Group Goals

The goal of the Grayson research group is to find creative solutions to the world's material and medical needs by tailoring the nanoscale architecture of synthetic macromolecules.

Group News

2010
September	Jessica's review on cyclic poly(esters) appears in Polymer Chemistry.
August	SMG gives invited talk highlighting the group’s recent cyclic polymer work at the Young Polymer Scientist Symposium of the IUPAC 44th annual MACRO conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
July	Yejia’s investigation of the metastable fragmentation of azide polymer end groups appears in Macromolecules.
June	The group’s tutorial review on MALDI-TOF MS polymer end group analysis appears in Journal of Mass Spectrometry and is featured as the journal cover.
May	SMG gives a talk at the 58th Annual American Society for Mass Spectrometry Meeting featuring Jessica’s collaboration with Sarah Trimpin (Wayne State U.) elucidating polymer architecture using Ion Mobility Spectrometry in tandem with Electrospray Mass Spectrometry.
May	Mallory’s full paper on the thiolene-click functionalization of oxazoline polymers appears in Macromolecules.
March	Mallory gives a talk about her thiolene functionalized oxazoline monomers at the ACS meeting in San Francisco.
March	Dawanne presents a paper on her amphiphilic start polymers at the ACS meeting in San Francisco.
March	Yejia presents two posters, and Mallory and Dawanne both present one poster at the ASC meeting in San Francisco.
February	The Gibb-Grayson collaboration (Bruce Gibb, UNO) on investigating dendronized cavitands is highlighted in Soft Matter.

2009
December	SMG gives invited keynote talk at the 11th Pacific Polymer Conference in Cairns, Australia.
September	Jessica’s paper on the preparation and degradation of cyclic poly(esters) appears in Macromolecules.
August	Yi receives Arlo Harris Award for outstanding first year graduate student.
August	Dr. M. Ejaz joins the Grayson Research Group.
August	SMG receives NSF CAREER Award (ARRA) to pursue research related to cyclic polymers.
July	SMG give invited talk at the Polymers Gordon Research Conference (Mt. Holyoke, MA).
June	Boyd’s review on synthetic approach for preparing cyclic polymers appears in Chem. Soc. Rev.
May	Dawanne’s 2008 Macromolecules paper is featured in a special Virtual Issue of Macromolecules featuring “Click Chemistry in Macromolecular Science.
May	Marco's and Roy's synthesis of dendronized cavitands appears in a special dendrimer themed issue of Israel Journal of Chemistry.
May	Swati receives the Alworth Prize, Gesine receives the ACS Honors Award, and Brian receives the Merck Index Award for graduating seniors.

2008
October	Lin receives grant from Newcomb Institute to pursue her undergraduate research project.
October	Marco's and Roy's communication on dendronized cavitands (in collaborations with the Gibb group at UNO) appears in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
September	SMG awarded Tulane's Presidential Early Career Development Award.
August	SMG gives a talk at the Philadelphia ACS on supramolecular chemistry of polymers.
June	Dawanne's manuscript on the synthesis of cyclic block-copolymer appears in Macromolecules.
May	Gesine receives the Ann Hero Northrup Prize, for excellence in undergraduate chemistry.
May	Brian receives ACS Award for outstanding graduating senior in chemistry.
April	Boyd to present his research at the ACS "Excellence in Graduate Polymer Science Research" symposium.
April	The Grayson group to present 10 posters and 3 talks at the New Orleans ACS meeting.
April	SMG and Prof. W. Godbey's review appears in the Journal of Drug Targeting.
March	SMG gives invited talk at NIST's MALDI-TOF MS Workshop.
March	Boyd's JACS paper is ranked by JACS as the 18th most cited from 2006.
February	Kaitlin's senior thesis project is published in Tetrahedron Letters.

2007
November	Gesine receives a Newcomb grant for her undergraduate research project.
October	Swati receives a Provost FSSE grant for her undergraduate research.
September	SMG awarded ACS PRG-G Grant.
August	Roy receives first place poster Award for his summer LAMP research project.
July	Boyd awarded Arlo Harris Award for outstanding graduate student.
May	SMG gives invited lecture at Canadian Society of Chemistry Conference.
May	Kaitlin awarded ACS Award for outstanding graduating senior.
May	Mallory receives Outstanding First Year Graduate Student Award.

2006
September	SMG (as co-PI) awarded NSF-MRI grant for Chemistry department’s acquisition of MALDI-TOF MS and ESI MS.
September	Dawanne and Boyd present posters at the San Francisco ACS.
August	SMG awarded Louisiana Board of Regents RCS Grant.
August	Jessica awarded Board of Regents Fellowship.
August	Mallory awarded Board of Regents Fellowship.
May	SMG awarded Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.
April	Boyd’s JACS paper reviewed as “research highlight” in Nature Materials.
March	Boyd’s publication on “click” cyclization of polymers appears in JACS.
February	SMG (as co-PI) awarded NIH grant to study transdermal vaccination.

2005
December	Grayson group returns home to New Orleans!
September	Grayson group hosted by Karen Wooley at Washington University in St. Louis.
August	Evacuation of New Orleans due to Katrina.
August	Boyd awarded Board of Regents Fellowship.
July	Dawanne, Board of Regents fellow, joins Grayson group.