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Blake Mertz, Assistant Professor

Office: 361 Chemistry Research Laboratory
Lab: 285 Chemistry Research Laboratory
Ph: (304) 293 – 9166
Fax: (304) 293 – 4904
Email: blake.mertz@mail.wvu.edu

B.S.: Chemistry, Loras College
Ph.D: Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University (Peter J. Reilly)
Postdoc: University of Arizona (Michael F. Brown)
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Postdocs

No positions are currently available.

Graduate Students

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Kyle Billings

B.S. Chemistry, Salisbury State

Research Project: Computational studies of pHLIP and proteorhodopsin

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Nick Frazee

B.S. Chemistry & Mathematics, Waynesburg University

Research project: computational studies on the binding, folding, and insertion of pHLIP

Hannah Scott
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B.S. Chemistry, West Liberty University

Research project: mechanistic understanding of the binding, folding, and insertion of pHLIP
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Alex Wroe

B.S., Chemistry, Shepherd University

Research project: Coarse-grained simulations of membrane-active peptides and membrane protein oligomerization.

The Mertz lab is no longer accepting graduate students.

Undergraduate Students

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Bryan Ho
​Biochemistry

Former lab members

Aleena Andrews, The College of New Jersey (REU)
Emily Ankrom, Waynesburg University (REU)
Michael Bates, B.S., Chemistry, West Liberty University (REU)
​Brooke Bertus, B.S., Biochemistry, WVU
Michael Block, B.S. Chemistry & Mathematics, WVU
Zach Bonham, B.S., Biochemistry, WVU
Violetta Burns Casamayor, Ph.D., WVU
Austin Clark, B.S., Biochemistry & Chemistry, WVU
Erin Cohan, B.S., Chemistry, WVU​
Conor Corcoran, B.S., Biochemistry, WVU
Sadegh Faramarzi Ganjabad, Ph.D., WVU
​Jun Feng, Ph.D.
Bethann Flint, B.S. Chemistry & Math, WVU
Kasey Freshwater, B.S. Biomedical Engineering, WVU
​Nina Graziano​, B.S. Chemistry, WVU
Chitrak Gupta, Ph.D., WVU
Trey Hanshew
​Eric Kaufmann
​Ahmad Kiani, Ph.D., WVU
Maddy Kukura
Jacob Layton, Waynesburg University (REU)
​Choongkeun Lee, Ph.D.
​Kyle Lindo, B.S., Chemistry, WVU
Liqing Ma, B.S., Chemistry, WVU
​Thomas Meadows
Dylan Miller, B.S., Biochemistry, WVU
Afsheen Misaghi, B.A., Theatre, WVU
Kelley Molchanoff, B.S., Chemistry, West Virginia Wesleyan
Caitlin Morrow
​Brandon Neeley, B.S. Chemistry & Biology, WVU
Preston Padden, B.S. Biochemistry, WVU
Molly Powney, B.S., Biochemistry, WVU
Sarah Riggin, Stevenson University (REU)
Yue Ren, M.S., Chemistry, WVU
Grant Robertson, B.S. Biochemistry, WVU
Jaycie Saseen, B.S. Chemical Engineering, WVU
Eric Sefah, Ph.D., WVU
​Shelly Uhl, undergrad in biochemistry, WVU
​Nick Walker, B.S. Biochemistry, WVU
Ph.D. chemistry program, University of Delaware
Ph.D. chemistry program, Lehigh University
​Industry
​WVU medical school

Ph.D. chemistry program, UC-Davis
WVU medical school
Postdoc at UT-Southwestern Medical Center (Alex Gorfe)
Ph.D. biophysics program, University of Denver
WVU Undergrad
​WVU medical school

Computational Scientist, FDA
PNC Bank
Industry
BME M.S. program, WVU​
Medical school
Computational Scientist, Schrodinger
Undergrad in Biochemistry, WVU
Undergrad in Biomedical Engineering, WVU
Postdoc at University of Maryland​​
Undergrad in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech
Ph.D. chemistry program, Arizona State University
Postdoc (currently in Industry)
​Industry

WVU medical school
​Undergrad in physics, WVU
Pathologist Assistant program, WVU
Dental school
WVU Medical Lab Science program
Undergrad in Chemical Engineering, WVU
WVU medical school
WVU medical school
WVU medical school​
​B.S. chemistry program, Stevenson University
WVU Health Sciences Center
WVU medical school
Industry
Postdoc at NIH (Joe Lindell)​
WVU undergrad
WVU dental school

Chemistry Research Laboratory Room 285
The C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26506

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