Year Joined the group: 2005

Research:

• Development of small molecule ligands for His-tagged protein capture on self assembled monolayers (SAMs) of alkane thiols on gold surfaces
• Development of methods for covalent photocrosslinking proteins onto gold surfaces
• Label-free detection of protein-protein and protein-peptides interactions using SAMs and MALDI-TOF
• Immobilization of rhodopsin containing phospholipids bilayer nanoparticles onto gold surfaces and characterization of transducin-rhodopsin interactions
• Development of protein arrays on self assembled monolayers of alkane thiols on gold surfaces

Education:

Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA (Chemistry, Armitage Group)
M.Sc. University of Bucharest, Romania (Physical-Organic Chemistry)
B.Sc. University of Bucharest, Romania (Chemistry)