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Chemical Effects of Ultrasound
Bioinorganic Chemistry of Heme Proteins
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Chemical Effects of Ultrasound:
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Oleg Abramov
Professor, Russian Academy of Sciences;
Director of Research, Institute for Inorganic and General Chemistry.
Visiting Professor, UIUC, 1994.
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Dominick J. Casadonte, Jr.
B.Sc., Case Western Reserve University, 1980.
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1984 (D. McMillin).
Postdoctoral Associate, UIUC, 1984-1986.
Associate Professor, Texas Tech University.
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Seok-Burm Choe
B.Sc., Seoul National University, Korea.
Ph.D., Kansas State University (K. Klabunde).
Postdoctoral Associate, UIUC, 1987-8.
Associate Professor, Kei-Mgung University, Taegu, Korea.
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Richard Jun-Hong Chou
B.S., National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 1982.
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1995.
Staff Scientist, Merck Pharmaceuticals
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Andrzej A. Cichowlas
Postdoctoral Associate, UIUC, 1991-1994.
Research Scientist, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.
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Gennady Dantsin
B.S., State Univ. of New York, Binghamton, 1996.
Ph.D., UIUC, 2001.
Staff Scientist, Air Products, NJ
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Arul Dhas
B.S., Madurai Kamaraj University, 1988.
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1994.
Postdoctoral Associate, Bar-Illan University, Israel, 1995-1998.
Postdoctoral Associate, UIUC, 1998-2001.
Staff Scientist, Novellus Systems, San Jose, CA
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Elizabeth Dibbern
B.S., Univ. of Nebraska, 2002.
Ph.D., UIUC, 2007.
Staff Scientist, Tate and Lyle Corp., IL
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Yuri Didenko
B.S., M.S., Moscow State University, 1970-75.
Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1985.
Head of Laboratory, Pacific Oceanological Institute,Vladivostok, Russia.
Postdoctoral Associate, Visiting Professor, UIUC. 1999 - 2005.
Founder, UT Dots, Champaign, IL.
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Steven J. Doktycz
B.Sc., UIC, 1984.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Effects of Ultrasound on Solid-Liquid Reactions," 1989.
T. S. Piper Thesis Research Prize, UIUC, 1989.
Staff Scientist, Dow Chemical Co.
Chief Financial Officer, ANGUS (Dow subsidiary), 1999 - .
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Theodore Dolter
B.Sc., St. Louis University.
M.S., University of Illinois.
Assistant Professor, Southwestern Illinois College
tdolter@icon-stl.net
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Arash Ekhtiarzadeh
B.S., University of Scranton, 1997.
Ph.D., UIUC, 2001.
Staff Scientist, Bettis National Laboratory, Pittsburgh
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Mingming Fang
B.S., M.S., Beijing University, 1987-1990.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Catalytic and Magnetic Properties of Nanostructured
Materials Generated by Ultrasound," 1995.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pennsylvania State University (Mallouk).
Staff Scientist, Cabot Corp.
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David Flannigan
B.S., University of Minnesota, 2001.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Physical and Chemical Conditions During Single Bubble Sonoluminescence" 2006
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (Zewail).
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Edward B. Flint
B.Sc., Kenyon College, 1983.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Sonoluminescence," 1989.
Postdoctoral Associate, Professor H. Suhr, Tubingen, Germany.
Professor, Bradley University.
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Chanchal K. Ghosh
B.Sc., M.S., University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1975.
Ph.D., University of Alberta, 1989.
Staff Scientist, Fabric & Hard Surface Technology, Procter and Gamble
Company.
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Mark W. Grinstaff
A.B., Occidental College, 1987.
Ph.D., UIUC, "The Sonochemical Synthesis of Inorganic and Biological
Materials," 1992.
T. S. Piper Thesis Research Prize, UIUC, 1991.
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, H. G. Gray, California Institute of Technology.
ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Awardee, 1994.
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Boston University.
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Lev Grundel
Ph.D., M.S., Moscow University, 1983
Postdoctoral Associate, UIUC, 1991.
Staff Scientist, Great Lakes Analytical, Chicago.
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David A. Hammerton
B.Sc., Southern Connecticut State College, 1981.
