Chemistry

Faculty and Staff Directory

Sarah Green

Sarah A. Green

  • Interim Department Chair, Chemistry
  • Professor, Chemistry

Links of Interest

Research Interests

  • Climate change communication
  • Science-policy interface
  • Response of aquatic systems to climate change
  • Great Lakes
  • Behavior of metal-contaminated sediments in the Lake Superior basin
  • Fluorescence-based analytical methods
  • Aerosol chemistry
  • Origin and fate of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in terrestrial, lake, and marine environments
  • Methods for detection of free radicals, photochemical transformations of natural and anthropogenic organic compounds in the environment
  • integration of biological, geological, physical, and chemical data for understanding global cycles.
Lanrong Bi

Lanrong Bi

  • Associate Professor, Chemistry
  • Affiliated Associate Professor, Biological Sciences

Research Interests

  • Chemical biology: development of novel molecular probes for DNA sequencing analysis and disease gene discovery
  • Medicinal chemistry: development of new imaging and therapeutic agents towards cancer and cardiovascular disease; Design and synthesis of novel prodrugs of peptides and peptide mimetics.
Jeremy Brown

Jeremy Brown

  • Chemistry Learning Center, Director
  • Undergraduate Advisor
Paul Charlesworth

Paul Charlesworth

  • Associate Professor, Chemistry
  • Affiliated Associate Professor, Cognitive and Learning Sciences

Research Interests

  • Chemical education
  • Technology-supported learning
  • Online and Blended Classrooms
  • Flipped Classrooms
  • Spatial Ability
Christo Christov

Christo Z. Christov

  • Associate Professor, Chemistry

Links of Interest

Research Group Page

Research Interests

  • Enzyme Reaction Mechanisms and Dynamics
  • Non-Heme Iron Histone Demethylases
  • Multiscale Modeling of Epigenetic Mechanisms
Tarun Dam

Tarun K. Dam

  • Associate Professor, Chemistry
  • Director, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) Program

Links of Interest

Research Interests

  • Molecular basis of glycan (carbohydrate)-mediated biological functions
  • Glycan binding proteins or lectins
  • Glycan detection
  • Mechanistic glycobiology
  • Macromolecular communication
  • Biomolecular thermodynamics
Shiyue Fang

Shiyue Fang

  • Professor, Chemistry

Links of Interest

Research Interests

  • Organic Synthesis
  • Nucleic Acid and Peptide Chemistry
  • Organometallic Chemistry
  • Mechanochemistry
  • Epigenetics and Chemical Biology
  • Antisense Drug
Andrew Galerneau

Andrew Galerneau

  • Lecturer, Chemistry
Katherine Heckman

Katherine Heckman

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Specialties

Heckman currently acts as administrator and  coordinator for the Radicoarbon Collaborative, a program designed to increase earth system  researcher access to radiocarbon analysis. Heckman works with academic and government  researchers to integrate radiocarbon analysis into their climate change and carbon cycle research,  and also offers assistance with data interpretation and manuscript preparation. Work supported  by the Radiocarbon Collaborative ranges from wildlife conservation to terrestrial C cycle  research. 

Patricia Heiden

Patricia A. Heiden

  • Professor, Chemistry

Links of Interest

Research Interests

  • Synthesizing, processing, and characterizing polymers and composites or nanoparticles
  • Stimulus-response nanoparticles for drug delivery
  • Electrospinning of nanofibers for tissue scaffolds
  • Structured nanoparticles for low-leaching wood preservation
  • Biocomposites and biofibers
  • Studies of controlled nanoscale interfaces of rice-hull reinforced composites
  • Engineered wood- or biopolymer-reinforced composites having improved processing, longevity, moisture resistance, and mechanical properties
Tatyana Karabencheva-Christova

Tatyana G. Karabencheva-Christova

  • Associate Professor, Chemistry

Research Interests

  • Reaction Mechanisms of Enzymes
  • Enzyme Dynamics and Inhibition
  • Non-heme Iron DNA-modifying enzymes
  • Collagenolysis and Matrix Metalloproteinases
  • Enzymatic Halogenation
Hans Lechner, Ph.D.

Hans Lechner, Ph.D.

