| 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 |
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| 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 |