Jean K. Chung

Assistant Professor
C117 Chemistry, Colorado State University
e-mail: jkchung@colostate.edu
 

Jean is from Bloomington, Indiana, and obtained B.S. in chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington, then Ph.D. in chemistry at Stanford University with Professor Michael D. Fayer. Afterwards, Jean conducted postdoctoral research with Professor Jay T. Groves at University of California, Berkeley. She began her independent research career at Colorado State University in 2019.

Sein Min

Postdoctoral Scholar
C114 Chemistry, Colorado State University
e-mail: sein.min@colostate.edu
 
Sein is from Seoul, South Korea and completed her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Seoul Women’s University. Her current research project is lipid peroxidation. She enjoys gardening and Impressionist classical music by composers such as Maurice Ravel.
 
 

Shweta Shree

Postdoctoral Scholar
C114 Chemistry, Colorado State University
e-mail: shweta.shree@colostate.edu
 
Shweta joined CSU after PhD at University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, where she studied K-Ras interactions with lipids in nanodiscs. She is now working on multidomain protein assembly on membranes.
 
 

Alex Fenton

Graduate Student
C114 Chemistry, Colorado State University
e-mail: Alex.Fenton@colostate.edu
 
Alex is from Minnesota. His research focuses on the intermolecular interactions of multidomain kinases on membrane surfaces. In his free time, he enjoys outdoors activities such as running and hiking (and not just like everyone else says they do in Colorado).
 
 

Lucas Villalon

Graduate Student
C114 Chemistry, Colorado State University
e-mail: Lucas.Villalon@colostate.edu
 
Lucas is a native of San Antonio, TX, and graduate of Texas Tech University. He enjoys skiing, college football, and good Mexican food.
 
 
 

Katie Todd

Graduate Student

C114 Chemistry, Colorado State University
e-mail: Kathryn.Todd@colostate.edu
 
Katie is from North Carolina and received her B.S. in Biochemistry at Mars Hill University. Outside of academics, she enjoys snowboarding, running, bouldering, and spending time with friends at local coffee shops.
 
 

Nayeon Cho

Research Associate

C114 Chemistry, Colorado State University

 e-mail: nayeon.cho@colostate.edu
 
Nayeon is from Seoul, South Korea. She majored in chemistry at IUPUI and has a master’s degree from CHA University in Korea. She is a cat person and has two cats.
 
 

Jarrod Lang

Undergraduate Student

C114 Chemistry, Colorado State University
 
Jarrod is junior majoring in biochemistry. He is currently working on multidomain protein assembly on membranes. 
 
 
 

Val Pirnack

Undergraduate Student

C114 Chemistry, Colorado State University
 
Val is a senior majoring in chemistry. She is currently working on the lipid peroxidation project.
 
 
 
 

Noru

Shiba Inu
Noru is Jean’s dog. His job is to be cute and shed everywhere.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Former Members

Name Position Date
Cyrus Picou Jr., MS Graduate student 01/20 – 05/24
Harrison Lowater, MS Graduate student 11/23 – 03/25
Hannah Spoon, MS Graduate student 11/23 – 12/24
Tyler Jepson, BS Undergraduate student 04/19 – 08/21
Jayden Bishop, BS Undergraduate student 08/20 – 08/22
Aml Alnaas, PhD Postdoctoral scholar 04/20 – 05/22
Hyejin Jeong, PhD Postdoctoral scholar 09/21 – 01/24
Keunhong Jeong, PhD Visiting scholar 12/20 – 12/21
Adam Bower, BS NSF REU student 06/22 – 08/22
Colin Butrico NSF REU student 06/25 – 08/25