DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Supplemental Departmental Application for Graduate Admission
Updated 4/23/2009
Michael
Schamber
Name:
Last
First
Academic Year Address:
Street:
Middle Initial
Summer Address:
1427 N. Myers St
City:
Burbank
CA, 91506
State, Zip:
Phone:
818.823.6149
e‐mail:
[email protected]
If you will be moving, please send notification of your new address to the program e-mail box below:
Chemistry PhD:
[email protected]
Biochemistry PhD:
[email protected]
Primary & Secondary Interest:
Please choose a primary and secondary area of interest from the five bolded categories below. Please check off
as many of the sub-categories under each heading as you wish. This will help ensure that the correct faculty
review your application. (See our website – http://chem.colorado.edu/ for information about research areas of
our faculty)
Analytical/Environmental/Atmospheric
○ Aerosols & Clouds
○ Environmental Chemistry
○ Renewable Energy
○ Atmospheric Field Studies
○ Instrument Development
○ Bioanalytical Chemistry
○ Planetary Atmospheres
X○ Cell Signaling
○ Membranes
○ Proteins & Enzymology
○ Chemical Biology/Genetics
○
X Molecular Biophysics
○
X Structural Biology
○ Inorganic
○ Physical
○ Chemical Biology
○ Physical Organic
○ Atmospheric/Astrochemistry
○ Kinetics/Thermochemistry
○ Biophysics
○ Photochemistry
○ Chemical Physics
○ Nanotechnology/Materials
○ Reaction Dynamics
○ Surface Chemistry
○ Physical Organic Chemistry
○ Theoretical Chemistry
○ Physical Inorganic Chemistry
X
Biochemistry
○ Bio-Organic & Bio-Inorganic
○ Informatics & Proteomics
○X Nucleic Acids
Materials & Nanoscience
○ Organic
○ Energy
Organic
○ Synthesis
Physical
Visit
If our department offers you admission or an interview, you will be invited to Boulder to meet with various faculty and their students
during an open house in March. Please list the faculty members whose research interests you. You may view the department website
for an overview of faculty and their research areas here: http://chem.colorado.edu/faculty-93/faculty-listed-by-research.
Natalie Ahn
Robert Batey
Thomas Cech
Joseph Falke
Carl Koval
Xuedong Liu
William Old
Roy Parker
Dylan Taatjes
Previous teaching and/or research experience
Please list all previous teaching and/or research experience:
Teaching Experience
Subject
Start Date
End Date
Institution
Start Date
End Date
Institution/Company
Research Experience
Project Name/Short Description
Regulation of the retinoblastoma protein via a
shared-docking site
Optimization of polyethylenimine-mediate
transient gene expression
04/2009
06/2013
07/2010
present
University of California, Santa Cruz
Caltech
Interdisciplinary
Programs
Chemical Physics: an interdisciplinary degree program requiring that students be accepted to either the Physics
Department or the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry: http://phys.colorado.edu/graduate-students/phdprogram-chemical-physics.
Biotechnology Training Program: an interdisciplinary certificate program requiring that a student be accepted
into one of three departments (Chemistry & Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Molecular Cellular &
Developmental Biology). http://www.colorado.edu/catalog/2013-14/content/biotechnology.
The Molecular Biophysics Graduate Training Program: an interdisciplinary program offering specialized
training in biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, and bio-molecular mass spectrometry as applied to cell
regulation. Students must be accepted to the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry or the Molecular, Cellular &
Developmental Biology Department: http://biophysics.colorado.edu/.
The Signal Transduction and Cell Cycle Regulation Predoctoral Training Program: an interdisciplinary
program offering specialized training in biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, and bio-molecular mass
spectrometry as applied to cell regulation. Students must be accepted to Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
or Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology Department.
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science (administered by Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences): an
interdisciplinary certificate program available to Chemistry graduate students interested in a minor in
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences & Chemistry. http://www.colorado.edu/catalog/201314/content/atmospheric-and-oceanic-sciences. See also http://cires.colorado.edu/jimenezgroup/wiki/index.php/Atmospheric_Chemistry_and_Air_Quality_at_the_University_of_Colorado for research
opportunities in atmospheric chemistry and air pollution at CU.
Certificate Program on Science and Technology Policy (administered by the CU Center for Science and
Technology Policy Research). An interdisciplinary program on the broad societal context for science and
technology as well as an introduction to methodologies of policy analysis that are used in decision settings related
to science and technology. SEE WEB PAGE: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/stcert/
Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Joint with Chemical and Biological Engineering and the School of
Pharmacy at the CU Health Sciences Center) is an interdisciplinary center conducting research on new advances in
biotechnology and pharmaceutical sciences. Partners and supporters of the Center, which has research in analytical
chemistry, drug delivery, e.g., microparticle and nanoparticle synthesis and coating, drug stability, and molecular
biology, include Alza, Amgen, Baxter, Bayer, Biogen, Eli Lilly, Genentech, Merck, Novo Nordisk, RxKinetix, and
Zymogenetics.
http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/pharmacy/Research/ResearchCenters/Pages/PharmaceuticalBiotechnol
ogyCenter.aspx
Certificate Program in IQ Biology
Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology - Bioscience with an Altitude
We also participate in the Biofrontiers Institute’s Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology (IQ Biology) program,
which offers a two-year fellowship, a diverse interdisciplinary experience, and a certificate upon completion of your
PhD. Visit http://biofrontiers.colorado.edu/education/iq-biology for more information.
Please note that participation in any of these programs requires approval from your research advisor.