😀 indicates that the student has become a co-author on a peer-reviewed paper!
Eric Mohan
Undergraduate research student, spring 2019
Mechanochemical Transformations in Porphyrin Chemistry
Hayley Piepho
Undergraduate research student, spring-fall 2018
Modifications of Pentafluorophenylporphyrin
Serena Churchill
Study abroad student, academic year 2017-2018
Home institution: University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Synthesis and Photophysical Evaluation of Morpholinochlorins
David Schnable
REU student, summer 2017
Home institution: Misericordia University, PA
Synthesis of Metallodioxobacteriochlorins
Michael Labrecque
Undergraduate research student, spring & fall 2017
Synthesis and Reactivity of Dioxoporphyrin
Bionca Feagin
Undergraduate research student, McNair Scholar, spring & fall 2017
Metal Sensing Using Functionalized Imidazoloporphyrins
😀 Jiaming Ding
Undergraduate research student, summer 2016
Home institution: Fudan University, P.R.C.
Synthesis and Functionalization of Imidazoloporphyrins
Genevieve Nuttall
Undergraduate research student (w/ Prof. Harry Frank), performing her work in our laboratories, spring 2016-date
Carotenoid Pigments in Bird Feathers
Carly Mastriano
Undergraduate research student, spring-summer-fall 2016, spring-summer-fall 2017, spring 2018
Catechol-derived Porphyrins for Light Harvesting
😀 Fang Zhou
Undergraduate research student, summer 2015.
Home institution: Fudan University, P.R.C.
Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation of Octaethyloxochlorins
😀 Samuel Lindeyer
Undergraduate research student, spring-summer-fall 2015, spring & fall 2016, spring 2017.
Biliverdin extraction from emu eggshells.
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Bill Dema
Undergraduate research student, fall 2014.
UV-vis and fluorescence spectra of pyrrole-modified porphyrins..
😀 Hua (Justin) Zhu
Undergraduate research student, summer 2014.
Home institution: Fudan University, P.R.C.
Solubilizing Quinoline-annulated Porphyrins for the Photoacoustic Imaging of Tissue.
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😀 Weston Tardie
Undergraduate research student, spring & fall 2014, spring-summer-fall 2015, spring & fall 2016 (thesis).
Oxazolochlorin Modifications
Elizabeth
Kaesmann
Undergraduate research student, spring-summer-fall 2014, spring & fall 2015, spring & fall 2016, spring 2017 (thesis).
Synthesis and Chemistry of Octaalkylbisketo-bacteriochlorins and -isobacteriochlorins
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Yongjian (Jam) Chen
Undergraduate research student, summer 2013.
Home institution: Fudan University, P.R.C.
Reaction of Indaphyrins with Nucleophiles
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Angeleque Hartt
REU student, summer 2013.
Home institution: Bates College, ME
Synthesis of Derivatized meso-Tetraaryloxazolochlorins
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Kelsey Wheeler
Undergraduate research student, fall 2012-spring 2013.
Synthesis of meso-Tetraaryl-2,3-dioxoporphyrins
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😀 Mengxi (Moncy) Yang
Undergraduate research student, summer 2012.
Home institution: Fudan University, P.R.C
Quinoline-annulated Chlorins
Became a graduate student at Texas A&M University (Gabaï Group)
Kristina Marilla
Undergraduate research student, spring & fall 2012, spring-summer 2013.
Synthesis and Modification of Aminomethylcoumarin
Went on to PA School
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Nicole Luzi
Undergraduate Student spring & fall 2012-spring & fall 2013, spring 2014.
p-Phenyl-functionalization of Pentafluorophenylporphyrins
Went on to attend a Medicinal Chemistry Graduate Program at West Virginia University
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😀 😀 😀 😀 Steven Halepas
Undergraduate Student fall 2011 through fall 2013, including summer 2012; following a B.S. in 2013, technician in the Brückner Group until 2014
Optical High pH- and Cyanide-sensing Membranes and Biliverdin Extraction from Emu Eggshells
Went on to UConn Dental School.
