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Daniel L. Akins, Professor B.S., Howard Univ.; Ph.D., Univ. of California Physical; Spectroscopy and dynamics of absorbed, aggregated molecules on surfaces through application of linear and nonlinear Raman scattering techniques. Electron transfer in porphyrin systems. Valeria Balogh-Nair, Professor B.Sc., Univ. of Louvain, Ph.D. Organic; Synthesis and mode of action of bioactive substances. Teresa J. Bandosz, Professor B.Sc., Univ. of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, M.Sc.; Ph.D., Technical Univ. of Krakow, Poland Analytical: adsorption of pollutants, surface characterization, new sorbents and catalysts, Adsorption/desorption phenomena, gas separation. Ronald L. Birke, Professor B.S., Univ. of North Carolina; Ph.D., M.I.T. Mechanisms of electrode reactions, electrodeposition studies, theory and methodology of electroanalytical techniques; theory and applications of Surface Enhanced Raman spectroscopy at electrodes; electronic structure and vibrational spectral calculations of molecules on metal clusters and at the active sites of enzymes; redox chemistry of vitamin B12 and porphyrin compounds and cobalamin and heme dependent enzymes. Vernon G. S. Box, Professor B.Sc., Univ. of West Indies, Ph.D. 0rganic; Natural product synthesis. Bio-organic, Molecular Modeling,Theoretical organic. David H. Calhoun, Professor B.A., Birmingham-Southern College; Ph.D., Univ. of Alabama Gene regulation in Escherichia coli K-12, microbial genetics, gene cloning and sequencing, protein purification; Fabry disease, an inherited disease associated with a deficiency of alpha-galactosidase A, isolation of cDNA and genmic clones, enzyme replacement therapy, cell and tissue specific regulation of enzyme synthesis. Marco Ceruso, Assistant Professor Ingenieur Chimiste, CPE Lyon; Ph.D., University of Stony Brook Computational Biophysiccs; Transmembrane Signal Transduction; Allosteric Mechanisms in Biological Function; Development of Coarse grain Force Fields for Simulation of Macroscopic Molecular Systems; Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing. Ranajeet Ghose, Assistant Professor B.Sc. Presidency College (India); M.Sc. IIT, Kanpur (India); M. S., Ph.D. Yale University Biophysics, Structural Biology, NMR Spectroscopy David K. Gosser, Professor B.S., St. Joseph's Univ.; Ph.D., Brown Univ. Analytical; Electroanalytical chemistry. Low temperature and time resolved electrochemistry. Data analysis and simulation in chemistry. Electron transfer in biological systems. Michael E. Green, Professor A.B., Cornell Univ.; M.S., Yale Univ., Ph.D. Physical; Gating mechanism of channels in biological membranes, Monte Carlo simulations of water in confined spaces, ab initio calculations on proton transfer. Urs Jans, Assistant Professor Dipl., ETH Zurich; Ph.D., EAWAG/ETH Zurich, Switzerland Environmental organic; Organic contaminants in aquatic environments. George John, Associate Professor B.Sc., University of Kerala; M. Sc., Mahatma Gandhi University, India; Ph.D. University of Kerala, India Organic Materials, BioNanotechnology and Green Chemistry: Synthesis and self-assembly of biobased amphiphilic building blocks, lipid nanotubes, low molecular weight gelators, liquid crystals, biodegradable polymers and nanoparticle synthesis. Glen R. Kowach, Associate Professor B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ph.D., Cornell University Inorganic; Physical; Solid-State; Materials; Nanotechnology; Synthesis, structure, properties, and reactivity of solids; Single crystal growth of gallium nitride; Doping and fabrication of zinc oxide thin films; Synthesis of multicomponent glasses for integrated planar optical waveguide devices. Mahesh K. Lakshman, Associate Professor B.Sc., M.Sc. University of Bombay (India); M.S., Ph.D., University of Oklahoma Organic synthesis, chemistry of modified nucleosides and DNA, studies on chemical carcinogenesis and transition metal mediated synthesis Themis Lazaridis, Associate Professor Dipl., Aristotle Univ., Greece; Ph.D., Univ. of Delaware Theoretical and Computational Biophysics; Protein Folding, Molecular Recognition, Thermodynamics of Biological processes. John R. Lombardi, Professor A.B., Cornell Univ.; M.A., Harvard Univ., Ph.D. Physical; Application of lasers to infared, Raman, and optical spectroscopy of chemical as well as biochemical species. Multphoton effects and electrode surfaces. Theoretical studies in momentum space. Kevin Ryan, Assistant Professor B.S. Providence College; M.S., Ph.D. University of Rochester RNA