Dr. José Almirall
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Associate Professor
Director, Forensic Science Graduate Program
B.S. Florida International University
M.S. University of Miami
Ph.D. University of Strathclyde
Analytical Chemistry, Forensic Science, Development and application of analytical chemistry tools to enhance the value of scientific evidence in legal disputes. Instrument and method development including the use of LA-ICP-MS, LA-HR-ICP-MS and LIBS for the characterization of inorganics and the use of GC-MS, GC-MS-MS and IMS for the characterization of organic compounds of interest to forensic scientists.
Office: CP 316, (305) 348-3917
Lab: CP 194, (305) 348-6657
FAX: (305) 348-3772
IFRI Website
E-Mail
Webpage
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Dr. Yong Cai
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Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director
B.S. Ocean Universitiy of Qingdao
M.S. Nankai University
Ph.D. Nankai University
Max Planck Society Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
Ministry of Education of Spain, Fellowship, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo (C.I.D.-C.S.I.C.), Spain
Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Science, Environmental BioAnalytical chemistry of organometallic compounds, development of new analytical techniques for specification of some environmentally and biomedically important elements organometallics and their biogeochemical cycling in the environment.
Office: CP 315, (305) 348-6210
Lab: CP 397, (305) 348-6235
FAX: (305) 348-3772
Website
E-Mail
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Dr. Kenneth G. Furton
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Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Professor
B.S., University of Central Florida;
Ph.D., Wayne State University;
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University College of Swansea, Wales, U.K.
Analytical Chemistry, Forensic Science, Physicochemical studies and applied aspects of gas, liquid, and supercritical fluid. chromatography, supercritical fluid extraction, solid phase microextraction, forensic chemistry, arson and explosives analysis and canine detection of chemicals.
Office: ECS 447, (305) 348-2041
Lab: CP 345, (305) 348-3694
FAX: (305) 348-3772
E-Mail
Course Link(s)
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Dr. Piero R. Gardinali
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Associate Professor
B.S.,Universidad Simon Bolivar;
M.Sc., Universidad Simon Bolivar;
Ph.D., Texas A&M University;
Research Associate, Texas A&M University
Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Science, Source fate and transport of organic pollutants in marine ecosystems; analytical chemistry of organic contaminants; biological markers of chemical exposure.
Office: CP 329, (305) 348-6354
Lab: CP 348, (305) 348-6249
FAX: (305) 348-3772
E-Mail
Webpage
Research Group
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Dr. Bruce McCord
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Associate Professor
B.S. The College of William and Mary
Ph.D. The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Analytical/Forensic Chemistry, Studies in the application of chromatographic techniques in the analytical and forensic sciences. Examples include the development of novel methods for DNA analysis using capillary electrophoresis (CE) with soluble polymers and laser induced fluorescence. Other work involves applications of PCR and CE in the study of degraded DNA. In the area of toxicological analysis we use of microfluidic and other nanotechniques in the trace detection of drugs in biological fluids. We also have applied these tools for fundamental studies of DNA conductivity. Lastly, we utilize capillary electrophoresis and mass spectrometry in the analysis and detection of explosives residue.
Office: CP 313, (305) 348-7543
Lab: HLS2 290, (305) 348-7833
Cell:
(786)390-7091
FAX: (305) 348-3772
Website
E-Mail |
Dr. Bruce Dunlap |
Professor and Director of Science and Technology, Office of Sponsored Research Administration
B.S., Beloit College;
Ph.D., Indiana University;
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation
Biochemistry, Med/Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Enzyme mechanisms; protein chemistry; chemistry of coenzymes, nucleotides, and drugs and their interaction with enzymes, biochemical NMR spectroscopy; clinical chemistry, selenium biochemistry.
Office: HLS 385, (305) 348-7665
FAX: (305) 348-7624
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Dr. John T. Landrum
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Professor
B.S., California State University, Long Beach;
M.S., California State University, Long Beach;
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Study of metalloporphyrins, axial ligation equilibria and synthesis models for biologically important heme metalloproteins. Study of hydroxycarotenoids in human tissue.
