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Anne Katherine Jones is Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. As vice provost, she collaborates with units across the university to provide leadership for university-wide curriculum and student success projects. Ongoing projects include redefinition of the ASU general education requirements, partnering with the US Naval Community College to offer degrees for active-duty service members, expanding and improving the curricular offerings of ASU to prepare the broadest possible collection of students for life and career success, and student success initiatives to realize ASU’s mission and goals.
Before joining the provost’s office in 2020, as Associate Director of the School of Molecular Sciences, Dr. Jones led ASU’s undergraduate and graduate academic programs in chemistry and biochemistry. Jones co-led the development and launch of the first online biochemistry degree in the United States, which grew to serve more than 1,000 students in its first five years, expanding access to high quality STEM education. Jones is also active in developing a Bridge Program to minimize equity gaps and support progression of a more representative groups of students from undergraduate degrees to doctorates in chemical sciences.
As Professor of Chemistry, Jones has published widely in the fields of electrocatalysis and biological electron transfer. Her work has been supported by public and private agencies including the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, the US Department of Defense, the American Chemical Society and the Keck Foundation.
Dr. Jones earned her D. Phil. in chemistry from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and NSF Graduate Fellow. She has received such prizes as the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, the AFOSR and DOE Early Career Awards, and the ASU Founder’s Day and Zebulon Pearce Teaching Awards.
The goal of my group is to understand how redox enzymes work and to reproduce their activities in synthetic peptide systems. Why redox enzymes? In addition to their biological roles in energy conversion, chemical transformation, signal transduction, and transport, redox enzymes play important industrial roles in sensors, drugs, green energy production, catalysis, bioremediation of pollutants, and nanotechnology. These proteins are at the interface of biochemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry and engineering. However, despite their ubiquity, their complex structures have obscured most investigations into mechanism and structure/function relationships. My laboratory will explore the roles of biological materials in tuning the chemistry of both naturally occurring and synthetic redox active prosthetic groups.
Questions to be addressed include:
1. What are the catalytic mechanisms of redox enzymes?
2. How redox enzymes can be re-engineered for use in devices such as fuel cells and biosensors?
3. How multiple redox cofactors in oxidoreductase complexes interact to produce desired chemistry and prevent side reactions?
4. How de novo redox enzymes can be designed to interface with electronic and biological components for technological and medical applications?
Techniques employed in my laboratory will include molecular biology, protein purification, enzymology, direct protein electrochemistry, computer simulations, de novo protein design, FTIR spectroscopy, circular dichroism, solid state peptide synthesis, HPLC, and chemical synthesis.
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
CHM 117 | General Chemistry for Majors I |
CHM 501 | Current Topics in Chemistry |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
CHM 117 | General Chemistry for Majors I |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
CHM 598 | Special Topics |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
CHM 114 | General Chemistry for Engrs |
CHM 117 | General Chemistry for Majors I |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
CHM 484 | Internship |
BCH 484 | Internship |
CHM 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BCH 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
CHM 107 | Chemistry and Society |
CHM 108 | Chemistry and Society Lab |
CHM 294 | Special Topics |
CHM 394 | Special Topics |
BCH 484 | Internship |
CHM 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
CHM 114 | General Chemistry for Engrs |
CHM 117 | General Chemistry for Majors I |
CHM 484 | Internship |
BCH 484 | Internship |
BCH 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
CHM 484 | Internship |
BCH 484 | Internship |
CHM 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BCH 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BCH 484 | Internship |
CHM 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
CHM 113 | General Chemistry I |
CHM 453 | Inorganic Chemistry |
BCH 484 | Internship |
BCH 499 | Individualized Instruction |