User:Nirmalya Chatterjee

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Professional Experience
Current Information

Position: Graduate Research Student
Institution: Department of Crop and Soil Science, Washington State University

Address / Contact:

Office: 129, Johnson Hall,
Lab: 333, Vogel Bioscience Building, Dept. of Crop & Soil Science,
PO Box 646420, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
Email: c_nirmalya[at]wsu[dot]edu
Phone: +1 509 335 7294 (O) / 509 335 5261 (L) / 509 432 9533 (M)

Research
Keywords:
2009- : Colloid mediated pollutant / nutrient transport, interfacial force measurement, tensiometer, atomic-force microscopy, lysimeter
2005-2009 : Ultrafast visible, near-infrared, transient, spectroscopy, protein folding dynamics, fluorescence

Research:
2009- : Studying forces in solid-liquid-gas interfaces of natural sediments using tensiometry and AFM
2005-2009 : Studying algal carotenoid peridinin and its synthetic derivatives and mutants of the peridinin-chlorophyll-protein (PCP)

Affiliations
Groups:

2009- : Prof. Markus Flury (Flury Soil Physics Lab)
2005-2009 : Prof. Harry A. Frank (Frank Biophysical Chemistry Lab)

Collaborators:

2009-
• US Department of Enery, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Idaho National Laboratory
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• US Department of Energy, Office of Science

2005-2009
• Prof. Shigeo Katsumura, (total synthesis of carotenoids) Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
• Prof. Eckhard Hofmann, (X-ray crystallography of photosynthetic proteins, biological spectroscopy) Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
• Prof. George N. Gibson, (ultrafast laser spectroscopy) Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

Education

Graduate:
Institution: Washington State University, Department of Crop & Soil Science, Pullman, WA USA
Degree: Ph. D. Soil Science, 2009-
Advisor: Prof. Markus Flury

Institution: University of Connecticut, Department of Chemistry, Storrs, CT USA
Degree: M. S. Biophysical Chemistry, 2005-2009
Advisor: Prof. Harry A. Frank

Institution: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Department of Chemistry, Vadodara, GJ India
Degree: M.Sc. Analytical Chemistry, 2002-2004
Advisor: Prof. Surekha G. Devi

Undergraduate:
Institution: RKMR College, Narendrapur, Department of Chemistry, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
Degree: B.Sc. (Hons.) Chemistry, 1998-2001

Teaching experience
College Level:

Institution: University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

• Course: Physical Chemistry Laboratory / Teaching assistant

 Sessions: Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2008

• Course: General Chemistry Laboratory / Teaching assistant

 Sessions: Fall 2005, Spring 2006

High-school Level:

Institution: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Kolkata, India

• Course: High-school Chemistry & Physics instructor

 Sessions: Spring 2005 (January to May)

Biography

Born: 14-Jun-1979 | Mumbai, India
Links:
Publications

• The nature of the intramolecular charge transfer state in peridinin

    DM Niedzwiedzki, Nirmalya Chatterjee, MM Enriquez, T Kajikawa, S Hasegawa, S Katsumura and HA Frank
    Journal of Physical Chemistry B 113 (2009) 13604–13612
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp903923r [PDF 1.5mb]

• Effect of structural modifications on the spectroscopic properties and dynamics of the excited states of peridinin

    Nirmalya Chatterjee, DM Niedzwiedzki, K Aoki, T Kajikawa, S Katsumura, H Hashimoto and HA Frank
    Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 483 (2009) 146–155
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abb.2008.10.035 [PDF 0.85mb]  

• Effect of π-electron conjugation length on the solvent-dependent S1 lifetime of peridinin

    Nirmalya Chatterjee, DM Niedzwiedzki, T Kajikawa, S Hasegawa, S Katsumura and HA Frank
    Chemical Physics Letters 463 (2008) 219–224
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2008.08.056 [PDF 0.6mb]

Conference Talks/Proceedings/Posters

• Optical spectroscopic studies of peridinin and peridinin-chlorophyll-protein (PCP) complexes

    Nirmalya Chatterjee, DM Niedzwiedzki, K Aoki, T Schulte, S Katsumura, E Hofmann and HA Frank
    25th Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference, Woods Hole MA April 2008 [PDF 3.0mb]

• Steady-state and femtosecond time-resolved optical spectroscopic studies of peridinin derivatives

    Nirmalya Chatterjee, RP Ilagan, K Aoki, S Katsumura and HA Frank
    24th Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference, Woods Hole MA April 2007 [PDF 3.0mb]

• Steady-state and femtosecond time-resolved optical spectroscopic studies of peridinin derivatives

    Nirmalya Chatterjee, RP Ilagan, K Aoki, S Katsumura and HA Frank
    23rd Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference, Woods Hole MA April 2006 [PDF 0.5mb]