Biography
Roger M. Leblanc received his B. S. in chemistry in 1964 from Université Laval, Canada, and Ph. D. in physical chemistry in1968 from the same university. From 1968 to 1970, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. George Porter, FRS, in Davy Faraday Research Lab, the Royal Institution of Great Britain. He was a professor from 1970 to 1993 at Department of Chemistry and Biology in Université du Québec à Trois Rivières, Canada. During this period, he was Chair from 1971 to 1975 at the same department, and Director from 1981 to 1991 at Photobiophysics Research Center. In 1994, he moved to University of Miami, where he has been a professor at Department of Chemistry since then to present. At University of Miami, he was Chair of Department of Chemistry from 1994 to 2002, and he is appointed as Chair from 2013 to present. He was also one of the three editors of Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces from 1998 to 2013. During his early career as a scientist, his research interest was on the photosynthesis and photoconductivity using surface chemistry and spectroscopy.He has published 505 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. As a professor, he has supervised more than 100 M.S. and Ph.D. students.
Research Interest
His current research interest is to apply 2-dimensional (2-D) surface chemistry combined with spectroscopy and microscopy to investigate the properties of nanomaterials (graphene oxide, carbon dots and quantum dots) and the fibrillation process of amyloidogenic proteins (insulin, amyloid-beta peptide and islet amyloid polypeptide). He is also interested to design and develop biosensors with high sensitivity and selectivity for diseases diagnosis.
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Renat Khatmullin
Assistant Professor
Middle Georgia State University
USA
Biography
Dr. Khatmullin received his Ph.D. in 2013 in Photochemistry at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. Prior to receiving his doctorate degree Khatmullin earned his BS and MSc degrees in Organic Chemistry from the National University of Uzbekistan. In 2013 Khatmullin joined Malcolm Forbes research group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a postdoctoral associate. He worked in the area of physical organic chemistry. In 2015 Khatmullin was hired as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry to work at Middle Georgia State University.
Research Interest
His current research interests include synthesis of organic compounds for renewable energy utilization and design of photoactive molecular switches which was published in various chemical journals.
Biography
Dr. Rogatsky serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Chromatography and Separation Techniques . During the last 10 years (from 2005), Dr. Rogatsky has published over 30 scientific papers in per-reviewed journals (mostly as the first author) and has presented over 50 posters and lectures. Overall, he has made more than a hundred scientific presentations and publications. Dr. Rogatsky completed his M.Sc. in physical chemistry at Belarus State University (former USSR) in 1990. He completed his PhD in bioanalytical chemistry (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) in 1998. At the end of 1999, he started his post-doctorate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and became a faculty member since 2001 and was a mass spectrometry director at the Biomarker Analytical Resource Core. From October 2015 Dr. Rogatsky is a supervisor of the Chemical Threat Laboratory in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences at Wadsworth Center, Albany NY, USA
Research Interest
Design and development ultra-sensitive LC/MS analytical assays of clinical biomarkers and metabolites. LC/MS analysis of peptide hormones and proteins and absolute quantitation using isotope dilution assays. Design and development of multi-dimensional chromatography platforms and investigation of physical processes during column switching and mixing. Investigations of column selectivity under different conditions. Optimization of LC/MS for use of UPLC and fused core columns. - See more at: http://analytical-bioanalytical.pharmaceuticalconferences.com/organizing-committee.php#sthash.kE2Eq7Da.dpuf