Brasch Group News
January 2012 Harishchandra and Rohan present posters at the Bioinorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar in Ventura, California.
Dr. Brasch attends the Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference at the same location.
January 2012 Anthony Giovengo joins the group for his PhD studies. Welcome Anthony!
January 2012 Rohan successfully defends his candidacy proposal!
December 2011 Rohan and Noah’s article on the reaction of cob(I)alamin with nitrite and nitrate is published on-line in the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201100992). The article will be in print early next year together with Rohan’s cover page artwork!
November 2011: Rohan begins pulse radiolysis studies at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the lab of Dr. Diane Cabelli. Click here for more photos.
October 2011: Harishchandra, Rohan and Joe present posters on their research at the Cleveland State Interdisciplinary Research Conference.
October 2011: Another trip for Harishchandra, Rohan and Joe! – this time to the Ohio Inorganic Weekend conference at the University of Cincinnati, where Rohan and Joe present posters and Harishchandra gives an oral presentation!
October 2011: Riya’s two articles on the reactions of cob(I)alamin and cob(II)alamin with peroxynitrite are published in Chemistry – A European Journal! (Chem. – Eur. J., 2011, 17, 11723 and 11805.) These articles are featured on the cover page of the issue!
September 2011: The Brasch Group’s paper on the decomposition of thiolatocobalamins in acidic solution, coauthored by Leslie, Riya, Jeff and Harishchandra, is published in the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (Eur. J Inorg. Chem., 2011, 4717).
September 2011: Undergraduate student Andrew Hunt joins the group. Welcome Andrew!
September 2011: Congratulations to David, who has been selected to study at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, in Fall 2011, as part of the Kent State University – University of Leicester exchange program. Click here for more photos of David enjoying himself in the UK.
August 2011: The Brasch Group is awarded an NIH grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to carry out pulse radiolysis studies on the reactions of vitamin B12 with reactive oxygen species. These studies will be done in collaboration with Dr. Diane Cabelli at Brookhaven National laboratory.
August 2011: Graduate student Yang Zhou (Joe) joins the group. Welcome Joe!
June 2011: Ed’s article on vitamin B12 protecting against superoxide induced intracellular oxidative stress is published in Free Radic. Biol. Med. 2011, 11, 876.
June 2011: Dr. Brasch presents a poster at the 8th International Conference on Homocysteine Metabolism in Lisbon, Portugal.
May 2011: Noah graduates with a B.S. in Chemistry with Honors. Noah has been accepted into the PhD program in the Department of Chemistry at CALTECH, starting in Fall 2011. Congratulations Noah!
April 2011: Noah is awarded a Lubrizol Scholarship and the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Award!
April 2011: David is awarded the Clarence L. Cook Memorial Award!
April 2011: Jeff is awarded an American Chemical Society (Akron section) Outstanding Junior Award!
March 2011: Noah successfully defends his senior Honors thesis!
March 2011: Sabbatical leave for Dr. Brasch is approved for Summer and Fall 2011. Dr. Brasch will work in the lab of Dr. Edward Quadros at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York.
March 2011: Riya successfully defends her PhD thesis and will graduate in May! Well done Riya! Click here for photos of the event.
February 2011: Jeff Brown is accepted into the UC Davis CREATE-REU program this summer. Congratulations Jeff!
January 2011: Harishchandra passes his PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations Harish!
January 2011: Bryan Smith joins the group. Welcome Bryan!
October 2010: The Akron Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) awards Noah Plymale a scholarship for Outstanding Chemistry Majors. Congratulations Noah!
August 2010: Dr. Brasch presents a poster at the FASEB Summer Research conference on Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 and One Carbon Metabolism in Carefree, Arizona.
August 2010: Riya’s article on a two-dimensional barium/thiodiacetate coordination polymer is published (J. Coord. Chem., 2010, 63, 2821; invited contribution to a special issue dedicated to Professor Rudi van Eldik).
July 2010: Dr. Brasch presents the group’s research at the Metals in Medicine Gordon research conference, in Andover, New Hampshire.
July 2010: David Walker joins the group. Welcome David!
June 2010: Jeff Brown joins the group. Welcome Jeff!
June 2010: Riya, Harishchandra and Rohan present their research at the Frontiers of Metallobiochemistry conference at Penn State.
May 2010: Noah is selected to participate in the NSF-REU summer undergraduate research program at Colorado State University.
May 2010: Ed has his commencement ceremony. Click here for photos of the event.
April 2010: Noah Plymale is awarded the Undergraduate Student Award in Analytical Chemistry, and is nominated by the Department of Chemistry for a ACESS Akron Chemical and Engineering and Scientific Societies Scholarship.
