ast group members can be found in the list below with links to their erstwhile project plus current position/whereabouts. If there are errors or updates, or you can help us locate missing alumni, please e-mail me on peter.karuso@mq.edu.au

• Thesis: Approaches to the synthesis of the sulfinamide group in the preparation of an analogue of FK506.
• Status: Works for Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals

• Email: phaynes@email.arizona.edu
• Research: Analysis and synthesis of O-glycosylated peptides.
• Status: Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona and Director of Proteomics, Institute of Biomedical Science and Biotechnology, Tuscan USA.

• Thesis: The synthesis of isotopically-labelled biphenyls and their use in the study of the microbial degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
• Status: Patent Lawyer.

• Email: annetted@bigpond.net.au
• Thesis: The biodegradation of biphenyl and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
• Status: Director, Water Futures, Sydney.

• Email: leon@cambia.org.au
• Thesis: Synthesis of ¹³C- and ²H- labelled analogues of 4-chlorobiphenyl for use in the study of polychlorinated biphenyl.
• Status: Operations Manager, Cambia

• Email: durkin@cchem.berkeley.edu
• Research: Parameterisation of the CVFF forcefield for use in the computer aided design of FKBP inhibitors and DNA binding compounds.
• Status: Director, Graphics Facility, University of California, Berkeley USA.

• Email: chand@rsc.anu.edu.au
• Thesis: Isolation of compounds from marine molluscs and development of a spectrophotometric bioassay.
• Status: PhD Student - ANU Research School of Chemistry - Natural Products Synthesis

• Project: The Synthesis of novel analogues of the immunosuppressant FK506.
• Status: Completing Law degree, Macquarie University, Sydney.

• Email: Kirsten.Benkendorff@flinders.edu.au
• Project: Rapid screening for antimicrobial compounds in the exocrine secretions of ants
• Status: Lecturer in Marine Biology @ Flinders University
• Other: Young Australian of the Year for Science and Technology 2000

• Thesis: Cloning and overexpression of human FKBP into E. Coli.
• Status: Unknown

• Email: anna@bmb.sdu.dk
• Thesis: Cloning and overexpression of human FKBP-12 in E.coli BL-21.
• PhD, Karolinska Institute, 2004
• Status: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern Denmark

• Email: Pernilla.Lindskog@hassle.se.astra.com
• Thesis: Establishment of a peptidyl prolyl isomerase (PPIase) bioassay, using recombinant human FKBP.
• Status: Protein engineer - Astra structural chemistry group, Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Email: mlqhotsokoane@nul.ls
• Thesis: Medicinal plants of Lesotho - secondary metabolites.
• Status: Lecturer in Chemistry - National University of Lesotho, Lesotho.

• Email: dmoran@chem.usyd.edu.au
• Thesis: Computer aided design of FKBP12 ligands.
• Status: Sesquicentential Fellow, University of Sydney

• Email: emma.proudfoot@roche.com
• Thesis: NMR spectroscopy and molecular modelling of chiral ruthenium complexes with DNA
• Status: Working for Roche Pharmaceuticals.

• Email: yelyahnworb@hotmail.com
• Thesis: Isolation and characterisation of pigments from Epicoccum nigrum.
• Status: School Teacher

• Email: Anna.Tarasova@csiro.au
• Thesis: Synthesis of novel thiol-based inhibitors of cysteine proteases
• Status: PhD student CRCert UNSW/CSIRO (Melbourne)

• Email: Jean-Marc.Poudrel@ucb-group.com
• Status: Head of Analytical Development, UCB-Bioproducts, Brussels, Belgium.

• Email: stephencork@yahoo.com.au
• Thesis: Adventures with Marine Natural Products
• Status: Working in Leeton, NSW

• Email:
• Thesis: Synthesis of Peptidyl Sulfinamides as Novel Cysteine Protease Inhibitors
• Status: Chemist at Phytex Australia

• Email: hyun_seok@hotmail.com
• Thesis: Synthesis of Peptidyl Sulfenamides as Novel Cysteine Protease Inhibitors
• Status: Working in Korea

• Email: christinemurray01@hotmail.com
• Thesis: Isolation and characterisation of compounds from marine sponges
• Status: Studying Chinese Herbal Medicine at UWS

• Email: asawicki@els.mq.edu.au
• Thesis: Synthesis of labelled and unlabelled S-Adenosyl-L-methionine to help characterise the role of the enzyme S-adenosyl-L-methionine: Magnesium protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase from Rhodobacter capsulatus
• Status: Defected to Biological Sciences

• Email: ju_co_jae@web.de
• Project: NMR structural approach to selective recognition of DNA by transition metal complexes
• Status: Returned to Germany

• Email: katecoyle@excite.com
• Project: Phage Display
• Status: Returned to Ireland

• Email: e.pleskonics@zeiss.com.au
• Project: Live Cell Bioimaging using Latent Fluorophores
• Status: Carl Zeiss Australia

• Email: a.piggott@imb.uq.edu.au
• Project: Reverse Chemical Proteomics and Phage Display
• Status: Postdoc at IMB, University of Queensland

• Email: akriegel@rna.bio.mq.edu.au
• Project: Construction of Phage Display libraries
• Status: Postdoc at the Innovative Grain Foods CRC, Macquarie University