Ph.D., UIUC, "The Sonochemical Hot Spot," 1987.
Staff Scientist, Rohm and Haas, Inc.
Technical Manager, UCB Chemicals.
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Stephen D. Hopkins
B.S., Washington and Lee, 2000.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Exploring the Limits of Cavitation", 2006.
Staff Scientist, Intel Corp.
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Kathleen A. (Kemper) House
B.Sc., M.S., Illinois State University, 1989.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Sonoluminescence As a Probe of Cavitation", 1994.
Asst. Professor, Illinois Wesleyan University.
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Taeghwan Hyeon
B.S., M.S., Seoul National University, 1991.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Nanostructured Catalytic and Magnetic Materials:
Sonochemical Synthesis and Characterization", 1996.
T. S. Piper Thesis Research Prize, UIUC, 1996.
Posdoctoral Research Associate, Northwestern University (W. Sachler),
1996-97.
Professor, Seoul National University, Korea.
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Robert E. Johnson
B.Sc., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1977.
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981 (L. Dahl).
Postdoctoral Associate, UIUC, 1983-84.
Staff Scientist, HOECHST Celanese Inc.
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Kenneth Kolbeck
B.S., University of New Mexico, 1991.
Ph.D., "Biomedical Applications of Protein Microspheres", University of Illinois, 1999.
M.D., University of Illinois, 2000.
Radiology Resident, Dartmouth Medical School, 2000- .
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Gregory Kufner
B.S., Illinois Wesleyan, 1995.
Ph.D., "Production and Surface Modification of Protein Microspheres," University of Illinois, 2000.
Staff Scientist, Abott Pharmaceuticals.
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Keith S. Kostecka
B.Sc., Illinois Benedictine College, 1982. M.S., UIUC, 1985.
D.Ed., UIUC at Chicago, 1990.
Professor, Columbia College, Chicago.
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Dong-Kyu Lee
Professor, Department of Industrial Chemical Engineering, Chungbuk National University, South Korea
Visiting Scholar, UIUC, 2003.
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Cathy Lee
B.S., Seoul National University, 2005.
M.S., UIUC, 2007.
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William B. McNamara III
B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph.D., UIUC, "Spectroscopic Studies of Sonoluminescence " 2002.
Principal Scientist, ChemSensing, Inc.
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Millan M. Mdleleni
B.Sc., University of Fort Hare (S. Africa), 1987.
Ph.D., Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, 1995.
Postdoctoral Associate, Univ. of Illinois, 1995-98.
Staff Scientist, Sasol Industries, S.A.
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James D. Oxley
B.S., Texas Christian
University, 1998.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Environmental Applications of Ultrasound", 2003.
Research Scientist, Southwestern Research Institute.
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Christian Petrier
Ph.D., Laboratoire de Photochemie U.S.M., Grenoble, 1982
Postdoctoral Associate, UIUC, 1988-89
Professor, ESIGEC/Universite de Savoie, France.
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Tanya Prozorov
M.S., Bar-Ilan
University, 1998.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Applications of High Intensity Ultrasound for Advanced Materials," 2004.
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Annabeth Ryder
B.S., Indiana University, 2002.
M.S., UIUC, "Properties of Sonochemically Producted Oxidative Dehydrogneation Catalysts", 2006
Staff Scientist, Owens-Corning Corp.
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Sara Skrabalak
B.A., Washington Univ., 2002.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis for Preparation of Porous Materials" 2007.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Washington (Y. Xia)
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Paul F. Schubert
B.Sc., University of Arkansas, 1978.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Sonochemistry of Some Metal Carbonyl Complexes," 1982. First Group Thesis!
Vice-President of Research & Development
Syntroleum Corp., Tulsa
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Won Hyuk Suh
B.S., M.S., Seoul National Univ., 2002.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Nanoparticles and Microspheres with Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis" 2007).
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California Santa Barbara (G. Stucky)
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Gregory Szewczyk
B.A., Northwestern University, 1995.
Ph.D., "Disulfide Crosslinking in Protein Microspheres", University of Illinois, 2000.
Staff Scientist, Colgate-Palmolive, N.J.
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Farah Jean-Jacques Toublan
B.S., M.S.,
SUNY-Stony Brook, 2000.
