Emily Ma joins the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Emily.
We received a UT CNS Catalyst Grant!
We received seed funding from the College of Natural Sciences to begin a collaboration project with Prof. Richard Aldrich (UT Dept of Neuroscience).
The purpose of this project is to study protein conformational changes induced by ion binding. Ultrafast 2D IR spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations will be used to capture bond-by-bond “snapshots” of protein conformations with extremely fast time resolution, thus measuring molecular motion that is “blurred out” by conventional experimental techniques. The project combines the biochemistry expertise of Aldrich’s group and the time-resolved spectroscopy capabilities of Baiz’s group.
Southwest Ultrafast Conference
The Roberts and Baiz groups will be jointly hosting the First Southwest Ultrafast Conference at UT-Austin on June 16-17, 2016. We are looking forward to a great conference!
Registration is free!
First Baiz Group Publication
Sean Edington’s and Jennifer Flanagan’s first paper on the computational spectroscopy of ester carbonyls has been accepted for publication the Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
Congratulations Sean and Jenny!
Welch Foundation Grant
Our group received a grant from the Welch Foundation to support our work on pH-mediated protein folding.
We have a shaper!
Chris Middleton from PhaseTech Spectroscopy installed our Quickshape mid-IR pulse shaper last week. The shaper is up and running and we now have time-delayed pulse pairs for non-linear spectroscopy.