Research

Faculty Profiles

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Edward Arnold, Professor

• Crystallographic studies of human viruses and viral proteins; molecular design

Jean Baum, Professor

• Structural studies of proteins by nuclear magnetic resonance techniques

Helen M. Berman, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry

• X-ray crystallographic and molecular modelling studies of biological molecules

Robert Boikess, Professor

• General Chemistry texts; multi-lecturer course development and coordination

John Brennan, Professor

• Molecular and solid-state inorganic chemistry; thin films and nanometer-sized clusters molecules

Kenneth J. Breslauer, Linus C. Pauling Professor, Dean and Vice President, Life and Health Sciences

• Biopolymer structures and drug-nucleic acid interactions

David Case, Professor

• Theoretical/Computational

Edward W. Castner Jr., Professor

• Ultrafast laser spectroscopy in condensed phases; electron-transfer and solvation dynamics

Kuang-Yu Chen, Professor

• Biophysical and biological chemistry; polyamines in cancer and aging

Martha A. Cotter, Professor

• Theoretical studies of liquid crystalline systems

Richard H. Ebright, Professor

• Protein-DNA interaction; protein engineering; regulation of gene expression

Eric L. Garfunkel, Professor and Chair

• Nanoelectronics, surface and interface science, alternative energy materials

Alan Goldman, Professor

• Organometallic chemistry: reactions, mechanisms, photochemistry, and catalysis

Lionel Goodman, Professor Emeritus

• Torsional barriers

Martha Greenblatt, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry

• Solid-state chemistry; high Tc superconductors, low-dimensional solids, ionic conductors

Gene S. Hall, Professor

• Applied analytical chemistry; trace analysis of environmental and geological samples

Gregory F. Herzog, Professor

• Origin and evolution of solar system materials; cosmogenic radionuclides

Jane Hinch, Associate Professor

• Molecular beam-surface interactions; surface diffractive techniques

Kai Hultzsch, Assistant Professor

• Synthesis of chiral organometallic complexes

Stephan S. Isied, Professor

• Reaction mechanisms of manganese in proteins; intramolecular electron transfer

Leslie Jimenez, Associate Professor

• Synthesis and characterization of analogues of antitumor antibiotics and coenzymes

Roger A. Jones, Professor

• Modified/labeled DNA fragments: synthesis and characterization

Charalampos (Babis) Kalodimos, Associate Professor

• Structural & Mechanistic Biology; Protein Dynamics & Allostery

Spencer Knapp, Professor

• Total synthesis of natural products and the development of new synthetic methods

Joachim Kohn, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry

• Biotechnology; synthesis of biopolymers; peptide chemistry

John Krenos, Professor

• Collision dynamics of electronic energy transfer

Karsten Krogh-Jespersen, Professor

• Computational studies of molecular electronic structure

Catherine L. Lawson, Associate Research Professor

• X-ray crystallography of surface antigens and DNA-binding proteins

Jeehiun Katherine Lee, Professor

• Jee Lee, Biophysical organic and analytical chemistry, computational chemistry, mass spectrometry, study of chemical reactivity, recognition, and catalysis

KiBum Lee, Assistant Professor

• Develop and integrate nanotechnologies and chemical functional genomics

Ronald M. Levy, Board of Governors Professor

• Computer studies of protein structure, function, folding and dynamics; chemical physics of liquids

Jing Li, Professor

• Inorganic and solid-state chemistry; hybrid materials and nanostructures

Joseph Marcotrigiano, Assistant Professor

• Crystallographic studies of hepatitis C viral proteins

Robert A. Moss, L. P. Hammett Professor

• Organic chemistry in aggregates; chemistry of reactive intermediates

Wilma K. Olson, Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry

• Theoretical studies of nucleic acid conformation, properties, and interactions

Joseph A. Potenza, Professor

• Molecular structure; X-ray diffraction; magnetic resonance

Laurence S. Romsted, Professor

• Membrane mimetic/micellar/association colloid chemistry, chemical trapping via arenediazonium ions/reaction mechanisms

Heinz D. Roth, Professor

• Chemistry of reactive intermediates; nuclear spin polarization; electron spin resonance

Ronald R. Sauers, Professor Emeritus

• Organic photochemistry; molecular mechanics

Harvey J. Schugar, Professor Emeritus

• Coordination chemistry, special pair mimics, inhibiting oxidative damage in neurological disease and trauma

Daniel Seidel, Assistant Professor

• Organic synthesis and methodology. Asymmetric catalysis using organocatalysts, transition metals and multi-component systems.

David Talaga, Associate Professor

• Protein folding and conformational dynamics, single molecule microscopy, time resolved fluorescence, statistical information theory, amyloid formation

John Taylor, Professor

• Bioactive peptide design and synthesis; protein engineering, ligand-receptor interactions

Sidney Toby, Professor Emeritus and Lecturer

• Chemical kinetics, chemiluminescence and chemical education

Kathryn Uhrich, Professor

• Design and synthesis of novel, degradable polymeric materials

Ralf Warmuth, Associate Professor

• Host-guest chemistry and peptide chemistry

Lawrence J. Williams, Associate Professor, J.L.R. Morgan Chair of Synthetic Chemistry

• Natural product total synthesis, development of synthetic vaccines, design and synthesis of complex proteins

Xumu Zhang, Professor

• Synthetic organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry, transition metal catalyzed asymmetric reactions for the synthesis of biologically active compounds, biomimetic chemistry, ...