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Research Projects for 2007

Chemistry
FACULTY DISCIPLINE REU PROBLEM TITLE
Jeff Aubé
Professor
Organic/Medicinal New methods for the Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles
Mikhail V. Barybin
Associate Professor
Organometallic, Inorganic/Materials Synthesis of azulene-bridged organometallics relevant to molecular electronics
Cindy L. Berrie
Associate Professor
Analytical
Physical
Biological
Nanoscale investigations of electronic properties of organic thin films
Shih-I Chu
Watkins Distinguished Professor
Physical/Theoretical
Computational
Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
Heather Desaire
Associate Professor
Analytical
Biological
Pharmaceutical
Glycosylation analysis in glycoproteins using enzymatic digestion and mass spectrometry
Richard S. Givens
Professor
Organic
Biological

Rapid, Controlled Release of Neurotransmitters, Nucleotides & Other Bioactive Substrates

Paul R. Hanson
Professor
Organic
Medicinal
New methods in phosphorus chemistry
Joseph A. Heppert
Professor and Chair
Inorganic and Organometallic Materials, Chem. Education Ruthenium carbide Chemistry
Timothy A. Jackson
Assistant Professor
Inorganic
Investigations of bio-inspired transition metal catalysts
Carey K. Johnson
Professor
Physical/Biophysical
Biological

Laser spectroscopy for Studying single biomolecules and fluorescence-based assays

Michael A. Johnson
Assistant Professor
Analytical

Measuring Neurotransmitter Release and Uptake in Huntington’s disease and Fragile X Syndrome

Krzysztof Kuczera
Professor
Physical/Theoretical
Biological
Computational
Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry
Julian Limburg
Assistant Professor
Inorganic
Analytical
Characterization of a new viral prolyl-4-hydroxylase
Helena C. Malinakova
Associate Professor
Organic
Medicinal
Allylpalladium mpolung strategies: Development of new Pd-catalyzed multi-component reactions for organic synthesis
Eric J. Munson
Professor
Analytical
Pharmaceutical
Materials
Solid-State NMR Studies of Pharmaceutical
Minae Mure
Assistant Professor
Organic Inhibitors for Quinoproteins
Ward Thompson
Associate Professor
Physical
Biological
Computational
Molecular dynamics simulations of nanoconfined solvents
Jon Tunge
Associate Professor
Organic
Materials
Medicinal
Development of new reactions for the synthetic chemists toolbox
David Weis
Assistant Professor
Analytical
Biological

Characterizing order-disorder transitions in natively disordered proteins