Office: CP 327, (305) 348-3091
Lab: CP 354, (305) 348-3120
FAX: (305) 348-3772
Website
E-Mail
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Dr. Watson Lees |
Associate Professor
B.S. McGill University
Ph.D. Harvard University
Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, The use of organic chemistry to study biochemical problems such the folding of disulfide containing proteins. Many extracellular proteins and almost all pharmaceutically relevant proteins contain disulfide bonds. The folding of these proteins in vitro is slow and methods of increasing the folding rate are being investigated.
Office: CP 314, (305) 348-3993
Lab: CP 373, (305) 348-6162
OE 251-252, (305) 348-3978
E-mail
Webpage |
Dr. Fenfei Leng
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Associate Professor
B.S., Nanjing University, Nanjing, P.R. China;
Ph.D., University of Mississippi Medical Center;
Postdoctoral training, Johns Hopkins University
Biochemistry, ProteinDNA interaction. DNA supercoiling and the coupled reactions
Office: CP 317, (305) 348-3277
Lab: CP 174,
FAX: (305) 348-3772
Website
E-Mail
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Dr. Jaroslava Miksovska |
Assistant Professor
B.S. Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic M.S. Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Ph.D. University Paris XI – Orsay, France
Biochemistry, biophysics, structure – function relationship in proteins, ligand-protein interactions, heme proteins, calcium binding proteins, photothermal methods.
Office: CP 406
Phone: (305) 348-7406
Fax: (305) 348-3772
E-Mail
Website |
Dr. Kathleen Rein
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Associate Professor
Director of the ARCH Program at FIU
B.S., University of Central Florida
M.S., University of Central Florida
Ph.D., University of Miami
NIH Fellowship, University of Miami
Biochemistry, Med/Pharm Chemistry, Marine natural products chemistry. Identification, pharmacology and biosynthesis.
Office: CP 323A, (305) 348-6682
Lab: OE 314, (305) 348-4033
FAX: (305) 348-3772
E-mail
Webpage
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Dr. Uma Swamy |
Lecturer and General Chemistry Coordinator
B.Sc (Microbiology) University Of Bombay
M.Sc (BioChemistry)University of Mumbai
Ph.D (Chemistry) Arizona State University, Tempe
Biochemistry
Office: CP 307, (305) 348-2601
E-mail
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Dr. Xiaotang Wang |
Associate Professor
B.S. Shaanxi Normal University
Ph.D. University of Iowa
Structural and functional characterization of heme proteins containing thiolate axial ligand. Design and engineering of metalloproteins for asymmetric catalysis. Enzymatic synthesis of chiral synthons. NMR spectroscopic study of the active site structure of paramagnetic metalloproteins. The role of metal ions in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
Office: CP 308, (305) 348-7544
Lab: HLS 265, (305) 348-7528
Email
Website |
Dr. Stephen A. Winkle
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Associate Professor
B.S., University of Kentucky
M.S., University of Kentucky
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
NIH Fellowship, 1981, University of Rochester
Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Fellowship, University of Rochester
Biochemistry, Nucleic acid structures, protein-DNA, antitumor drug-DNA, carcinogen-DNA interactions.
Office: CP 309, (305) 348-2855
Lab: CP 383, (305) 348-3639
FAX: (305) 348-3772
E-Mail
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Dr. John Berry |
Assistant Professor
Environmental Chemistry, Marine chemistry
Office: CP 346, (305) 348-3525
Lab: CP 346, (305) 348-3525
FAX: (305) 348-3772
Website
E-Mail |
Dr. Yong Cai
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Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director
B.S. Ocean Universitiy of Qingdao
M.S. Nankai University
Ph.D. Nankai University
Max Planck Society Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
Ministry of Education of Spain, Fellowship, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo (C.I.D.-C.S.I.C.), Spain
Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Science, Environmental BioAnalytical chemistry of organometallic compounds, development of new analytical techniques for specification of some environmentally and biomedically important elements organometallics and their biogeochemical cycling in the environment.
Office: CP 315, (305) 348-6210
Lab: CP 397, (305) 348-6235
FAX: (305) 348-3772
Website
E-Mail
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Dr. Kenneth G. Furton
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Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Professor
B.S., University of Central Florida;
Ph.D., Wayne State University;
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University College of Swansea, Wales, U.K.
