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Patrick J. Hrdlicka
875 Perimeter Dr MS 2343
(Renfrew Hall 307)
Moscow, Idaho 83844-2343
USA
Email: hrdlicka@uidaho.edu
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Summary 2020-2023 - And just like that, three years have past since the last update. The increase in workload due to MAJOR budget cuts in our department and the C19-prompted "pivot" has been immense. I took over CHEM277 and CHEM372 (Organic Chemistry I and II) in the fall of 2020, in addition to continuing teaching CHEM472/572 (Intro to Medicinal Chemistry) and overseeing CHEM504 (ST: Advances in Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Biology). To make the CHEM277 and CHEM372 "Covid-proof", I flipped the classroom, recording ~400 videos (~70 hours) at home for on-demand viewing, while spending in-person time solving 100s, nay, 1000s of textbook problems. My annual student credit hour (SCH) production is ~750 SCHs. What else? Raymond (PhD 2020), Caroline (MS 2020), and Shiva (PhD 2021) graduated. Michaela is working towards completing her PhD studies. Ashik and Timo recently joined our group to work on their Ph.D studies. A couple of undergrads joined the group, supported by INBRE and Presidential scholarships (Ibrahim, Peter, Ryan). Our group published six more research articles, including another OBC cover article. I was the recipient of the 2022 College of Science Advisory Board Faculty Fellowship and the 2022 Donald Craford Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award. Oh, and we just secured a $50k grant from Idaho-INBRE to study regulation of gene expression using our dsDNA-targeting Invader probes. We are still alive and kicking - In fact, I've never been busier! Cover article (2020) - Raymond Emehiser's article "Chimeric gamma-PNA:Invader probes: using intercalator-functionalized oligonucleotides to enhance the dsDNA-targeting properties of gamma-PNA" has been published as a cover article on Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. Well done! Cover article (2020) - Raymond Emehiser's article "Head-to-head comparison of LNA, MP-gamma-PNA, INA, and Invader probes targeting mixed-sequence double-stranded DNA" has been published as a cover article on Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. Congrats! Cover article (2019) - Shiva Adhikari's article "Recognition of mixed-sequence DNA targets using spermine-modified Invader probes" has been published as a cover article on Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. Congrats and thank you to Raymond Emehiser for designing the cover! Update 2017-2020 - A lot of water has flown under the bridge since the last update. I finished my term as Chair of Faculty Senate (2017-2018) and then took on a role as a Special Assistant to the Provost's Office (2018-2019), being tasked with further refining and implementing a market-based faculty compensation model. I returned to my regular faculty role in July 2019. Our research group has published four articles in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, including three cover articles. Our group currently consists of four graduate students, two of whom will be graduating soon. Send me an email if you are interested in joining my group. |