UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE GRADUATE PROGRAM AT THE
chemistry/biology interface
The
University of Delaware offers a multidisciplinary
graduate program at the interface between chemistry and biology, funded
by NIH. The program involves faculty from six academic units and allows
students to obtain a Ph.D. degree in either Chemistry and Biochemistry,
in Chemical Engineering or in Biological Sciences. Research disciplines
include: biochemistry, biochemical engineering, bioorganic chemistry,
molecular biology, cell biology, virology, bioanalytical chemistry, structural
biology, bioinorganic chemistry, materials science and plant biochemistry.
The program features: laboratory rotations to introduce students to diverse
research areas; graduate courses that can be selected from six departments;
a course on scientific integrity and ethical principles in research; a
multidisciplinary seminar; and an intense research experience culminating
in the submission of a Ph.D. dissertation.
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CBI Goals
Our goal is to provide a multidisciplinary education for a talented group of students to enable them to apply the mechanistic, synthetic and analytical approaches of chemistry to important biological problems. Students may obtain a Ph.D. degree in either Chemistry and Biochemistry, in Chemical Engineering, or in Biological Sciences. |
CBI OPPORTUNITY
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CBI SPECIAL EVENTS
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CBI MULTIDISCIPLINARY FACULTY
Forty-One University of Delaware faculty drawn from the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, of Chemical Engineering, of Biological Sciences, of Animal and Food Sciences, of Plant and Soil Sciences, and of Materials Science and Engineering. |
CBI NUTS AND BOLTS
The program is coordinated by a Steering Committee composed of Roberta F. Colman (Program Director, Biochemistry), Abraham M. Lenhoff (Associate Program Director, Chemical Engineering), John T. Koh (Organic Chemistry), Pamela J. Green (Plant & Soil Sciences), Daniel T. Simmons (Biological Sciences), Joel Schneider (Organic Chemistry) and Colin Thorpe (Biochemistry). |
CBI ADMISSION
By application to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, to the Department of Chemical Engineering, to the Department of Biological Sciences, or directly to the Chemistry-Biology Interface Graduate Program. Acceptance to a Ph.D. program in one of the three departments is required in order to be considered for admission to the CBI Program. Decisions on admission to the Chemistry-Biology Interface Program are made subsequently by the Steering Committee. Because funding of the Chemistry-Biology Interface Program comes from the National Institutes of Health, admission to the CBI Program is limited to United States citizens and permanent residents. |
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PARTICIPATING FACULTY
| ROBERTA F. COLMAN Program Director (Chemistry and Biochemistry): Enzymology of Dehydrogenases and Glutathione S-transferases; Affinity Labeling and Mutagenesis of Adenylosuccinate Lyase and other Nucleotide Binding Enzymes |
MACIEK R. ANTONIEWICZ Metabolic Flux Analysis; Systems Biology; Computational Tools for Quantifying Cellular Physiology | BRIAN BAHNSON (Biochemistry): Intermediates of Enzyme Reactions and Enzyme Motions in Catalysis Viewed by X-ray Crystallography |
| THOMAS P. BEEBE, JR.(Analytical Chemistry): Measurement of Ligand - Receptor Interactions in Neurons Growing on Tailored Biomaterial Surfaces | JOAN BURNSIDE (Animal & Food Sciences): Regulation of Gene Expression by Growth Hormone and Cytokines | DANIEL D. CARSON (Biology): Extracellular Matrix Expression and Function; Reproductive, Developmental and Cancer Biology |
| JUNGHUEI CHEN (Biochemistry): Mechanism of Recombination in Both Prokaryotes and Eukaryotic Systems | CARLTON R. COOPER (Biology): Prostate Metastasis to Bone and Cell Adhesion | PATRICIA A. DELEON (Biology): Reproductive Genetics, Genomics, Sperm Proteomics, Male Infertility, Spermatogenesis, Molecular Aspects of Fertilization |
