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A Novel Gel Phase for Capillary Electrophoresis |
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The November 2005 CSSC meeting
will be held at Menu for Reception: Soda or Bottled Water, with an assortment of fresh fruit slices and vegetable crudités w/ seasonal dip, cheeses, breads and crackers.
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Date: | Tuesday, November 1, 2005 | |||||||
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Location: | The
Nathan Hale Inn The University of Connecticut Storrs, CT |
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Speaker: | Prof.
Linda Baine McGown Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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Agenda: | 5:30
- 6:30 pm Reception 6:30 - 7:30 pm Dinner 7:30 - 8:30 pm Technical Presentation |
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Cost: | $25 ($15 Students and Emeritus) | |||||||
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Registration Deadline: |
Thursday, October 27, 2005. | |||||||
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| Abstract: Guanosine gels (G-gels) are self-assembled networks of hydrogen-bonded guanine tetrads formed by guanosine nucleosides and nucleotides. G-gels combine desirable properties, such as reversibility, tunability, aqueous solubility, and biocompatibility, with the unique ability to non-covalently and reversibly introduce functionality directly into the G-tetrad network of the gel via hydrogen bonding. Their degree of organization and viscosity are dependent upon monomer concentration, temperature, pH and cation content, providing a variety of parameters that can be used to control their formation/disassembly and to reversibly modulate their properties. This talk will present results of experiments in which G-gels are used for separations of enantiomers and of DNA oligonucleotides in capillary
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| Biography: Linda Baine McGown received her B.S. in chemistry from the State University of New York
(SUNY) at Buffalo in 1975 and her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1979. She began her faculty career as a pre-doctoral lecturer at Texas A&M University from 1978-’79, and served as an assistant professor of chemistry at California State University, Long Beach from 1979-‘82. She then joined the Department of Chemistry at Oklahoma State University and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1985. She left
O.S.U. in 1987 to join the faculty at Duke University. In the summer of 2004, after 17 years at Duke, McGown was named Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. A frequent public speaker, McGown has offered dozens of presentations at universities throughout the United States; made international conference presentations in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Spain, and the United Kingdom; and was a National Tour Speaker for the Society for Applied Spectroscopy in both Canada and the United States. In addition, McGown has given lectures to industrial and governmental groups such as Dow Chemical Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer Groton Central Research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She has authored or co-authored over 100 refereed journal publications, more than 200 conference publications, one book, and ten book chapters. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2001, McGown also is an invited member of the Society of Fluorescence, a winner of the Gold Medal Award from the New York Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and a PerkinElmer International Liquid Chromatography Technical Paper Award winner for an article she co-authored with her graduate student Maria Brak-Smalley. McGown currently serves on the editorial boards of NanoBiotechnology, Spectroscopy and Instrumentation Science and Technology, and previously has been a member of several other journal boards, including Analytical Chemistry, Chemical and Engineering News, and Applied Spectroscopy. Her professional memberships include AAAS, American Chemical Society, American Association of University Women, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and Sigma Xi. She is also an affiliate of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). McGown’s research projects fall into several broad categories, including spectroscopic analysis, chemical separations, analytical/bioanalytical chemistry, biomaterials, biotechnology, biomedical research, forensics, and environmental analysis. Techniques employed in her research include static and dynamic fluorescence spectroscopy, ultraviolet-visible absorption and circular dichroism spectroscopies, capillary electrophoresis and related techniques, and mass spectrometry. Current research interests in the McGown group include design and applications of reversible biogel materials, directed proteomic approaches to protein capture in electrophoresis and mass spectrometry, analytical applications of aptamers and related oligonucleotides, DNA and genomic analysis, spectroscopic studies of molecular aggregates and characterization of complex macromolecular systems of biological, environmental, and toxicological importance. |
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| Directions:
From I-84 East: Take Exit 68. At the bottom of the exit ramp, take a right onto Route 195. Follow Route 195 straight to the University of Connecticut Storrs Campus. Take a right onto Mansfield Road (Look for a large pond on your right. Mansfield Road will be at the next set of traffic lights.). At the first stop sign, take a left onto Gilbert Road. Then continue left onto Gilbert Extension (Across from Alumni Residence Hall). The Nathan Hale Inn is straight ahead. Park in the gated lot behind the hotel. From I-84 West: Take Exit 68. At the bottom of the exit ramp, take a left onto Route 195. Follow Route 195 straight to the University of Connecticut Storrs Campus. Take a right onto Mansfield Road (Look for a large pond on your right. Mansfield Road will be at the next set of traffic lights.). At the first stop sign, take a left onto Gilbert Road. Then continue left onto Gilbert Extension (Across from Alumni Residence Hall). The Nathan Hale Inn is straight ahead. Park in the gated lot behind the hotel. From I-384 West: Follow I-384 until it becomes Route 44 (East). Follow Route 44 until you reach Route 195 (Four Corners). Take a right onto Route 195 South and follow Route 195 straight to the University of Connecticut Storrs Campus. Take a right onto Mansfield Road (Look for a large pond on your right. Mansfield Road will be at the next set of traffic lights.). At the first stop sign, take a left onto Gilbert Road. Then continue left onto Gilbert Extension (Across from Alumni Residence Hall). The Nathan Hale Inn is straight ahead. Park in the gated lot behind the hotel. From Route 32 North: Follow Route 32 North until it intersects with Route 275 (South Eagleville Road). Take a right onto Route 275, and continue straight until it reaches Route 195. Take a left onto Route 195 North. Continue straight on Route 195 until you reach Mansfield road on the left (If you pass a large pond on the left, you have gone too far.). At the first stop sign, take a left onto Gilbert Road Then continue left onto Gilbert Extension (Across from Alumni Residence Hall). The Nathan Hale Inn is straight ahead. Park in the gated lot behind the hotel. University
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