News Highlights 2010-2007

2010

December 2010

  • Congratulations to Maher Fathalla who has successfully defended his PhD dissertation! Maher will start a post-doc with Prof. Fraser Stoddart at Northwestern University in Jan 2011.

September 2010

  • Rob Mishur will start a post-doc at The University of Texas Health Science Center with Prof. Shane Rea.

July 2010

  • Group's work on heteromeric porphyrin nanowires assembled in water is published as a communication in JACS.
  •  JJ receives the Doctoral New Investigator Award from the American Chemical Society to work on the Self-Assembly of Directional Porphyrin Arrays in Water
  • Group participates in a collaborative Tulane-Xavier Vaccine Development Engineering Project funded by the Department of Defense.

June 2010

  • Undergraduate Research Almuni Matthew Griffin will attend chemistry graduate school at the California Institute of Technology.
  • Undergraduate Research Almuni Anne Kane will attend medical school at Louisiana State University.

January 2010

  • Graduate student Mengyuan Zhu joins group

2009

November 2009

  • Maher's Eur. J. Org. Chem. article is picked as "EurBest" by the editors.  This article is also amongst the most accessed for this month.

October 2009

  • JJ receives a grant from the Tulane Provost's Fund for Faculty-Student Scholarly Engagement

September 2009

  • Maher's manuscript on stilbene-linked bis-porphyrin tweezers that sequester fullerenes is published in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry

August 2009

  • Board of Regents Fellow Cooper Battle joins group

June 2009

  • JJ received the Louisiana Board of Regent Research Competitiveness Grant to work on "DNA-Small Molecule Chimeras:  Stimuli Responsive Protein-Binding Agents"
  • A joint review article, with the Sessler Group, on base-pair mediated non-convalent polymers is published in Chemical Society Reviews.
  • Groups work on Self-Assembled Fullerene-Porphyrin Nanotubes is published in Chemical Communications.
  • Maher Receives a Travel Award from the Organic Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society to Present at the 238th ACS National Conference in Washington DC.

May 2009

  • Undergraduate Researchers Anne Kane (Anthropology Major and Chem Minor) and Benjamin Sacs (Cell and Molecular Biology Major) Graduate from Tulane
  • Matthew Griffin and Anne Kane win Chemistry Department Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.

February 2009

  • Group's work on the Protein Recognition of a Functionalized Hemin Binding Aptamer is published in Supramolecular Chemistry.

2008

October 2008

  • JJ appointed as a Contributing Member of the Tulane Cancer Center Group's work on responsive and regulable protein binders is published in JACS

September 2008

  • JJ appointed as a Fellow of the Newcomb College Institute

August 2008

  • Dr. Robert Mishur, National Institutes of Health Post-Doctoral Research Training Awardee, joins group to work at the interface of chemistry and lung biology

June 2008

  • David Harrie receives the Arlo Harris Scholarship Award (2007-2008).
  • John-Tae Lee, LS-LAMP Participant joins the group for summer research.

April 2008

  • Tulane Chemistry Department (JJ as Co-PI) awarded BOR-Enhancement Grant to upgrade mass-spectrometry facilities
  • JJ attends an invited Junior Faculty Career Success Workshop at Rice University
  • Maher wins a CCR travel award to attend a Leadership Skills Workshop for Graduate Students and Postdocs at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Council for Chemical Research

February 2008

  • Tulane Chemistry Department acquires state of the art Olis RSM 1000 Circular Dichroism Spectropolarimeter

January 2008

  • Graduate Student Xiaoye Su, China Scholarship Council Fellow joins the group.

2007

November 2007

  • Professor JJ receives Tulane Research Enhancement Award.

August 2007

  • Graduate Students Nan Zhang and Xiaozhu Chu joins group
  • Graduate Student David Harris awarded Board of Regents Fellowship
  • Graduate Student Maher Fathalla Anwer Fathalla, Eqyptian Government Fellow, joins group.