Chemistry Faculty - City College of New York



Chemistry Faculty

Daniel L. Akins, Professor

B.S., Howard Univ.; Ph.D., Univ. of California

Subdiscipline: Physical Chemistry / Nanotechnology.

Research Interests: Syntheses of semiconductor and magnetic oxide nanoparticles and nanorods; Fabrication of carbon nanotubes; Raman investigations of porphyrins; Spectroscopic studies of biological tissues and herbs; Quantum chemical calculations.

Valeria Balogh-Nair, Professor

B.Sc., Univ. of Louvain, Ph.D.

Subdiscipline: Organic Chemistry / Nanotechnology.

Research Interests: We employ the methods of organic chemistry to study the interaction of small molecules with biopolymers to elucidate the structures of the latter in order to facilitate drug design and synthesis. Current biopolymers of interest are photoreceptors and enzymes involved in the lifecycle of the HIV-1 virus. Recently, we discovered novel pharmacophores and synthesized antifungal drugs based on their structures. These antifungal drugs were found to be efficient against opportunistic infections associated with immunocompromised states.

Teresa J. Bandosz, Professor

B.Sc., Univ. of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, M.Sc.; Ph.D., Technical Univ. of Krakow, Poland

Subdiscipline: Environmental Chemistry / Material Chemistry.

Research interests: Development of adsorbents for efficient environmental protection; Environmental catalysis; Surface characterization; Nano-engineered materials; Gas separation; Carbonaceous materials as supercapacitors for energy storage.

Ronald L. Birke, Professor

B.S., Univ. of North Carolina; Ph.D., M.I.T.

Subdiscipline: Analytical Chemistry / Physical Chemistry.

Research interests: Electrochemical systems in biochemical redox processes and in energy conversion; Investigations of the structure and dynamics of adsorbed molecules on metal surfaces using the in situ technique of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS); Electronic structure calculations of bioinorganic molecules and molecules absorbed on metal clusters and at the active sites of enzymes; redox chemistry of vitamin B12 and porphyrin compounds and cobalamin and heme dependent enzymes.

Mark Biscoe, Assistant Professor

B.A., Wesleyan University; Ph.D., Columbia University

Subdiscipline: Organic/Organometallic Chemistry.

Research interests: transition metal catalysis and macromolecular catalysis; the development of practical, reliable, and environmentally-benign processes for the construction of C–C and C–X (X = heteroatom) bonds.

Sean Boson, Lecturer

B.S., Jahangirnagar Univ., Bangladesh, M.S.; Ph.D., Univ. of Cambridge, U.K.

Subdiscipline: Organic Chemistry.

Research interests: Synthesis of novel Organic compounds of medicinal importance; conducting research on understanding the characteristics of Beta-carboline, which is a potential anti-cancer agent.

Zimei Bu, Associate Professor

B.Eng., Chengdu Univ. of Science & Technology, China; Ph.D., Louisiana State Univ.

Subdiscipline: Molecular Biophysics / Biochemistry.

Research interest: My group studies the structure and dynamics of proteins using biophysical and biochemical methods, including neutron scattering and solution small angle X-ray scattering. We are particularly interested in proteins that control the assembly and intracellular trafficking of membrane receptors and ion channels.

David H. Calhoun, Professor

B.A., Birmingham-Southern College; Ph.D., Univ. of Alabama

Subdiscipline: Biochemistry.

Research interest: Gene regulation in Escherichia coli K-12, microbial genetics, gene cloning and sequencing, protein purification; Fabry disease, an inherited disease associated with a deficiency of alpha-galactosidase A, isolation of cDNA and genmic clones, enzyme replacement therapy, cell and tissue specific regulation of enzyme synthesis.

Marco Ceruso, Assistant Professor

Ingenieur Chimiste, CPE Lyon; Ph.D., University of Stony Brook

Subdiscipline: Physical Chemistry / Computational Biophysics.

Research interest: Transmembrane Signal Transduction; Allosteric Mechanisms in Biological Function; Development of Coarse grain Force Fields for Simulation of Macroscopic Molecular Systems; Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing.

Ranajeet Ghose, Professor

B.Sc. Presidency College (India); M.Sc. IIT, Kanpur (India); M. S., Ph.D. Yale University

Subdiscipline: Biochemistry/Biophysical Chemistry.

Research Interests: Signal transduction by prokaryotic and eukaryotic protein kinases;

RNA/DNA processing enzymes and enzyme complexes; Development of NMR methodology to study biomolecular structure and dynamics.

David K. Gosser, Professor

B.S., St. Joseph's Univ.; Ph.D., Brown Univ.

Subdiscipline: Analytical Chemistry

Research Interests: Simulation and analysis of reaction mechanisms in electro analytical chemistry; Electron paramagnetic resonance; Development of semi-quantitative computer relational database model approaches to understanding charge transfer.

Michael E. Green, Professor

A.B., Cornell Univ.; M.S., Yale Univ., Ph.D.

Subdiscipline: Physical Chemistry.

Research Interests: Gating mechanism of channels in biological membranes: quantum calculations; Monte Carlo simulations of water in confined spaces;

Ab initio calculations on proton transfer and salt bridges in proteins.

Urs Jans, Associate Professor

Dipl., ETH Zurich; Ph.D., EAWAG/ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Subdiscipline: Environmental Organic Chemistry

Research Interests: Environmental organic chemistry with a focus on the mechanisms through which organic contaminants (e.g. pesticides, flame retardants) undergo abiotic transformations in natural aquatic environments.

