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REU Project List

Faculty Mentor Project Title
Paul Adams Biophysical Characterization of Proteins Assoicated 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
Colin Heyes Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Proteins and Biocompatible Nanocrystals
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
Peter Pulay Ab initio Calculation of the Vibrational and NMR Spectra of Protein Models
Joshua Sakon Structure and function of drug-targets
Derek Sears For an expanded REU program in Space Science see http://spacecenter.uark.edu/97.htm
Julie Stenken Measurement of Chemical Communication (Signaling) molecules, e.g., cytokines, neuropeptides, etc, 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
Nan Zheng Method Development, Organometallics and Organic Synthesis