The bacterial lipidome has recently gained appreciation as an important factor in antibiotic resistance and host-pathogen interactions during infection. However, the study of bacterial lipids can be particularly challenging due to the presence of lipid species that are unique to bacteria in general, as well as several lipid classes that are unique to individual species of bacteria.

The Departments of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences are thrilled to announce that Dr. David Crich, an international expert in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Antimicrobial Drug Design, has joined the University of Georgia as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in August of 2019.

Kaitlin Luedecke, an Honors major in the Chemistry Department, has been announced as one of four recipients of the 2019 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, one of the highest undergraduate honors in the United States. It reflects her outstanding academic achievement and commitment to pursuing a career in the STEM fields.

Gold Medal of the American Institute of Chemists

Professor Henry F. Schaefer of the Department of Chemistry has received the highest honor of the American Institute of Chemists (AIC). The AIC Gold Medal is awarded in recognition of service to the science and profession of chemistry and chemical engineering.

Kingdon trap [1] is the simplest ion trap consisting of wire and cylindrical electrode surrounding with different potential.  Well-known Orbitrap [2], has emerged as development of R. D. Knight’s idea [3], who modified the cylinder electrodes geometry to make the field inside Kingdon trap quadratic (harmonic) and proposed measuring the frequencies of ions oscillating in such field by resonant excitation of their motion along trap axis, to determine their masses [3].