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Jonathan J. Wilker
Current Position:
Associate Professor of
Chemistry, Purdue University
Research and teaching in
bioinorganic chemistry. Specific projects include the study of
marine adhesive materials, cancer prevention by dietary metals,
and nucleic acid drug design.
Background:
Postdoctoral Scholar in
Biochemistry 1996-1999, California Institue of Technology.
Laboratory of Professor Harry B. Gray.
Ph.D. in Chemistry 1996,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory of Professor
Stephen J. Lippard.
B.S. in Chemistry 1991,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Laboratory of Professor
Michael J. Maroney.
Recent Awards:
One of the Ten Best Teachers in the College of Science, Purdue University (~250 faculty) (2008)
College of Science Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Teaching by an Assistant Professor, Purdue University (2005)
One of the Ten Best Teachers in the College of Science, Purdue University (~250 faculty) (2005)
One of the Ten Best Teachers in
the College of Science, Purdue University (~250 faculty) (2004)
Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation
Research Fellowship (2002)
Arnold
and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Young Investigator Award (2001)
National Science
Foundation
Faculty
Early Career Development (CAREER) Award (2001)
Publications Prior
to Arrival at Purdue University:
From Postdoctoral Period:
"Substrates for Rapid
Delivery of Electrons and Holes to Buried Active Sites of
Proteins"
Jonathan J. Wilker, Ivan J.
Dmochowski, John H. Dawson, Jay R. Winkler, and Harry B. Gray
Angewandte Chemie
International Edition in English, 1999, Volume 38,
pages 89-92. Link to this article.
"Optical Detection of
Cytochrome P450 by Sensitizer-linked Substrates "
Ivan J. Dmochowski, Brian R.
Crane, Jonathan J. Wilker, Jay R. Winkler, and Harry B. Gray
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences USA, 1999, Volume 96, pages
12987-12990. Link to this article.
From Graduate Studies:
"Methylation of
Iron-Sulfur Complexes by Trimethyl Phosphate"
Jonathan J. Wilker and Stephen
J. Lippard
Inorganic Chemistry, 1999,
Volume 38, pages 3569-3574. Link to this article.
"Methyl Transfer to
Mercury Thiolates: Effects of Coordination Number and Ligand
Dissociation"
Jonathan J. Wilker, Karen E.
Wetterhahn, and Stephen J. Lippard
Inorganic Chemistry, 1997,
Volume 36, pages 2079-2083. Link to this article.
"Alkyl Transfer to Metal
Thiolates: Kinetics, Active Species Identification, and Relevance
to the DNA Methyl Phosphotriester Repair Center of Escherichia
coli Ada"
Jonathan J. Wilker and Stephen
J. Lippard
Inorganic Chemistry, 1997,
Volume 36, pages 969-978. Link to this article.
"Modeling the DNA
Methylphosphotriester Repair Site in Escherichia coli Ada.
Why Zinc and Four Cysteines?"
Jonathan J. Wilker and Stephen
J. Lippard
Journal of the American
Chemical Society, 1995, Volume 117, pages 8682-8683.
From Undergraduate Studies:
"Coupled C-H Bond
Heterolysis and Tautomerism in a Nickel Macrocyclic Complex with
a Thiolate Ligand"
Jonathan J. Wilker, Andrew
Gelasco, Michelle A. Pressler, Roberta O. Day, and Michael J.
Maroney
Journal of the American
Chemical Society, 1991, Volume 113, pages 6342-6343.
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