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FACULTY & STAFF


FACULTY
 
 

Dr. Jerome E. Haky

Associate Professor and Interim Department 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

Visiting Instructor, 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
 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
 

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
 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
 

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, 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: Chemical education research. Spectroscopic studies of biomolecules.
   
 

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. 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

Associate 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.
 
 

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Evelyn Hall

Office Manager

ehall@fau.edu

   

 

Javier Rivera

Senior Lab Technician

jriver67@fau.edu

   

 

Jennie Soberon

Budget Coordinator

jsoberon@fau.edu

   

 

Helena Szczesny

Special Assistant to the Department Chair
& Graduate Coordinator

hszczens@fau.edu

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