I. Jonathan Amster, Professor
Analytical Chemistry, Biological Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
We use mass spectrometry to analyze the structures of proteins and glycans of biological and biomedical interest.
Parastoo Azadi, Dr.
Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
Our laboratory is located within the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at UGA, where we work on the structural characterization of plant, bacterial and animal polysaccharides, glycoproteins and glycolipids using MS and NMR techniques.
Michael Duncan, Professor
Physical Chemistry, Computational/Theoretical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
Molecular beams, mass spectrometry, metal atom clusters, laser spectroscopy, astrochemistry.
Eric Ferreira, Associate Professor
Organic Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
Our research group studies the development of synthetic methods and their applications in complex molecule synthesis. We generally employ transition metal catalysis in our synthetic method design.
Amanda Frossard, Assistant Professor
Environmental/Atmospheric Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
The Frossard Lab is focused on understanding the composition and properties of surfactants in atmospheric aerosol particles and how these surfactants influence the hygroscopic properties of aerosol particles. We combine laboratory and field measurements and a suite of analytical techniques.
Kelly Hines, Assistant Professor
Analytical Chemistry, Biological Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
The Hines Lab is developing methods to perform rapid, multi-omics experiments with ion mobility-mass spectrometry. The goal of our work is to improve the sensitivity of diagnostic tests by evaluating the biological samples with their native complexity intact. A major application our approach is the identification of microorganisms and the prediction of their antibiotic susceptibilities using molecular fingerprints.
Vlad Klepov, Assistant Professor
Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Nanoscience | Laboratory website | Email
Our lab designs functional inorganic materials by tuning crystal and electronic structures for wide-ranging applications in radiation detection, magnetism, and sustainability. We aim at developing new synthetic techniques and procedures, fully characterizing the properties of new materials, relating the properties to the composition and structure on atomic, micro, and macro levels, and designing new device architectures that will maximize the output of new materials.
Franklin E. Leach III, Assistant Professor
Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
My lab develops analytical instrumentation and approaches to characterize biomolecular structure with a primary emphasis in glycosylation. Participants will gain experience with high performance mass spectrometry and its application to the molecular imaging of biological tissues. Opportunities also exist in advanced data analysis for visualization and statistical correlations.
Christopher Newton, Assistant Professor
Organic Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
The Newton research group is largely focused on the development of new pericyclic strategies, in particular those that leverage the Diels–Alder reaction, and their application in the synthesis of biologically active natural products and pharmaceutical candidates.
Robert Phillips, Professor
Organic Chemistry, Biological Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
We study structure-function relationships in enzymes, using spectroscopy, kinetics and x-ray crystallography. The enzymes that we study are mainly vitamin B6 dependent, and alcohol dehydrogenases.
Vladimir Popik, Professor
Organic Chemistry, Biological Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Nanoscience | Laboratory website | Email
Our main interest lie in the development of novel "click" ligation strategies, photoactivatable drugs, light-directed delivery of bioactive molecules, photochemical modification of polymers and hydrogels.
Melanie Reber, Assistant Professor
Physical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
The Reber lab uses fiber-laser frequency combs to do ultrafast chemistry.
Gregory H. Robinson, Professor
Inorganic Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
Our research seeks to address the often innovative chemistry that lies at the interface between inorganic and organic chemistry. We seek to study the structure, bonding, and reactivity of molecules largely based on the more abundant and affordable main group elements as opposed to the rare and often more expensive transition metals.
Brandon Rotovera, Associate Professor
Physical Chemistry, College of Engineering | Laboratory website | Email
Gas-phase kinetics experiments on functional group chemistry of biofuels in support of sustainable transportation energy. Spectroscopy and mass spectrometry diagnostics, quantum chemical modeling, chemical kinetics modeling.
Henry F. Schaefer, Professor
Physical Chemistry, Computational/Theoretical Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
Methods and applications of molecular electronic structure theory. Computational quantum chemistry.
Geoff Smith, Professor
Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Environmental/Atmospheric Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
The Smith lab studies the optical properties of aerosol particles to better understand how they interact with sunlight and influence the atmosphere. We develop instrumentation that allows us to measure absorption and scattering by particles throughout the UV-visible spectrum.
Jeffrey Urbauer, Associate Professor
Biological Chemistry, Molecular Biophysics, Analytical Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
We study medically relevant proteins and protein-protein systems in order to assist in development of therapeutics. For instance, one current focus is on regulation of G-protein coupled receptor signaling. We emphasize studies of fundamental properties using physical and structural methods including high-field NMR spectroscopy.
Yifan Wang, Assistant Professor
Biological Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
The Wang Lab studies oxygen activation and C–H/C–C bond functionalization by biomedically essential metalloenzymes. We use spectroscopic and structural approaches to understand the beauty of nature's catalysts.
Y. George Zheng, Professor
Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Chemistry | Laboratory website | Email
Our laboratory is located within the UGA College of Pharmacy, where we work on epigenetic therapies and chemical biology strategies and probes to interrogate protein acetylation- and methylation regulated disease processes.