
Tomaya Carpenter
M.S. student: 05/2016 - 05/2018
Ph.D. student: 08/2018 - present
Email: tcarpenter4@student.gsu.edu
B.S., 2016, Georgia State University
I am working on incorporating unnatural amino acids into ubiquitin.

Ruochuan Liu
Ph.D. student: 09/2016 - present
Email: rliu8@student.gsu.edu
B.S., 2012, Wuhan University
M.S., 2015, City University of Hong Kong
I am working on identifying the substrates of HECT E3s.
Design and synthesis of near-infrared fluorescent probes for imaging of biological nitroxyl. Tan, Y., Liu, R., Zhang, H., Peltier, R., Lam, Y., Zhu, Q., Hu, Y. & Sun, H. Sci. Rep. 2015, 5, 16979. (co-first author)
Lu, H., Zhang, H., Chen, J., Zhang, J., Liu, R., Sun, H., Zhao, Y., Chai, Z. & Hua, Y. A thiol fluorescent probe reveals the intricate modulation of cysteine's reactivity by Cu(II). Talanta. 2016, 146, 477-482.
Zhang, H., Liu, R., Liu, J., Li, L., Wang, P., Yao, S., Xu, Z. & Sun, H. A minimalist fluorescent probe for differentiating Cys, Hcy and GSH in live cells. Chem. Sci. 2015, published online.
Zhang, H., Xie Y., Wang, P., Chen, G., Liu, R., Lam, Y., Hu, Y., Zhu, Q. & Sun, H. An iminocoumarin benzothiazole-based fluorescent probe for imaging hydrogen sulfide in living cells. Talanta. 2015, 135, 149-154.
Zhang, H., Zhang, C., Liu, R., Yi, L. & Sun, H. A highly selective and sensitive fluorescent thiol probe through dual-reactive and dual-quenching groups. Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 2029-2032.
Zhang, H., Liu, R., Tan, Y., Xie Y., W. H., Lei, H., Cheung, H. & Sun, H. A FRET-based ratiometric fluorescent probe for nitroxyl detection in living cells. Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2015, 7, 5438–5443.

Monica Polite
Undergraduate researcher: 01/2018 - present
Summer Undergraduate Fellowship of the Molecular Basis of Disease (MBD) Program, 2018
Email: mpolite2@student.gsu.edu
Undergraduate researcher: 01/2018 - present
Summer Undergraduate Fellowship of the Molecular Basis of Disease (MBD) Program, 2018
Email: mpolite2@student.gsu.edu

Han Zhou
Ph.D. student: 09/2013 - present
Email: hzhou15@student.gsu.edu
B.S., 2012, Peking University Health Science Center (Beijing, China)
M.S., 2013, Peking University Health Science Center (Beijing, China)
Advisor: Professor Junyi Liu
I am working on the design and synthesis of peptides-adenosine conjugates to inhibit protein modification by ubiquitin.

Li Zhou
Ph.D. student: 01/2015 - present
Email:lzhou5@student.gsu.edu
B.S., 2014, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (Hangzhou, China)
I am engineering OUT cascades with Ring E3s Cbl-b and c-Cbl.