Postdocs

	Dr. Mary Grace Galinato View Curriculum Vitae
Aug. 2002 - Oct. 2007	Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT with Prof. Harry Frank
October 2007 - present	Postdoc in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Protein Spectroscopy I am investigating the interaction of the dinuclear non-heme ferrous site of flavorubredoxin NO reductase with NO using resonance Raman, EPR, and MCD spectroscopies. In addition, I am working on the MCD-spectroscopic characterization of cytochrome P450.

 

Graduate Students

	cand. chem. Anna Merkle View Curriculum Vitae
May 2007 - present	Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Synthesis and Electronic Structure of Ru-Nitrosyls My research project is concerned with the synthesis of Ru-nitrosyls with various coligands and their spectroscopic characterization. In addition, copper-nitrosyls with similar ligand systems are investigated.

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	cand. chem. Corinne Sulok View Curriculum Vitae
July 2007 - present	Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Cofacial bis-Porphyrin Model Complexes My research is focused on the synthesis and reactivity of bis-porphyrin model complexes with cobald and iron, and their interaction with NO.

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	cand. chem. Tim Berto View Curriculum Vitae
May 2008 - present	Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Models for Bacterial Nitric Oxide Reductase My doctoral research focuses on the syntheses, spectroscopic properties, reactivities and electronic structures of Fe(II)-porphyrin NO model complexes relevant to denitrification. I am investigating the properties of small model complexes of type [Fe(TPP*)(L)(NO)]n+. In addition, I am studying the reactivity of nitric oxide with synthetic heme/non-heme diiron complexes with an axial nitrogen ligand as a model for bacterial nitric oxide reductase (bacterial NOR).

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	cand. chem. Deidra Gerlach View Curriculum Vitae
May 2008 - present	Joint Ph.D. Student in the Coucouvanis and Lehnert groups
Research Project	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. Lauren Goodrich View Curriculum Vitae
May 2008 - present	Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Models for Fungal Nitric Oxide Reductase My research is centered around the effect of axial thiolate coordination on the spectroscopic properties, electronic structures and reactivities of Fe-porphyrin NO model complexes relevant to denitrification.

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	cand. biophys. Josh Skodack
since July 2009	Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Expression and Purification of the Nitric Oxide Reductase from E. coli

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Undergraduates

	Melissa Brooke Hoffman
May 2009 - present	Undergraduate research student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Non-heme Iron Nitrosyl Complexes In my research project, I am synthesizing ferrous non-heme iron-nitrosyl model complexes.

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	Breana Siljander
May 2009 - present	Undergraduate research student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	The Interaction of Nitric Oxide with Iron-Porphyrin (Heme) Complexes The focus of my work is the synthesis of porphyrin ligands and corresponding iron complexes. I am studying the interaction of these model systems with NO.

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