University of California, Riverside

Bourns College of Engineering



Valentine Vullev


Faculty Profile

Faculty Profile

Valentine Vullev

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Valentine Vullev

Ph.D. Chemistry
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001

Bourns Hall A241
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521

Telephone: 951-827-6239
Facsimile: 951-827-6416
E-mail: vullev@ucr.edu
Personal Webpage

Former Institutions: Boston University and Harvard University

Degrees

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

Awards

  • 2009 - Regents of University of California, Faculty Development Award
  • 2009 - University of California, Riverside, Medical School Program, Student Research Mentoring Recognition
  • 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.

Selected Publications

  • Bao, D.; Ramu, S.; Contreras, A.; Upadhyayula, S.; Vasquez, J. M.; Beran, G. and Vullev, V. I. "Electrochemical Reduction of Quinones: Interfacing Experiment and Theory for Defining Effective Radii of Redox Moieties," J. Phys. Chem. B 2010, in press.
  • Thomas, M. S.; Nunez, V.; Upadhyayula, S.; Zielins, E.; Bao, D.; Vasquez, J. M.; Bahmani, B. and Vullev, V. I. "Kinetics of Bacterial Fluorescence Staining with 3,3'-Diethylthiacyanine," Langmuir 2010, 26, 9756-9765.
  • Thomas, M. S.; Millare, B.; Clift, J. M.; Bao, D.; Hong, C. and Vullev, V. I. "Print-and-Peel Fabrication for Microfluidics: What’s in for Biomedical Applications?," Ann. Biomed. Eng. 2010, 38, 21-32.
  • Thomas, M. S.; Clift, J. M.; Millare, B. and Vullev, V. I. "Print-and-Peel Fabricated Passive Micromixers," Langmuir. 2010, 26, 2951-2957.
  • Lu, H.; Bao, D.; Penchev, M.; Ghazinejab, M.; Vullev, V. I.; Ozkan, C.and Ozkan, M. "Pyridine-Coated Lead Sulfide Quantum Dots for Polymer Hybrid Photovoltaic Devices," Adv. Sci. Lett. 2010, 3, 101-109.
  • Wan, J.; Thomas, M.; Guthrie, S.; Vullev, V. I. "Surface-Bound Proteins with Preserved Functionality," Ann. Biomed. Eng. 2009, 37, 1190–1205.
  • Hu, J.; Xia, B.; Bao, D.; Ferreira, A.; Wan, J.; Jones, G. and Vullev, V. I. "Long-Lived Photogenerated States of a-Oligothiophene-Acridinium Dyads Have Triplet Character," J. Phys. Chem. A 2009, 113, 3096–3107.
  • Bao, D.; Millare, B.; Xia, W.; Steyer, B.; Gerasimenko, A.; Ferreira, A.; Contreras, A. and Vullev, V. I. "Electrochemical Oxidation of Ferrocene: A Strong Dependence on the Concentration of the Supporting Electrolyte for Nonpolar Solvents", J. Phys. Chem. A 2009, 113, 1259-1267.
  • Vasquez, J. M; Vu, A.; Schultz, J. S. and Vullev, V. I. "Fluorescence Enhancement of Warfarin Induced by Interaction with b-Cyclodextrin", Biotechnology Progress 2009, 25, 906-914.
  • Thomas, M.; Wan, J. and Vullev, V. I. "Immobilization of Proteins on a Glass Surface at High Density", AIP Conf. Proc. 2009, 1140, 120-126.
  • Ashraf, M. K.; Pandey, R. R.; Lake, R. K.; Millare, B.; Gerasimenko, A. A.; Bao, D. and Vullev, V. I. "Theoretical design of bioinspired macromolecular electrets based on anthranilamide derivatives.", Biotechnology Progress 2009, 25, 915-922.
  • Millare, B.; Thomas, M.; Ferreira, A.; Xu, H.; Holesinger, M. and Vullev, V. I. "Dependence of the Quality of Adhesion between Poly(dimethylsiloxane) and Glass Surfaces on the Conditions of Treatment with Oxygen Plasma", Langmuir 2008, 24; 13218-13224.
  • Hong, C. Bao, D.; Thomas, M.; Clift, J. M. and Vullev, V. I."Print-and-Peel Fabrication of Microelectrodes", Langmuir 2008, 24; 8439-8442.
  • Wan, J.; Ferreira, A.; Xia, W.; Chow, C. H.; Takechi, K.; Kamat, P. V.; Jones, G. II and Vullev, V. I. "Solvent Dependence of the Charge-Transfer Properties of a Quaterthiophene-Anthraquinone Dyad", J. Photochem. Biotobiol. A: Chemistry 2008, 197, 364-374.
  • 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

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