The Solomon Group Julia Woertink Bryan Optholt Abhishek Dey Ning Sun Adam Tenderholt Somdatta Ghosh Dey John Dustman Adrienne Diebold T.J. Augustine Marina Chow Monita Pau Jen Schwartz Caleb Bell Michael Neidig Samuel Wilson Munzarin Qayyum Christina Brown Yeonju Kwak Takehiro Ohta Shaun Wong Jungjoo Yoon Winson Xie Lei Liu
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Principle Investigator
Edward Solomon Monroe E. Spaght Professor
Defining the electronic and geometric structure of catalytically relavent transition metal sites

Graduate Students
TJ Augustine 5th year Structure/function correlations in multi-copper oxidases
Caleb Bell 4th year Biochemical and spectroscopic investigations of the oxygen reactions and oxygen intermediates in DF (due ferri) family of synthetic peptides and their parent non-heme diiron enzymes
Christina Brown 6th year {FeNO}7 complexes of mononuclear non-heme Fe enzymes: exploring reaction pathways in αKG-dependent and related enzymes
Somdatta Ghosh Dey 6th year Spectroscopic, kinetic, and computational studies of copper enzyme active sites and related model compounds
Adrienne Diebold 3rd year Spectroscopic study of intra- and extra-diol dioxygenases
Dave Heppner 1st year Electronic Structure and Mechanism of The Multicopper Oxidases
Jen Schwartz 6th year Spectroscopic and omputational characterization of the geometric and electronic structures and reactivities of binuclear non-heme iron active sites
Ning Sun 2nd year Sulfur K-edge XAS and DFT investigation of Fe-S cluster containing proteins and model complexes
Adam Tenderholt 5th year Sulfur K-edge XAS and DFT calculations of molybdenum bis(dithiolene) complexes
Sam Wilson 3rd year Synchrotron based XAS L-edge and DFT calculations of heme and non-heme iron model complexes and protein active sites
Shaun Wong 3rd year DFT and spectroscopic studies on mononuclear non-heme iron enzymes
Julia Woertink 5th year Spectroscopic and computational studies of oxygen activation by the noncoupled binuclear copper enzymes PHM and DβM and the cofactor biogenesis reaction of the mononuclear copper enzyme Galactose Oxidase
Winson Xie 5th year PES/DFT studies on electronic structure contributions to electron transfer and the geometric and electronic structure of CuA sites

Postdocs
Takehiro Ohta Spectroscopic and compuational studies on dioxygen and aromatic hydrocarbon activation mechanism of Rieske dioxygenase
Bryan Op't Holt Spectroscopic and computational investigation of antiferromagnetically coupled binuclear Cu(II) sites

Administrators
Elayna McCarty General all-around useful gal
Viviana Tul Assistant for Professor Solomon's editorial duties for the Inorgnic Chemistry journal

Former Group Members
Laurie Addleman Science Teacher, Palo Alto High School
Mike Baldwin Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati
Lipika Basumallick Postdoctoral Fellow, Genentech
Carl Brown Staff Applications Engineer, KLA-Tencor
Thomas Brunold Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kristine Butcher Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, California Lutheran University
Cecelia Campochiaro Staff System Design Manager, KLA-Tencor
Peng Chen Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
Marina Chow Scientist, Genencor International, Inc.
Pat Clark Rohm and Haas
Michael Clay Codexis
Sabine (Pulver) Coates Research Scientist, Advanced Bioanalytical Services
Susan Cohen
Jim Cole Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Connecticut
Kevin D'Amico SGX Pharmaceuticals (?)
Mindy Davis Postdoctoral Researcher, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology
Andrea Decker Project Leader, Polymorphism Solvias AG, Basel Switzerland
Sylvia Desjaridins
Abhishek Dey Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
Steve Didziulis
John Dustman
Nancy Eickman
Daniel Gamelin Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington-Seattle
Bob Gay
Matthew Gebhard Rohm and Haas
Serena DeBeer George Staff Scientist, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Andy Gewirth Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thorsten Glaser Professor, Department of Chemistry, Bielefeld University
Serge Gorelsky Research Associate, Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation, University of Ottawa
Kalee Gregory
Jeff Guckert
Mark Henson Principle Scientist, Pfizer Global RD
Richard Himmelwright
Rosalie Hocking Beamline Research Fellow, Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science
Ted Holman Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Santa Cruz
Yeong Hwang
Yasuo Izumi Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Chiba University
Paul Jones Seagate Technology
Lung Kau
Jyllian Kemsley Science Writer,
Pierre Kennepohl Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia-Vancouver
Marty Kirk Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico
Lou LaCroix Technical Lead, Chemical Integration, TeraStor Corporation
Sang-Kyu "Q" Lee Genencor International, Inc.
Nicolai Lenhert Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
Barry Liboiron
Jianyi Lin Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore
Kelly Loeb Baxter Healthcare
John Long
Mike Lowery Wacker Silicon
Cynthia LuBien
Pam Mabrouk Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University
Tim Machonkin Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center
Jim McCormick Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Truman State University
Markus Metz
Nataa Miti
Frank Neese Professor, Theoretical Chemistry, Bonn University
Michael Neidig
Takehiro Ohta Researcher, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Amy Palmer Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder
Monita Pau Engineer, KLA-Tencor
Elizabeth Pavel Senior Process Development Engineer/Integration Technologist, Applied Materials
Mark Pavlosky Market Support Manager, ASI Applied Systems
Kevin Penfield
Jim Penner-Hahn Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
Elna Pidcock
Jim Puti
Liliana Quintanar Professor, Advanced Study and Research Center of the Polytechnic Institute (Cinvestav), Mexico
David Randall Research Scientist, KLA-Tencor
Richard Reem
J. Brad Reitz Chemist, Polymers Lab, General Electric RD
Dan Richardson
Diego del Rio Diaz-Jara Research Scientist, SRI International
David Root Director, RNA Interference Platform, Broad Institute
Kendra Rose Staff Scientist, Johnson and Johnson
Paul Ross
Ritimukta Sarangi Staff Scientist, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Gary Schenk Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland, Australia
Anette Schmidt Staff Scientist, Institut fr Analytische und Anorganische Chemie, Uni Giessen, Germany
Susan Shadle Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Boise State University
Woonsup Shin Professor, Department of Chemistry, Sogang University
Katya Shishova Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania
Andrew Skulan Postdoctoral Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore
Darlene Spira
Kari Strand Graduate Student, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oslo
Uma Sundaram Licensing Associate, Corporate Sponsored Research and Licensing, Massachusetts General Hospital
Robert Szilagyi Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University
Felix Tuczek Professor, Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
Mike Vance
Erik Wasinger Staff Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
Pin-pin Wei
Dave Westmanland
Tami Westre Research Associate, METALAST International
Jim Whittaker
Dean Wilcox Professor, Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College
Randall Wilson
Marge Winkler
Yi-Shan Yang Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Radiology, Stanford University
Jungjoo Yoon
Jeffrey Zaleski Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University
Yan Zhang Marketing Planning, Genentech
Jing Zhou Research Scientist, Roche Diagnostics Corporation

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Updated 04/08