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Research Interests | External Funding | Recent Publications | Teaching Interests | Former Group Members
Research Interests: Bioanalytical Chemistry |
The Strein group is interested in both the fundamentals and the applications of analytical techniques and technologies. We work quite a bit with capillary electrophoresis (CE) and are especially interested in the fundementals of electrophoretic stacking phenomena and mechanisms for chiral separation by CE. We have also done some collaborative work on the separation of dendrimers and the determination of mobilities in biological tissues. We use many analytical techniques, including capillary electrophoresis, ion mobility spectrometry (IMS), aqueous NMR, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) and electrochemistry.
One current (2017) project focuses on understanding how to perform selective in-line chemical reactions between small molecules or ions on the nanoliter level inside a CE capillary tube. We are investigating techniques for electrophoretic mixing and for both field-enhanced and transient isotachophoretic stacking of products of said in-line reactions. We have been using the Jaffe reaction between picrate and creatinine as a model system for most of these studies, but are also investigating other reactions including those involving anti-oxidant molecules.
A second current project involves CE-based chiral separations enabled by bile salt micellar additives to CE background buffers. We are particularly interested in understanding how micelles, formed by bile salts such as sodium cholate, deoxycholate and taurodeoxycholate, act as chiral selectors. This interest has spurred a collaborative project with the Rovnyak group in which NMR, ITC and Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are being used to understand the dynamics and energetics of chiral bile salt micelle formation and the interaction of bile salt micelles with model chiral analytes.
The most important part of our research effort is the collaborative nature of student/faculty research at Bucknell. Current students in the group include:
Natalie Nareski |
ICP-MS of Li in human sera |
Abby Gavron |
Using a homolegous series of phenones to determining MEKC flow rates |
For a list of former group members, and where they are now, click
here (continually under construction).
External Funding |
The George I. Alden Trust (with Elizabeth S. Richer) "High Performance Liquid Chromatography Instrument Acquisition" $150,000, 2025-2030.
Bucknell-Geisinger Research Initiative (with Dr. Cosmin Sandelescu and Dr. Marlen Mendelev, Geisinger) “The Impact of Smoking and Parkinson's Disease on Blood Lithium Concentration” $20,000, 2024-2025 .
NSF-ROA Suppliment to NSF Grant CHE-2004021 (Prof. Lisa Holland, PI) "Acoustically Driven, Voltage-Free Spray Interface to Couple Capillary Electrophoresis and Mass Spectrometry" $29,600, 2021-2022.
NSF-RUI Grant #CHE-1800401 (with David Rovnyak, Mike Krout, and Maria Salari) "Mechanism of High Enantiomeric Resolution with Bile Micelles" $211,552, 2018-2021.
Bucknell-Geisinger Research Initiative Grant (with Dr. Li Zhang) "Rapid Quantitative Analysis for Fentanyl with Ion Mobility Spectrometry" $49,990, 2016.
NSF-RUI Grant #CHE-1153052 (with David Rovnyak) "Molecular Characterization of Aggregation and Guest-Host Solvation by Bile Acids" $159,814, 2012-2016.
Beckman-Coulter Biopharma-to-Education Instrument Grant: "PA800 CE-LIF system" $75,000, 2012.
NIH AREA Grant #1 R15 EB003854-02 "Bioanalytical CE: Mixing, Reacting, Separating, Stacking" 2007-2011, $218,899
ACS-PRF "Examining hydrodynamic and solubilization properties of micelles formed by chiral amphiphiles with NMR" with David Rovnyak, 2007-2011 $55,000
NIH AREA Grant #1 R15 EB003854-01 "Polarity Switching and Stacking in Bioanalytical CE" 2004-2007, $139,400.
NSF-MRI Grant # CHE-0521108 "Acquisition of a High-Resolution NMR Spectrometer to Advance Faculty and
Undergraduate Research," with David Rovnyak (principal author) and others, 2005-2008, $475,000.
Henry Dreyfus Teacher/Scholar Award TH-98-025, "Activation, characterization and application of carbon fiber microelectrodes," 1998-2203, $60,000.
Research Corporation Grant #CC4333, renewal of "Capillary electrophoresis of physiological fluids: Small molecules to proteins," 1997-1999, $27,000.
NSF-ILI grant DUE-9551135, "Enhancement of the Undergraduate Chemistry Experience with Bench-Top GC-MS," 1995-1998 $24,732.
Council on Undergraduate Research Academic-Industrial
Undergraduate Research Partnership (AIURP) Award, for summer research student
Cozette Cuppett.
1996 $3,000.
Research Corporation Grant # CC3788, "Capillary electrophoresis of physiological fluids: Small molecules to proteins," 1995-1997 $28,500.
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Supplemental Grant number SL-94-02, "Bioanalytical Chemistry at Bucknell" 1994, $10,000.
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Start-up Grant number SU-94-011, "Development and use of capillary electrophoretic and microvoltammetric methods of analysis, and their application to biologically interesting samples," 1994, $12,500.
Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh Starter Grant, "Laser Activation at Carbon Fibers," 1994, $10,000.
NSF-ILI grant number DUE-9352607, "Capillary
Electrophoresis in the Undergraduate Curriculum," T. G. Strein (principal
author) with H. Veening, J. Swan, and C. Clapp, 1993-1996, $19,020.
Recent Publications |
Rovnyak, D.; He, J.; Kong, S.; Eckenroad, K.W.; Manley, G.A.; Geffert, R.M.; Krout, M.R.; Strein, T.G. “Determining Sequential Micellization Steps of Bile Salts with Multi-CMC Modeling” Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Available online April 5, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2023.03.146.
