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Faculty Presentations, Publications, & Grants

2009 Publications (* indicates undergraduate)

  • Paula, S., Abell*, J., Deye*, J., Elam*, C., Lape*, M., Purnell*, J., Ratliff*, R., Sebastian*, K., Zultowsky, J., Kempton, R. J. (2009). Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of hydroquinone derivatives. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 17, 6613–6619.
  • Deye*, J., Elam*, C., Lape*, M., Ratliff*, R., Evans*, K., Paula, S. (2009). Structure-based virtual screening for novel inhibitors of the sarco/endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase and their experimental evaluation.. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry/, 17(3), 1353-1360.
  • Haik, K.; Bullen, H. A., Undergraduate Research at the Intersection of Disciplines:  Challenges and Solutions to Research Issues at the Interface of Biology and Chemistry at Northern Kentucky University (NKU). Vignette CUR Quarterly 2009, Winter accepted. (submitted in 2009)
  • Hare, P.M., E.A. Price, C.M. Stanisky, I. Janik, and D.M. Bartels, Solvated Electron Extinction Coefficient and Oscillator Strength in High Temperature Water. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2010. 114(4): p. 1766-1775. (submitted in 2009)
  • Lape*, M., Paula, S., Ball, Jr., W. 2010. A molecular model for cocaine binding by the immunotherapeutic human/mouse chimeric monoclonal antibody 2E2. Accepted to appear in European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 8. (submitted in 2009)
  • Lape*, M., Elam*, C., Paula, S. 2010. Comparison of current docking tools for the simulation of inhibitor binding by the.  Accepted to appear in Biophysical Chemistry, 10. (submitted in 2009)
  • E. D. Banks*, N. M. Taylor*, B. R. Lubbers, J. G. Giarrizo, J. Gulley, T. M. Hoehler, H. A. Bullen, and H. A. Barton. “Bacterial Calcium Carbonate Precipitation in Cave Environments: A Function of Calcium Homeostasis” Geomicrobiology Journal 2010 accepted.  (submitted in 2009)
  • H. J. Gulley-Stahl,* P. A. Hogan II,* W.  L. Schmidt,* S. J. Wall,* A. Buhrlage,* H. A. Bullen. “Surface Complexation of Catechol to Metal Oxides: An ATR-FTIR, Adsorption, and Dissolution Study” Environ. Sci. Technol. 2010 final review. (submitted in 2009)
  • Gómez-Cornelio, S.; Quintana, P.; De la Rosa-García, S.; Narváez-Zapata, J.; Urcia, H.*; Bullen, H. A.; Santiago, W.; Ortega-Morales, B. O., “Bioweathering of limestone by fungi isolated from black biofilms associated with Mayan monuments”. 2010 in preparation.

2009 Faculty Presentations:

Spring 2009

  • Bergren, A. J., Edwards, G. A., Cox, E. J., Porter, M. D., 237th ACS National Meeting, "Nanostructural issues related to the nucleation and growth of self-assembled alkanethiolate monolayers on gold," American Chemical Society, Salt Lake City, UT. (March 22, 2009).
  • Walters, K. A. American Chemical Society National Meeting, "Just What do You Put in a One-Semester Inorganic Course Anyway?," ACS, Salt Lake City, UT. (March 2009).
  • H. A. Bullen. “Integration of the Analytical Sciences Digital Library to Promote Active-Learning.” Pittcon Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2009. (Talk)
  • Shick, J.; Lagadic, I. and McCann, R. L. "Analysis of Cytoxicity of Hexagonal Mesoporous Silicates in IEC-18 and MDCK cells for their use as Drug Carriers" 237th ACS National Meeting,March 22-26, 2009 - Salt Lake City, UT (Poster)

Summer/Fall 2009

  • Monteyne, K.;, Gonzalez, B. L., Loverude, M. E., Interdisciplinary Investigation of Student Ability to Interpret and Apply Models of an Ideal Gas at the Macroscopic and Particulate Levels, Gordon Conference on Chemical Education Research and Practice, Colby College, Maine, August 2009

2009 Grants Awarded:

External

  • Hare, Patrick (PI), Walters, Keith (Co-PI), Paula, Stefan (Co-PI), "MRI: Acquisition of a Time-Resolved Fluorescence Instrument for Chemistry Research and Education", Sponsored by National Science Foundation (MRI), Federal, $64,230
  • Walters, Keith (PI), "RUI: New Supramolecular Moieties for Organometallic Supramolecular Photophysics"), Sponsored by National Science Foundation (RUI), Federal, $199,491.
  • Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (KBRIN)-Academic Research Enhancement Award. Investigate nanoparticles for drug delivery across the blood brain barrier(2009) Kristi Haik (PI), Heather Bullen (Co-PI) $52,000
  • Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (KBRIN)-Academic Research Enhancement Award.  Photochemistry and photophysics of estrogens Patrick Hare (PI) $21,390
  • National Institute of Hometown Security, US Department of Homeland Securaty/Science and Technology Directorate.  Kentucky Critical Infrastructure Protection.  (2009) Morehead State University (PI) NKU Subcontract: Julie Raines (PI), Hong Mei Wang (co-PI), Carrie McCoy (co-PI) and Heather Bullen (co-PI) $1,282,789
  • National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI-R2) Acquisition of an Agilent 78108 A Gas Chromatograph for Northern Kentucky University. (2009) Kristiy Hopfensperger (PI) Hazel Barton (Co-PI) Heather Bullen (Senior Personnel). $81,101
  • Paula, Stefan (PI), Kempton, Robert J (Co-PI), "Hydroquinone derivatives as novel calcium ATPase inhibitors", Sponsored by NIH, Federal, $150,000.
  • Paula, Stefan (PI), Kempton, Robert J (Co-PI), "SERCA Inhibition by Hydroquinone Derivatives", Sponsored by KBRIN/NIH, State, $209,760.

Internal

  • Northern Kentucky University Research Foundation SEED Grant (2009). Examining Toxicity, Distribution and Physicochemical Properties of Novel Nanocapsules Designed for Brain Delivery Kristi Haik (PI) & Heather Bullen (Co-PI). $1,500.

  • CINSAM. Functional Nanomaterial Films for Alternative Energy and Sensing Design Applications (2009) Heather Bullen (PI) Keith Walters (Co-PI). $15,488
  • CINSAM. "Mesoporous Organosilicate Nanoparticles as Chemotherapeutic Drug Carriers " Isabelle Lagadic (PI). $8,225