HAMMOCK LAB
The Laboratory of Pesticide Biotechnology
Research Staff

Sung Hee Hwang
Assistant Project Scientist
Ph.D: Organic Chemistry, University of California, Davis, USA
MS: Organic Chemistry, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
B.S: Chemistry, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
easy.
Research Project:
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Synthesis and biological evaluation of dual inhibitors for cyclooxygenase-2 and double epoxide hydrolase using structure based design and modern medicinal chemistry tools
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Design and synthesis of inhibitors for human soluble epoxide hydrolase by parallel and combinatorial synthesis for the lead optimization based of SAR study, physical property determination and PK analysis
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Development of novel fluorescent assay reagents for rapid and previse measurement of environmental contaminants by labeling them with two fluorophores called ‘molecular tripod’

Christophe Morisseau
Associate Research Scientist
Ph.D: Organic Chemistry, University of the Mediterranee, Marseille, France
MS: Food Sciences, ESBANA, Dijon, France
B.S: Food Sciences, University of Nantes, Nantes, France
easy.
Research Project:
Study the role of esterases and epoxide hydrolases in biology and xenobiotics metabolism. Toward this purpose, study their mechanism of action, develop specific inhibitors and design fluorescent reporter assay; as well as studying the kinetic of hydrolysis of natural substrates. All of these mainly in mammals; but also in other organisms such as chicken or bacteria. Study also the role of phosphatase activity of sEH.

Jun Yang
Assistant Research Scientist
Ph.D: Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
B.S: Chemistry, Wuhan University, China
easy.
Research Project:
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Role of soluble expoxide hydrolase in lung diseases including asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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Metabolomics method development and applications including profiling the oxylipins such as eicosanoids
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Qualification and quantification of small molecules using chromatography and mass spectrometry
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Identification of proteins by chromatography and mass spectrometry
89 Briggs Hall
530-754-8884
80c Briggs Hall
530-752-6571
206 Everson Hall
530-752-5109

Mark McCoy
87 Briggs Hall

Karen Wagner
87 Briggs Hall

Yuxin Wang
Ph.D: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Research Project:
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sEH PROTAC project
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Toxicity of aflatoxin.