Analytical Chemistry, Forensic Science, Physicochemical studies and applied aspects of gas, liquid, and supercritical fluid. chromatography, supercritical fluid extraction, solid phase microextraction, forensic chemistry, arson and explosives analysis and canine detection of chemicals.
Office: ECS 447, (305) 348-2041
Lab: CP 345, (305) 348-3694
FAX: (305) 348-3772
E-Mail
Course Link(s)
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Dr. Piero R. Gardinali
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Associate Professor
B.S.,Universidad Simon Bolivar;
M.Sc., Universidad Simon Bolivar;
Ph.D., Texas A&M University;
Research Associate, Texas A&M University
Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Science, Source fate and transport of organic pollutants in marine ecosystems; analytical chemistry of organic contaminants; biological markers of chemical exposure.
Office: CP 329, (305) 348-6354
Lab: CP 348, (305) 348-6249
FAX: (305) 348-3772
E-Mail
Webpage
Research Group
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Dr. Rudolf Jaffé
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Professor
Director of Southeast Environmental Research Center
B.S., Universidad Simon Bolivar,Venezuela ;
Ph.D., Indiana University
CNRS Fellowship, Universite Louis Pasteur, France;
Organic Geochemistry, Environmental Chemistry
Dr. Jaffé's expertise is in the area of environmental organic geochemistry and biogeochemistry. He is particularly interested in the application of molecular marker analysis in biogeochemical cycling of carbon by determining the origin, fate and transport of organic matter in tropical and subtropical aquatic environments. In addition, his group is heavily involved in studying the environmental dynamics of natural dissolved organic matter (DOM), particularly in sub-tropical wetlands and estuarine environments. These studies include molecular characterization of DOM components using a suite of state-of-the-art analytical techniques, as well as photo-degradation and bioavailability determinations. Laboratory facilities include GC, GC/MS, GC-irMS, pyrolysis-GC/MS, GC-AED, solid state 13C- and 15N-NMR, TMAH thermo-chemolysis, various spectroscopic techniques including Emission Excitation Matrix fluorescence, HPLC-SCE, and others.
Office: OE 148, (305) 348-2456/3095
Lab: CP 342, (305) 348-3118/6085
FAX: (305) 348-4096
Website
E-Mail
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Dr. José Almirall
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Associate Professor
Director, Forensic Science Graduate Program
B.S. Florida International University
M.S. University of Miami
Ph.D. University of Strathclyde
Analytical Chemistry, Forensic Science, Development and application of analytical chemistry tools to enhance the value of scientific evidence in legal disputes. Instrument and method development including the use of LA-ICP-MS, LA-HR-ICP-MS and LIBS for the characterization of inorganics and the use of GC-MS, GC-MS-MS and IMS for the characterization of organic compounds of interest to forensic scientists.
Office: CP 316, (305) 348-3917
Lab: CP 194, (305) 348-6657
FAX: (305) 348-3772
IFRI Website
E-Mail
Webpage
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Dr. Kenneth G. Furton
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Professor and Associate Dean
B.S., University of Central Florida;
Ph.D., Wayne State University;
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University College of Swansea, Wales, U.K.
Analytical Chemistry, Forensic Science, Physicochemical studies and applied aspects of gas, liquid, and supercritical fluid. chromatography, supercritical fluid extraction, solid phase microextraction, forensic chemistry, arson and explosives analysis and canine detection of chemicals.
Office: ECS 447, (305) 348-2041
Lab: CP 345, (305) 348-3694
FAX: (305) 348-3772
E-Mail
Course Link(s)
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Dr. Bruce McCord
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Associate Professor
B.S. The College of William and Mary
Ph.D. The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Analytical/Forensic Chemistry, Studies in the application of chromatographic techniques in the analytical and forensic sciences. Examples include the development of novel methods for DNA analysis using capillary electrophoresis (CE) with soluble polymers and laser induced fluorescence. Other work involves applications of PCR and CE in the study of degraded DNA. In the area of toxicological analysis we use of microfluidic and other nanotechniques in the trace detection of drugs in biological fluids. We also have applied these tools for fundamental studies of DNA conductivity. Lastly, we utilize capillary electrophoresis and mass spectrometry in the analysis and detection of explosives residue.
