Julianne Gibbs-Davis
Personal Website: https://gibbs.chem.ualberta.ca
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Science - Chemistry
- julianne.gibbs@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-7140
- Address
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E3-52A Chemistry Centre - East
11227 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2G2
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
DNA chemistry Surface spectroscopy
About
BA Arizona State University
PhD Northwestern University
Research
Molecular Recognition at Buried Solid/Liquid Interfaces
Many systems, from the cellular environment to biosensors and heterogeneous catalysis, involve noncovalent interactions between species in solution and those confined to a membrane or solid. Directly monitoring such binding events is difficult because few techniques are sensitive to interactions at an interface and are instead overwhelmed by the sea of molecules in the bulk. However, using surface specific nonlinear optical techniques such as second harmonic generation (SHG) and sum frequency generation (SFG), we can selectively observe interfacial binding allowing us to characterize the thermodynamic and kinetic parameters governing these processes without the use of bulky labels, in situ and in real time.
Courses
CHEM 351 - Introduction to Chemical Biology
Introduction to chemical strategies used to analyze and manipulate biochemical systems. Topics may include chemical synthesis of biopolymers, protein-small molecule interactions, chemoenzymatic synthesis, enzyme-inhibitor kinetics, assay design, characterization of bioorganic samples, and various chemical biology methods. Prerequisites: CHEM 263 or 265; BIOCH 200. Students who have obtained credit for CHEM 451 cannot take CHEM 351 for credit.
Featured Publications
Christine M.E. Kriebisch, Olga Bantysh, Lorena Baranda Pellejero, Andrea Belluati, Eva Bertosin, Kun Dai, Maria de Roy, Hailin Fu, Nicola Galvanetto, Julianne M. Gibbs, Samuel Santhosh Gomez, Gaetano Granatelli, Alessandra Griffo, Maria Guix, Cenk Onur Gurdap, Johannes Harth-Kitzerow, Ivar S. Haugerud, Gregor Häfner, Pranay Jaiswal, Sadaf Javed, Ashkan Karimi, Shuzo Kato, Brigitte A.K. Kriebisch, Sudarshana Laha, Pao-Wan Lee, Wojciech P. Lipinski, Thomas Matreux, Thomas C.T. Michaels, Erik Poppleton, Alexander Ruf, Annemiek D. Slootbeek, Iris B.A. Smokers, Héctor Soria-Carrera, Alessandro Sorrenti, Michele Stasi, Alisdair Stevenson, Advait Thatte, Mai Tran, Merlijn H.I. van Haren, Hidde D. Vuijk, Shelley F.J. Wickham, Pablo Zambrano, Katarzyna P. Adamala, Karen Alim, Ebbe Sloth Andersen, Claudia Bonfio, Dieter Braun, Erwin Frey, Ulrich Gerland, Wilhelm T.S. Huck, Frank Jülicher
Chem. 2025 February; 10.1016/j.chempr.2024.102399
Anantha S. Ealeswarapu, Nahida Akter, Julianne M. Gibbs
The Analyst. 2025 January; 10.1039/D5AN00047E
Nathaniel Tetteh, Shyam Parshotam, Julianne M. Gibbs
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2024 September; 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c01792
Nahida Akter, B. Safeenaz Alladin-Mustan, Yuning Liu, Jisu An, Julianne M. Gibbs
Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2024 July; 10.1021/jacs.4c04089
Anastasia G. Ilgen, Eric Borguet, Franz M. Geiger, Julianne M. Gibbs, Vicki H. Grassian, Young-Shin Jun, Nadine Kabengi, James D. Kubicki
Nature Communications. 2024 June; 10.1038/s41467-024-49598-y
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Research Students
Currently accepting undergraduate students for research project supervision.
Please email me with a copy of your unofficial transcripts expressing your interest in undergraduate research. I value students who are careful, thoughtful, and diligent and are excited to learn about how research operates in a chemistry lab.