George John, Associate Professor

B.Sc., University of Kerala; M. Sc., Mahatma Gandhi University, India; Ph.D. University of Kerala, India

Subdiscipline: Organic Materials, BioNanotechnology, and Green Chemistry

Research Interests: Biobased organic synthesis; Self-assembled functional architectures;

Molecular gels and drug-delivery; Polymers and coatings; Nanoparticles: synthesis and catalysis; Biobased soft materials.

Synthesis and self-assembly of biobased amphiphilic building blocks, lipid nanotubes, low molecular weight gelators, liquid crystals, biodegradable polymers and nanoparticle synthesis.

Glen R. Kowach, Associate Professor

B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ph.D., Cornell University

Subdiscipline: Solid-State Inorganic Chemistry; Materials; Nanotechnology

Research Interests: Dilute magnetic semiconductors and spintronics;

Flux growth of zinc oxide and manganese-substituted zinc oxide;

Optical properties of zinc oxide and strontium titanate; Synthesis, structure, properties, and reactivity of solids; Single crystal growth of gallium nitride; Doping and fabrication of zinc oxide thin films; Synthesis of multicomponent glasses for integrated planar optical waveguide devices.

Mahesh K. Lakshman, Professor

B.Sc., M.Sc. University of Bombay (India); M.S., Ph.D., University of Oklahoma

Subdiscipline: Organic Chemistry

Research Interests: Nucleoside and DNA modification chemistry; Metal-catalyzed reactions; Chemistry of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, their metabolites, and nucleoside as well as DNA conjugates; Development of new synthetic methods and mechanistic organic chemistry.

Themis Lazaridis, Professor

Dipl., Aristotle Univ., Greece; Ph.D., Univ. of Delaware

Subdiscipline: Biochemistry/Theoretical and Computational Biophysical Chemistry

Research Interests: Thermodynamics of biological processes; Protein energetics; Molecular recognition; Protein-lipid membrane interactions.

John R. Lombardi, Professor

A.B., Cornell Univ.; M.A., Harvard Univ., Ph.D.

Subdiscipline: Physical Chemistry

Research Interests: Electronic structure and spectra of diatomic and polyatomic

molecules; Using high resolution spectroscopic techniques; Theoretical studies in the momentum in quantum mechanics; Light scattering; Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering.

Stephen O'Brien, Associate Professor

B.Sc., Sussex Univ., U.K.; D. Phil., Oxford Univ., U.K.

Subdiscipline: Physical Chemistry / Nanotechnology

Research Interests: Nanomaterials synthesis and characterization; Nanostructures with applications in photonics; Nanocrystals with applications in energy storage and electronic devices; Self assembly of nanoparticles into binary superlattices.

Kevin Ryan, Associate Professor

B.S. Providence College; M.S., Ph.D. University of Rochester

Subdiscipline: Biochemistry Chemistry / Chemical Biology

Research Interests: Chemical Biology studies relating to olfactory molecular recognition; Biochemistry of mammalian pre-mRNA 3’ processing;

Delivery of micro RNA and siRNA to human cells; Medicinal and Bio-Organic Chemistry.

Issa I. Salame, Assistant Professor

B.S., the City College of New York; Ph.D., Graduate School and University Center (CUNY)

Subdiscipline: Chemical Education

Research Interests: Improving students' conceptual understanding of chemistry; identifying common misconceptions; student-centered instructional reform; pre-service and in-service teacher training.

Simon Simms, Associate Professor

B.S., The City College; Ph.D., Princeton Univ.

Subdiscipline: Biochemistry

Research Interests: Regulation of chemotaxis in bacteria; Phosphorylation of cytoplasmic protein; Methylation in signal transduction.

Ruth E. Stark, Distinguished Professor

A.B., Cornell Univ.; Ph.D., Univ. of California, San Diego

Subdiscipline: Biochemistry / Molecular Biophysics

Research Interests: Structure and dynamics of cytosolic and membrane proteins;

Fatty acid binding and transport; Molecular structure and biomechanics of protective plant polymers; Molecular structure and development of fungal melanins;

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy technology.

Mark L. Steinberg, Professor

B.A., Univ. of Michigan; Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania

Subdiscipline: Biochemistry / Molecular Biology

Research Interests: Mitochondrial deletions in human cells exposed to arsenic;

Activation of oncogenic genes by Simian Virus 40 in human epithelial cells;

Activation of MAP kinase signaling pathways by E cadherin in breast and gastric cancer.

Maria Tamargo, Professor

B.S., Univ. of Puerto Rico, Rio Pedras; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Univ.

Subdiscipline: Physical Chemistry / Inorganic Chemistry

Research Interests: Molecular Beam Epitaxy of II-VI and III-V semiconductors; Liquid phase Epitaxy; Growth and properties of semiconductor thin films and multi layers; Photoluminescence; Photoreflectance, X-ray diffraction, C-V, I-V and Hall Effect; Nomarski microscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).

Barbara Zajc, Associate Professor

Dipl., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees: University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Subdiscipline: Organic Chemistry

Research Interests: Development of new synthetic methods;

Regioselective fluorination of bioactive molecules; Synthesis and study of fluorinated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Chemical carcinogenesis; Chiral recognition studies,

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