Murtaza Shabbir Hussain
B.S. University of Wyoming, 2011 (Chemical Engineering)
B.A. University of Wyoming, 2011 (Chemistry)
Email: mshabbi@clemson.edu
Research Projects
Gene Regulation in Oleaginous Yeast
Metabolic Engineering of Oleaginous Yeast
Publications
Choi, J. K., Sargsyan, G., Shabbir-Hussain, M., Holmes, A. E., Balaz, M., “Chiroptical detection of condensed Nickel(II)-Z-DNA in the presence of B-DNA via porphyrin exciton coupled circular dichroism,” J. Phys. Chem. B, 115, 10182-88 (2011)
Choi, J. K., D’Urso, A., Trauernicht, M., Shabbir-Hussain, M., Holmes, A. E., Balaz, M., “3,3’-Diethylthiatricarbocyanine Iodide: A highly sensitive chiroptical reporter of DNA helicity and sequence,” Int. J. Mol. Sci., 12, 8052-62 (2011)
D’Urso, A., Choi, J. K., Shabbir-Hussain, M., Ngwa, F. N., Lambousis, M. I., Purrello, R., Balaz, M., “ Recognition of left handed Z-DNA of short unmodified oligonucleotides under physiological ionic strength conditions,” Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun, 397(2), 329-332 (2010)
Presentations
Awards & Honors
Clemson ChBE Annual Research Symposium 2014. Second Place Poster Award.
National Science Foundation – Experimental Research to Stimulate Competitive Research (NSF- EPSCoR) Fellowship Awards: Spring 2010, Summer 2011, Fall 2011.
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Award: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences: Summer 2011
Wyoming IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Fellowship Awards: Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011
Superior Student Award in Chemistry, University of Wyoming, 2011.
Senior Design Symposium Award in Chemical Engineering, University of Wyoming (group project), Spring 2011: Project: Conversion of Methanol to Polyolefins via Dimethyl Ether.