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Elizabeth S. Claudio
5th-Year Graduate Student (Ph.D. 2006)

Area of Research  Metals in biological systems, attaching peptides to nanoparticles.

Email claudio@chem.northwestern.edu


Publications 
“Fundamental Coordination Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, and Biochemistry of Lead (II)”, Claudio, E. S.; Magyar, J. S.; Godwin, H. A. Prog. Inorg. Chem 2003, 51,
1-144.  

“207Pb-1H Two-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy: A Useful New Tool for Probing Lead(II) Coordination Chemistry”, Claudio, E. S.; ter Horst, M. A.; Forde, C. E.; Stern, C.; Zart, M. K.; Godwin, H. A. Inorg. Chem. 2000, 39, 1391-1397.

"Isothermal Crystallization of Random Ethylene-Butene Copolymers: Bimodal Kinetics", Crist, B.; Claudio, E.S. Macromolecules. 1999, 32(26), 8945-8951.


Dimitar Ivanov
3rd-Year Graduate Student
Interdepartmental Biological Science Program (IBiS)

Area of Research Lead toxicogenomics and toxicoproteomics in S. cerevisiae.

Email d-ivanov@northwestern.edu


Aeryn Mayer
5th-Year Graduate Student (Ph.D. expected in 2005)

Area of Research Heavy metal (Pb, Cu, Zn) toxicogenomics and uptake P. aeruginosa, E. coli and S. cerevisiae.

Email
aeryn@northwestern.edu


Hacia, J. G.; Novotny, E. A.; Mayer, R. A.; Woski, S. A.; Ashlock, M. A.; Collins, F. S., Design of modified oligodeoxyribonucleotide probes to detect telomere repeat sequences in FISH assays. Nucleic Acids Res 1999, 27, (20), 4034-9.

Hacia, J. G.; Fan, J. B.; Ryder, O.; Jin, L.; Edgemon, K.; Ghandour, G.; Mayer, R. A.; Sun, B.; Hsie, L.; Robbins, C. M.; Brody, L. C.; Wang, D.; Lander, E. S.; Lipshutz, R.; Fodor, S. P.; Collins, F. S., Determination of ancestral alleles for human single-nucleotide polymorphisms using high-density oligonucleotide arrays. Nat Genet 1999, 22, (2), 164-7.

Hacia, J. G.; Edgemon, K.; Fang, N.; Mayer, R. A.; Sudano, D.; Hunt, N.; Collins, F. S., Oligonucleotide microarray based detection of repetitive sequence changes. Hum Mutat 2000, 16, (4), 354-63.

Fang, N. Y.; Greiner, T. C.; Weisenburger, D. D.; Chan, W. C.; Vose, J. M.; Smith, L. M.; Armitage, J. O.; Mayer, R. A.; Pike, B. L.; Collins, F. S.; Hacia, J. G., Oligonucleotide microarrays demonstrate the highest frequency of ATM mutations in the mantle cell subtype of lymphoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003, 100, (9), 5372-7.

Ghering, A. B.; Jenkins, L. M. M.; Schenck, B. L.; Deo, S.; Mayer, R. A.; Pikaart, M. J.; Omichinski, J. G.; Godwin, H. A., Spectroscopic and functional determination of the interaction of Pb2+ with GATA proteins. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005, 127, (11), 3751-3759.


Benjamin L. Davis
Postdoctoral Researcher

Area of Research  Lead source evaluation through isotopic finger printing, pedagogical development, cellular imaging of Pb accumulation.

Email bldavis@chem.northwestern.edu

Publications  
"Teaching Undergraduates at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology: Challenges and Opportunities” Godwin, H. A.; Davis, B. L. Nature Chem. Biol. 2005 , 1 , 176-179. 176-180.

"Structural Studies of Lanthanide and Yttrium Metallocene Oxides", Evans, W. J.; Davis, B. L .; Nyce, G. W.; Perotti, J.; Ziller, J. W. J. Organomet. Chem. 2003, 677, 89.

"The Chemistry of Tris(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl) f-Element Complexes,
(C 5 Me 5 ) 3 M", Evans, W. J.; Davis, B. L ., Chemical Reviews 2002, 102 , 2119-2136.

"Synthesis and Structure of Tris(alkyl- and silyl-tetramethylcyclopentadienyl) Complexes of Lanthanum", Evans, W. J.; Davis, B. L .; Ziller, J. W. Inorg. Chem. 2001,40, 6341.

"Synthesis, Structure, and Catalytic Reactions of 1,2-Bis(indenyl)ethane-Derived Lanthanocenes", Gilbert, A. T.; Davis, B. L .; Emge, T. J.; Broene, R. D. Organometallics 1999, 18, 2125.


Joseph Hoover
Undergraduate Researcher (class of 2007).

Area of Research Water quality remediation and monitoring.

Email
j-hoover-1@northwestern.edu

Presentations

ACS (10/2004) Great Lakes Regional Meeting: "Pollutant Analysis and Water Quality Improvement Project on the Navajo Indian Reservation."

Navajo Indian Reservation Red Valley Chapter Land Use and Planning Comittee (6/2004) "Do commerically available water filters remove pollutants from drinking water?"

Papers
"Analysis of Lead Concentrations In an Urban Community Garden" (2/2004)
(Chicago, IL).


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