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Chemistry & Biochemistry

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Department Chair

Todd Weaver  Profile of Todd Weaver  Todd Weaver saysMeet with me  Office hours

Todd Weaver's office hours

Monday
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday
10 a.m. to noon
Thursday
10 a.m. to noon

4020 Cowley Hall
tweaver@uwlax.edu
608.785.8269

Specialty areas:

Biochemistry

Molecular Biology

Structural Biology

Enzymology

 

Associate Department Chair

Aric Opdahl  Profile of Aric Opdahl

442 Cowley Hall
aopdahl@uwlax.edu
608.785.8274

Specialty areas:

Surface and Analytical Chemistry

Academic Department Associate

Lori Hanson  Profile of Lori Hanson

4004 Cowley Hall
lhanson@uwlax.edu
608.785.8268

Department people

Keith Beyer  Profile of Keith Beyer  Office hours

Keith Beyer's office hours

Monday
By appointment only
Tuesday
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
or by appointment
Wednesday
By appointment only
Thursday
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
or by appointment
Friday
By appointment only

Remote office hours offered: Please contact me if you would like to meet with me remotely.

Professor
443 Cowley Hall
kbeyer@uwlax.edu
608.785.8292

Specialty areas:

Physical and Atmospheric Chemistry

Basudeb Bhattacharyya  Profile of Basudeb Bhattacharyya

Teaching Professor
4030 Cowley Hall
bbhattacharyya@uwlax.edu
608.785.5275

Specialty areas:

Biochemistry

Structural Biology

Jeff Bryan  Profile of Jeff Bryan

Professor
441 Cowley Hall
jbryan@uwlax.edu
608.785.8271

Specialty areas:

Nuclear and Inorganic Chemistry

Tanya Cordes  Profile of Tanya Cordes

Associate Teaching Professor
4012 Cowley Hall
tcordes@uwlax.edu
608.785.8279

Curtis Czerwinski  Profile of Curtis Czerwinski

Professor
4014 Cowley Hall
cczerwinski@uwlax.edu
608.785.8701

Specialty areas:

Organometallic chemistry

Pre-medicine advisor

Ressano Desouza-Machado  Profile of Ressano Desouza-Machado

Teaching Professor
228 Cartwright Center
rdesouza-machado@uwlax.edu
608.785.8273

Katherine Friesen  Profile of Katherine Friesen

Teaching Professor
4009 Cowley Hall
kfriesen@uwlax.edu
608.785.5277

Specialty areas:

CHM103 General Chemistry I Lab

CHM104 General Chemistry II Lecture and Lab

CHM301 Analytical Chemistry (Quantitative Chemistry) Lab

Roghaieh Ghodsian  Profile of Roghaieh Ghodsian

Teaching Professor
4011 Cowley Hall
rghodsian@uwlax.edu
608.785.8280

Kelly Gorres  Profile of Kelly Gorres

Associate Professor
4015 Cowley Hall
kgorres@uwlax.edu
608.785.5284

Specialty areas:

Biochemistry, Virology, Reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus

Matt Grote  Profile of Matt Grote

Lecturer
Cowley Hall
mgrote@uwlax.edu

Specialty areas:

Organic and Medicinal Chemistry

Robin Grote  Profile of Robin Grote  Office hours

Robin Grote's office hours

Monday
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Friday
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Associate Professor
Cowley Hall
rgrote@uwlax.edu

Specialty areas:

Organic and medicinal chemistry

Organometallic chemistry

Daniel Grilley  Profile of Daniel Grilley

Associate Professor
4028 Cowley Hall
dgrilley@uwlax.edu
608.785.5278

Specialty areas:

Biochemistry, Biophysics, Molecular biology

Ben Haenni  Profile of Ben Haenni  Office hours

Ben Haenni's office hours

Tuesday
9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Thursday
9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Associate Teaching Professor
4024 Cowley Hall
bhaenni@uwlax.edu
608.785.5285

Specialty areas:

Organic Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Physical Organic Chemistry

Joe Hurley  Profile of Joe Hurley  Office hours

Joe Hurley's office hours

Monday
10 a.m. to noon
or by appointment
Tuesday
By appointment only
Wednesday
10 a.m. to noon
or by appointment
Thursday
1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
or by appointment
Friday
By appointment only
Saturday
By appointment only
Sunday
By appointment only

Assistant Professor
Cowley Hall
jhurley@uwlax.edu

Specialty areas:

Organic Chemistry

Physical Organic Chemistry

Photochemistry/Photophysics

Janet Kirsch  Profile of Janet Kirsch  Office hours

Janet Kirsch's office hours

Monday
By appointment only
Tuesday
3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
or by appointment
Wednesday
3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
or by appointment
Thursday
By appointment only
Friday
By appointment only

