Students Participating in Summer REU Programs (1994-2002):

Reo Lawrence Ivan Baxter Anne Doody Rebecca Rostand DeCarlos Taylor Amanda Mower Teresa Urban

Evan Kransdorf Noelle Dwarzski Sarah Sutter Christopher Bender Alicia Douglas Martina Vondrova Sara Higgins

Marilise Hyacinth Michael Keller Casey Micale

Current Research Group:

Our current undergraduate research group consists of nine students. Their projects, although quite diverse, do have one subject in common; we concentrate on biophysical and bioinorganic chemistry of nucleic acids. All available research techniques, including the synthesis of model compounds, X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy and computational chemistry, are applied.

 

Members of the team (from left to right): Sooin Lee, Stan Parish, Greg Broughton, Alice Hang, Sang Park, Dr. Michal Sabat,

Janeen Oberlander, Scott Geyer, Catherine Balchunas, and Jenny Owens.

 Catherine Balchunas. Cadmium and the DNA Repair System.

 Gregory Broughton, Recipient of the 2001 David Harrison III Award for Undergraduate Research. Molecular Properties of CdS and CdSe Semiconductor Nanoparticles Crosslinked by DNA.

 Scott Geyer. Metal Ions in (GA.TC)n DNA Sequences.

 Alice Hang. NMR Studies of DNA Hairpins.

 Sooin Lee. Applications of Metal-Modified Nucleotides.

 Janeen Oberlander. Cadmium and the DNA Repair System.

 Stan Parish. Applications of Metal-Modified Nucleotides.

 Sang Park. Crystallization and Structure of Metal-Containing DNA Fragments.

 

 

A typical summer day at the Molecular Structure Laboratory. REU 2002 students (left to right): Michael Keller, Sara Higgins, Marilise Hyacinth, and Casey Micale. Photo: courtesy of Prof. Demas.

 

Left: Off to work! Casey, Marilise, and Sara are rushing to start their research. Right: Mike is just about to give the best talk of his life*.

The last day of summer research. Unfortunately, the request for the prom dress was largely ignored.