Office: CP 313, (305) 348-7543
Lab: HLS2 290, (305) 348-7833
Cell:
(786)390-7091
FAX: (305) 348-3772
Website
E-Mail |
Dr. John T. Landrum
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Professor
B.S., California State University, Long Beach;
M.S., California State University, Long Beach;
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Study of metalloporphyrins, axial ligation equilibria and synthesis models for biologically important heme metalloproteins. Study of hydroxycarotenoids in human tissue.
Office: CP 327, (305) 348-3091
Lab: CP 354, (305) 348-3120
FAX: (305) 348-3772
Website
E-Mail
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Dr. Konstantinos
Kavallieratos
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Assistant Professor
B.S., University of Athens, Greece
M.S., Yale University
Ph.D., Yale University
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Inorganic Chemistry, Supramolecular chemistry, molecular recognition, and selfassembly. Application of hydrogen bonding in organometallic chemistry, ion sequestration and separation, altering chemical reactivity, designing figand environments for metals, and mimicking biological systems. Novel materials for selective separation and sensing of environmentally and biologically important ions.
Office: CP 326, (305) 348-6034
Lab: CP 356, (305) 348-6986
CP 354, (305) 348-3120
FAX: (305) 348-3772
Email
Webpage
Teaching
Research
Publications
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Dr. Ramon
Lopez de la Vega
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Associate Professor
B.S., University of Miami;
Ph.D., University of Miami
Postdoctoral Appointment, University of Miami
Inorganic Chemistry, Kinetics, mechanisms and thermochemistry of inorganic reactions.
Office: CP 329, (305) 348-3086
Lab: CP 346, (305) 348-3525
FAX: (305) 3483772
Website
E-Mail
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Dr. Xiaotang Wang |
Associate Professor
B.S. Shaanxi Normal University
Ph.D. University of Iowa
Structural and functional characterization of heme proteins containing thiolate axial ligand. Design and engineering of metalloproteins for asymmetric catalysis. Enzymatic synthesis of chiral synthons. NMR spectroscopic study of the active site structure of paramagnetic metalloproteins. The role of metal ions in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
Office: CP 308, (305) 348-7544
Lab: HLS 265, (305) 348-7528
Email
Website |
Dr. David Becker
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Associate Professor
B.A. University of Rochester
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Research Associate, Columbia University
Organic Chemistry, Azulenyl nitrones, spin trapping, neuroprotection, neurodegeneration, free radicals, aging.
Office: CP 318, (305) 348-3736
Lab: CP 376a, (305) 348-1040
FAX: (305) 348-3772
E-Mail
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Dr. Arthur Herriott
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Professor
BA.,College of Wooster;
Ph.D., University of Florida;
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton University;
Organic Chemistry, phase transfer catalysis, organophosphorus chemistry, stereochemistry.
Office: CP 312
TEL: (305) 348-2037
FAX: (305) 348-3772
E-Mail
Website
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Dr. Rudolf Jaffé
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Professor
Director of Southeast Environmental Research Center
B.S., Universidad Simon Bolivar,Venezuela ;
Ph.D., Indiana University
CNRS Fellowship, Universite Louis Pasteur, France;
Organic Geochemistry, Environmental Chemistry
Dr. Jaffé's expertise is in the area of environmental organic geochemistry and biogeochemistry. He is particularly interested in the application of molecular marker analysis in biogeochemical cycling of carbon by determining the origin, fate and transport of organic matter in tropical and subtropical aquatic environments. In addition, his group is heavily involved in studying the environmental dynamics of natural dissolved organic matter (DOM), particularly in sub-tropical wetlands and estuarine environments. These studies include molecular characterization of DOM components using a suite of state-of-the-art analytical techniques, as well as photo-degradation and bioavailability determinations. Laboratory facilities include GC, GC/MS, GC-irMS, pyrolysis-GC/MS, GC-AED, solid state 13C- and 15N-NMR, TMAH thermo-chemolysis, various spectroscopic techniques including Emission Excitation Matrix fluorescence, HPLC-SCE, and others.
