| PROFESSOR | INTERESTS |
|---|---|
| Jefferson Chan | Development of assays to quantify critical biomarkers for aging, neurological disorders, and cancer; discovery of changes in the tissue microenvironment during disease progression through synthesis of responsive imaging agents; design of responsive platforms for on demand and site-selective drug discovery |
| Hee-Sun Han | High throughput, high-resolution omics technologies: lab on a chip platforms, imaging-based spatial transciptomics; Synthetic cell assembly; Systems biology in brains and microbial populations. |
| Prashant K. Jain | Energy chemistry; sustainable chemical synthesis; electrochemistry; plasmonics; artificial photosynthesis; multielectron catalysis; nanoscale imaging |
| Christy F. Landes | Developing new spectroscopic tools to image chemical dynamics at interfaces at the limit of a single event; creating new models to understand and predict macroscale processes like protein separation and photocatalysis |
| Stephan Link | Photophysics and photochemistry of nanomaterials; plasmonics; solar energy conversion; single-particle imaging; ultrafast spectroscopy |
| Xiaotang Lu | Brain circuit imaging for understanding the development and pathology of the central nervous system: correlated multidimensional (from nanoscale to whole brains) and multiplexed (transcriptomic and proteomic) imaging; (bio)chemical probes; nanoparticles; tissue chemistry; and advanced microscopy |
| Catherine J. Murphy | Inorganic nanomaterials for chemical sensing and cellular imaging; bioanalytical studies of the “protein corona” around nanoparticles; photothermal therapy with targeted nanoparticles |
| Joaquín Rodríguez-López | Interfacial electrochemistry; scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM); spectroelectrochemistry; automated electrochemistry; nanoelectrodes; batteries; electrocatalysis; graphene electrodes; redox polymers; electrochemical simulation; reactive oxygen species |
| Mei Shen | Bioanalytical chemistry; nanoelectrochemistry; scanning electrochemical microscopy; synaptic neurotransmission; neurochemistry; single-cell signaling at high spatiotemporal resolution; fast-scan cyclic voltammetry; monitoring real-time neurotransmitter and cytokines dynamics in mice brain; inflammation; immune response; Alzheimer’s disease; glioblastoma; gut-brain axis; plant biology |
| Jonathan V. Sweedler | Analytical neurochemistry, including development of new tools for metabolomics; peptidomics and single-cell characterization; increasing our understanding of cell signaling in the brain |
Other Faculty with Interests in Analytical Chemistry:
| PROFESSOR | INTERESTS |
|---|---|
| Rohit Bhargava (faculty affiliate) | Infrared and Raman spectroscopy; chemical imaging; cancer pathology; 3D printing for tumor models |
| Dana D. Dlott (research faculty) | Laser spectroscopy under extreme conditions |
| Mary L. Kraft (faculty affiliate) | Biomembrane composition imaging |
| Liviu M. Mirica | Development of diagnostic and imaging agents for neurological disorders; electrocatalysis for small molecule activation |
| Shuming Nie | Quantum dots; SERS; nanomedicine; image-guided surgery; biomaterials; cancer immunotherapy |
| Ralph G. Nuzzo (research faculty) | Condensed phase interfaces; analytical protocols |
| Elena Romanova (research faculty) | Mass spectrometry-based discovery and characterization of peptides in tissues and individual cells |
| Stanislav Rubakhin (research faculty) | Microbioanalytical chemistry; mass spectrometry imaging; single-cell and single-organelle sample preparation |
| Stephen G. Sligar (research faculty) | Nanobiotechnology; drug discovery |
| Huimin Zhao (faculty affiliate) | Synthetic biology; AI/ML; automation; protein engineering; metabolic engineering; natural product biosynthesis; biocatalysis |