Cotruvo lab holiday party, December 2023
Principal Investigator
Joseph A. Cotruvo, Jr., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Louis Martarano Career Development Professor
Department of Chemistry
Pennsylvania State University
220 Chemistry Building
Email: jcotruvo at psu dot edu
About Joey
Postdoctoral scholars
Saborni Biswas, Ph.D.
Ph.D., Bioinorganic Spectroscopy
Carnegie Mellon University, 2021
sxb6196@psu.edu
Claire Mammoser, Ph.D.
Ph.D., Chemistry
Indiana University, 2023
cxm6147@psu.edu
Emily Featherston, Ph.D.
Ph.D., Chemistry
Penn State University, 2023
erf16@psu.edu
Graduate students
Paoning Chong
B.S., Chemistry
Bridgewater State University, 2018
pgc23@psu.edu
Jacob DeVos
B.S., Microbiology
The Ohio State University, 2020
jjd348@psu.edu
Wonseok Choi
M.S., Chemistry
Korea University, 2021
wzc5387@psu.edu
Wyatt Larrinaga
B.S., Chemistry and Biology
The University of Tampa, 2021
wbl5233@psu.edu
Dianxiong Wang
B.S., Chemistry
Beijing Normal University, 2020
dmw6351@psu.edu
Arianna Ragusa
B.S., Chemistry
St. John's University, 2022
acr5835@psu.edu
Xianxian Zhou
B.S., Chemistry
Nankai University, China, 2022
xmz5257@psu.edu
Alexander Williard
B.S., Chemistry
College of William & Mary, 2023
acw5873@psu.edu
Undergraduate students
Jennie Chen
Major: Chemistry '24
Daniel Carkner
Major: Biomedical Engineering '26
Former Students
Graduate
Jennifer Park, Ph.D. (Nov 2017 - Aug 2023) - Postdoctoral Scholar at U.C. Davis advised by Marie C. Heffern
Joseph Mattocks, Ph.D. (Jun 2017-Aug 2023) - Vice President of Research and Development at ReeTerra
Jiansong Xu, Ph.D. (Nov 2016-Feb 2022) - Intellectual Property and Technology Manager at Florida International University
Jonathan Tirsch, M.S. (Sep 2018-May 2021) - Laboratory Safety and Industrial Hygiene Officer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Undergraduate
Yun Song (Mar 2023 - Dec 2023) - B.S., Biochemistry '26
Tim Hamilton (May 2019-Aug 22) - Physiology '22, M.D. student at Drexel University
Hannah Gizenski (Jan 2020-Dec 2021) - B.S., Chemistry '23
Kennedy Miller (Sep 2019-May 2021) - PhD student at the University of South Carolina
Nathan Brittin (Sep 2018-May 2020) - PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Anna Terzian (Jan 2020-May 2020) - Penn State University '21
Eddie Issertell (June 2018-Dec 2019) - Penn State University '21
Jackson Ho (Sep 2017-Aug 2019) - PhD student at Boston University
Hailee Strom (Feb 2018-May 2019) - B.S. from Penn State University '19
Emma Gogarnoiu (Aug 2017-May 2019) - Researcher at NIH
Anish Ari (June-Dec 2018) - Penn State University '20
Nicholas Young (May 2017-May 2018) - PhD student at UCSF
Megan Menzel (Jan-June 2017) - Senior, Penn State University
REU
Theresa Buckely (May-Aug 2019) - Senior, Biochemistry at Kutztown University
Claire Overly (May-Aug 2017) - Senior, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bob Jones University