Nemanja Vuksanovic, PhD

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Hofstra University

Nemanja Vuksanovic earned his PhD in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee under the guidance of Dr. Nicholas R. Silvaggi, where he studied enzymes involved in L-enduracididine biosynthesis, with a focus on the catalytic mechanism of the PLP-dependent oxidase MppP.

He subsequently joined the laboratory of Dr. Karen N. Allen at Boston University as an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow and held an appointment as a visiting scientist in Dr. Barbara Imperiali’s laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied the structural determinants governing substrate specificity in glycosyltransferases involved in Campylobacter N-linked protein glycosylation.

Nemanja is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Hofstra University, where his research group investigates the molecular mechanisms of enzymes involved in the biosynthesis and modification of complex bacterial glycoconjugates.

Outside the lab, he enjoys indie music shows, playing electric guitar, and trying to befriend every cat he meets.