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Chemistry
Welcome to the Department of Chemistry of Washington University in St. Louis. We occupy five buildings, of a total size of 242,000 square feet . The Department provides rigorous training in all areas of chemistry at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Approximately 50 chemistry majors graduate each year, many of whom go on to further study at the best graduate schools in the world.
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Workaholic
Single-celled bacterium works 24-7, converting light to energy by day, moonlighting at night
April 28,
2008 -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have gained the first detailed insight into the way circadian rhythms govern global gene expression in Cyanothece, a type of cyanobacterium (blue-green algae) known to cycle between photosynthesis during the day and nitrogen fixation at night.
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In the mix
Research aims to produce energy on the farm
April 15,
2008 --
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| Muthanna Al-Dahhan (left) and graduate student Rajneesh Varma are researching effective ways to take agricultural waste and make biofuel out of it. |
Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, using an impressive array of imaging and tracking technologies, have determined the importance of mixing in anaerobic digesters for bioenergy production and animal and farm wastes treatment. They are studying ways to take "the smell of money," as farmers long have termed manure's odor, and produce biogas from it.
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2008 McDonnell lecture
Space scientist Flanagan to speak on Webb Telescope
March 20,
2008 --
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Kathryn Flanagan, Ph.D., senior scientist and head of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mission Office at the Space Telescope Science Institute, will deliver the 2008 McDonnell Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in Room 214 Wilson Hall on the Danforth Campus at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Ralph Quatrano
Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., is the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences and chair of the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is internationally known for his plant science work on patterns of embryo formation, and how the patterns lead cells to acquire traits or ...
Expertise: Plants, plant biology, botany, moss, genome, algae, genes, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-6850
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rsq@wustl.edu
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Michael Welch
Professor of radiology
Welch, an expert in synthetic chemistry, has been a leader for more than 30 years in the development of synthetic imaging agents that have allowed doctors to use positron emission tomography (PET) to diagnose an increasingly wide variety of disorders. He is also head of the Radiochemistry Institute ...
Expertise: PET, nuclear medicine, synthetic chemistry, oncology, imaging agents, radioisotopes, radionuclides
Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu
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William Buhro
Professor of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences
William H. Buhro, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and associate director of the Center for Materials Innovation, specializes in nanotechnology. He and his group are engaged in synthesis on the nanometer-scale. They design reactions and mechanisms for the growth of inorganic crystals having dimensions ...
Expertise: nanomaterials, materials, inorganic chemistry, nanotubes, nanowires
Direct contact: (314) 935-4269
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buhro@wustl.edu
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Joseph Ackerman
William Greenleaf Eliot Professor of Physical Chemistry in Arts & Sciences
Joseph J. H. Ackerman, Ph.D. is William Greenleaf Eliot Professor of Chemistry and chair of the chemistry department. His work is concerned primarily with the development and application of magnetic resonance spectroscopic and imaging techniques for the study of functional biophysical and physiologic ...
Expertise: magnetic resonance techniques, spectroscopic techniques, imaging techniques, functional biophysical, physiologic events, intact biological systems, isolated cell preparations, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-6593
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ackerman @wuchem.wustl.edu
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Richard Loomis
Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry
Richard Loomis, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, is a physical chemist making inroads into high-speed computing. Loomis received his doctorate in chemistry in 1995 from the University of Pennsylvania and then received a prominent National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship with the National ...
Expertise: reaction dynamics, atomic resolution, quantum computing, radical molecule clusters, linear laser spectroscopy, nonlinear laser spectroscopy, quantum wave packet dynamics, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-8534
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loomis@wuchem.wustl.edu
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Finding Industry Funding
Science Magazine
March 14,
2008 -- WUSTL's Karen Wooley, professor of chemistry, comments on the difficulties and approaches academic researchers use to garner industry funding.
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Mimicking plant evolution proves fruitful
MSNBC.com
Jan. 11,
2008 -- By mimicking plant evolution, a team of Illinois researchers has improved upon nature's design to build a leafy energy-producing powerhouse — or at least a virtual one on a supercomputer. In a study published within the journal Plant Physiology, WUSTL biology and chemistry professor Robert Blankenship comments on the Illinois study.
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Universities selected for nanotech research
San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
and 10 others
Oct. 4,
2005 -- WUSTL is one of seven university consortia selected by the National Cancer Institute to spearhead research hubs called Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, which will bring together academic laboratories and private firms to develop anti-cancer products.
The research involves the use of molecular-scale nanotechnology devices to detect and destroy tumor cells.
From the Post-Dispatch article -- the WUSTL center will be headed by Samuel Wickline.
In April, WUSTL got another grant, worth $12.5 million, for a separate nanotechnology center headed by chemist Karen Wooley.
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Depression: hidden cause of heart attack?
The Wall Street Journal
and 2 others
April 26,
2004 -- You may have one of the biggest risk factors for heart attack, and your doctor doesn't even know it. While doctors screening for heart problems know to monitor smoking, high cholesterol and high blood pressure, few pay attention to a potentially more serious foe: depression. "In cardiology there have been dozens of studies done on hypertension," said Kenneth Freedland, professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, who has been studying the link between depression and heart disease since the 1980s. "We need to make sure the public and medical community understand that this is an important problem, too."
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Additional Information: Shared departmental facilities include a high-resolution NMR facility, a Mass Spectrometry facility, Computing resources, glass, mechanical and electrical shop services, and numerous other instrumentation.
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