Office: OE 148, (305) 348-2456/3095
Lab: CP 342, (305) 348-3118/6085
FAX: (305) 348-4096
Website
E-Mail
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Dr. Leonard Keller
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Professor
B.A., Rutgers University;
M.S., Yale University;
M.Phil., Yale University;
Ph.D., Yale University;
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Brandeis University
Organic Chemistry, Organic synthesis, development of new synthetic methods; use of transition metal organometallics in synthesis.
Office: CP 325, (305) 348-3081
FAX: CP 352, (305) 348-3397
E-Mail
Website
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Dr. Watson Lees |
Associate Professor
B.S. McGill University
Ph.D. Harvard University
Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, The use of organic chemistry to study biochemical problems such the folding of disulfide containing proteins. Many extracellular proteins and almost all pharmaceutically relevant proteins contain disulfide bonds. The folding of these proteins in vitro is slow and methods of increasing the folding rate are being investigated.
Office: CP 314, (305) 348-3993
Lab: CP 373, (305) 348-6162
OE 251-252, (305) 348-3978
E-mail
Webpage
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Dr. Kevin O'Shea
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Professor
B.S.(Honors), California State University, Sacramento
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Texas
Organic Chemistry, Characterization of reactive intermediates and reaction mechanisms in hydroxyl radical and singlet oxygen mediated oxidations
Office: CP 310, (305) 348-3968
Lab: CP 387, (305) 348-3974
FAX: (305)348-3772
E-Mail
Webpage
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Dr. J. Martin E. Quirke
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Professor
B.S.,University of Liverpool
Ph.D., University of Liverpool
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Bristol
Organic Chemistry, Porphyrin chemistry and geochemistry; phototoxic natural products; mass spectrometric analyses.
Office: CP 334, (305) 348-3093
Lab: CP 376a, (305) 348-6681
ACII 387, (305) 919-5885
FAX: (305) 348-3772
E-mail
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Dr. Kathleen Rein
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Associate Professor
Director of the ARCH Program at FIU
B.S., University of Central Florida
M.S., University of Central Florida
Ph.D., University of Miami
NIH Fellowship, University of Miami
Biochemistry, Med/Pharm Chemistry, Marine natural products chemistry. Identification, pharmacology and biosynthesis.
Office: CP 323A, (305) 348-6682
Lab: OE 314, (305) 348-4033
FAX: (305) 348-3772
E-mail
Webpage
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Dr. Stanislaw Wnuk
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Associate Professor,
Department Chair
M.S., Poznan Technical University, Poland
Ph.D., Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
D.Sc., Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta
Research Associate Professor, Brigham Young University
Organic Chemistry, Chemistry of nucleosides and nucleotides with applications in anticancer and antiviral medicine; design and synthesis of mechanism-based inhibitors.
Office: CP 325, (305) 348-6195
Lab: CP 352, (305) 348-3397
FAX: (305) 348-3772
E-Mail
Webpage
Course Link
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Dr. David Chatfield
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Associate Professor
B.A., Carleton College (Chemistry)
M.A., Middlebury College (German);
Ph.D., University of Minnesota (Chemistry);
NRC Fellowship, 1992-1995,
NIH Bethesda, MD
Chemical Physics, Physical Chemistry, Protein dynamics; QM/MM simulation methods;enzyme mechanism.
Office: CP 336, (305) 348-3977
Lab: OE 101, (305) 348-1198
FAX: (305) 348-3772
Website
E-Mail
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Dr. Jeffrey Joens
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Professor
B.S. University of Illinois, 1976
Ph.D. Indiana University, 1984
Chemical Physics, Physical Chemistry,
Measurement and interpretation of UV-visible gas phase absorption spectra of small molecules. Thermodynamics and spectroscopic properties of weakly bound molecular complexes in both the gas phase and condensed phase. Spectroscopic studies of carbonyl compounds in aqueous solution. Kinetic and photochemical processes in planetary atmospheres.
Office: CP 331, (305) 348-3121
Lab: CP 347, (305) 348-3525
FAX: (305) 348-3772
E-Mail
Webpage
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Dr. Alexander Mebel
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Associate Professor
B. Sc., Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys;
Ph.D., Kurnakov's Institute
Theoretical Physical Chemistry / Quantum Chemistry
Office: CP 332, (305) 348-1945
FAX: (305) 348-3772
Lab: OE 101, Ph.: 305-348-1198
Website
E-Mail
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