People
Rachel N. Austin
Diana T. and Roy Vagelos Professor of Chemistry
Barnard College
Altschul Hall
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
office: 1-212-854-4879
email:
raustin@barnard.edu
A full CV is available on her Barnard profile here
Rachel Narehood Austin is the Diana T. and P. Roy Vagelos Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at Barnard College in NYC. She joined the faculty in 2015 after 20 years on the faculty at Bates College in Lewiston ME. Her laboratory has a longstanding interest in understanding the mechanisms of metalloproteins, especially those important in the global cycling of elements and neurochemistry, and developing and characterizing heterogeneous catalysts that can be used for green chemistry, biofuels upgrading, or environmental remediation. A major emphasis of her current research is the development of a detailed picture of both the structures and mechanisms of the metalloenzymes that have evolved to catalyze the oxidation of alkanes. Funding for her lab has been provided by NSF, NIH, HHMI, the Merck/AAAS research fund, Pfizer, DOE, and the Dreyfus Foundation in the form of a Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award. She is the past chair (together with co-Chair Ariel Anbar) of the 2010 Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference and a current editorial board member of the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry and a reviewing editor for the journal Frontiers in Microbiological Chemistry.
honors:
- Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2004
- Kroepsch Teaching Award, 2000
- Invited Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale Superior, 2017
Current Staff and Students
Researchers in the Austin Lab
Lauren Hendricks, Research Assistant
Undergraduate Researchers: Tierani Green, Chloe Deitz, Oliva de Luca, August Jaunzarins Roberts, Vianny Mondragon, Izabella Pancheco
Lab Alumni and Former Students
Past researchers in the Austin Laboratory
Shoshana Williams, Alison Forsberg, Juliet Lee, Maria Sol Balnkemeyer, Rahma Elseiey, Janine Sempel, Yeliz Seguin, Pia
Chakravarty, Maya Jodidio, Elizabeth Irvin, Nicole Townsend, Avisya Kumar, Margaret Robinson
(Bates College), Kamila
Kydykova, Jenifer Moralez, Laura Abelaez, John Stavrinoudis, Lauren Babb, Martin Peich
Ph.D., Kevin Ahearn, LeRae
Graham Ph.D., John Pham Ph.D., Kapil Bahl Ph.D., Suzanne Tepper M.D., Chris Colapetrio MS,
Kate Buzzi MD, Michael
Danahy Ph.D., Han Mi Yang, Kate Hagstrom (LePore) Ph.D., Andy Dalton, Kate Fink DDM, Neeraj
Mahadoo, Carly Tarr MD,
Gabe Sholder Ph.D., Justin Gorham Ph.D. , Chal Congdon, Dennis McGillicuddy MS, George
Sisson MD, John Anderson MS,
Dana DiGiando, Erin Bertrand Ph.D., Marselle Alexander-Ozinarkas MS, Robert Gomez, Kate
Luddy, Liz Brady, Karla
Erickson Ph.D., Drew Drabek, Kim Russell, Eric Pier, Hilary Ginsburg, Claire Parker, Marilla
Pender-Cudlip Pharm.
D., Lina Kong, Cody Newman, Rachel Carlson, Zach Ross, Alex Stevenson, Sarah Charley, Ian
Gilchrist, Swe-Htet Naing,
Saba Parvez, Angela Su, Lesley Mo, Jasmin Hernadez, David Born, Mary Lewis, Astrid Gleaton,
Scott Olenik, Winnie
Chelegat, Jamie Gough, Ashely Brooks, Roch de Silva, Grace Hamilton, Jackie Ordermann, Edwin
Mapfuwa, Sasha
Villhermosa, Katherine Bernier, Aubrey van Kirk, Ben Horn, Tessa Pals, Jess Howard, Jamie
Bousleiman, Arminda
Downey-Mavromatis, Jessica Glynn, Sydney Hotz, Samra Husremovic, Mericka McCabe, Megan Ngai,
and Amen
Wiqas
Note to alumni: Please stay in touch. It is always good to hear about your work
and lives. Email
updates to raustin@barnard.edu
