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Bourns College of Engineering



Valentine Vullev









A241 Bourns Hall Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: 951-827-6239
Fax: 951-827-6416

 

Valentine Vullev

Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering

 

Degrees

B.S. Chemistry and Physics 1993
Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire
Ph.D. Chemistry 2001
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Postdoctoral Fellow 2004
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2002 -
Research Associate 2005
Boston University, Boston,Massachusetts, 2004 -

Awards

• 2001 - Philip L. Levins Memorial Prize awarded by the American Chemical Society, Northeastern Section, for outstanding graduate research in organic analytical chemistry.
• 1998 - Sugata Ray Award awarded by Boston University for outstanding graduate research in chemistry.

Research Area

Charge transfer and charge transport in biological, biomimetic and bio-inspired systems. Force modulated kinetics of macromolecular and supramolecular biological systems: single-molecule biophysics and single-cell manipulation. Microfluidic application for development of bioanalytical techniques and devices.

Publications

Wan, J.; Ferreira, A.; Xia, W.; Chow, C. H.; Takechi, K.; Kamat, P. V.; Jones, G. and Vullev V. I. "Solvent Dependence of the Charge-Transfer Properties of a Quaterthiophene-Anthraquinone Dyad," J. Photochem. Photobiol. A, (In press)

Jones, G., II; Yan, D.; Hu, J.; Wan, J.; Xia, B.; and Vullev, V. I. "Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Arylacridinium Conjugates in a Solid Glass Matrix," J. Phys. Chem., B 2007, 111, 6921-6929

Vullev, V. I.; Wan, J.; Heinrich, V.; Landsman, P.; Bower, P. E.; Xia, B.; Millare, B. and Jones, G., II "Nonlithographic Fabrication of Microfluidic Devices," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 16062-16072.

Vullev, V. I.; Jiang, H.; and Jones II, G. "Excimer Sensing," In Advanced Concepts in Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Part B: Macromolecular Sensing (Topics in Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Vol. 10), Geddes, C. D. and Lakowicz, J. R. Eds.; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc.; 2005, P211-240

Mayers, B. T.; Vezenov, D. V.; Vullev, V. I.; Whitesides, G. M. "Arrays and Cascades of Fluorescent Liquid-Liquid Waveguides: Broadband Light Sources for Spectroscopy in Microchannels," Anal. Chem. 2005, 77, 1310-1316.

Vullev, V. I. "Modulation of Dissociation Kinetics by External Force: Examination of the Bell Model," J. Biol. Sci. 2005, 5, 744-758.

Vullev, V. I.; Jones, G., II "Nanosecond Laser Flash Photolysis: Dealing with Dynamic-Range and Response-Time Limitations of the Detection System," J. Appl. Sci. 2005, 5, 517-526.

Jones, G., II; Zhou, X.; Vullev, V. I. (invited publication) "Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Alpha-Helical Polypeptides: Dependence on Conformation and Electron Donor-Acceptor Distance," Photochem. & Photobiol. Sci. 2003, 2, 1080-1087.

Vullev, V. I.; Jones, J., II (invited review) "Photoinduced Charge Transfer in Helical Polypeptides," Res. Chem. Interm. 2002, 28, 795-815.

Jones, G., II; Vullev, V. I. "Photoinduced Electron Transfer between Non-Native Donor-Acceptor Moieties Incorporated in Synthetic Polypeptide Aggregates," Org. Lett. 2002, 4, 4001-4004.

Vullev, V. I.; Jones, G., II "Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Alkanoylpyrene Aggregates in Conjugated Polypeptides," Tet. Lett. 2002, 43, 8611-8615.

Jones, G., II; Vullev, V. I. (cover of the issue) "Medium Effects on the Photophysical Properties of Terbium(III) Complexes with Pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylate," Photochem. & Photobiol. Sci. 2002, 1, 925-933.

Jones, G., II; Vullev, V. I. "Medium Effects on the Stability of Terbium(III) Complexes with Pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylate," J. Phys. Chem. A 2002, 106, 8213-8222.

Jones, G., II; Vullev, V. I. "Ground- and Excited-State Aggregation Properties of a Pyrene Derivative in Aqueous Media," J. Phys. Chem. A 2001, 105, 6402-6406.

Jones, G., II; Vullev, V. I. "Contribution of a Pyrene Fluorescence Probe to the Aggregation Propensity of Polypeptides," Org. Lett. 2001, 3, 2457-2460.

Jones, G., II; Vullev, V. I.; Braswell, E.; Zhu, D. "Multistep Photoinduced Electron Transfer in a de Novo Helix Bundle. Multimer Self-Assembly of Peptide Chains Including a Chromophore Special Pair," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 388-389.

Jones, G., II; Lu, L.; Vullev, V. I.; Gosztola, D.; Greenfield, S.; Wasielewski, M. "Photoinduced Electron Transfer for Pyrenesulfonamide Conjugates of Tryptophan-Containing Peptides. Mitigation of Fluoroprobe Behavior in N-Terminal Labeling Experiments," Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 1995, 5, 2385-2390

Former Institution

Boston University and Harvard University

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