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2009-2010 Research Advisors
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Professor Research Topics Current Undergraduates Enrolled in Chemistry 49900
Mahdi Abu-Omar

(mabuomar@purdue.edu)

Catalysts, Agents of Change, for Making Renewable Fuels Curt Bougher
Steven A. Adelman*

(saa@purdue.edu)

I. Theory of Chemical Reaction Dynamics in Liquids

II. Theory of Irreversible Processes

 
Dor Ben-Amotz*

(bendor@purdue.edu)

I. Laser Raman Spectroscopy

II. Liquid Computer Simulation & Theory

Breanna Browder
Matt Fay
Sichen Li
Debra McCaffrey
Phil McClory
Minou Bina*

(bina@purdue.edu)

I. Codes in Human DNA

II. Organization of Human Transcription Factor Genes

Elise Novorolsky
George M. Bodner*

(gmbodner@purdue.edu)

Web-Based Instruction in Chemistry  
Ji-Xin Cheng

(jcheng@purdue.edu)

I. Biological Imaging With Advanced Optical Microscopy

II. Nanophotonics and Nanomedicine

 
Jean Chmielewski*

(chml@purdue.edu)

I. Design and Synthesis of Anthrax Anti-Toxins

II. Development of Drug Delivery Agents to Cells

Aaron Marshall
Kyoung-Shin Choi

(kchoi1@purdue.edu)

Electrochemical Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials  
R. Graham Cooks*

(cooks@purdue.edu)

I. Miniature Mass Spectrometers

II. Physical Organic Chemistry in the Gas Phase

Celine Bland
Chittaranjan Das

(cdas@purdue.edu)

  Kari Hall
Holly Huseman
Chad Morreale
Star Rostankov
Amy Davidson

(adavidso@purdue.edu)

Mechanisms of Transmembrane Transport Ryan Carpenter
Mallory Lay
Brian Dian

(dianb@purdue.edu)

  Brian McCormack
Dan McMahon
Joe Francisco

(jfrancis@purdue.edu)

  Daniel Beck
Shakeel Dalal
Huang Quoc Doan
Phylindia Gant
Simon Soliman
Sarah Stelzleni
Narin Tangprasertchai
Siyuan Yang
Phil Fuchs

(pfuchs@purdue.edu)

   
Arun Ghosh

(akghosh@purdue.edu)

   
Christine Hrycyna*

(hrycyna@purdue.edu)

Molecular Targets for Cancer Therapeutics Dorothy Cupka
Amanda Lines
Joshua Nieher
Kristina Thorsell
Albena Ivanisevic

(albena@purdue.edu)

I. Surface Chemistry of Retinal Tissues

II. Nanoscale Patterning of Peptides on Semiconductor Surfaces

 
Sabre Kais*

(kais@purdue.edu)

I. Electronic Structure of Atoms & Molecules

II. Quantum Phase Transitions

III. Pivot Methods for Global Optimization

 
Hilkka Kenttamaa

(hilkka@purdue.edu)

I. Studies of Organic Biradicals

II. Mass Spectrometry

Shivani Daiya
Dane De Sutter
Ryan Eismin
Andre Koop
Mark Lipton*

(lipton@purdue.edu)

I. Synthesis of Urea-Based Peptidomimetics

II. Conformational Analysis of Pseudopeptides

 
Philip S. Low*

(plow@purdue.edu)

 

I. Evaluation of Therapies for Cancer and Inflammatory Diseases in Animal Models

II. Characterization of the Human Red Cell Membrane

Vanessa Fabrizio
Grace Kang
Rebecca Sorber
Chengde Mao

(mao@purdue.edu)

Functional DNA Nanotechnology Nicholas Reed
Hsiang Su
Scott A. McLuckey

(mcluckey@purdue.edu)

I. Chemistry of Isolated Polymer Ions

II. Bio-Ion Chemistry

 
David R. McMillin

(mcmillin@purdue.edu)

I. DNA Binding Agents

II. Porphyrin Chemistry

C. Gianapoulous
Greg Michalski

(gmichalski@purdue.edu)

I. Environmental Chemistry; Air Pollution & Water Pollution

II. Analytical Chemistry; Mass Spectrometry

Christa Dahman
Dan McMahon
Andrew Shrum
Mary B. Nakhleh

(mnakhleh@purdue.edu)