Ph.D., "Methods to Tailor Protein Microspheres for Biomedical Applications", UIUC, 2005.
Staff Scientist, General Electric Corporate Research, N.Y.
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Hau H. Wang
B.Sc., National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 1975.
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1981, (L. Pignolet).
Postdoctoral Associate, UIUC, 1981-83.
Staff Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory.
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Mike Wong
B.S., University of Tulsa, 1991.
Ph.D., Univ. of Illinois, "Sonochemically Produced Proteinaceous
Microspheres," 1996.
Senior Staff Scientist, Colgate-Palmolive, N.J.
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Bioinorganic Chemistry of Heme Proteins, Metalloporphyrins, and Sensors:
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Francis V. Acholla
B.Sc., University of Nairobi, Kenya.
Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1985 (K. B. Mertes).
Postdoctoral Associate, UIUC, 1985-86.
Assistant Professor, University of Nairobi, 1985-91.
Senior Research Chemist, Rohm & Haas.
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Mark D. Ball
B.S., Purdue University, 1982.
Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1987 (J. A. Olson).
Postdoctoral Associate, UIUC, 1988-90.
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering,
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
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Jie Bai
B.S., Beijing University, 2002.
M.S., UIUC, 2004.
217-333-1532
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David Benson
B. A., Goshen College, 1990.
Ph.D., UIUC, "New Intermediates of Cytochrome P450" 1997. (with Steve
Sligar)
Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University.
Asst. Professor, Wayne State University.
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Puttaiah Bhyrappa
B.S., M.S., Bangalore University, 1986
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1991.
Postdoctoral Associate, Univ. So. Cal., , 1991-93.
Postdoctoral Associate, Univ. of Illinois, 1994-97.
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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Mala Bhyrappa
B.S., M.S., Bangalore University, 1991
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1996.
Postdoctoral Associate, Univ. of Illinois, 1997.
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Chin-Ti Chen
B.S., Tamkang University, Taiwan, 1978.
M.S., National Taiwan University, 1982.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Porphyrins and Metalloporphyrins as Field Responsive
Materials," 1992.
Postdoctoral Associate, S. Marder, California Institute of Technology.
Research Faculty, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
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Homer Chou
B.S. University of Chicago, 1989.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Porphyrins as Second Order Nonlinear Optical Materials," 1995.
T. S. Piper Thesis Research Prize, UIUC, 1995.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northwestern University.
Staff Scientist, Cabot Corp., Aurora
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Bruce R. Cook
B.S., Hope College, 1981.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Shape Selective Oxidation of Hydrocarbons," 1986.
Staff Scientist, Exxon Research and Engineering.
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Daniel R. English
B.S., Ohio State University, 1979.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Synth. Fe Porphyrins as Models for Heme Proteins" (w/ D. N.
Hendrickson), 1984.
Unit Director, Eastman Kodak Company.
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Mary M. Fox
B.S., Indiana University-Evansville, 1978.
Ph.D., UIUC, "A Bis-Pocket Porphyrin," 1983.
Staff Scientist, Procter & Gamble Corp.
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Philip Gorlin
B.S., University of Texas at Austin, 1989.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Metalloporphyrin Sandwich Complexes," 1994. (with Greg Girolami)
Staff Scientist, Colgate Palmolive
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Christopher L. Hein
B.S., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1992.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Photosynthetic Reaction Center Analogs", 1997 (with Greg
Girolami)
Staff Scientist, General Electric Corp.
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David Huffman
M.S., Illinois State University, 1988.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Oligopeptide-Heme Complexes," 1993.
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, T. O'Halloran, Northwestern University, 1993-1997.
Staff Academic Professional, Northwestern University, 1997-2000.
Assoc. Professor, Western Michigan University
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Amy Hribar
B.S., UIUC.
Ph.D., UIUC, Libary Science, 2002
Librarian, Cell Biology & Neuroscience, Montana State University |
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Crystal Ingison
B.A., Albion College, 2003
M.S., UIUC, "Colorimetric Array Sensing: Detection of VOCs, TICs, and Bacterial Metabolites", 2006
Mayo Clinic
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Michael Janzen
B.S.,University of Manitoba, 1996.
Ph.D.,Univ. of Western Ontario, 2001.