  • Research and Communications Facilitator
Haiying Liu

Haiying Liu

  • Professor, Chemistry

Links of Interest

Research Interests

  • Synthesis, characterization, biomedical sensing, imaging and therapeutic applications of water-soluble conjugated glycopolymers, glycodendrimers, glyconanoparticles, conjugated polyelectrolytes, small redox-active carbohydrate conjugates, and near-infrared fluorescent probes
Rudy Luck

Rudy Lin Luck

  • Associate Professor, Chemistry

Links of Interest

 Luck Research Website

Research Interests

  • Low-valent molybdenum complexes capable of activating dinitrogen
  • Synthesis and characterization of heteronuclear quadruply bonded metal-metal complexes
  • Molecular dihydrogen compounds
  • Catalytic applications of metal-oxo/peroxo systems in the area of epoxidation of olefins
  • Construction of metallo-framework cluster materials
Jerry Lutz

Jerry L. Lutz

  • Assistant Research Engineer / Scientist
Lynn Mazzoleni

Lynn R. Mazzoleni

  • Associate Professor, Chemistry

Links of Interest

Research Interests

  • Understanding the identities, occurrence, and transformation of aerosol organic compounds
  • Identifying organic aerosol constituents from a variety of atmospheric environments
  • Exploration of new LC column chemistries with ultrahigh pressure pumps for fast and thorough separations
  • Aqueous reaction pathways
Daisuke Minakata

Daisuke Minakata

  • Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
  • Affiliated Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
  • Affiliated Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Links of Interest

Teaching Interests

  • Physical-Chemical Treatment Processes
  • Environmental Process and Design
  • Computational Environmental Engineering and Chemistry

Research Interests

  • Sustainable water and wastewater treatment and management
  • Development of assessing and predicting tools for water treatment technologies
  • Innovative water and wastewater treatment technologies for energy saving and harvesting
  • Systematic and integrated understanding of water and wastewater reuse
  • Application of computational chemistry and molecular modeling
Charlene Page

Charlene Page

  • Office Assistant
Aparna Pandey

Aparna Pandey

  • Laboratory Associate
Kathryn Perrine

Kathryn A. Perrine

  • Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Links of Interest

Research Interests

  • Surface chemistry and interfacial science
  • Bridging reactions at the gas/solid and liquid/solid interfaces under model (ultra-high vacuum) and real (near ambient pressure) conditions
  • Designing metal-oxide architectures and nanostructures on various substrates; Atomic Layer Deposition and tailored growth approaches
  • Growth, properties, and reactions on heterogeneous structures for energy and environmental applications
Lorri Reilly

Lorri A. Reilly

  • Lab Supervisor
Ann Ruohonen

Ann Ruohonen

  • Office Assistant / Graduate Program Assistant
Simeon Schum

Simeon K. Schum

  • Research Specialist, Chemistry

Links of Interest

Research Interests

  • Research applications involving ultrahigh resolution Orbitrap Elite mass spectrometry, tandem mass spectrometry, and other mass spectrometry measurements
  • Computational methods for analysis of ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry data
  • Method development for liquid chromatography, ion chromatography, gas chromatography
  • Analysis of environmental and biological complex mixtures
Dean Seppala

Dean W. Seppala

  • Research Associate
ManishKumar B. Shrivastava

ManishKumar B. Shrivastava

  • Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Adjunct Professor, Chemistry, Michigan Technological University

Specialties

  • Atmospheric Chemistry
  • Secondary Organic Aerosols
  • Regional and Global Earth Systems Modeling
  • Climate and Health impacts
  • Environmental Sciences
Marina Tanasova

Marina Tanasova

  • Associate Professor, Chemistry
  • Graduate Program Director

Links of Interest

  • Positions are open for undergraduate, M.S. and Ph.D. students and Postdocs

Research Interests

  • Synthesis of molecular probes for evaluating substrate selection by carbohydrate transporters
  • Development of platforms for tumor imaging and drug delivery
  • Design and synthesis of bioreductively-activated DNA repair inhibitors
Martin Thompson

Martin Thompson

  • Associate Professor, Chemistry

Links of Interest

Research Interests

  • Understanding the molecular recognition features and assembly mechanisms of gene regulation
Ashutosh Tiwari

Ashutosh Tiwari

  • Associate Professor, Chemistry

Links of Interest

Research Interests

  • Identify experimental conditions that can generate diverse aggregated protein structures from the same proteins.
  • Develop novel tools and techniques to differentiate amongst the varied aggregated species of proteins.
  • Understand the relationship between aggregated protein species and its associated cellular toxicity.
Loredana Valenzano-Slough
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
—"Walden" - H.D. Thoreau

Loredana Valenzano-Slough

  • Associate Professor, Chemistry

Links of Interest

Reviewer for:

  • ACS: JACS, J Phys Chem Lett, J Phys Chem A/C, Inor Chem
  • RSC: J Mat Chem A/B/C, Dalton Trans, CrystEngComm, PCCP, New J Chem
  • Elsevier: Chem Phys Lett, J Solid State Chem, Appl Surf Science, Comp Mat Science, Physica B: Cond Matt
  • Springer: J Porous Mat
  • AIP: J Chem Phys
  • MDPI: Materials

Research Interests

  • Computational characterization of molecules and materials: energetic materials, nanoporous materials, cementing materials, active pharmaceutical ingredients, crystal growth, nucleation, surfaces, effect of defects on the structures and properties of materials, effect of water/solvents on material evolution and degradation, biomolecules