Technology & Learning in Chemistry  
Ei-ichi Negishi

(negishi@purdue.edu)

I. Organotransition Metal Chemistry for Organic Synthesis

II. Catalysis With Metals

III. Asymmetric Synthesis

Nick Truex
Daniel Raftery*

(raftery@purdue.edu)

I. Early Disease Detection

II. Solar Powered Hydrogen Production

III. Bioanalytical NMR

Shelli Cone
Heather Heilipstedt
Sara Henkens
Mia Kim
Addy Shipley

P. V. Ramachandran

(chandran@purdue.edu)

I. Discovery of Novel Organic Reaction Methodologies

II. Synthesis of Biologically Active Molecules

III. Materials for Alternate Energy

Susan Owens
Sadie Smith
Mark Tozzi
Matthew Walters
Mary Zellers
Fred E. Regnier

(fregnier@purdue.edu)

  Elaheh Kamali
Tong Ren*

(tren@purdue.edu)

I. Molecular Wires and Molecular Devices

II. Inorganic Dendrimers and Polymers for Photovoltaics

Alex Geanes
Sergey Savinov

(ssavinov@purdue.edu)

I. Synthetic Methods Development in Peptide and Peptidomimetic Research

II. Chemical Biology of Cyclic Peptides

III. Searching for Rare Properties with Genetic Selections

Andrew Drahos
Kavita Shah

(kavita.shah.1@purdue.edu)

  Kevin Bree
Patrick Conley
Elizabeth Roller
Paul Warning
Paul Shepson*

(pshepson@purdue.edu)

I. Development of Methods for Aircraft-Based Atmospheric Measurements

II. Study of Snowflake Morphology and Chemical Composition

III. Atmospheric Organic Nitrogen and Climate Change

Jordan Elliot
Arisa Iwasaki
Benjamin Nault
Tennie Renkens
Garth Simpson

(gsimpson@purdue.edu)

Non-Linear Optics Ryan Davis
Nicholas Ingram
Kevin Jacobs
Tony Ren
Nikolai R. Skrynnikov

(nikolai@purdue.edu)

  Nathan Benjamin
Lyudmila Slipchenko

(lslipchenko@purdue.edu)

  Alysia Lowe
Linda Swihart*

(swihart@purdue.edu)

Profiled, Interactive & Secure Lab Safety Training on the Web  
W. Andy Tao

(watao@purdue.edu)

I. Nanopolymers for Functional Proteomics

II. Biological Mass Spectrometry

 
David H. Thompson*

(davethom@purdue.edu)

I. 2D Protein Crystallization

II. Triggerable Drug Delivery: Kinetic Studies

III. Supported Membrane Biosensors

Andrew Buesking
Michelle Glaunert
Lauren Heavin
Laura Marholz
Luke Uhrig
Adam Wasserman

(awasser@purdue.edu)

I. Surprising Dipole Moments of Heteronuclear Diatomics

II. Quantum Chemistry In One Dimension

Erin Biddle
Gabriela C. Weaver

(gweaver@purdue.edu)

Developing and assessing instructional technologies and other novel educational techniques, including new experiments Tanja Alavanja
Darby Brignac
Melanie Buchanan
Brad Kim
Elizabeth Nork
Alex Wei

(alexwei@purdue.edu)

I. Surface-Enhanced Vibrational Spectroscopy on Nanoporous Gold

II. Assembly of Dithiocarbamates on Nanoparticles

III. Synthesis of Higher Monosaccharides from 4-deoxypentenosides

Patrick Haller
James Newton
James Ryan
Paul G. Wenthold

(pgw@purdue.edu)

Investigation of the Properties of Small Metal Oxide Anions Paul Jones
Jonathan J. Wilker

(wilker@purdue.edu)

I. Metal-Linked Nucleic Acid Drugs

II. Preventing Cancer With Metals

III. Adhesives from the Ocean

Huang Chia Chang
Chris Gilles
Allison Mattes

Timothy S. Zwier*

(zwier@purdue.edu)

I. Laser Spectroscopy of Combustion Intermediates

II. Laser Photochemistry of Relevance to Planetary Atmospheres

III. Laser Spectroscopy of Biologically Relevant Neutrals and Ions

 

*These faculty members are willing to take students in other majors such as math or computer science.

Updated 3/4/09