FACULTY
Dr. Cyril Párkányi
Professor and Interim Department Chair
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D. Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1962
R.N.Dr. Charles University, 1966
parkanyi@fau.edu
Research interests: Physical and theoretical organic chemistry (quantum organic chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry, medicinal chemistry (anticancer and antiviral compounds), food chemistry, environmental chemistry, coordination chemistry and structural chemistry.
Dr. Jerome E. Haky
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve, 1981
hakyj@fau.edu
Research interests: Chemical education research.
Patrick Ande.
Lab Coordinator, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
MS Biochemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1975
pande@fau.edu
Dr. Charles E. Carraher, Jr.
Professor, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D. University of Missouri, 1967
carraher@fau.edu
Research interests: Synthesis and characterization of metal and organometallic polymers, bioactive polymeric materials.
Dr. Donna Chamely-Wiik
Assistant Scientist, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Ph.D. Florida Atlantic University, 2004
dchamely@fau.edu
Research interests: Chemical education research.
Dr. Daniel T. de Lill
Assistant Professor, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Ph.D., The George Washington University, 2008
ddelill@fau.edu
Research interests: Design and synthesis of inorganic materials including coordination polymers/metal-organic frameworks and nanomaterials, lanthanide chemistry and spectroscopy (visible, near infrared (NIR), upconversion), nanomaterials in bioimaging, group IV metals and photocatalysis as related to environmental remediation and energy, small molecule X-ray crystallography.
Dr. Deguo Du
Assistant Professor, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2006
ddu@fau.edu
Research interests: Biochemistry and molecular biophysics, protein folding, molecular basis of protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases, protein engineering, biosensor and bio-imaging to probe protein folding and amyloid formation in vivo.
Dr. Alberto Haces
Instructor, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 1982
ahaces@fau.edu
Research interests: Chemical education, development of diagnostic systems using enzymes and DNA probes, cell differentiation agents, nucleic acids transfection reagents, new methods of organic synthesis, and medicinal chemistry.
Dr. Daniel Huchital
Professor, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D. Stanford University 1965
huchital@fau.edu
Research interests: Previously, studies on the kinetics and mechanisms of substitution, isomerization and electron transfer reactions of first row transition metal complexes, particularly cobalt(III) complexes with chromium(II) complexes. Also, investigations of the sequence specificity of cobalt(III) complexes with self-complementary DNA oligonucleotides. Currently teaching general chemistry courses.
Dr. Salvatore Lepore
Professor, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1997
slepore@fau.edu
Research interests: Development of synthetic organic methods, the total synthesis of complex natural products and related analogs for structure activity relationship studies, and the development of expedited synthesis techniques to facilitate small-molecule library production.
Dr. J. William Louda
Senior Scientist, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D. University of South Florida, 1993
blouda@fau.edu
Research interests: Environmental biogeochemistry, chlorophylls, carotenoids, phycobiliproteins and sunscreen pigments, microalgal community assessment and water quality.
Dr. Frank Mari
Professor, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1991
mari@fau.edu
Research interests: Isolation and characterization of peptides and proteins of marine origin, structure and dynamics of peptides and proteins of marine origin using NMR methods and computational methods for the analysis of structure-activity relationships of biomolecules.
Dr. Evonne Rezler
Assistant Scientist, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D. University of Sydney, 2001
erezler@fau.edu
Research interests: Spectroscopic studies of the mechanism of drug delivery by cell penetrating peptides and other biomolecular delivery systems. Chemical education research.
Dr. Stéphane P. Roche
Assistant Professor, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., Université Blaise Pascal, 2006 (France)
sroche2@fau.edu
Research interests: Development of new 'bio-inspired' and asymmetric methodologies using dearomatization, dimerization and cascade strategies and their application to concise total syntheses of biologically active natural products. Further specific design of small molecules using the developed methods will provide access to larger portfolio of drug like molecules for biological screening.
Dr. Patricia Snyder
Professor, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1970
snyder@fau.edu
Research interests: Physical chemistry, molecular spectroscopy (vacuum ultraviolet region), and electronic structure of molecules.
Dr. Guondong Sui
Assistant Professor, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., University of Miami, 2002
gsui@fau.edu
Research interests: Microfluidics for cancer diagnosis and drug delivery.
Dr. Andrew Terentis
Associate Professor, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., University of Sydney, 1997
terentis@fau.edu
Research interests: Optical spectroscopy of biomolecules, bioanalytical applications of Raman spectroscopy, Raman microscopy of living cells and tissues for detection of cancer and other diseases, mechanisms of molecular binding to DNA and oxygenase active site structure, catalysis mechanisms and kinetics.
Dr. Lyndon West
Assistant Professor, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., Victoria Univ. of Wellington, New Zealand, 2001
lwest@fau.edu
Research interests: Discovery of pharmacologically-active metabolites from marine invertebrates, anti-cancer and anti-microbial agents, use of stem cells in developing new drugs for cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and development of novel approaches for the separation and characterization of marine natural products to accelerate the discovery of drug leads.
