American Chemical Society

Phi Lambda Upsilon Honorary Chemical Society

Phi Beta Kappa Academic Achievement Fraternity

Kassy actually has a "disease" named after her in which the person is incapable of not eating everything on their plate.  This is most often exhibited at Torero's, and regardless of size of meal, will also eat at least a full basket of tortilla chips.

Electron Transfer Reactions

Publications:

Mies, Kassy A.; Wirgau, Joseph I.; Crumbliss, Alvin L..  Ternary complex formation facilitates a redox mechanism for iron release from a siderophore.  Biometals (2006), 19, 115-126.

Presentations:

Mies, Kassy A.; Wirgau, J. I.; Crumbliss, Alvin L.. Ternary complex formation enables iron reduction and release from a siderophore. Division of Inorganic Chemistry, 231^st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26-30, 2006.

Mies, Kassy A., Joseph I. Wirgau, Alvin L. Crumbliss,"Kinetics and Mechanism of Ferrioxamine B Reduction by Ascorbate and Glutathione"  Gordon Research Conference in Bioinorganic Chemistry; Graduate Research Seminar, Ventura, CA, January 2005.

Mies, Kassy A. and Alvin L. Crumbliss, "The Presence of an Iron(II) Chelator Facilitates the Reduction of the Siderophore Ferrioxamine B by the Naturally Occurring Reducing Agent Glutathione" Inorganic Division, 56th Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Research Triangle Park, NC, November 2004.

Mies, Kassy A. and Alvin L. Crumbliss,"Investigation of a reductive mechanism of iron release from ferrioxamine B facilitated by the presence of an iron(II) chelator"  Inorganic Division, 228th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Philadelphia, PA, August 2004.

Mies, Kassy A. and Alvin L. Crumbliss,"A Reductive Mechanism for Iron Release from Ferrioxamine B Facilitated by the Presence of an Fe(II) Chelator"  Inorganic Division, 118th North Carolina-American Chemical Society Sectional Conference, Durham, NC, April 2004.

Wirgau, J.I. , K. A. Mies and A. L. Crumbliss, "Compartmentalization of Iron through Bulk Liquid Membrane Transport" Duke University Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering Poster Session, Durham, NC, April 2003.

at Randolph-Macon College

Mies, Kassy , David Anderson and Serge Schreiner"Production and characterization of coated lyotropic liquid crystalline colloidal drug carriers" , Colloid and Surface Science Division, 223rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Orlando, FL, April 2002.

Mies, Kassy A. and Serge S. Schreiner, "Synthesis and characterization of novel multinuclear platinum complexes" Division of Chemical Education, 221st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Diego, CA, April 2001.

Mies, Kassy A. and Serge S. Schreiner, "Synthesis, characterization, and reactivity of chelating platinum-diphosphine complexes" , Division of Chemical Education, 219th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, CA, March 2000.

Awards:

Phi Lambda Upsilon, National Chemistry Fraternity Travel Award 2004

Honorary Member of the Division of Analytical Chemistry, American Chemical Society 2001-2002

American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Undergraduate Award 2001

Honorary Scholarship for Excellence in Drug Delivery Research (Lyotropic Therapeutics) 2001

CRC Press Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award 1999

Jean Dreyfus Boissvain Undergraduate Scholarship for Excellence in Chemistry 1999-2000

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