Group Photo, November 2025
PI: Brian Fuglestad
Associate Professor (2025 - present)
Assistant Professor, VCU Department of Chemistry (2019-2025)
Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate: UPenn, (2013-2019)
PhD: University of California, San Diego (2007-2013)
BS: Oklahoma State University (2003-2007)
Hometown: Mustang, Oklahoma
Rachel Signorelli
4th year PhD Student, VCU Chemistry
BS & MS: Chemistry, East Carolina University
Hometown: Apex, North Carolina
Jake Breeden
4th year PhD Student, VCU Chemistry
Wistar Pre-doctoral Trainee
BS: Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University
Hometown: Glen Allen, Virginia
Kelly Petersen
3rd year PhD student, VCU Chemistry
Wistar Pre-doctoral Trainee
BS: Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University
Hometown: Chesapeake, Virginia
Neil Tiwari
2nd year PhD Student, VCU Chemistry
Wistar Pre-doctoral Trainee
BS: Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University
Hometown: Glen Allen, Virginia
Lab Alumni, Postdocs:
Dr. Aaron Birchfield, Postdoc in the Fuglestad Lab 2024 - 2026, currently Assistant Professor at University of Tennessee, Martin.
Lab Alumni, Graduate students:
Dr. Sara Walters, PhD in Chemistry, 2021 - 2026, currently a postdoc at University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Abdul Castillo, PhD in Chemistry, 2019 - 2024, currently a scientist at Haleon.
Dr. Angela Develin, PhD in Chemical Biology, 2019 - 2024, currently a post-doc at Boehringer Ingelheim.
Dr. Courtney Labrecque, PhD in Chemical Biology, 2019 - 2024, currently a post-doc at UCLA.
Mackenzie Smith, PhD in Chemical Biology, currently in the lab of Dr. Adam Cook.
Lab Alumni, Undergraduates and REU students:
Allyson Payne (Undergraduate, 2024 - 2026)
Kyla Kang (Undergraduate, 2024 - 2026)
Olivia Cross (Undergraduate, 2024 - 2025)
George Zorn (Undergraduate, 2022 - 2023)
Sakinah Owens (Undergraduate, 2021 - 2022)
Alana Thomas-Yates (Undergraduate, 2022)
Olympia Otulakowski (REU student 2022, Gannon University)
Farheen Zaman (Undergraduate, 2020 - 2022)
Nadia Ali (Undergraduate, 2019-2022)
Aubree Nolan (REU student 2021, Gannon University)
Jed Kucharczk (Undergraduate, joint student with the Hartman lab)
Group photo, December 2024
Group photo, March 2024
Group photo, September 2023
Group Photo, April 2023
Group photo, September 2022
Group photo, October 2019