Keith A. Hanson
3rd year graduate student
Cellular & Molecular Biology
5th year of MSTP

EDUCATION

• B.S. 2005, Oberlin College
  Biochemistry, Neuroscience

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• U of Pittsburgh, Pharmacology Dept, Summer 2004
  Advisor - Jane Cavanaugh, PhD
  Project - Looking at the role and mechanism of oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases. Used cell death assays to examine toxicity of oxidants and western blots to determine enzymes activated by oxidative stress.
• Oberlin College, Neuroscience Dept, 9/2003-5/2004
  Advisor - Dennison Smith, PhD
  Project - Looking at the effects of sedatives on neurons in the tuberomammillary nucleus of the hypothalamus; included both electrophysiological recording and pharmacological techniques.
• U of Pittsburgh, Summer 2004
  Advisor - Dr. Jane Cavanaugh
  Project - Determining the mechanisms of oxidative stress damage in neurodegenerative diseases
• Oberlin College, Chemistry Dept, Summer 2002-Summer 2003
  Advisor - Norman C. Craig, Ph.D.
  Project - determining the exact structure of the molecule 1,3-butadiene. Began project working on multiple organic syntheses, and finished doing analyses of high-resolution IR spectra.

PUBLICATIONS

• "Towards a Complete Equilibrium Structure of Butadiene: High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of Buatidiene-1-13-C1." Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Cleveland section, 2004.
• NC Craig, KA Hanson, MC Moore and RL Sams. Rotational analysis of several bands in the high-resolution infrared spectrum of butadiene-1-13C1: assignment of vibrational fundamentals. Journal of Molecular Structure 742, pgs. 21-29, 2005.
• NC Craig, KA Hanson, RW Pierce, SD Saylor and RL Sams. Rotational analysis of bands in the high-resolution infrared spectra of the three species of butadiene-1,4-d2; refinement of the assignments of the vibrational fundamentals. Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 228, pgs. 401-413, 2004.
• NC Craig, JL Davis, KA Hanson, MC Moore, KJ Weidenbaum and M Lock. Analysis of the rotational structure in bands in the high-resolution infrared spectra of butadiene and butadiene-2,3-d2: refinement in assignments of fundamentals. Journal of Molecular Structure 695-696, pgs. 59-69, 2004.

PRESENTATIONS

• "A Useful Modification of Simmons-Smith Chemistry for Making Two Deuterium Isotopomers of Butadiene-trans,trans-1,4-d2 and -cis,cis-1,4-d2." Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Cleveland section, 2003.