Skip to main content

Chemistry Graduate Student Research

Theses/Dissertations from 2025 2025

Time-Resolved Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopic Interrogation of Intramolecular Reaction Coordinates, Valerie Winkler

Synthesis of Well-defined Acrylamide-based Polymers and Related Materials for Water Treatment and the Fabrication of Carbon Fiber, Tarryn Trick

Mass Spectrometry-Based Probing of Nucleic Acid and Protein Higher-Order Structures: From UV-Induced G-Quadruplex Crosslinking to mRNA Footprinting and ApoE4 Footprinting, Hsin-Chieh Yang

Improving metabolomics methods to measure redox balance and understand disease mechanisms, Qiuyuan Guo

Leveraging Biomolecules to Illuminate the Landscape of RNA in Cells and Tissues, Alexandria Quillin

Developing Microelectrode Arrays as Multiplex Point-of-Care Diagnostics, Yu-Chia Chang

An Enzyme-Coupled Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry Assay for Non-adjacent DNA Photoproducts as Intrinsic Probes for G-quadruplexes in vitro, Savannah Sharee Scruggs

Molecular Mechanisms of Enzymes Driving Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence, Ruihao Li

Using “Click” Chemistry and Post-Polymerization Modification to Synthesize Well-Defined Linear Oligocatenanes and Polyacrylonitrile, Sheila Tran

Mechanisms of Voltage Gating in the Cyclic Nucleotide Binding Domain Channel Family, Jenna L. Lin

High-Quality Factor Phase Gradient Metasurfaces with Dynamic Reconfigurability, Lin Lin

Characterizing PIEZO1 Mechanotransduction in Articular Chondrocytes, Jaquelin Marlen Garcia Castorena

Senescent Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Mediate Immunosuppression and Promote Breast Cancer Progression, Jiayu Ye

Biophysical insights into emerging virus-host interactions, Paige Danielle Hall

Discovery and Functional Characterization of Biomarkers in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma, Wagma Caravan

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

Synthesis of Higher-Order Catenanes and Catenane-based Materials, Gray Harlan

Electrostatic Drug Loading and Photo-Accelerated Release: Exploring Viologen-Based Materials as Drug Carriers Across Nano, Micro, and Macro Scales, Jovelt Marie Dorsainvil

Validation and Application of Mass Spectrometry-based Methods for Probing Protein Higher Order Structure, Wesley Wagner

Studying Bacterial Amyloid Proteins Through a Yeast Model System, Avika Jayatilaka

New Methods to Induce Selectivity in Electrochemical Reactions by Modifying the Electrode Surface, Enqi Feng

New Methods to Induce Selectivity in Electrochemical Reactions by Modifying the Electrode Surface, Enqi Feng

Bivalent Agents for Inhibiting and Degrading Tetracycline Destructase Enzymes, Emily Williford

Bivalent Agents for Inhibiting and Degrading Tetracycline Destructase Enzymes, Emily Williford

Efforts toward the synthesis and biological evaluation of YM/FR analogs, Siyue Liu

Efforts toward the synthesis and biological evaluation of YM/FR analogs, Siyue Liu