current members

Current Members


Ying Lin, postdoc
Jose Tormos, postdoc
Maria Afanasyeva, postdoc
Joel Panay, graduate student
Shelley Henderson-Pozzi, graduate student
Shanzhi Wang, graduate student
Bekir Engin Eser, graduate student
Jun Li, graduate student
Colette Daubner, visiting professor from St Mary's University
Austin Beatty, undergraduate student from St Mary's University
Jaclyn Bermudez, undergraduate student from St Mary's University
Crystal Olivas, undergraduate student from UTSA




Dr. Fitzpatrick and Alex Pavon, recent PhD, moved to Princeton


Bekir at the FPLC


Shelley in the next door yeast lab


Jun setting up some PCR


Joel at the oxygen electrode



Maria at the bench


Ying at the HPLC


Jose at the bench


Jaclyn stuck doing dishes


Crystal with the clean glassware


Austin pouring a gel


Shanzhi at the spectophotometer


Colette at the centrifuge

Past Members


Giri Sura at the stopped-flow


Erik Ralph at the spec

Tom McGInnis at the spectophotometer

Mike Valley and Patrick Frantom at the Fitzes'

Alex Pavon at the HPLC

Tori Baxter Leonard at the FPLC

Paul Juarez at the stopped-flow spec

Jack Moore, a high school student doing a science fair project

Montse Royo at the gel workspace

Faryal Masud at the bench


Janie Womac with the orchids

Vijay at his bench
photograph of Shah in the lab
Shah Ali of Rutgers, our 2004 NSF intern

Nana Fenny, our 2003 NSF summer undergraduate intern (to learn about NSF internships, click here.)


Meredith Gardner
Fitzpatrick Lab
Biochemistry Dept.
UT Health Science Center
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio TX 78229
210-567-8264