CHEMISTRY - Key Persons
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- Member of the Administrative and Office Staff
- Operations Services Specialist, Academic Support Unit 6
Andy Marcus received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Stanford University in 1994. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Oregon in 1996.
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- Teaching Labs Staff Member
Bruce Branchaud has been a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oregon from 1983 to the present. He is currently Professor Emeritus. He is teaching, working on collaborative research with other faculty and co-leading the Master's Industrial Internship Program in Organic Synthesis & Process Development.
He is an organic chemist, a bioorganic chemist and a chemical biologist. His scientific contributions over the past 3 decades have been in several areas including organic chemistry, biological chemistry, chemical biology, organometallic chemistry and nanochemistry.
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- Member of the Administrative and Office Staff
- Operations Manager, Academic Support Unit 6
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- Bradshaw and Holzapfel Research Professor in Transformational Science and Mathematics
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- Instructor
- Senior Instructor II
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- Senior Instructor Emeritus
- Senior Instructor for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Oregon
Dr. Julie Haack has been the assistant department head and a senior instructor for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Oregon for almost 20 years. She is currenlty Instructor Emeritus. As an educator and administrator her work focused on designing curricula and creating educational experiences and professional development opportunities that use green chemistry and life cycle thinking to connect design and innovation to the science of sustainability. She is currently one of the 2019 University of Oregon Williams Fellows and she received the University of Oregon Sustainability Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2018. Haack is currently serving as a guest editor for a special issue on Reimagining Chemistry Education: Systems Thinking, and Green and Sustainable Chemistry for the Journal of Chemical Education and teaching Green Materials in Sports Product for the UO Sports Product Management Program.
Dr. Teresa Rapp trained as an inorganic chemist with expertise in photocleavable ruthenium compounds with applications spanning protein engineering and biomaterial design. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Washington as a Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow with the DeForest Lab in Chemical Engineering, where she advanced next-generation photochemistries for biomaterial applications. She earned her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in Prof. Ivan Dmochowski's laboratory, where she innovated several new ruthenium-based photochemistries. Through a collaboration with Prof. Jason Burdick, she harnessed these chemistries to create rapidly degradable hydrogels, as featured in her Cover Article for Cover in Chemistry - A European Journal. Dr. Rapp earned her B.S. in Chemistry from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, working with Profs. Gragson and Imoos in chemical education and copper-sensing molecules. In her free time Dr. Rapp enjoys the beautiful Eugene summers by hiking and backpacking, as well as hosting backyard BBQs and baking scrumptious desserts.
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- Research Assistant Professor
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- Professor, Presidential Chair
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- Teaching Labs Staff Member
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- Member of the Administrative and Office Staff
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- Member of the Administrative and Office Staff
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- Senior Instructor Emeritus
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- Teaching Labs Staff Member
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- Senior Research Associate Emeritus
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- Member of the Administrative and Office Staff
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- Teaching Labs Staff Member
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- Teaching Labs Staff Member
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- Teaching Labs Staff Member
Anions are problematic environmental contaminants and are vital to many processes in nature, with anion binding proteins and transport channels implicated in the mechanisms of many disease pathways. This avenue of research is a productive collaboration between the Haley lab and that of UO colleague Darren Johnson to target new organic receptors that selectively bind and sense anions. The project is a union of the synthetic expertise of the Haley group to assemble relatively rigid and inherently fluorescent molecules based on arylethynyl scaffolding with the extensive knowledge of the Johnson lab to design and exhaustively analyze complex supramolecular systems. Molecules 6-8 are representative receptors (Figure 2). The modularity of our design strategy allows for exploration of a variety of recognition motifs for anions, including electrostatic attractions, hydrogen bond interactions and attractions with electron-deficient arenes (anion-pi, CH•••X- hydrogen bonds and weak-sigma complexes). This flexibility affords the possibility of selectively binding anions that are challenging to target with traditional approaches. Core and linker substitution provides another approach to tuning the selectivity of the receptors by changing the shape and size of the binding pocket. The functionality of the receptors can also be adjusted to provide a route to make the molecules water-soluble or even permeable to cell membranes. These molecules will have long-term applications in sensing, imaging and/or remediating anions, which will impact public health in both discovering and removing environmental contaminants and imaging the role anions play in biological processes.
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- Instructor
- Associate Department Head and Faculty Advisor
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- Teaching Labs Staff Member
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- Member of the Administrative and Office Staff
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- Vice President and Robert and Leona DeArmond Executive Director, Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact
Robert Guldberg holds bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering as well as a master's degree in bioengineering, all from the University of Michigan. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular biology at Michigan before joining the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1996. At Georgia Tech, Guldberg was a professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering, and served as executive director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.
Robert Mazo's research program is exclusively theoretical. The general area is statistical mechanics, the science of relating the macroscopic properties of matter to their molecular constitution and to the nature of the forces operating between the molecules. He is interested in both equilibrium and nonequilibrium phenomena. An example of the problems that are examined is the dispersion of particles in N-layer systems. This is a discrete version of the classical phenomenon of Taylor dispersion. Mazo has developed a method of treating the transport properties of particles flowing in a layered system where the velocities in the various layers are different and transitions between the various layers are possible. The model has applications beyond the obvious ones. For example, the problem of the spectrum of an exciton moving along a disordered chain has been treated by the same methods. The techniques use the theory of stochastic processes. Generalizations to more complex situations are being explored.
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- Member of the Administrative and Office Staff
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- Associate Director, Academic Support Unit