. After completing his degree, he interned for two semesters in a program called “Bridge to Biotechnology.” through City College of San Francisco. In 2018, he began to work in Dr. Chatterjee’s lab at the University of California, San Francisco, and in 2019, he relocated to Baltimore, Maryland where he continues his research. He studies the roles of various targets on beta-lactam resistance and performs computational work.

 

Nidhi Satishkumar, MSNidhi Satishkumar, MS
nidhi.satishkumar@umaryland.edu

Nidhi completed her Master’s in Biotechnology at Fergusson College, India in 2018. During and after completing her Master’s degree, she interned at the R&D unit of Gennova Biopharmaceuticals in India, where she worked on overexpression and analysis of therapeutic proteins. She also interned at Tata Medical Center, Kolkata where her project involved optimizing a protocol for cytotoxicity assays to analyze the effect of chemotherapeutic drugs on leukemic cells. In 2019, she joined Dr. Chatterjee’s lab as a PhD student, and her current project focuses on the mechanisms by which PBP4 mediates resistance to antimicrobial drugs in S. aureus.

 

Lab Alumni:

  • Aditi Chatterjee, PhD
  • Nagaraja Mukkayyan (NM), PhD
  • Breanna Shirtliff, BS
  • Zahra Zubair-Nizami, BS