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Dan's Chemistry Page
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Welcome to my chemistry page. I am a computer programmer by occupation, but a chemist by education. I graduated from
Prairie Valley High School
in 1989. I got a B.S. in chemistry in 1993 at
Briar Cliff College
in Sioux City, IA. I went to graduate school at
Iowa State University
and studied physical chemistry. I was a member of
Walter Struve's group
and studied molecules involved in photosynthesis by means of theoretical calculations and
spectroscopic laser studies at the Ames Laboratory.
I earned my Ph.D. in 1998.
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Publications
My work under Dr. Struve led to several publications:
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Sergei Savikhin, Daniel R. Buck, Walter S. Struve, The Fenna-Matthews-
Olson protein: A strongly coupled photosynthetic antenna, Resonance Energy
Transfer, Eds. D.C. Andrews and A.A. Demidov, Wiley Interscience, New
York (1998)
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Vladimir I. Novoderezhkin, Alexandra S. Taisova, Zoya G. Fetisova,
Robert E. Blankenship, Sergei Savikhin, Daniel R. Buck, Walter S. Struve,
The B808-866 antenna of Chloroflexus aurantiacus: Kinetic analogies to LH2
in purple photosynthetic bacteria, Biophysical Journal,
74:1-7, April 1998
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Sergei Savikhin, Daniel R. Buck, Walter S. Struve, Oscillating anisotropies
in a bacteriochlorophyll protein: Evidence for quantum beating between exciton
levels Chemical Physics, 223:303-312, November 1, 1997
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Daniel R. Buck, Sergei Savikhin, Walter S. Struve, Effect of diagonal energy
disorder on circular dichroism spectra of Fenna-Matthews-Olson trimers,
Journal of Physical Chemistry B,
101:8395-8397, October 16, 1997
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Sergei Savikhin, Daniel R. Buck, Walter S. Struve, Pump-probe anisotropies
of FMO trimers from Chlorobium tepidum: A diagnostic for exciton
localization? Biophysical Journal,
73:2090-2096, October 1997
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Daniel R. Buck, Walter S. Struve, Tubular Exciton Models for BChl c Antennae in Chlorosomes
from Green Photosynthetic Bacteria
Photosynthesis Research,
48:367-377, June 1996
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Daniel R. Buck, Sergei Savikhin, Walter S. Struve, Ultrafast Absorption Difference Spectra of the
Fenna-Matthews-Olson Protein at 19K: Experiment and Simulations
Biophysical Journal,
72:24-36, January 1997
My undergraduate research under professor Paul Weber dealt with separation of amino
acids by capillary electrophoresis:
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Paul L. Weber, Daniel R. Buck, Capillary Electrophoresis - A Fast and Simple
Method for the Determination of the Amino Acid Composition of Proteins.
Journal of Chemical Education,
71:609-612, 1994)
From here, you may go to the
Iowa State Chemistry Homepage
or visit my former colleagues Sergei Savikhin
and Doug English.
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