Dr. Jack Breen’s Lab
About Our Research
Research in my group’s lab is focused on developing new fluorescence methods to quantify phosphate and nitrate in seawater. Since 2017, we have been a part of the RI C-AIM project.
C-AIM is an National Science Foundation-sponsored collaboration of engineers, scientists, designers, and communicators from eight higher education institutions in Rhode Island that are developing new approaches to assess, predict, and respond to the effects of climate change on coastal ecosystems. We participate in Research Thrust 3 for which the goal is to develop new platforms to detect chemical and biochemical interactions for a more accurate assessment of the changing environment of Narragansett Bay.
Our Research Students
Our Recent Graduates
Tim Rigdon ’20 – chemist at Ocean Spray
Maureen Pontarelli ’20 – biochemist at GlaxoSmithKline
Tom Koch ’20 – taking a gap year before medical school
Emily Curylo ’20 – teacher at St. Raphael Academy
Jenna Kornicki ’20 – student in the College of Engineering at Columbia University
Publications
M.D. Symes, D.A. Lutterman, T. S. Teets, B. L. Anderson, J. J. Breen, and D.G. Nocera, “Photo-active cobalt cubane model of an oxygen-evolving catalyst, ChemSusChem, 6 (1), 65-69 (2013). [https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201200682]
E. S. Mohn*, J.-M. Lee*, C. Beaver*, G. Tobbe*, S. M. McCarthy*, E. O’Neil, B. D. Smith, and J. J. Breen, “Interactions of cytochrome c with N-acylated phosphatidylethanolamine lipids”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2014, 118 (37), 8287–8292.[DOI: 10.1021/jp502063e] *undergraduate co-authors
A. M. Ullman, Y. Liu, M. Huynh, D. K. Bediako, H. Wang, B. L. Anderson, D. C. Powers, J. J. Breen, H. D. Abruña, and D. G. Nocera, “Water oxidation catalysis by Co(II) Impurities in Co(III)4O4 cubanes” Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (50), 17681-17688 (2014) [http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja5110393]
B. M. Abbott*, J.-M. Lee*, E. S. Mohn*, Mary M. Barden*, K. R. Overly, and J. J. Breen, “Probing the extended lipid anchorage with cytochrome c and liposomes containing diacylphosphidylglycerol lipids”, Biochimica Biophysica Acta (BBA) Biomembranes, 2018, 1860, 1187- 1192. [DOI 10.1016/j.bbamem.2018.02.011] *undergraduate co-authors
