Graduate Students

	cand. chem. Brad Musselman (B.S. Chemistry, Knox College)
since May 2017	Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Artificial Enzymes based on Metallocorroles and Other Cofactors

 

	cand. chem. Jill Harland (B.S. Chemistry, University of Delaware)
since April 2018	Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Modeling the Heme/Non-Heme Iron Active Site of Bacterial NO Reductase

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	cand. chem. Victor Sosa Alfaro (B.S. Biochemistry, Sonoma State University; M.S. Chemistry, San Jose State University)
since April 2018	Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Preparation of Modified Myoglobins for the Generation of Ferrous Heme-Nitrosyl and -Nitroxyl Complexes

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	cand. chem. Virginia Larson (B.S. Chemistry, Wheaton College)
since May 2019	Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Development of Molecular Catalysts for the Covalent Modification Semiconductor Electrodes

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	cand. chem. Lizzie Manickas (Bachelor of Science, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania)
May 2019 - present	Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Synthesis of Model Systems for Reactive Intermediates in Cyt. P450nor

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	cand. chem. Garrett Reed (B.S. Biochemistry, Miami University of Ohio)
since May 2020	Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Tuning the Reduction Potential of Diferrous Dinitrosyl Complexes: Insight into the Mechanism of Flavodiiron NO Reductases

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	Michael Lengel (B.S. Chemistry, Purdue University)
since May 2021	Ph.D. Student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	The Role of the Second Coordination Sphere in Flavodiiron NO Reductases

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	Alivia Mukherjee (B.S. Chemistry, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India; M.S. Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India)
since Nov. 2021	Joint Ph.D. Student in the Penner-Hahn and Lehnert groups
Research Project	Studies into the Mechanism of Cobalamine-Based Light Sensors

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Current Rotation Students

	Faridat Agboola
since Jan. 2022	Winter 2022 rotation in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction

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	David Gazdecki
since Jan. 2022	Winter 2022 rotation in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Design of New Model Complexes for Bacterial Nitric Oxide Reductase

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	Matt Peris
since Jan. 2022	Winter 2022 rotation in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Tuning the Reduction Potential of Dinuclear Non-Heme Iron-Nitrosyl Complexes

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Undergraduates

	Hannah Palomino
Fall 2019 - present	Undergraduate research student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Biocatalysis with New Heme Proteins

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	Abby Bracken
Fall 2020 - present	Undergraduate research student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Exploring Second Coordination Sphere Effects in Non-Heme Diiron Complexes

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	Esmee DenOtter
Sept. 2021 - present	Undergraduate research student in the Lehnert group
Research Project	Surface Immobilization of Molecular Electrocatalysts

Former Group Members