News
May 2018: Congratulations to Joseph Karnes for being named ACS Wichita Section Outstanding Graduating Senior from Wichita State!! Joe also won the Physical Chemistry Award. Yay!
March 2018: Chandana has started a postdoctoral position at NIEHS in North Carolina.
December 2017: Congratulations, Dr. Kasireddy and Dr. Dahanayake!! Chandana and Jayangika defended their doctoral dissertations with aplomb!
August 2017: We've got more funding! We will be working on "Unraveling Connections Among Biomolecular Structure, Interfacial Solvent Dynamics, and Conformational Dynamics" with National Science Foundation funding, with our Co-PI, Vinh Nguyen at Virginia Tech. We also will be working on "Structure-dynamics of Cofactor Binding in Human Aldose Reductases", with funding from a Pilot Project from the COBRE Protein Structure Function Center.
June 2017: Congratulations to Jon Ellis for being awarded a summer internship through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to work at Eli Lilly in Indianapolis.
May 2017: Congratulations to undergraduate extraordinaire Olivia Hull for being awarded the Rosalee and Alvin Sarachek Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Natural Sciences, which is the highest distinction for a graduating science student!
April 2017: Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Derek Hildebrandt, who has been named a K-INBRE Bioinformatics Scholar for work on human aldose reductase enzymes in our lab! Congratulations to Joseph Karnes, who has been named a K-INBRE STAR Trainee for work calculating fluorine chemical shifts in protein environments!
February 2017: We host the Kansas Physical Chemistry Symposium at Wichita State. What a great day! Thanks to all of the presenters and attendees for the stimulating conversations and presentations.
January 2017: Jon is admitted to University of Wisconsin-Madison for doctoral studies in chemistry! Congratulations, Jon!
September 2016: Olivia is granted a K-INBRE Undergraduate Research Award!
September 2016: Jon wins Best Presentation at the GRASP NMR symposium!
July 2016: Congratulations, Dr. Archana Mishra on a very fine thesis defense!!
December 2015: Chandana, Jayangika, and Olivia have presentations accepted for the National ACS meeting in March 2016, San Diego.
December 5, 2015: We all have a fantastic time attending and presenting at the Kansas Physical Chemistry Symposium at KU!
November 2015: Congratulations to Olivia for being accepted to the undergraduate COMP workshop at the Spring 2016 ACS meeting in San Diego!!
November 2015: Congratulations to Chandana for a great talk at the GRASP NMR conference, and for being nominated for Best Oral Presentation!!
October 2015: Jayangika and Chandana present at the Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society.
October 2015: Funding from the Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award starts in January 2016 for our project "Toward improved non-aqueous biocatalysis: Mapping relationships between enzyme structure, interfacial solvent dynamics, and enzyme dynamics"
June 19, 2015: Jon, Rajni and Katie return from the Proteins Gordon Research Conference in Holderness, NH. It was a great time!
April 28, 2015: Congratulations to Jayangika and Chandana for passing their doctoral candidacy exams after defense of their original research proposals!!
March 26, 2015: Jon returns from presenting his research at the national ACS meeting in Denver.
November 2014: Chandana, Jayangika, and Archana present work at Midwest Regional ACS meeting in Columbia, MO.
August 14, 2014: Katie, Chandana, and Jayangika return after presenting at national ACS meeting in San Francisco.
March 2014: Rajni and Katie attend national ACS meeting in Dallas, TX.