To Chemistry Faculty, Staff and Students:
We are very pleased to announce that:
Joanna Quaye (#287 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on November 16th, entitled, “Biochemical Characterization of Selected Flavin-Dependent Metabolic Enzymes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 Toward Alternative Therapeutic Development”. Advisor: Giovanni Gadda; Committee: Binghe Wang, Kathy Grant, and Osbourne Quaye (University of Ghana).
Hedi Ma (#288 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Near Infrared Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence and Related Electrochemical Properties of Gold Nanoclusters” on November 30, 2022, under the direction of Dr. Gangli Wang. Committee: Drs. Gangli Wang (Chair), Suri Iyer, and Shahab Shamsi.
Michael Souffrant (#289 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Probing the Regulatory Role of Allostery via Protein Dynamics of Biological Systems” on December 2, 2022, under the direction of Dr. Donald Hamelberg. Committee: Drs. Donald Hamelberg (Chair), Kathryn Grant, and Ivaylo Ivanov.
Edwin Ogbonna (#290 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “The Application of X-ray Crystallography for Structural Information on DNA-Amidine Complexes and Detailed Examination of Minor Groove Structures of B-DNA” on December 14th, 2022, under the direction of Dr. W David Wilson. Committee: Drs. W. David Wilson (Chair), Maged Henary, and Gregory Poon.
Nour Mansour (#291 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled “Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging of Nanoconfinement in Porous Materials” on December 29th, 2022, under the direction of Dr. Gangli Wang. Committee: Drs. Gangli Wang (Chair), Suri Iyer, Ning Fang, and Samer Gozem.
Please join the department in congratulating them!