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The Drown Research Group is a interdisciplinary team of scientists tackling challenging problems facing human health and disease. At the center of our work is a belief in the proteoform hypothesis: that proteoforms are more tightly linked to phenotype than any other biomolecule and therefore represent the richest source of discovery.

Students in the Drown lab will learn cutting edge chemical biology techniques and be prepared for modern drug discovery. If you are interested in joining the Drown Research Group, contact Prof. Drown.

Lab Members

Bryon Drown

Bryon Drown

Assistant Professor

Bryon Drown joined Purdue Chemistry in 2022 as an Assistant Professor.

He attended Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL) where he received his B.S. in Chemistry in...

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Miranda Weigand

Miranda Weigand

Post-doctoral Researcher

Miranda is a graduate of Julia Laskin’s lab (Purdue University) where she conducted research with the nanoDESI mass spectrometry imaging platform. Miranda is currently studying...

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Gustavo Agreda

Gustavo Agreda

Chemistry Graduate Student
Class of 2022

Gustavo joined Purdue University in 2022 as an Analytical Chemistry graduate student. He attended the University of St. Thomas (Houston, TX) where he received his...

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Teagan Campbell

Teagan Campbell

Chemistry Graduate Student
Class of 2022

Teagan joined Purdue University in 2022 as an Analytical Chemistry graduate student. She came to Purdue after completing her undergraduate degree in chemistry at King’s...

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Debapriya Bhattacharya

Debapriya Bhattacharya

Chemistry Graduate Student
Class of 2023

Debapriya joined Purdue’s Chemistry Department in 2023 after getting a Master’s degree in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. In the Drown Lab, he...

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Isabella Feltenstein

Isabella Feltenstein

Chemistry Graduate Student
Class of 2023

Izzy came to Purdue University in 2023 to pursue her PhD in Analytical Chemistry. Her alma mater is Missouri S&T (Rolla, MO), where she received...

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Alumni

Sara Elshaboury

Sara Elshaboury

PULSe Graduate Student

Sara joined the Purdue’s interdisciplinary life sciences graduate program (PULSe) in Fall 2022. Sara graduated with a Master’s degree in Chemistry in August 2024.

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Amy Li

Amy Li

Undergraduate Student

Amy is a Chemical Biology major focused on performing the chemical synthesis of small-molecule probes to be used in chemical proteomics experiments. Amy is currently...

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Anju Sheregar

Anju Sheregar

Undergraduate Student

Anju is a Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology major focused on characterizing proteoforms that bear multiple post-translational modifications. She is currently a graduate student at...

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Kyle Harper

Kyle Harper

Undergraduate Student

Kyle is a Chemistry major focused on performing the chemical synthesis of small-molecule probes to be used in chemical proteomics experiments. Kyle currently works in...

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Mark Kelley

Mark Kelley

Undergraduate Student

Mark is a Biochemistry major focused on PTM-target top-down proteomics in B-cell lymphoma. Mark enjoys reading and unicycling in his free time. Mark is currently...

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