Recommended Blogs/Links : (more)
   Stan's NMR Blog (news/articles)
   Ottawa NMR -Glenn Facey (great tips)
   Windsor blog -Schurko lab (lit highlights)
   NMR periodic table. (data on nuclei)
   NMR Information Server. (announcements)    

News : (Archived group news)
   - Zinc glycolato and MQMAS papers published
   - DSR to present zinc results at EAS
   - Welcome Jenna Yehl (M.S. '10) to team micelle!
   - "Sodium Cholate Aggregation..." accepted.
   
Links:
  David Rovnyak
   Bucknell NMR Conf. 2007
   Downloads : NMR Education

Group : (group alums)
Alyson Cobb (Chem '09, with the Strein lab) - Micelles
Thomas Mann (Chem '11) - SSNMR & X-ray
Mark Sarcone (Chem/Math '10) - protein NMR
Ze Jiang (Chem/Math '09) - methods/data analysis
Jenna Yehl (M.S. Chem '10) - Micelles

Summer '07 Pic , Summer '06 Pic

Recent Publications:

Kennedy, P.E, Francis, N., Rovnyak, D., Kastner, M.E., "Redetermination of cis-diaquadiglycolatozinc(II)", Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online E64, 1635 (2008). Online

D. Rovnyak, Kennedy, P.E, "Application of shaped adiabatic pulses to MQMAS spectrsoscopy of Spin 3/2 nuclei", Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 196, 191-199 (2009). DOI

Christine M. Hebling, Laura E. Thompson, Kyle W. Eckenroad, Gregory A. Manley, Roderick A. Fry, Karl T. Mueller, Timothy G. Strein, David Rovnyak, "Sodium Cholate Aggregation and Chiral Recognition of the Probe Molecule (R,S) 1,1’-binaphthyl-2,2’ diylhydrogenphosphate (BNDHP) Observed by ¹H and ³¹P NMR Spectroscopy", Langmuir, 24, 13866-13874 (2008). Abstract

D. Rovnyak,"Tutorial on analytic theory for cross polarization in solid state NMR", Concepts Magn. Reson. Part A, 32, 254-276 (2008).
Abstract

J. A. Kubat, J.J. Chou, D. Rovnyak,"Nonuniform sampling and maximum entropy reconstruction applied to the accurate measurement of residual dipolar couplings" J. Magn. Reson. 186, 201-211 (2007). (DOI link).

K. W. Eckenroad, L. E. Thompson, T.G. Strein, D. Rovnyak, "Proton NMR assignments for R,S-1,1-binaphthol (BN) and R,S-1,1-binaphthyl-2,2-diyl hydrogen phosphate (BNDHP) interacting with bile salt micelles", Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry 45, 72-75 (2006). Abstract

Rovnyak, D., Thompson, L.E., Selzler, K.J., ”Experimentation with 15N enriched ubiquitin”, in Modern NMR in Education, Rovnyak, D., Stockland, R.A., eds, V969, 219-233 (2007).

D. Rovnyak, R. Stockland Jr., Eds,"Modern NMR Spectroscopy in Education", American Chemical Society Symposium Seres No. 969, Oxford University Press (2007). (on Amazon)

(Full publications list)


Group Alumni:

  2008
  Greg Manley (CHM '08, Yale Ph.D.)
  Jayne Kubat (CHM '08, Cornell DVM)
  Meghan Monaghan (CHM '08, D.C. public policy)

  2007
  Kyle Eckenroad (M.S. CHEM '07, Merck)
  Katie Selzler (BIO '07, Rochester Neuroscience Ph.D.)

  2006
  Lindsay Morris (CHM '06, ???)
  Laura Thompson (CHM '06, Univ. of Maryland)
  Matt Mosellen (CHM '06, George Mason Law)
  Michael Heinrich (CHM '06, Univ. Penn.)
  Brian Wilson (M.S. '06, Notre Dame)
  Jeff Stoltzfus (EE '06, ???)

  2004
  Jamie Brown (BIO '04, ???)

Archived Group News

   2008

• Best wishes to
  • Greg entering Yale for Ph.D.
  • Jayne entering Cornell forVmD
  • Meghan going into public policy & law
• Summer research 2008 underway!
• Alyson Cobb presents at MARM 2008

   2007

• The Bucknell NMR Conference 2007!
• July '07 : Congrats to Kyle on his defense!
• NMR GRAND OPENING MAY 30!!!!
• May '07 : Kyle Eckenroad speaks at MARM '07
• Spring '07: Congrats Katie & Jayne on Phi Beta Kappa!
• Feb 2007 : Team Micelle at Pittcon!
  
  

Rovnyak Lab
Department of Chemistry
Bucknell University

We are a biophysical research group specializing in the application of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to biological problems. We are active in the following areas:

1. We have a major interest in studying the zinc sites of zinc binding proteins, which are blind spots in structural studies. We have proposed a method for PCR gene synthesis of non-random genes that encode zinc-binding-domains (B. Wilson, Thesis) and are presently studying solid state 67-Zn NMR spectra of model zinc compounds. See also (4).

2. We collaborate with the Strein lab to understand the chirally selective solvation of binaphthyl compounds by bile salt micelles. This project includes fundamental studies to gain deepere insight into micelle formation by bile salts.

3. We develop and disseminate laboratory and course experiences that effectively introduce undergraduate students to NMR. See our NMR Education Link for more info and dowloads.

4. We are investigating the use of alternative data sampling and processing to accelerate and enhance the acquisition of multi-dimensional NMR data. We hope this work will help in the study of metalloproteins.