😀 Kim Panther
Undergraduate Student spring 2011, summer 2011, to 12/2012 (last year joint with Prof. José Gascon)
Pentafluorophenylchlorin Syntheses and Computation
Works in her major field – actuarial sciences
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😀 Alexander Ticho
REU student, summer 2011.
Home institution: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Central Metal-dependent Conformational Variation of Metallomorpholinochlorins
Attended a PhD-MD program
😀 😀 😀 Eileen Meehan
Undergraduate Student spring-summer 2011, until 12/2012.
B.S. University of Connecticut, 2012 M.S. University of Connecticut, 2014
Synthesis of Bisalkyloxazolochloris
Became a graduate student in our group; now a graduate student at the Department of Chemistry at Penn State University, Philadelphia
Amanda Card
Undergraduate Student fall 2010.
Synthesis of Pyrrole-modified Porphyrins
😀 Sarah Wells (née Page)
REU student, summer 2010.
Home institution: Grove City College, Grove City, PA
Synthesis of Bispyrrole-modified Bacteriochlorins
Became a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh
Suzanne Xie
Undergraduate Student spring 2010.
Synthesis of Pyrrole-modified Porphyrins
😀 Gretchen Peters
REU student, summer 2009.
Home institution: Luther College, Decorah, IA
Hydrazine-induced Ring-closures of Pd and Pt Secochlorin Bisaldehydes
Graduate studies at the University of Maryland (J. Davis Group)
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😀 😀 John Haskoor
Undergraduate Student 2008-2011.
Reaction of Porpholactones with Hydrazine
Went on to attend NYU Medical School
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Jacqueline Mulee
Undergraduate Student fall 2008-2009.
Study of the Antimicrobial Phototoxicity of Brown Eggshells
Douglas Mooney
REU Student, summer 2008.
Home institution: Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
Synthesis of Free Base Pyrazinochlorins
After Ph.D. at Sacrad Heart University, general chemistry instructor at UConn branch campus
Renee Rubenstein
Undergraduate Student, spring & summer 2008.
Synthesis of Porphyrins, Metalloporphyrins, and -chlorins
Went to attend UConn School of Dental Medicine
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Melissa Zastrow
Undergraduate Student 2007-2008.
Thesis: Synthesis and Spectroscopic Characterization of Platinum meso-Tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)porphyrin and its Osmylation Products; Winner of the departmental Best Undergraduate Thesis Award and winner of the American Institute of Chemists (AIC) Foundation Award.
Graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (Pecoraro Group) in 2013; then Postdoctoral Associate at the Lippard Group at MIT, followed by Assistant Professorship, University of Houston
Ashley Saab
Undergraduate Student 2007.
Synthesis of Pt and Pd Porphyrins
Took on employment at BioScale, Cambridge, MA
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Gloria Zarate
REU Student, summer 2007.
Home institution: San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Nitroaromatic Detection by a Porphyrin Library
Graduate studies at UConn in our group, M.S. in 2010, now industrial employment
Brian Lewandoski
Undergraduate Student 2007-2008
Synthesis of Pyrrole-modified Porphyrins
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Alexander Rubbicco
Undergraduate Student Fall 2006.
Phthalocyanine UV-vis spectra
😀 Michelle King
REU student, summer 2006
Home institution: Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
Determination of Acid/Base Properties of Porpholactones
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😀 Nicole Morozovich
REU Student, summer 2006
Home institution: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA
Conversion of OEP to mono- and bis-Oxipyriporphyrins
Became graduate student at the Department of Chemistry at Penn State U, University Park, PA (Allcock Group)
Stephanie DaSilva
Undergraduate Student 2006.
Pt and Pd Porphyin Syntheses
Christopher Arntsen
Undergraduate Student 2006-2008.
Base-catalyzed Porphyrin Synthesis
Graduated with a double-major Chemistry and Math and went off for graduate studies at the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UCLA (Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, September 2014)
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😀 Alison Rossi
Undergraduate Student 2005-2007.
