News items about Faculty Members
Porco Group Awarded $1.6 million to Investigate Biomimetic Synthesis of Complex Natural Products
Professor John Porco and his group have received a 4-year, $1.6 million award (2010 to 2014) to develop and refine biomimetic syntheses using copper-mediated enantioselective oxidation processes; photochemical cycloaddition employing excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT); and asymmetric reactions of acylphloroglucinols. Professor Porco and colleagues are applying these methodologies to synthesize complex natural products, including […]
Family, Friends, Colleagues, and Alumni Celebrate Guilford Jones, Our “Newest” Emeritus
Over 200 people turned out to honor Professor Guilford Jones on his retirement and his contributions to Boston University and the Department of Chemistry. At a reception and dinner on Friday, April 23, in the BU School of Management, former students and postdocs from the Jones Group mingled with Chemistry and University colleagues and family […]
Ellison Medical Foundation Sponsors Tom Tullius to Explore Role of Gene Oxidative Damage in Aging
Professor Tom Tullius has received a 2009 Senior Scholar Award in Aging” from the nonprofit Ellison Medical Foundation. The Foundation supports basic biomedical research on aging relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities. The Ellison award supports a new project in the Tullius lab on genome damage and aging, particularly the […]
Ramesh Jasti joins faculty
Dr. Jasti has joined our department as an assistant professor. Most recently he held a postdoctoral research associate position with Professor Carolyn Bertozzi (University of California, Berkeley), conducting his research at the Molecular Foundry (The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory). His research has been able to address a longstanding and challenging problem at the interface of […]
Morton Hoffman among inaugural group of ACS Fellows
Election as an American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellow is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers. In this inaugural year, 162 members were elevated to this rank because of their contributions to the chemical enterprise coupled with distinctive service to the society or to the broader world of chemistry. The fellows will be recognized […]
Karen Allen research reported in Nature
Karen Allen research reported in Nature solves how the enzyme acetoacetate decarboxylase (AADase) works in cell environment Professor Karen Allen, an internationally renown crystallographer in the Department of Chemistry and her colleagues, BU graduate student Meng-Chiao Ho and post-doctoral associate Jean-Francois Menetret, and Hiro Tsuruta of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource of the National Accelerator […]
Reinhard Group Receives NIH Award to Probe Underlying Mechanisms of the Abnormal Behavior of EGFR in Cancer Cells
Professor Bjoern Reinhard and his group have received an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health, “Illuminating Dynamic Receptor Clustering in the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signal Transduction Pathway Using Plasmon Coupling.” The goal of their research is to use near-field interactions between individual nanoparticle labels to probe the underlying mechanisms of the abnormal […]
John Snyder Receives the Templeton Prize
Snyder Recognized for Excellence in Student Advising For the second year in a row, a member of the Chemistry faculty has received the Templeton Prize for Excellence in Student Advising, the top undergraduate advising award given by the College of Arts and Sciences. The 2009 recipient is Prof. John Snyder. Despite his busy schedule which […]
TULLIUS Group results published in Science
TULLIUS Group reports in Science that evolutionary selection works on DNA shape Professor Tom Tullius, his graduate student, Steve Parker, and their collaborator at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Elliott Margulies, have developed a new methodfor uncovering functional areas of the human genome by studying DNA’s three-dimensional structure — a topographical approach that extends […]
Department Notes the Passing of former Chair, Professor Lowell Coulter
Professor Emeritus Lowell Coulter, passed away on May 2 at the age of 95. Dr. Coulter, a physical chemist by training (PhD, University of California, Berkeley), was Professor of Chemistry at Boston University for over 35 years (1942 and 1977). In an energy related topic that resonates today as much as it did when he […]