Katherine J. Franz
Alexander Hehmeyer Professor
Chair, Department of Chemistry
Education
Ph.D. – Nitric Oxide Reactivity of Manganese, Iron and Cobalt Tropocoronands and Development of Fluorescent Aminotroponiminates for Nitric Oxide Sensing, Inorganic Chemistry, MIT 2000.
B.A. – Chemistry and French, Wellesley College, 1995
Experience
2015 – present: Professor, Department of Chemistry, Duke University
2010 – 2015: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Duke University
2003 – 2010: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Duke University
2000 – 2003: NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT
Graduate Students
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- Sara Tuck (5th year) sara.tuck@duke.edu Sara is investigating the interaction between metal ions and the antimicrobial peptide Clavanin
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- Taylor Outlaw (5th year)Taylor.outlaw@duke.edu
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- Addison Duda (4th Year)addison.duda@duke.eduAddison is developing prodrugs that hijack beta-lactamase activity to selectively kill drug-resistant bacteria in polymicrobial environments.
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- Amy Robison (4th year)amy.robison@duke.eduAmy is looking into how copper affects the conformation and stability of proteins within fungal, bacterial, and mammalian cells.
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- Leah Bontreger (4th Year)Leah.bontreger@duke.eduLeah studies metal catalyzed oxidation of physiologically-relevant peptides via synthesis, structural and functional characterization, and mechanistic probes.
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- Natalie Schulte (4th year)Natalie.schulte@duke.edu
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- Madeline Merriman (3rd year)Madeline.merriman@duke.edu
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- Carlos Monteagudo (3rd year) Carlos.monteagudo@duke.edu
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- Mackenzie Smith (1st year)
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- Sarah Seay (1st year)
Postdocs
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- Catherine Denning-Jannace catherine.denningjannace@duke.edu Catherine is studying the impact of metals on the yeast to hyphae transition of Candida albicans as well as the impact of azoles on C. albicans metallohomeostasis
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- Francesca Vaccaro francesca.vaccaro@duke.edu
Undergraduate Students
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- Sophia Kuhn
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- Andrew Dale
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- RyAnn Pryor
Alumni
Franz Lab Alumni: Please email Carlos (carlos.monteagudo@duke.edu) to update this page with what you’re doing now!
Former Graduate Students:
Lucy L. Liu, Duke PhD 2006
BioTherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences
Pfizer Inc., Andover, MA
Louise Charkoudian, Duke PhD 2008
Faculty, Haverford College
Lissette Perez, Duke MSc 2010
Tannas Co.
Katie Ciesienski, Duke PhD 2010
Reviewer at FDA, Rockville, MD
Kathryn Haas, Duke PhD 2011
Associate Professor of the Practice, Duke University
Jeffrey Rubino, Duke PhD 2011
Post-doctoral fellow, CERM, Florence, Italy
Sarah Crider, Duke PhD 2011
Faculty member, the Peddie School
Marina Dickens Leed, Duke PhD 2011
Analytical Scientist, BASF Crop Protection
Lynne M. Hyman, Duke PhD 2011
Research Square
Drew Folk, Duke PhD 2012
Vast Therapeutics
Qiang Su, Duke MA 2014
MSD, Beijing
Andrew Franks, Duke PhD 2014
Senior Scientist, Pfizer
Marian Helsel Davis, Duke PhD 2014
Scientist II, Biogen
Zeenat Razvi, Duke MSc 2015
Genentech
David Besse, Duke PhD 2016
FDA, Rockville, MD
Qin Wang, Duke PhD 2017
Mark Sleeper, Duke PhD 2017
GSK, Philadelphia, PA
Kacey Hall, Duke PhD 2018
Milliken Chemical, Development Engineer
Steven Conklin, Duke PhD 2019
Postdoc, Johns Hopkins Clinical Chemistry
Elizabeth Hunsaker, Duke PhD 2019
ACS/AAAS Congressional Science Fellow
Abigail Jackson, Duke PhD 2020
Baebies, Scientist III
Jacqueline Zaengle-Barone, Duke PhD 2020
BioAgilytix, Scientist I
Joanna Campbell, Duke PhD 2023
KBI Biopharma, Scientist I
Katie McAuliffe, Duke PhD 2023
Michigan State Technology Fellow
Former Postdocs:
Jianfeng Jiang
Faculty member, Yeshiva University
Yohannes Tesema
Adjunct professor, Northern Virginia Community College
David Pham
Avid Radiopharmaceuticals
Filip Kielar
Naresuan University
Bruno Alies
Associate Professor, Universite de Bordeaux
Subha Bakthavatsalam
Postdoc, RIKEN
Anton Razgoniaev
Postdoc, USC (Thompson lab)
Tyler Pinter
Senior Mass Spectrometrist, Syngenta RTP
Anna Gallo
Assistant Professor, The College of Wooster
Former Undergraduates:
David Newman (Duke ’04)
Rishi Parikh (Duke ’04)
Lauren Shea (Duke ’07)
Alison Kim (Bryn Mawr ’05)
graduate school: Northwestern Chemistry
Brandi Thomas (Duke ’05)
Istvan Nadas (Duke ’08)
Abbey Vangeloff: (Duke ’06)
graduate school: University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry
Daniel Yang (Duke ’08)
Ashley Kwon (Duke ’08)
law school
Samir Derisavifard (Duke ’09)
medical school
Daniel White (Duke ’09)
graduate school, ECU
Allison Putterman (Duke ’11)
Michael Chenkin (Duke ’11)
Katie Daniel (Duke ’09)
medical school
Stephanie Dreifuss (Duke ’10)
plastic and reconstructive surgery resident, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Robert Holbrook (Duke ’10)
graduate school, Northwestern, Chemistry
Marcus Kaplan (Duke ’11)
UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Justin Torosian (Duke ’12)
Jefferson Medical College Class of 2016
Rory McAtee (Lycoming College ’15)
Ryan Liu (Duke ’15)
Jacob Wiener (Duke ’16)
law school, UVA
Emma Bridgman (Saint Mary’s College ’17)
USDTL
Mike Wang (Duke ’17)
Kelley White (Duke ’17)
Pharmacy school, UT Austin
Spencer Telford (Duke ’17)
Matias Horst (Duke ’18)
Chemistry PhD program, Stanford
Vivian Lu (Duke ’18)
Petpailin (Paige) Wiangnak (Naresuan Univeristy, Thailand)
Max Xu (Duke ’19)
Post-bac, NIH
Azim Dharani (Duke ’20)
Churchill Scholar, Cambridge University
Elena Puccio (Duke ’20)
Researcher, Broad Institute (then Pitt Med)
Jaewon Moon (Duke ’20)
MedServe Fellow
Kevin Hwang (Duke ’20)
Bain & Company
Christine Suh (Duke ’21)
MD/PhD program, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Akasha Barreto (Duke ’21)
Logan Glasstetter (Duke ’21)
Seth Allen (Duke ’22)
Sean Gao (Duke ’23)
Chemistry PhD Program, Harvard
Rithik Castelino (Duke ’23)
Post-bac, NIH
Isa Williams (Duke ’23)
Consulting
Former High School Students:
Tanvi Dange (Peddie School ’17, Georgia Tech ’21)
Franz Lab Alumni: Please email Carlos (carlos.monteagudo@duke.edu) to update this page with what you’re doing now!
