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Elliott Receives NSF Award to Explore Multi-Electron Redox Catalysis
Prof. Sean Elliott and his group have received a 3-year award from the National Science Foundation for their project entitled “Connections Between Redox Chemistry and Catalysis in Multiheme Peroxidases.” While nature excels at the manipulation of redox co-factors to affect dramatic catalytic transformations, we still do not have a molecular understanding of how multi-electron redox […]
NSF Funds Liu Group to Conduct Biosynthetic Study
Prof. Pinghua Liu and his Group pursue highly interdisciplinary research involving organic synthesis, molecular biology, bioinformatics, and enzymology. This combined expertise will be used to conduct their 3-year National Science Foundation Funded project, “Mechanistic Studies of New C-S Bond Formation Chemistries.” Ergothioneine is a unique thiol-imidazole-containing natural amino acid isolated nearly a century ago. Due […]
Golder Receives Vertex Scholar Award
Matthew Golder is the recipient of the 2013-2014 Vertex Scholar Award. The award is in recognition of his scientific creativity and leadership. Matt is a fourth-year graduate student in the group of Prof. Ramesh Jasti. Matt has been working for the past 3 years in the development of synthetic procedures to produce cycloparaphenylenes, the simplest […]
Ksenia Bravaya Joins Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry is very pleased to announce that Prof. Ksenia Bravaya, a theoretical chemist, has joined our faculty. She comes to Boston University from her postdoctoral position at the University of Southern California (2009-2013), where she did research with Prof. Anna Krylov. Prof. Bravaya received her Ph.D. in Theoretical and Computational Quantum Chemistry […]
Jasti Group Hosts Steppingstone Students
For a second year in a row, Prof. Ramesh Jasti’s group has hosted students from the Steppingstone Foundation to share with them the excitement of nanoscale research. Steppingstone is a non-profit that develops and implements programs which prepare urban schoolchildren for educational opportunities that lead to college success. This year the students learned about nanoscale […]
Porco Tumor Inhibition Research Reported in Science
A new study co-authored by John A. Porco, Jr., Professor of Chemistry and Diector of the Center for Chemical Methodology and Library Development at Boston University (CMLD-BU), along with collaborators at the Whitehead Institute has identified rocaglamide A, an inhibitor of translation initiation, as a strong inhibitor of Heat Shock Factor 1 (HSF1) activation. HSF1 […]
Vertex Continues Support of BUWIC Programs
For the second year in a row, Vertex Pharmaceuticals has continued its support of Chemistry’s student organization, Boston University Women in Chemistry (BUWIC). Vertex’s 2013-2014 support will help facilitate professional development opportunities for BUWIC members and advance chemistry education for young women. BUWIC will use the funds to provide 10 conference registration fellowships, pay for […]
AstraZeneca Fellowship Awarded to Thomas Sisto
Fourth-year graduate student Thomas Sisto in Prof. Ramesh Jasti’s group has been awarded the 2013-2014 AstraZeneca Fellowship in Organic Chemistry. The award is in recognition of his scientific creativity and productivity. Tom joined the Jasti research group as a Dean’s Fellow in the Summer of 2010. Since then he has published four papers (three as […]
Demonstrating Chemistry – Learning Chemistry
This May, the BU Department of Chemistry, in collaboration with the student organization, BU Women in Chemistry (BUWIC), hosted 85 students from English High School and Brighton High School (BHS) for our fifth annual Chemistry Day. The successful day was coordinated by third-year graduate student, Kathryn Summo (Schaus Group), the BUWIC Outreach Coordinator, with […]
NIH Grant Investigates HIV with Artificial Virus Nanoparticles
Collaborators, Dr. Bjoern Reinhard, BU Chemistry, and Dr. Suryaram Gummurulu, BU School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, have received an award from the NIH to investigate the role and mode of action of non-virus encoded surface functionalities in the capture of HIV-1 by dendritic cells. Entitled “Elucidating Non-Virus Encoded HIV Capture through Artificial Virus Nanoparticles (AVNs),” […]