Postdoctoral Associate, UIUC, 2003-5.
Apotex Fermentation Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Vijay K. Joshi
B.Sc., Punjab University, 1969. M.Sc., University of Jodhpur, 1971.
Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Associate, SUNY Buffalo, 1987 (J. H. Wang).
Postdoctoral Associate, UIUC, 1987-8.
Staff Scientist, Reheis Chemical Co.
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Warren A. Kaplan
B.S., Brandeis University, 1984.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Ligand Binding to Ni Porphyrins and F430," 1989.
Staff Scientist, Shell Corporate Research.
Research Chemist, Stepan Company.
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Michael G. Kinnaird
B.S., Guilford College, 1979. Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1983 (D.
Whitten).
Postdoctoral Associate, University of Kyoto, 1984 (I. Tabushi).
Postdoctoral Associate, UIUC, 1984-86.
Staff Scientist, BASF Chemical Co.
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Margaret E. Kosal
B.S., University of Southern California, 1996.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Porphyrin Network Materials," 2001.
Staff Scientist, Office of the Deputy Assisteant to the Secretary of Defense, Pentagon.
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Stanley N. Milam
B.S., University of Texas at Austin, 1984.
Ph.D., UIUC "Actinide Porphyrin Chemistry," ( with G. Girolami) 1989
Staff Scientist, Shell Chemical Co.
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Shirley Nakagaki
B.S., University of São Paulo, 1985; M.S., 1993.
Professor, Univ. Fed. do Paraná, Curitiba, 1992-.
Visiting Scholar, UIUC, 2002-2003.
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Saad N. Nemeh
B.S., University of Applied Chemistry, Syria, 1976.
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1984 (W. Kaska).
Postdoctoral Associate, UIUC, 1984-5.
Staff Scientist, Millennium Inorganic Chemicals, Baltimore.
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Bimal R. Patel
A.B., Occidental College, 1990.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Porphyrin Liquid Crystals," 1996.
Staff Scientist, General Electric Corp., Evansville.
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Alicia Paterno
B.S., Ithaca College, 1996.
Ph.D., UIUC, 2001.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh
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Neil Rakow
B.S., Colorado School of Mines, 1996.
Ph.D., UIUC, 2001.
Staff Scientist, 3M, Minneapolis.
nrakow@s.scs.uiuc.edu
217-333-1532
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Jennifer Beck Ralph
B.S., Ph.D., University of Queensland, Australia, 1983, 1987.
Postdoctoral Associate, UIUC, 1987-9 (joint with S. G. Sligar).
Research Scientist, Australian National University.
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Thomas J. Reinert
B.S., Iowa State University, 1979.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Mechanistic Probes of Heme Proteins" 1987.
Professor, Linfield College, Oregon.
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Michael Rosenblatt
B.S., Towson State University, 1992.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Synthetic Heme Peptide Complexes", 2000.
Postdoctoral Associate, U. Penn., W. DeGrado, 2000-03.
Director, Biotechnology Center, U. Penn.
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Avijit Sen
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1991.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, UIUC, 1999-2001.
Principal Scientist, ChemSensing, Inc.
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Cynthia A. Smith
B.Sc., Kenyon College, 1978.
M.S., UIUC, 1981.
Regulatory Consultant, Lorton, VA.
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B.S., University of Illinois, 1989.
Ph.D., "Nanoporous Porphyrinic Solids", UIUC, 2004
Postdoctoral Associate, Stanford University
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Shawne Van Deusen-Jeffries
A.B., Occidental College, 1987.
M.S., UIUC, 1991.
Research Scientist, Eli Lilly.
Chemist, AMTX Products, Division of XEROX Inc.
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B.S., University of Science and
Technology of China, 1998.
Ph.D., "Peptide Complexes of Metalloporphyrins", UIUC, 2003
Postdoctoral Associate, Scripps Institute.
Asst. Prof., Academia Sinica, Beijing.
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Randall A. Watson
B.Sc., Indiana State University, 1986.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Photochemistry of Metalloporphyrins" 1990.
Section Head, Beijing Technical Center, Procter and Gamble Company.
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Jeremy J. Weaver
B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College, 2000.
Ph.D.,California Institute of Technology, 2005.
Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Jennifer Wilson Ponder
B.S., Ball State University, 2000.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Colorimetric Sensor Array" 2006.
Staff Scientist, Procter and Gamble Company.
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Chen Zhang
B.S., Peking University, 1999.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Colorimetric Sensor Arrays for Aqueous Analysis" 2006.
Staff Scientist, Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals.
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Christopher Ziegler
A.B., Bowdoin College, 1992.
NSF Predoctoral Fellow, 1993-1996.
Ph.D., UIUC, "Ligand Studies of Group 8 Triad Metalloporphyrins," 1997.
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, Steve Lippard.
Associate Professor, University of Akron.
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Undergraduate Research Assistants:
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Eva Agha
B.A., Mt. Holyoke College, 2009
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Daniel P. Bailey
B.Sc., UIUC, "Artificial Olfaction by Colorimetric Sensor Arrays", 2006.
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Northwestern University.
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Jocelyn Bautista
B.Sc., UIUC, "Photochemistry of Manganese, Iron, and
Chromium Porphyrin Oxoanion Complexes by Matrix Isolation" 1991.
M.D., Washington University, St. Louis, 1995.
Resident Doctor, Yale New Haven Hospital.
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Ann Burkybile
B.Sc., UIUC, "Synthesis and Characterization of Discotic Macrocycle Liquid
Crystals," 1995.
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James Corbett
B.Sc., UIUC, 1982.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1987.
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Jennifer Cormack
Undergraduate Research Assistant, UIUC, Summer 1993.
B.Sc., California Institute of Technology, 1995.
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Peter Dorhout
B.Sc., UIUC, 1985.
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1989.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Iowa State University, 1989-91.
Associate Professor, Colorado State University.
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Joann Eisenhart
B.Sc., UIUC, "Synthesis and Characterization of a
"Bis-Pocket" Porphyrin, 1981.
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1986.
VP-HR, Pfizer.
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Julie Katzenberger
B.Sc., University of Illinois, "The Synthesis of 5, 10, 15, 20-Tetrakis-
(2, 4, 6-Triphenylphenyl) Porphyrin and the Effect of Hydrogen
Bonding on FeTPP(1, 2-Me2 Im) (Co), 1984.
M.S., Colorado State University, 1995.
Technical Librarian, Colorado State University.
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Melissa Lucarelli
B.Sc., UIUC.
M.D., University of Wisconsin.
Family Practice Resident, St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee.
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Eugene Mueller
B.Sc., UIUC, "Linkage of Bisporphyrin Complexes
to Generate an Eight Coordinate, Chiral Molecule," 1987.
Ph.D., Harvard University.
Assistant Professor, University of Delaware.
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Kristin Musgrave
B.Sc., UIUC, "Special Pair Models: Bisporphyrin-Sandwich Quinone Complexes," 1995.
Graduate Student, Stanford Unversity.
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Shannon Nebolsky
B.Sc., UIUC, "A Novel Synthesis of 5, 10, 15, 20-Tetrakis-
(2, 4, 6-Triphenylphenyl) Porphyrin: The "Bis-Pocket Porphyrin" 1987.
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1995.
J.D., Northwestern University, 1996.
Patent Attorney, Welsh & Katz, Ltd., Chicago.
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Erwin Park
B.S., UIUC, 2007.
Chemist, PPG, Inc., Pittsburgh
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Jennifer Plaszczynski
B.Sc., UIUC, "Polymeric Microspheres," 1994.
Graduate Student in Pharmacy, UIC.
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Dimitrii Rassokhin
B.Sc., Moscow Lomonosov State University, Dept. of Chemistry, 1983-88.
Non-matriculated Student, UIUC, 1995.
Ph.D., Moscow Lomonosov State University, 1996.
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Nicole Stewart
B.S., UIUC, 2002.
M.M.S., Physcian Asst., Midwestern University, 2005.
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Ben Suslick
University High School, Class of 2010.
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Anita Yu
B.Sc., UIUC, "The Synthesis, Characterization and Photochemistry
of Oxo(5, 10, 15, 20-Tetraphenylporphyrinato)Chromium (IV), 1989.
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1986.
Senior Scientist, Parke Davis Co.
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