Publications from C² Scholars and Mentors

Summer Scholars names are bolded, graduate student mentor’s names are bolded and italicized.

Mechanistic Interrogation of a PQQ and Rare Earth-Dependent Artificial Metalloenzyme

Mohd Taher, Peter J. Thompson, Carlos Nava-Matadamas, Austin T. Bruchs, Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb, and Lisa Olshansky

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 37104‒37114.

Catalytically Competent Nickel(I)-Isocyanide Compounds for Cross-Coupling Reactions

Sagnik Chakrabarti, Ju Byeong Chae, Katy A. Knecht, Nicholas D. Cedron, Toby J. Woods, and Liviu M. Mirica

Nat. Catal. 2026, 9, 257268.

Copper-Cross-Linked Alginate-Based Hydrogel Nanoparticles for Sustainable Slow-Release Fertilizer Applications

Catherine A. Jalomo, Adriana G. Schroeder, Ehmely M. Hernandez, and Catherine J. Murphy

Langmuir 2025, 41, 18463–18470.

Excited State Dynamics in a Conformationally Fluxional Copper Coordination Complex

Bronte J. Charette, Shelby R. King, Jiaqi Chen, Annika R. Holm, Robert D. Cook, Richard D. Schaller, Nick E. Jackson, and Lisa Olshansky

J. Phys. Chem. A 2023, 127, 7747‒7755.

Characterization, Directed Evolution and Targeting of DNA Virus-Encoded RNA capping enzymes using Phenotypic Yeast Platforms

Marya Y. Ornelas, M.Y., Angela Y. Thomas, L. Idalee Johnson Rosas, Gisselle N. Medina, and Angad P. Mehta.

ACS Chem. Biol. 2023, 18, 1808–1820.

“Synthetic Platforms for Characterization and Targeting of SARS-CoV-2 Genome-Capping Enzymes”

Marya Y. Ornelas, M.Y., Angela Y. Thomas, L. Idalee Johnson Rosas, Riley O. Scoville, and Angad P. Mehta 

ACS Synth. Biol.  2022, 11, 37593771.

Intramolecular Hydrogen-Bond Interactions Tune Reactivity in Biomimetic Bis(μ-hydroxo)dicobalt Complexes

Alyssa A. DeLucia, Kimberly A. Kelly, Kevin A. Herrera, Danielle Gray, and Lisa Olshansky

Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60, 15599–15609.