Elshamy, Y.S.; Strein, T.G. ; Holland, L.A.; Li, C.; DeBastiani, A .; Valentine, S.J.; Li, P.; Lucas, J.A. ; Shaffer, T.A. “Nanoflow Sheath Voltage-Free Interfacing of Capillary Electrophoresis and Mass Spectrometry for the Detection of Small Molecules, Analytical Chemistry, 2022, 94, 11329-11336 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c02074)
Meier, A.R.; Yehl, J.B.; Eckenroad, K.W.; Manley, G.A.; Strein, T.G. and Rovnyak, D. "Stepwise aggregation of cholate and deoxycholate dictates the formation and loss of surface-available chirally selective binding sites" Langmuir, 2018, 34(22), 6489-6501 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b00467).
Anderson, S.L., Rovnyak, D., Strein, T.G. "Identification of Edible Oils by Principal Component Analysis of 1H NMR Spectra" Journal of Chemical Education, 2017, 94(9), 1377-1382 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00012).
Eckenroad, K., Manley, G., Yehl, J., Pirnie, R., Strein, T., Rovnyak, D. "An edge selection mechanism for chirally selective solubilization of binaphthyl atropisomeric guests by cholate and deoxycholate micelles" Chirality, 2016, 28, published online June 14, 2016 (DOI: 10.1002/chir.22609).
Anderson, S.A., Rovnyak, D., Strein T.G. “Direct Measurement of the Thermodynamics of Chiral Recognition in Bile Salt Micelles” Chirality, 2016, 28, 290-298 (DOI: 10.1002/chir.22580)
Guy, Y.; Faraji, A.H.; Gavigan, C., Strein, T.G. and Weber, S.G. Iontophoresis From a Micropipette into a Porous Medium Depends on the Zeta-Potential of the Medium Analytical Chemistry, 2012, 84, 2179-2187 (DOI: 10.1021/ac202434c).
Faraji, A.H.; Cui, J.J.; Guy, Y.; Li, L.; Gavigan, C.A. Strein, T.G. and Weber,S.G. “Synthesis and Characterization of a Hydrogel with Controllable Electroosmosis: A Potential Brain Tissue Surrogate for Electrokinetic Transport” Langmuir, 2011, 27 (22), pp 13635-13642 (DOI: 10.1021/la202198k).
Alcala, M.A.; Shade, C.M.; Uh, H.; Kwan, S.Y.; Bishof, M.; Thampson, Z.P.; Golick, K.A.; Meier, A.R.; Strein, T.G.; Bartlett, D.L.; Modzelewski, R.R.; Lee, Y.J.; Petoud, S.; Brown, C.K. “Preferential accumulation within tumors and in vivo imaging by functionalized luminescent dendrimer lanthanide complexes” Biomaterials, 2011, 32, 9343-9352. (DOI:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.07.076)
Stahl, J. W.; Catherman, A.D.; Ranasinghe S.K.; Strein, T.G. "Investigating the Effects of Conductivity of Zone Overlap with EMMA: Computer Simulation and Experiment" Electrophoresis, 2011, 32, 1492-1499. (DOI: 10.1002/elps.201000451)
Merola, E.T.; Catherman, A.D., Yehl, J.B.;
Strein, T.G. "Determination of Total Antioxidant Capacity of Commercial Beverage Samples by
Capillary Electrophoresis using 2,6-Dichloroindophenol" J. Ag and Food Chem., 2009, 57(15), 6518-6523. (DOI: 10.1021/jf901214r)
Mason, P.; Strein T.G. “ In-capillary determination of
creatinine with electrophoretically mediated microanalysis:
characterization of the effects of reagent zone and buffer conditions ”
Journal of Chromatography A, 2009, 1216,154-158. (DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2008.11.033)
Hebling,
C.M.; Eckenroad, K.W.; Rovnyak, D.; and Strein, T.G. “Sodium Cholate
Aggregation Observed by Nuclear magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of the
Probe Molecule (R,S) 1,1'-bunapthyl-2,2'- dihydrogenphophate (BNDHP)”
Langmuir, 2008, 24,13866-13874. (DOI:10.1021/la802000x)
Eckenroad, K.W.; Thompson, L.E.; Strein, T.G.; Rovnyak, D. "Proton NMR assignments for R,S-1,1-binapthyl (BN) and R,S-1,1-binaphthyl-2,2-diyl hydrogen phosphate (BNDHP) interacting with bile salt micelles" Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry,2006, 45, 72-75. (DOI: 10.1002/mrc.1916).
Teaching Interests |
Teaching Area: Anlaytical Chemistry
CHEM 231 Analytical Chemistry I: Quantitative Analysis course
for sophomore and junior Chemistry and Biochemity majors
CHEM 332 Analytical Chemistry II: Instrumental Analysis course
for junior and senior level Chemistry and Biochemistry majors
CHEM 386/686 Seminar Course in Separations Science for MS students and upper level undergraduates
CHEM 358/BIOL 340 Biochemical Methods Laboratory course for junior and senior Biochmistry majors
CHEM 205 Principles of Chemistry I: Entry level college chemsitry course for science majors
CHEM 337 Special Topics in Analytical Chemisty including forensic
chemistry, DNA analysis, and chemistry on Mars.
CHEM 403 Research in Chemistry Capstone Course for Seniors
CHEM 340 Lab Biophysical Chemistry lab for junior/senior BS biochemistry majors and BA chemsitry majors
CHEM 203 General Chemistry: College Chemistry course for sophomore
engineers
FOUN 098,090 Forensic Chemistry Foundation Seminar
Bucknell Chemistry Department Web Site
Cell Biology / Biochemistry program
last edited 07/22