| MELINDA DUNCAN (Biology): Molecular Mechanisms of Vertebrate Eye Development | M. CYNTHIA FARACH-CARSON (Biology): Biochemistry and Cell Biology of Bone Extracellular Matrix; Ca2+ Homeostasis | JOSEPH M. FOX (Organic Chemistry): Synthetic Methodology and Organometallic Chemistry |
| ERIC M. FURST (Chemical Engineering): Cytoskeletal Structure — Function, Motor Protein Biophysics, Tissue Engineering | PAMELA J. GREEN (Plant and Soil Sciences; Marine Studies): mRNA Stability; Ribonucleases; Functional Genomics of Noncoding and Peptide Coding RNAs | XINQIAO JIA (Materials Science & Engineering) Novel Biomimetic Materials; Functional Biointerfaces; Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery |
| MURRAY V. JOHNSTON (Analytical Chemistry): Biological Mass Spectrometry | KRISTI L. KIICK (Materials Science & Engineering): Polymeric Materials for Cellular and Molecular Recognition | ERIC B. KMIEC (Biological Sciences): Genetic Engineering and Gene Targeting in Plant and Mammalian Cells |
| JOHN T. KOH (Bioorganic Chemistry): Chemical Biology of Nuclear and Steroid Hormone Receptors | KELVIN H. LEE (Chemical Engineering) Proteomics. Gene Expression Profiling to identify Rate-limiting Steps in Protein Secretion Pathways | JUNG-YOUN LEE (Plant & Soil Sciences) Molecular Mechanisms and Components of Cell-Cell Communication |
| ABRAHAM M. LENHOFF (Chemical Engineering): Separation Processes; Protein Molecular Biophysics, Protein Thermodynamics | ROBIN W. MORGAN (Animal & Food Sciences): Molecular Biology of Marek's Disease Virus, an Oncogenic Avian Herpes Virus | ULHAS P. NAIK (Biology): Signaling Through Cell Adhesion Molecules |
| SHARON L. NEAL (Analytical Chemistry): Fluorescence Probe Kinetics in Biomembrane Models | ELEFTHERIOS TERRY PAPOUTSAKIS (Chemical Engineering): Metabolic Flux Analysis; Metabolic Engineering and Genomics; Stem-Cell Engineering | DARRIN J POCHAN (Materials Science & Engineering) Materials via Self Assembly; Nanotechnology; New Biomaterials; Bio-inorganic organic Hybrids |
| TATYANA POLENOVA (Physical Chemistry) Biophysics and Structural Biology of Protein Interfaces; Protein Assemblies, and Metallo-proteins; Biomolecular Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy | CHARLES RIORDAN (Inorganic Chemistry): Synthetic and Mechanistic Models for Nickel and Zinc Sites in Proteins; Organometallic Drug Design | CHRISTOPHER J. ROBERTS (Chemical Engineering): Protein Aggregation; Prediction of Protein Degradation and Shelf Life; Protein Preservation |
| ANNE ROBINSON (Chemical Engineering): Molecular and Cellular Engineering; Engineering Protein-Protein Interactions in vivo and in vitro for Improved Protein Production | SHARON ROZOVSKY (Biochemistry and Biophysics) Function of Membrane Proteins; Lipid-Protein Interactions; Membrane Biophysics | JOEL P. SCHNEIDER (Bioorganic Chemistry): Peptide and protein de novo Design. Synthesis of Peptide Receptors, Probes and Biomaterials. |
| ERICA M SELVA (Biology): Genetic and Molecular Control of Signal Transduction during Drosophila Development | ROBERT A. SIKES (Biological Sciences): Prostate Development; Prostate Cancer Development, Progression and Testing of Novel Therapeutic Agents | DANIEL T. SIMMONS (Biology): Virology and Molecular Biology; Structure and Function of SV40 T Antigen and Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 |
| MILLICENT O. SULLIVAN (Chemical Engineering) Design of Polymeric Materials for Improved Drug and Gene Transport; Engineering of Cell-Biomaterial Interactions | DOUGLASS F. TABER (Organic Chemistry): Stereoselective Synthesis of Complex Physiologically Active Natural Products; Computational Organometallic Chemistry | COLIN THORPE (Biochemistry): Enzymology of Flavoproteins in Fatty Acid Metabolism; Protein Disulfide Bond Formation |
| ZHIHAO ZHUANG (Biochemistry) Chemical Biology. Molecular Mechanism of Protein Machineries in DNA Damage Repair and Tolerance Pathways, particularly the Regulation of these pathways by Post-Translational Protein Modification by Ubiquitination and Sumoylation | NEAL J. ZONDLO (Bioorganic Chemistry): Functional Molecular Recognition by Designed Architectures | |
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