March 2010: Riya Mukherjee receives a New Inventor award at the Kent State University 2010 Inventor Recognition Ceremony.
January 2010: Graduate student Rohan Dassanayake joins the group. Welcome Rohan!
January 2010: Ed successfully defends his PhD thesis!
December 2009: Hanaa successfully defends her PhD thesis at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt!
December 2009: Hanaa’s article on the reaction of R2N-NONOates with aquacobalamin is published in Angew. Chemie (Angew. Chemie Int. Ed., 2009, 48 (47), 8909).
November 2009: Undergraduate student Noah Plymale presents a poster at the Ohio Inorganic Chemistry weekend conference, Cleveland, November 2009.
October 2009: Ed’s communication on the reaction between cob(II)alamin and superoxide is published in JACS (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131(42), 15078).
October 2009: Riya’s article on a captopril derivative of B12 is published in Inorg. Chem. (Inorg. Chem., 2009, 48 (19), 9526).
September 2009: KSU undergraduate student Kelly Wagner joins the group. Welcome Kelly!
August 2009: Dr. Brasch is invited to give an oral presentation at the “Vitamin B12 & Corphins” Gordon research conference, Oxford, UK.
July 2009: Kamille Garcia from Ventura College, CA, who is carrying out NSF-REU sponsored research in the Brasch Group this summer, is one of two KSU REU students selected to give an oral presentation at the 2009 Northeast Ohio Undergraduate Research Symposium.
July 2009: Riya Mukherjee is awarded an ACS Inorganic Division travel award to attend the National ACS meeting in Washington, DC in August to present her research on vanadium/vitamin B12 bioconjugates for the treatment of diabetes.
July 2009: Luciana’s article on the X-ray structures of ethylcobalamin and butylcobalamin is published in Inorg. Chem. (Inorg. Chem., 2009, 48(14), 6615).
June 2009: The Brasch Group acquires a state-of-the-art Applied Photophysics SX20 stopped-flow spectrophotometer, capable of measuring the rates of fast (ms) reactions.
May 2009: Our article on cobalamins as potent intracellular antioxidants is published (Free Rad. Biol. Med., 2009, 47 (2), 184).
May 2009: Luciana’s article on alkylcobalamin processing in mammalian cells is published (Mol. Gen. Metab., 2009, 97, 260).
April 2009: Edward Suarez-Moreira presents a poster on his research at the Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Conference in Washington, DC.
April 2009: Hanaa Hassanin and Riya Mukherjee are selected to give on oral presentation on their research at the GRC Inorganic Chemistry Graduate Student Research Symposium in Maine in June. Well done!
April 2009: Riya Mukherjee is awarded the 2009 Todd Graduate Student Research Award. Congratulations Riya!
April 2009: Dr. Brasch is invited as the Keynote Speaker for the American Chemical Society’s 2nd Annual Western New York Undergraduate Chemistry Research Symposium, Buffalo, April 2009.
February 2009: The Brasch Group is awarded $398,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to carry out mechanistic studies on the reactions of vitamin B12 with nitrogen oxide species.
January 2009: Hanaa and Luciana’s article concerning structural studies on nitrosylcobalamin in solution is selected as the cover page article for Dalton Transactions! (Dalton Trans. 2009, 424). This article was also selected as a ‘Hot article’!
January 2009: KSU student Noah Plymale joins the group to carry out undergraduate research. Welcome Noah!
December 2008: Luciana and Ed’s article on the extraction of cobalamins from bovine aortic endothelial cells is published! Clin. Chem. Lab. Med. 2008, 46, 1739.
November 2008: Harishchandra Subedi joins the group as a graduate student. Welcome Harishchandra!
July 2008: Dr Brasch is invited to give an oral presentation at the “Chemistry and Biology of Tetrapyrroles” Gordon research conference, Newport, RI.
July 2008: Riya’s poster is selected for an oral presentation at the “Metals in Medicine” Gordon research conference, Andover, NH.
June 2008: Our research on vanadium/vitamin B12 biocon- jugates for the treatment of diabetes is written up as a Science & Technology Con- centrate in C&E News (June 30, 2008).
June 2008: Riya, Mike and Ed Donnay’s communication on vanadium/vitamin B12 bioconjugates for the treatment of diabetes is published! (Chem. Commun. 2008, 3783). This article was also immediately selected for inclusion in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Chemical Biology Research Articles virtual journal.
February 2008: Brenda’s article on the structural characterization of two vanadium(III) complexes is published! Inorg. Chim. Acta 2008, 2321.
January 2008: KSU students John Hwang and Elizabeth Schindler join the group to carry out undergraduate research. Welcome John and Liz!