Gigi B. Ray Lecturer, General Chemistry Ph.D., Princeton University (1992) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Dr. Gigi Ray Department of Chemistry Georgia State University P.O. Box 4098 Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4098 Phone:  404-413-5540 Fax:  404-413-5505 Office:  585 Natural Science Center Email:  gbray@gsu.edu

Representative Publications
   *Undergraduate student co-authors indicated with asterisks.

1. Molecular Modeling of Heme Proteins using MOE: Bio-Inorganic and Structure-Function Activity for Undergraduates, Gigi B. Ray and J. Whitney Cook*, Biochem. Mol. Biol. Educ., 2005, 33, 194-201.
   
   
2. HIV Integrase Inhibitor Interactions with Active-Site Metal Ions: Fact or Fiction? Abby L. Parrill, Gigi B. Ray, Mohsen Abu-Khudeir*, Amy Hirsh* and Angela Jolly*; in Computational Organometallic Chemistry, Thomas R. Cundari, Ed., Marcel Dekker, New York, 2001; pp. 185-203.
   
   
3. How Far Can Proteins Bend the FeCO Unit ? Distal Polar and Steric Effects in Heme Proteins and Models, Gigi B. Ray, Xiao-Yuan Li, James A. Ibers, Jonathan L. Sessler and Thomas G. Spiro, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1994, 116, 162-176.
   
   
4. Evidence for a Weak Mn=O Bond and a Non-porphyrin radical in Manganese-Substituted Horseradish Peroxidase Compound I, Robert J. Nick, Gigi B. Ray, Kenneth M. Fish, Thomas G. Spiro and John T. Groves, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1991, 113, 1838-1840.
   
   
5. Resonance Raman and Infrared Spectra of Azidoiron(III) and Azidomanganese(III) Porphyrins, Roman S. Czernuszewicz, Wolf D. Wagner, Gigi B. Ray and Kazuo Nakamoto, J. Mol. Spec., 1991, 242, 99-117.
   
   
6. Resonance Raman Evidence for Low-spin Fe2+ Heme a3 in Energized Cytochrome c Oxidase: Implications for the Inhibition of O2 Reduction, Gigi B. Ray, Robert A. Copeland, C. P. Lee and Thomas G. Spiro, Biochemistry, 1990, 29, 3208-3213.