The Guseman lab is Open at UCSD Chemistry and Biochemsitry! 
this website in under development but many of the research interests are the same. 

My interest in scientific research started during my freshman year of college while working for Dr. David Hawthorne in the Department of Entomology at the University of Maryland. There I studied the influence of multipesticide exposure on honey bees and linked pesticide synergism to ABC transporter inhibition. While this work was exciting and rewarding, I continuously found myself asking why? Yearning for more information, I realized my true interest is understanding the structure function paradigm on the atomic level. I then switch labs and join the lab of Dr. David Fushman where I used biochemical and biophysical methods to study the structure and function of histones ubiquitin conjugates. 

After finishing my B.S. in Biochemistry at Maryland in 2014, I decided to head down south and pursue my PhD at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. I joined the lab of Dr. Gary Pielak, where my thesis focused on understanding protein dimerization in-cells and cell like environments using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) as my primary tool.

I completed my PhD in September of 2018 and shortly thereafter started my postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. My work in the Gronenborn Lab focuses on elucidating the mechanisms of cataract formation, pushing the frontiers of in-cell NMR, and creating new glycan targeting antivirals. During my first few years in the Gronenborn lab I was supported by the Life Science Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship and he Postdoctoral Enrichment Program (PDEP) award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Currently I am an NIH MOSAIC K99/R00 Scholar.

 

As of January of 2024 the Guseman lab is open at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California San Diego! We are super excited to open shop and study the biophysics of protein-glycan interactions and how we can target glycans on viral glycoproteins. 

If you are interested in available positions in the group please email me your CV and we can talk. 

Many thanks to the funding agency who make my research possible.