The Department of Chemistry at the University of Iowa has a strong and multidisciplinary biological interest, that reaches across traditional divisional lines. Research opportunities in Biological Chemistry range from computational studies of protein dynamics to synthetic analysis of anticancer drugs to the design of new contrast agents.

Faculty interests and their websites.

Web Site	Mark A. Arnold	Chemical Sensors, near infrared spectroscopy, noninvasive analytical sensing, noninvasive blood glucose sensing, reagent-based optical sensors, biosensing probes, and chemometrics.
Web Site	Ned Bowden	Self-assembled monolayers on silicon, biological surfaces, assembly of inorganic nanomaterials, synthesis of bottlebrush polymers, drug delivery, self- assembled polymers.
	Don Cannon	Bioanalytical chemistry, enhanced sensing via nanoscale phenomena, electrochemistry, electrogenerated chemiluminescence, fluorescence, single-cell and subcellular analysis, free-radical monitoring; neurochemical communication between glial and neuronal cell types.
Web Site	Lei Geng	Detection and spectroscopy of single molecules, time-resolved spectroscopy, chiroptical techniques, nonlinear spectroscopy; DNA sequencing; structure and dynamics of proteins; capillary electrophoresis.
Web Site	James Gloer	Discovery, isolation, and structure determination of new biologically active natural products from fungi; anticancer agents; antifungal agents; natural insecticides; fungal chemical ecology
Web Site	Amanda J. Haes	Bioanalytical chemistry, capillary electrophoresis, fluorescence, nanoscience, Raman spectroscopy, surface plasmon resonance
	Amnon Kohen	Bioorganic Chemistry; Mechanisms by which enzymes activate C-H bonds. Examination of protein structure, dynamics and function relationship. Pursuing medical and technological applications of biological catalysts. Biological nitrogen fixation.
	Claudio Margulis	Molecular dynamics of liquids, green chemistry ionic solvents, simulations of protein dynamics, sugar-protein interactions, excited electronic state chemical reactions.
Web Site	Louis Messerle	Synthetic and mechanistic organometallic chemistry of early transition metals, particularly mid-valent and metal-metal multiply-bonded compounds; organopolymetallics of main group elements as organometallic synthons and materials precursors; inorganic complexes in medical diagnostic imaging.
Web Site	Daniel Quinn	Molecular dynamics of acetylcholinesterase catalysis; mechanisms of enzymes of cardiovascular lipid metabolism; design of mechanism-based enzyme inhibitors; synthesis and evaluation of potential blood cholesterol lowering drugs.
Web Site	David Wiemer	Synthetic and bioorganic chemistry. Natural product synthesis. Development of synthetic methodology based on organophosphorus chemistry. Synthesis of inhibitors of terpene metabolism, modified carbohydrates, and nucleosides.