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Group BBQ, June 2012
Senior Researchers
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Dr. David Randall
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June 2012 - present
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Visiting Research Scholar (from Andrews University) in the Lehnert group
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Research Project
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Mechanistic Studies on the N-N Bond Formation in NO Reductases
I am investigating the spectroscopic properties and reactivities of dinuclear non-heme
iron complexes as models for flavodiiron NO reductases in pathogenic bacteria.
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Graduate Students
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cand. chem. Deidra Gerlach
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May 2008 - present
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Joint Ph.D. Student in the Coucouvanis and Lehnert groups
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Research Project
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Model Complexes for Multielectron Reductases
I am synthesising model complexes for the active sites of assimilatory multielectron reductases,
which contain a heme catalytic site, covalently linked to an electron reservoir (an [4Fe4S] cluster).
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cand. chem. Shawn Eady
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May 2011 - present
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Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
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Research Project
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Biologically Inspired Electrocatalysts for the Sustainable Production of Hydrogen
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cand. chem. Amy Speelman
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May 2011 - present
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Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
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Research Project
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New Non-heme Iron-Nitrosyl Complexes
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cand. chem. Ashley McQuarters
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May 2012 - present
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Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
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Research Project
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Synthesis of High-Valent Iron-Nitride complexes as Models for Cyt. P450nor
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Matt Wolf
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May 2013 - present
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Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
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Research Project
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Artificial Heme Proteins as Organometallic Catalysts
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Current Rotation Students
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Andrew Hunt
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June 2013 - present
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Summer Research Student in the Lehnert group
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Research Project
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NO Complexes of Ferric Hemes with axial Thiolate Coordination
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Undergraduates
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Joseph Gurrentz
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Jan. 2013 - present
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Undergraduate research student in the Lehnert group
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Research Project
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Synthesis of new Iron-Nickel Cluster as Electrocatalysts
for the Production of Hydrogen
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Sarah Neville
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June. 2013 - present
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REU Summer Undergraduate research student (from the College of the Holy Cross) in the Lehnert group
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Research Project
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Non-heme Iron Nitrosyl Complexes
In my research project, I am synthesizing mononuclear ferrous non-heme iron-nitrosyl complexes
as models for the non-heme iron center of bacterial NO reductase.
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Nate Wirgau
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May 2013 - present
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Undergraduate research student in the Lehnert group
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Research Project
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Ferric Heme Complexes and their Interaction with NO
My research is focused on ferric bis-picket fence porphyrin complexes and their interaction with NO.
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Former Group Members
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