Frank Ferrone

 

Research Areas

 

 

Graduate Students,

present and past

 

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Graduate Students

Anthony J. Martino,

Allosteric Kinetics of Hemoglobin Probed by Modulated Excitation with Fluorescence Detection, 1988

staff in Engineering Physics Department, DuPont

Huan Xiang Zhou,

Numerical Simulations of the Glucagon Self-Association Dynamics, 1988

postdoc at NIH; Assistant Professor Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Associate Prof. at Drexel

Michael R. Cho,

Diffusion of Monomers in Polymer Domains in Sickle Hemoglobin, 1990

instructor at Harvard Medical School

Mingdi Zhao,

Allosteric and Protonation Kinetics in Triliganded Hemoglobin, 1993

postdoctoral position at University of Pennsylvania

Jie Jiang,

Effect of Water on the Allosteric Equilibrium and Kinetics of Hemoglobin, 1993

postdoctoral position at Boston Biomedical Research Institute

Zhiqi Cao,

Stochastic Studies on Nucleation in Sickle Hemoglobin 1995

post graduation maternity leave

Dan Liao,

Kinetic Micomethod for Measuring the Solubility of Native and Mutant Sickle Hemoglobin 1997

systems programmer

Present students:

 

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born August 13, 1947

married to Mimi Mahon, July 3, 1983; two children

 

EDUCATION

 

1969 BS in Physics, Manhattan College, Bronx, New York

1971 MA in Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

1974 PhD in Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Thesis: Transient Circular Dichroism in Hemoglobin

Advisor: Professor John J. Hopfield

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

1992-present Associate Department Head, Dept. of Physics & Atmospheric Science, Drexel Univ.

1990-present Professor, Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science, Drexel Univ.

1986-1990 Associate Professor, Department of Physics& Atmospheric Science, Drexel Univ.

1980-1986 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics& Atmospheric Science, Drexel Univ.

1976-1980 Staff Fellow, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland

1975-1976 Visiting Fellow (NIH Research Service Award), Physics Department, Princeton Univ.

1974-1975 Instructor, Physics Department, Princeton University

1972-1974 Research Assistant, Physics Department, Princeton University

1970-1972 Assistant in Instruction, Physics Department, Princeton University

1969-1970 NASA Trainee, Physics Department, Princeton University

1969 Research Assistant, Physics Department, Princeton University

1969 Instructor in Physics, Academy of the Sacred Heart High School, New York

1966-1968 Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, Manhattan College Graduate Students