Honors Thesis: Dipyrromethanes and Dipyrrins as Precursors to Porphyrins and Corroles
Now analyst at Nielsen, CT
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Stacy Byron
Undergraduate Student spring 2005.
Porphyrin Syntheses
Went off to attend the School of Optometry, Buffalo, NY
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Michael Kobakov
Undergraduate Student spring 2005.
Porphyrin Syntheses
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😀 😀 Steven Capetta
Undergraduate Student, 2001-2005.
Undergraduate Thesis: Silver(II) as Template in Porphyrin Chemistry
Went on to become a Senior Associate Scientist, Neurosciences Chemistry, Pfizer Global R&D, Groton, CT
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😀 Angela Tanudra
Undergraduate Student 2004-2005.
Zinc Chemosensors, Cell Culture (in collaboration with Prof. H. Freake, Dept. of Nutritional Sciences)
Became a Technician at the Sackler Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University
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😀 Maura Porto
Undergraduate Student, 2003-2005
Biological Evaluation of Zinc Chemosensors
Went on to become a Research Assistant in a genetics lab at Harvard Medical School
(the photo shows Maura inside of a cell – in the Science Museum in Munich)
😀 😀 😀 Heather W. Daniell
Undergraduate Student, 2000-2003.
Honors Thesis: ß,ß’-Modifications of Porphyrins: Synthesis and Resolution of a Chiral Chlorin-Type Chromophore. Winner of the departmental Best Undergraduate Thesis Award
D.Phil. in chemistry (2007) from the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Oxford University, UK (with Prof. Harry Anderson) Became an energy consultant, an Associate at Beetle Capital Partners (alternative energy investment consulting business), London, UK, a self-employed consultant, and eventually the owner/founder of Dr. D’s Tasty Treats.
Christopher Rinaldo
REU Student, summer 2003.
Home institution: Keene State University, NH
Synthesis of Dithiadiolchlorins
Went off for graduate studies at the University of Colorado (with Prof. Niels Damrauer, M.S. in 2005)
😀 Paul Foss
REU Student, summer 2003.
Home institution: Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
Synthesis of meso-Tetrathienylporphyrins
Industrial employment
Nicola Hines
Undergraduate Student, 2003.
Porphyrin Chemistry
😀 Jolene V. Schuster
REU Student, summer 2002.
Home institution: Penn State University, Behrend College, PA
Synthesis of Coumarin Derivatives
Ph.D. in chemistry (2009) from the Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (with Profs. Dean Wilcox and Jon Kull; postdoctoral stays at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and Wellesley College, MA. Now on the Faculty, Science Department at Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ
Teresa Filshtein
Undergraduate Student, 2002.
Porphyrin Chemistry
😀 A. Barta
REU Student, summer 2001.
Home institution: University of Nebraska at Kearny, NB
Silver(III) Corroles
Ph.D. in chemistry (2007) at the University of British Columbia, B.C., Canada (with Prof. Chris Orvig); Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska at Kearny, NB. Now Undergraduate Research Coordinator, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tayseer Ghazzouli
Undergraduate Student, 2000-2001.
Carbohydrate Syntheses
Dana Nason
Undergraduate student, 1999-2001.
Synthesis of N-Confused Porphyrins
😀 Suzanna Williams
REU Student, summer 2000.
Home institution: Providence College, RI
Synthesis of 2,3-Dionechlorins
Graduate studies at the Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT (with Prof. J. W. Faller)
Nolwenn Le Bouch
Undergraduate Student, 2000.
Demetalation of Silver Porphyrins
Graduate studies at Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
Jeremy Sholovitz
Undergraduate Student, 1999-2000.
Porphyrin Chemistry
Ken Burke
Undergraduate Student, 1999.
Large Scale Tetraarylporphyrin Syntheses
😀 Patricia Melfi
REU Student, summer 1999.
Home institution: Providence College, RI
Synthesis of Silver Chlorins
Ph.D. in chemistry (2007) from the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin (Prof. Jonathan L. Sessler).