It has been a productive term for the Burgmayer lab. In September, Dean Burgmayer, W. Alton Jones Professor of Chemistry, traveled with PhD students Benjamin Williams and Doug Gisewhite to the international conference on Molybdenum and Tungsten Enzymes held at Balatonf眉red, Hungary, to present their latest research. The interdisciplinary conference assembles scientists from biology, chemistry and medicine to discuss advances in research directed at the roles of these enzymes in human health as well as in the environment.
The research they presented at the conference was simultaneously published in the journal Inorganic Chemistry entitled "Solvent-Dependent Pyranopterin Cyclization In Molybdenum Cofactor Model Complexes," coauthored by Williams, Gisewhite, and Dean Burgmayer along with Anna Kalinsky and Alisha Esmail, recent 2015 A.B. graduates. The team also supplied the cover art for the issue of the journal in which their article was published.
Work continues this spring, when current 魅影直播 undergraduates Allie Nagelski '17 and Shengjia Zhu '16 will be presenting research from their work on this project at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego, CA.
The team's research is supported by a three year $284,660 grant from the National Institutes of Health.