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Dr Maria Benavides, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Physics
Expertise: Relativist quantum chemistry, Protein NMR, and protein folding studies.
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Biography
Education
Ph.D. Chemistry, Arizona State University, 1993
B.S. Chemistry, Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, 1987
Work History
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Houston-Downtown, 2005 - Present.
Adjunct Chemistry Faculty, San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX , 2004 through present.
Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, 1998 – 2005.
Chemistry/Math Tutor, St. Philip’s College, San Antonio, TX , 1998 - 1999.
Lab Scientist, Saudi Aramco, Lab Research and Development Center, Dhahran, 1996-1997.
Process Engineer, Rogers Corporation, Tempe, AZ, 1988-1989.
Research Interests
Molecular modeling and relativistic computational studies of ionic liquids compounds, bioactinide clusters, and actinide-protein complexes.
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| Current Courses | Next Offering |
| CHEM 1307 General Chemistry I | Every Spring, Fall Semester |
| CHEM 1107 General Chemistry I Lab | Every Spring, Fall Semester |
| CHEM 3330 Physical Chemistry I | Every Spring Semester |
| CHEM 3130 Physical Chemistry I Lab | Every Spring Semester |
| CHEM 3332 Physical Chemistry II | Offered every two years |
| CHEM 3132 Physical Chemistry II Lab | Offered every two years |
| CHEM 3320 Environmental Chemistry | Every third Semester |
Maria Benavides, 2009 CHEM 1107 General Chemistry Lab I, Kendall/Publishing Company, ISBN 978-0-7575-6009-5, 2009.
L. Wang, E. Rivera, M. Benavides-Garcia, and B.T Nall, 2005 Loop Entropy and Cytochrome c Stability , J. Mol. Biol. 353, 719-729
M. Benavides-Garcia and B.T. Nall, Hydrogen Exchange and folding rates”, manuscript in preparation .
M.Benavides-Garcia and B. T. Nall, pH dependence of Hydrogen Exchange of Cytochrome c, manuscript in prepatation.
M. Benavides-Garcia and B. T. Nall, Temperature-Jump Relaxation Kinetics of Stability-Enhanced Cytochrome c, Protein Science, to be submitted.
M. Benavides-Garcia, Edna V. Rivera, William Ramos, Andrew P. Hinck and B. Nall, 2002 Backbone sequential resonance assignments of yeast iso-2 cytochrome c, reduced and oxidized forms, J. Biomol. NMR, 22, 93-94.
M. Panda, M. Benavides-Garcia, M. Pierce and B. Nall, 2000 Cytochrome c folds through a smooth funnel, Protein Science, 9, 536-543.
D. Dai, M.M. Al-Zahrani and K. Balasubramanian, 1994 Geometries and Energy Separations of Electronic States of GeF2, SnF2, PbF2 and their Positive Ions, J. Phys. Chem. 98, 9223-9241.
M. Benavides-Garcia and K. Balasubramanian, 1994 Bond Energies, Ionization Potentials, and the Singlet-Triplet Energy Separations of SnCl2, SnBr2, SnI2, PbCl2, PbBr2, PbI2, and their Positive Ions, J. Chem. Phys. 100, 2821-2830.
M. Benavides-Garcia and K. Balasubramanian, Spectroscopic Constants and Potential Energy Curves of PrI, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 161, 552-559 (1993).
M. Benavides-Garcia and K. Balasubramanian, 1993 Spectroscopic Constants and Potential Energy Curves of PrBr, Chem. Phys. Letts. 211, 631-636.
M. Benavides-Garcia and K. Balasubramanian, 1992 The Singlet-Triplet Energy Separations of GeCl2, GeBr2, GeI2, GeHCl, GeHBr, and GeHI, J. Chem. Phys. 97, 7537-7544.
M. Benavides-Garcia and K. Balasubramanian, Spectroscopic Constants and Potential Curves of OsH, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 150, 271-279 (1991).
M. Benavides-Garcia and K. Balasubramanian, Structural Insights into the Binding of Uranyl with Human Serum Protein Apotransferrin-Structure and Spectra of Protein-Uranyl Interactions, Chem. Res. Toxicol. Accepted for publication.
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