Lawrence Que, Jr.

Office:
343 Smith Hall
Phone:
612-625-0389
Fax:
612-624-7029
Email:
larryque@umn.edu

Research Overview

Interactions between iron and dioxygen are ubiquitous in Nature. The Que lab focuses primarly on the unique challenges associated with dioxygen activation by nonheme iron in biological systems. The research effort in the Que lab combines biological methods and inorganic synthesis with a range of spectroscopic and kinetic techniques to investigate how iron can activate dioxygen to carry out metabolically important and chemically interesting reactions. The group is divided into three subgroups: high-valent iron-oxo, bioinspired catalysis, and nonheme iron oxygenases.

High-Valent Iron Oxo - Bioinspired Catalysis - Nonheme Iron Oxygenases

Que Group

Summer 2011: Left to right and front to back, Feifei Li, Thakshila Wickramaratne, Jennifer Bigelow, Larry Que, Van Vu, Gen-Quiang Xue; Anusree Mukherjee, Praneeth Kummaya, Yan Feng, Matthew Cranswick, Youngju Song, Partha Das, Mayank Puri, Andrew Fielding; Greg Rhode, Katherine Van Heuvelen, Alexander Chen, Andrew Jasniewski, Scott Kleespies; Aidan McDonald

Current Group Members

• Bigelow, Jennifer
  
  
• Biswas, Achintesh
  
  
• Engstrom, Lisa
  
  
• Min Young Hyun
  
  
• Jasniewski, Andrew
  
  
• Kleespies, Scott
  
  
• Komor, Anna
  
  
• Öcal, Jale
  
  
• Oloo, Williamson
  
  
• Puri, Mayank
  
  
• Prakash, Jai
  
  
• Rohde, Greg
  
  
• Zhou, Ang