Rose Mercadante Seminar Series: Multi-functional Cyclodextrin Based Systems  

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Rose Mercadante Seminar Series is pleased to present the seminar of Professor Mindy Levine of the University of Rhode Island. Professor Levine will be speaking on "Multi-functional Cyclodextrin Based Systems". The seminar will be presented from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22 in the Helen Lerner Amphitheater, Science and Technology Center. The seminar is Seminar is in conjunction with the class in SC 101— CHEM 6710 and CHEM 6712.

Research in the Levine group focuses on macrocycle-promoted, non-covalent energy transfer from small molecule toxicants to high quantum yield fluorophores. This research includes fundamental investigations of the structure-property relationships that govern how molecules interact when they are in close proximity but not covalently attached, and it also includes applications of these systems in the detection of carcinogens in biological fluids and in the environmental remediation of oil spills.

Mindy Levine is an Assistant Professor at the University of Rhode Island, where she runs a research program studying the fundamental science of supramolecular interactions and its application in carcinogen detection and the environmental remediation of oil spills. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia University, and completed an NIH funded postdoctoral fellowship at MIT. In her free time, Mindy enjoys conducting formal and informal science outreach and spending time with her three young children.