Department of Chemistry

Roman Manetsch

Roman Manetsch
Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Department of Chemistry
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, CHE 205A
Tampa, FL 33620-5250

Office: (813) 974-7306, NES 331A
Lab: (813) 974-5326, NES 331
Email: manetsch@cas.usf.edu

Education

Diploma in Chemistry, University of Basel (Switzerland), 1998
Ph.D., University of Basel (Switzerland), 2002
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, CA), 2002-2005

Research Areas

The research of our laboratory focuses on the development of fragment-based lead discovery and optimization methods using synthesis of small molecules and liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry (LC-MS). We are especially exploring methods using the protein of interests to assemble high-affinity ligands from a pool of complimentary reacting fragments. Currently, we are applying our lead discovery methods for the discovery of therapeutic agents targeting cancer, malaria and infectious diseases. Additionally, our laboratory is developing chemical tools to specifically label proteins and/or to profile entire proteomes.

Graduate Researchers

Richard Cross, Sameer S. Kulkarni, Arun Babu Kumar, Katya Nacheva, Kurt Van Horn

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Xiangdong Hu

Undergraduate Students

Jordan Anderson, Jordany Maignan, Mario Martinez, David Z. Myers

Graduate Students Co-advised with Professor David Merkler

Shikha Mahajan

Current Courses (Fall 2008)

REF	PRX CRS	SEC	Course Title	CR	Day	Time	Bldg	Room
81827	CHM 2210	901	Organic Chemistry I M 5:15pm-6:05pm, scheduled exam time. You can register in organic lecture w/out the lab, but not	3	M T TR	5:15pm-6:05pm 5:15pm-6:05pm 6:30pm-7:45pm	CPR PHY BSF	103 108 100
81828	CHM 2210	902	Organic Chemistry I M 5:15pm-6:05pm, scheduled exam time. You can register in organic lecture w/out the lab, but not	3	M R TR	5:15pm-6:05pm 5:15pm-6:05pm 6:30pm-7:45pm	CPR CHE BSF	103 303 100
84642	CHM 2210	903	Organic Chemistry I M 5:15pm-6:05pm, scheduled exam time. You can register in organic lecture w/out the lab, but not	3	M M TR	5:15pm-6:05pm 6:20pm-7:10pm 6:30pm-7:45pm	CPR NES BSF	103 108 100
84643	CHM 2210	904	Organic Chemistry I M 5:15pm-6:05pm, scheduled exam time. You can register in organic lecture w/out the lab, but not	3	M W TR	5:15pm-6:05pm 6:20pm-7:10pm 6:30pm-7:45pm	CPR CHE BSF	103 301 100
80230	CHM 6935	001	Graduate Seminars in Chem S-U Only. Graduate Seminars are ONLY ON THURSDAYS. Tuesdays are only for special seminars, if required.	1	TR	9:30am-10:50am	CHE	100