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Laura  Albrecht

PhD Candidate

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Email: laura.albrecht@dal.ca

Why Dal?

Reputation and Halifax. But it's offered me so much more.

What inspires me

Computational science allows us to delve into the 鈥渁tomic heart鈥 of chemistry. Using computational methods I can study water structures and their interactions with proteins on a molecular level. This helps us understand water鈥檚 crucial role in biological processes, which may figure importantly in the development of novel therapeutics.

Teaching, labs, research groups

  • CHEM2401/2402 laboratory teaching assistant
  • Assistant supervisor for a fourth year Honours Chemistry student

Publications

  • Albrecht, L.; Boyd, R. J.; M贸, O.; Yanez, M. Cooperativity between hydrogen bonds and beryllium bonds in (H2O)nBeX2 (n =1-3, X = H, F) complexes. A new perspective. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., DOI:10.1039/C2CP42534C
  • Albrecht, L.; Hally, D.; Boyd, R. J. Stabilizing effect of solvent and guest residue amino acids on a model alpha-helix peptide. J. Comp. Theo. Chem., http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comptc.2012.06.027
  • Albrecht, L.; Boyd, R. J. Visualizing Internal Stabilization in Weakly Bound Systems Using Atomic Energies: Hydrogen Bonding in Small Water Clusters. J. Phys. Chem. A, (2012) 116(15) 3946-3951
  • Wu, J.; Albrecht, L.; Boyd, R. J. Effect of Counterions on the Protonation State in a Poly(G)-Poly(C) Radical Cation. J. Phys. Chem. B, (2011), 115(49), 14885-14890
    Guignard, M.; Albrecht, L.; Zwanziger, J. W. Zero-Stress Optic Glass without Lead. Chem. Mat. (2007), 19(2), 286-290

Awards, honours, conferences

  • ACEnet Research Fellowship for Graduate Studies, 麻豆传媒
  • Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowship for Doctoral Study in Chemistry, 麻豆传媒
  • Gerry Dauphinee Graduate Scholarship in Chemistry, 麻豆传媒
    244th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, August 2012, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • 9th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists July 2011, Santiago de Compestela, Spain