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

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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