Faculty Mentor

Project Title

Paul Adams

Biophysical Characterization of Proteins Associated with Signal Transduction

Neil Allison 

Synthesis and Chemistry of Potential Organometallic Anticancer Drugs

Dan Davis

Protein-Protein Interactions in Photosynthesis: Structure-Function Relationships in Electron Transfer Proteins

Ingrid Fritsch 

Microelectrochemical detection and microfluidics for lab-on-a-chip applications: protein, DNA, and microorganism analysis

Denise Greathouse

Characterization of structure and peptide-lipid interactions of membrane active antimicrobial peptides

Bob Gawley

Synthetic and mechanistic organ(ometall)ic chemistry; or Chemosensors for detection of marine toxins

Roger Koeppe

Biophysical Studies of Single-Span Transmembrane Proteins and Membrane Channel Gating

T.K.S. Kumar

Structure, dynamics, folding and interactions of proteins

Matt McIntosh

Total Synthesis of Biomedically Significant Complex Natural Products

Frank Millett 

Biological Electron Transfer

David Paul 

Development of Chemical Sensors for Clinical and Environmental Applications

Xiaogang Peng

Rational Synthesis and Manipulation of Colloidal Nanocrystals

Peter Pulay

Ab initio Calculation of the Vibrational and NMR Spectra of Protein Models

Joshua Sakon

Structure and function of drug-targets

Derek Sears 

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Julie Stenken

Measurement of Chemical Communication (Signaling) molecules, e.g., cytokines, neuropeptides, etc, or Biosensors, or In Vivo Chemical Analysis

Wes Stites 

Exploring the influence of the denatured state upon protein stability, or
Isolation, characterization, and impact upon blood clotting of human thrombomodulin in disease.

Z. Ryan Tian

Syntheses and applications of ordered and complex nanostructures

Charles Wilkins

Matrix-assisted Laser Desorption Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry for Whole-Cell Bacteria and Polymer Analysis