biochemistry and processing; Medicinal and Bio-Organic Chemistry; Chemical Genetics. Issa I. Salame, Assistant Professor B.S., the City College of New York; Ph.D., Graduate School and University Center (CUNY) Chemistry Education: improving students' conceptual understanding of chemistry, identifying common misconceptions, student-centered instructional reform, pre-service and in-service teacher training Simon A. Simms, Associate Professor and Chair B.S., The City College; Ph.D., Princeton Univ. Molecular biology, enzymology and structure-function studies of methyltransferases. Ruth E. Stark, Distinguished Professor A.B., Cornell Univ.; Ph.D., Univ. of California, San Diego Molecular biophysics of fatty acid transport; structure and development of protective plant polymers; NMR spectroscopy. Mark L. Steinberg, Professor B.A., Univ. of Michigan; Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania Modulation of transcription of intermediate filaments genes by DNA tumor virus infection of human epithelial cells; oncogene activation and action in epithelial cell transformation. Maria Tamargo, Professor B.S., Univ. of Puerto Rico, Rio Pedras; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Univ. Molecular Beam Epitaxy of II - VI and III- V semiconductors; liquid phase epitaxy. Growth and properties of semiconductor thin films and multi layers. Maria Luisa Tasayco, Associate Professor B.S., Central Michigan Univ; M.S., Purdue Univ.; Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook Biophysics and Biochemistry: Studies of stability, folding and binding of model proteins involved in cell proliferation and cellular response to DNA damage. Zhonghua Yu, Assistant Professor B.S., University of Science and Technology of China; Ph.D. Columbia University Physical Chemistry and Nanotechnology: Synthesis and self-assembly of Nanocrystals and Nanorods; Single molecule spectroscopy of nano-materials and conjugated polymers; Magneto-optics and electron spin dynamics of magnetic semiconductor nanocrystals Barbara Zajc, Associate Professor Dipl., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees: University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) Fluorinated hydrocarbon synthesis, chemical carcinogenesis, chiral recognition studies, development of synthetic methods. Recently RetiredHorst Schulz, ProfessorM.S., Technical Univ. Berlin, Ph.D. Regulation of fatty acid metabolism; degradation of polyunsaturated fatty acids, prostaglandins and leukotrienes; suicide inhibitors of fatty acid oxidation; organization of multienzyme complexes; interaction of enzymes with membranes; transport of fatty acids. Neil McKelvie, Professor M.A., Cambridge Univ.; Ph.D., Columbia Univ. Organic: Organophosphorus chemistry. Cyclic poly-ylides; quaternary ammonium-, phosphonium-, and pyridinium methyl substituted phosphorus compounds; polycyclic phospholes. Thomas Haines, Professor B.S., The City College, M.A.; Ph.D., Rutgers Univ. Conformation and dynamics of lipids and proteins in membranes. The role of lipids in ion transport, proton movements and protein dynamics. The application of these to bioenergetics, membrane disease, cell membrane receptors, and vision. Vesicles. Why we make cholesterol. Theodore Axenrod, Professor B.A., New York Univ., Ph.D. Organic; Nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; organic mass spectrometry; stereochemistry. Energetic Materials. Stanley R. Radel, Professor B.A., New York Univ., M.S., Ph.D. Physical. Quantum mechanics; perturbation theory; theoretical determination of molecular potential constants and related parameters; quantum mechanics of enclosed systems Henri L. Rosano, Professor Bacc Math. Elem., Univ. deAix-Marseille; Licencie en Sc. Paris; Ingenieur dipl. de L'Ecole Nationale Sup. de Chimie de Paris Physical: Monolayers, membranes, polymers, aerosols, emulsions, multiple emulsions, microemulsions, surfactants, phase changes, uItralow interfacial tensions, artifical blood substitutes. Charlotte S. Russell, Professor B.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Columbia Univ., Ph.D. Chemistry and biology of heme biosynthesis: identifying the genes and proteins involved in catalysis and regulatron of the pathway. Michael Weiner, Professor A.B., Cornell Univ.; Ph.D., M.I.T. Inorganic Chemistry. Workshop chemistry as a new model of instruction. Professors EmeritiJohn S. ArentsFrancis E. Condon Myer M. Fishman Herbert Meislich Jack I. Morrow Hugh W. Salzberg Leonard H. Schwartz Amos Turk Arthur E. Woodward
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