Christina M. Payne
Education:
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University – 2007
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Tennessee Technological University – 2002
Research interests:
Molecular modeling, molecular recognition mechanisms, enzyme structure-function relationships, free energy calculation methods, molecular thermodynamics, lignocellulosic biomass conversion, chemical process technology and design
Alumni
Postdoctoral Researcher
Inacrist Geronimo - (Postdoc, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy)
Graduate Students
Japheth E. Gado - Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2020 (Postdoc, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO)
Suvamay Jana - Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2017 (Senior Scientist, Sravathi AI Technology Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India)
Abhishek A. Kognole - Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2017 (Postdoc, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD)
Landon C. Mills, Ph.D Chemical Engineering 2019 (Process Development Engineer, Summit Biosciences, Lexington, KY)
Yue Yu - Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2017 (Postdoc, University of California, Merced, CA)
Undergraduate Researchers
Nolan Anderson - B. S. Chemical Engineering 2017 (Currently a PhD student at UC Santa Barbara)
Robert Brooks - B.S. Chemical Engineering 2017
Codell Gibson - B.S. Chemical Engineering 2016
Dylan Gilley - B. S. Chemical Engineering 2017 (Currently a PhD student at Purdue Univ.)
Tyler Karnes - B.S. Chemical Engineering 2015 (Recipient of the John Walker Biology and Engineering Undergraduate Research Award)
Shawn Nigam - B.S. Chemistry and Biology 2017
Damarcus Smiley - B.S. Chemical Engineering 2018
Devin Wren - B.S. Chemical Engineering 2017
Visiting Scholars
Ingvild Isaksen - PhD 2019 (supervisor - Åsmund Røhr at Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
István Tamás - PhD research with Beáta Lontay at University of Debrecen, Hungary