Timothy J. O'Leary, S.J., Public Lecture

About This Event

Sarah Delaney is the 38th Annual Timothy J. O'Leary, S.J., Lecturer.  Dr. Delaney is a Professor of Chemistry at Brown University and currently serves as the Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Graduate School.  Research in her laboratory is focused on establishing a chemically logical roadmap to understand how DNA damage relates to genetic change and human disease. Professor Delaney is deeply committed to mentoring and training the next generation of scientists and has been awarded the Philip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Physical Sciences from Brown University and the Brown University Graduate Student Mentoring and Advising Award. In addition to researching the biochemistry of DNA damage she has an interest in cooking and how chemistry influences food. She teaches Chemical Biology, Organic Chemistry, a professional development course for graduate students, and a broad interest course Kitchen Chemistry where students explore chemistry through a lens of food and cooking.

Professor Delaney received her B.A. degree in Chemistry from Middlebury College where she conducted research with Professor Sunhee Choi on the mechanism of action of platinum-based anticancer drugs. She completed her Ph.D. degree at the California Institute of Technology with Professor Jacqueline Barton defining the ability of DNA to serve as a medium for charge transfer reactions. Professor Delaney was a Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of John Essigmann at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she studied the mutagenicity and toxicity of a variety of oxidized guanine lesions.

The Timothy J. O'Leary, S.J., Public Lecture is entitled "Beyond Watson & Crick DNA".