at Hamilton since 1993

Associate Professor Timothy Elgren Bio-Inorganic Chemistry Office: Chemistry 206 Phone: 315 859-4695 E-mail: telgren@hamilton.edu

Education

• B.A.    Hamline University
• Ph.D.   Dartmouth College

Research

    (under construction)

Awards and Grants

• National Science Foundation: Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement
  "Calorimetry and Capillary Electrophoresis in the Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory"
  June 1999
• The John R. Hatch Excellence in Teaching Award, Hamilton College
  May 1998
• Hamilton College Class of 1966 Career Development Award
  "Investigative Laboratories for Biochemistry"
  Summer 1998
• Emerson Student-Faculty Collaboration Award
  "Sol-Gel Encapsolation of Proteins"
  Summer 1998
• National Institutes of Health: Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke
  "Neurocuprein: A Novel Copper Protein"
  3 year grant, May 1997
• Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society
  "Neurocuprein: A Novel Type II Copper Protein"
  2 year grant, December 1996
• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Special Grant Program in Chemical Sciences 1994
  "Application of Biophysical Chemistry: An Undergraduate Laboratory"
  Spring 1994

Publications (*indicates Hamilton College Undergraduate Co-authors)

• Marcoline, Anne T.* and Elgren, Timothy E. "A Thermodynamic Study of Azide Binding to Myoglobin", Journal of Chemical Education, 75, 1622-1623, 1998.
• Elgren, Timothy E. "Consideration of Lewis Acidity in the Context of Heme Biochemistry: A Molecular Visualization Exercise", Chemical Educator, 3:3, 1-11, 1998.
• Elgren, Timothy E.; Orville, Allen M.; Kelly; Kimberly A.;* Lipscomb, John D.; Ohlendorf, Douglas H. and Que, Lawrence Jr. "Crystal Structure and Resonance Raman Studies of Protocatechuate 3,4-Dioxygenase Complexed with 3,4-Dihydroxyphenylacetate", Biochemistry, 36, 11504-11513, 1997.
• Stemmler, Timothy L.; Sossong, Thomas R.; Goldstein, Jonathan I.;* Ash, David A.; Elgren, Timothy E.; Kurtz, Donald M., Jr. and Penner-Hahn, James E., "Comparison of the Dinuclear Mn Core Solution Structure of Mn Catalase, Arginase and Mn Substituted Forms of Ribonucleotide Reductase and Hemerythrin", Biochemistry, 36, 9847-9858, 1997.
• Silva, Kathleen E.; Elgren, Timothy E.; Que, Lawrence, Jr. and Stankovich, Marian T., "Electron Transfer Properties of the R2 Protein of Ribonucleotide Reductase from E. coli", Biochemistry, 34, 14093-14103, 1995.
• Elgren, Timothy E.; Hendrich, Michael P. and Que, Lawrence, Jr., "Azide Binding to the Diferrous Form of Ribonucleotide Reductase R2 Protein", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 115, 9291-9292 (1993).