Bioinorganic Chemistry

BIOGRAPHY

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Structure/function relationships in redox-active enzymes; Inorganic biochemistry, particularly involving molybdenum; Spectroscopy of redox-active proteins; Biological electron transfer

EXPERIENCE
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry (principal academic appointment); Professor, Department of Chemistry; Investigator, Dorothy Davis Heart/Lung Research Institute; The Ohio State Biochemistry Program; Biophysics Graduate Program; Integrated Biomedical Science Graduate Program; Medical Scientist Program

HONORS AND AWARDS
Phi Kappa Phi Honors Fraternity, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, April 1974
Rice University Fellowship, Rice University, Houston, TX, Academic Year, 1974 - 1975
Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, August 1978 - August 1981
Simson Faculty Research Award, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 1997
Humboldt Research Prize, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 2003-2004
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, October, 2004
Wenner-Gren Visiting Professorship, University of Lund, Sweden, 2007
Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Riverside, 2007

RECENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

International Scientific Advisory Committee, 15th and 16th International Symposia on Flavins and Flavoproteins (Tokyo, Japan; Jaca, Spain) April 2003 - present
Chair, Computational Biophysics Study Section, National Institutes of Health - November, 2005
Co-organizer, 17th International Symposium on Flavins and Flavoproteins, University of California, July, 2011
Co-editor, Coord. Chem. Rev. special issue "Molybdenum in Biology", 2011