Department of Geosciences 
153A Guyot Hall 
Princeton University 
Princeton, NJ 08544

Phone: (609) 258-2390
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Assistant to the Director (François M. M. Morel)
   
Center for Environmental BioInorganic Chemistry (CEBIC)

As Assistant to the Director, I provide administrative support for Professor François M.M. Morel and his associated research group. 

(CEBIC) Center for Environmental BioInorganic Chemistry hosts the CEBIC Summer Workshop - alternating between Princeton Campus locations and Gordon Research Conference locations -  bringing together over 100 scientists from around the country.  I am responsible for the coordination and organization of this annual conference.

Professor Morel teaches CHM 333 -ENV 333 Oil to Ozone: Chemistry of the Environment; GEO 418: Environmental Aqueous Geochemistry; GEO 506: Fundamentals of the Geosciences; and ENV/GEO 524: an Environmental Issues Seminar.

The Morel research group of postdocs, grad students and undergraduate students conduct trace metal research. See website: http://geoweb.princeton.edu/research/tracemetals/trace.html 

The Center for BioInorganic Chemistry (CEBIC) was funded in 1998 and brings together bioinorganic chemists who have been characterizing metalloproteins in model systems, environmental scientists who have been studying the chemistry and biology of trace elements in the environment, and industrial researchers who have been working on remediation technology.  The major research objective of the Center is to elucidate the structures and mechanisms of important "natural" metalloenzymes and chelators and develop better probes for assaying their abundance and activities in the environment.  An initial focus of the research is on iron which plays a critical role in the cycles of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur and in the degradation of organic compounds.  The training of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers engaged in this interdisciplinary research program will help establish Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry as an important new field at the intersection of pure and applied chemical and biological sciences.  CEBIC has a wide range of scientific, technical, educational and institutional impacts.  The results of CEBIC's research provide new experimental approaches for environmental scientists and novel research topics for chemists.  Eventually, they will lead to a more precise and predictive understanding of the local and global effects of metals in the environment and establish the basic knowledge necessary to develop better technologies for pollution control and remediation