Remote office hours offered: All office hours can be held online at https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/my/uwlax.jkirsch

Associate Professor
4025 Cowley Hall
jkirsch@uwlax.edu
608.785.8655

Specialty areas:

Physical, Computational, Inorganic, and General Chemistry

Adrienne Loh  Profile of Adrienne Loh

Professor
4034 Cowley Hall
aloh@uwlax.edu
608.785.8275

Specialty areas:

Program Director, McNair Scholars Program

Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry: Physical & Biophysical Chemistry, NMR, Peptide and Protein structure

John May  Profile of John May

Associate Professor
4007 Cowley Hall
jmay@uwlax.edu
608.785.5281

Specialty areas:

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics and Physiology of Salmonella, Structural Biology

Robert McGaff  Profile of Robert McGaff

Professor
4021 Cowley Hall
rmcgaff@uwlax.edu
608.785.8656

Aaron Monte  Profile of Aaron Monte  Office hours

Aaron Monte's office hours

Monday
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
or by appointment
Tuesday
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
or by appointment
Wednesday
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
or by appointment
Thursday
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
or by appointment
Friday
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
or by appointment
Saturday
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Sunday
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Professor
4001 Cowley Hall
amonte@uwlax.edu
608.785.8260

Specialty areas:

medicinal-organic chemistry; psychopharmacology; natural products chemistry; psychedelic & anti-infective/anti-cancer drugs; the drug discovery & development process in general 

Joshua Neukom  Profile of Joshua Neukom  Office hours

Joshua Neukom's office hours

Monday
By appointment only
Tuesday
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
or by appointment
Wednesday
By appointment only
Thursday
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
or by appointment
Friday
By appointment only

Associate Teaching Professor
4029 Cowley Hall
jneukom@uwlax.edu
608.785.8278

Specialty areas:

Organic Chemistry | Organometallic Chemistry | Physical Organic Chemistry | Synthesis | NMR Spectroscopy

Aric Opdahl  Profile of Aric Opdahl

Professor
442 Cowley Hall
aopdahl@uwlax.edu
608.785.8274

Specialty areas:

Surface and Analytical Chemistry

Kristofer Rolfhus  Profile of Kristofer Rolfhus  Office hours

Kristofer Rolfhus's office hours

Tuesday
2:15 p.m. to 3:10 p.m.
Thursday
2:15 p.m. to 3:10 p.m.

Professor
4022 Cowley Hall
krolfhus@uwlax.edu
608.785.8289

Specialty areas:

Environmental and analytical chemistry

Heather Schenck  Profile of Heather Schenck

Professor
4027 Cowley Hall
hschenck@uwlax.edu
608.785.8288

Specialty areas:

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; organic chemistry; organic chemistry pedagogy

Sujat Sen  Profile of Sujat Sen  Office hours

Sujat Sen's office hours

Monday
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Associate Professor
4013 Cowley Hall
ssen@uwlax.edu
608.785.5286

Specialty areas:

Electrochemistry, Electrochemical Engineering & Materials Science 

Eugenia Turov  Profile of Eugenia Turov  Eugenia Turov saysMeet with me  Office hours

Eugenia Turov's office hours

Monday
By appointment only
Tuesday
By appointment only
Wednesday
8:50 a.m. to 10:50 a.m.
or by appointment
Thursday
By appointment only
Friday
8:50 a.m. to 10:50 a.m.
or by appointment

Director of Murphy Learning Center/Teaching Professor
4005 Cowley Hall
eturov@uwlax.edu
608.785.5282

Specialty areas:

General Chemistry - CHM 103/104 Lecture/Discussion/Laboratory

Inorganic Chemistry - Synthesis, Characterization, X-ray Crystallography

Juan Villabona-Monsalve  Profile of Juan Villabona-Monsalve  Office hours

Juan Villabona-Monsalve's office hours

Monday
2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Tuesday
2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Friday
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Assistant Professor
Cowley Hall
jvillabona-monsalve@uwlax.edu

Specialty areas:

Physical Chemistry, computational quantum chemistry, laser spectroscopy and photophysics. 

Todd Weaver  Profile of Todd Weaver  Todd Weaver saysMeet with me  Office hours

Todd Weaver's office hours

Monday
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday
10 a.m. to noon
Thursday
10 a.m. to noon

Professor
4020 Cowley Hall
tweaver@uwlax.edu
608.785.8269

Specialty areas:

Biochemistry

Molecular Biology

Structural Biology

Enzymology