Elaine Marzluff

 

marzluff@grinnell.edu
Campus Phone: 
641-269-4314
Fax: 
641-269-4984
Professor of Chemistry
On-Campus Address: 
Science-2208
Education / Degrees: 
Ph.D., Chemistry, 1995, California Institute of Technology
A.B., Chemistry with High Honors, 1989, Harvard University
Publications: 
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Recent Publications
"Gas Phase Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange of Arginine and Arginine Di-Peptides Complexed with Alkali Metals"Laura Mertens and Elaine M. Marzluff. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2011, 115 (33), 9180–9187.
“Infrared spectroscopy and structure of photochemically protonated biomolecules in the gas phase: a noradrenaline analogue, lysine and alanyl alanine”T. D. Vaden, T. S. J. A. de Boer, N. A. MacLeod, E. M. Marzluff, J. P. Simons and L. C. Snoek. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2007, 9, 2549–2555.
“Adding water to sugar: A spectroscopic and computational study of alpha- and beta-phenylxyloside in the gas phase”Hünig, I; Painter, A.J.; Jockusch, R.A.; Çarçabal, P.; Marzluff, E.M.; Snoek, L.C.; Gamblin, D.P.; Davis, B.G.; Simons, J.P. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2005, 7, 2474 – 2480.
“Gas Phase H/D Exchange of Proteins in an Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer”Undergraduate Co-author: Evans, S.E.; Lueck, N. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 2003, 222, 175-187.
Courses Taught: 
CHM 129 General Chemistry
CHM 210 Inorganic & Analytical Chemistry (formerly CHM 130)
CHM 363 Physical Chemistry I
CHM 364 Physical Chemistry II
CHM 390 Seminar: Current Topics in Chemistry
POL/PST 395 Policy Analysis: Climate Change
PST 395 Special Topic: Advanced Policy Research
Primary Academic Interest: 
The structure and dissociation mechanisms and energetics of peptides and proteins in the gas phase

Research

Professor Marzluff is interested in the structure and dissociation mechanisms and energetics of peptides and proteins in the gas phase. She couples electrospray ion trap mass spectrometry with collisional activated dissociation and Hydrogen Deuterium exchange reactions to probe the gas phase structure of biological molecules. Her research also focuses on the fundamental issues associated with the activation and dissociation dynamics of large molecules in the gas phase. Marzluff Summer 2013 Research Description