Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Department
Department of Chemistry
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8755

E-mail: ByronC@ripon.edu

Education

• B.A. College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota, Chemistry
• Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Analytical Chemistry

Professional Activities

• American Chemical Society, Project Kaleidoscope: Faculty for the 21st Century, Midwest Association of Chemistry Teachers at Liberal Arts Colleges

Awards and Honors

• Ripon College Senior Awards, 1995, 2004
• May Bumby Severy Teaching Awards, 1995, 2002
• Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Program Grant ($60,000), 2002
• National Science Foundation CAREER Program Grant ($128,000), 1995

Areas of Interest

• Thermodynamic analysis of the electron transfer properties of free and analog bound wild type and mutant forms of the mitochondrial enzyme, glutaryl-CoA dehydrogenase (GCD). Chemical analyses of Wisconsin's environment, including evaluation of the lead content of various components of the contaminated Rush Lake ecosystem.

Recent Publications and Presentations

• 233rd National American Chemical Society Meeting, March 25-29, 2007, Chicago, Ill. "Synthesis and Purification of Brominated Ubiquinone Pseudosubstrates for Fluorescence Studies of Electron-Transfer Flavoprotein: Ubiquinone Oxidoreductase (ETF:QO)." A.K. Furdek*, W.W. Radford*, F.E. Frerman and C.M. Byron.
• "Electrochemical Properties of Free and Substrate Analog Bound Wild Type and Mutant  Human Glutaryl-CoA Dehydrogenase." C.M. Byron, A.T. Tratar*, P.R. Lentz*, G.S. Furdek*, J.S. Jorn* and F.E. Frerman, 2005 in Flavins and Flavoproteins (Nishino, T., Miura, R., Tanokura, M. and Fukui, K., eds.) pp 215-220, ARchiTect Inc., Tokyo.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, Feb. 11-13, 2005, Washington, D.C. "Concentration of Lead in Various Specimens in the Ecosystem of Rush Lake, Winnebago County, Wisconsin." D.J. Feld*, W.S. Brooks, C.M. Byron.
• 15th International Symposium on Flavins and Flavoproteins, April 17-22, 2005, Shonan Village Conference Center, Hayama, Japan. "Electrochemical Properties of Free and Substrate Analog Bound Wild Type and Mutant  Human Glutaryl-CoA Dehydrogenase." C.M. Byron, A.T. Tratar*, P.R. Lentz*, G.S. Furdek*, J.S. Jorn* and F.E. Frerman.
• The 27th Annual Midwest Environmental Chemistry Workshop, October 15-17, 2004, Madison, Wis. "Concentration of Lead in Various Specimens in the Ecosystem of Rush Lake, Winnebago County, Wisconsin." D.J. Feld*, W.S. Brooks and C.M.Byron.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, Feb. 12-14, 2004, Seattle, Wash. "Comparison of the Electrochemical Properties of R94Q Glutaryl-Coenzyme A Dehydrogenase Strain With Wild-Type." G.S. Furdek*, P.R. Lentz*, E.C. Ferguson*, J.E. Stockton*, F.E. Frerman and C.M. Byron.
• The 14th Annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Oct. 24-25, 2003, Argonne National Laboratories, Argonne, Ill. "Determination of Lead Concentration in Eggshells of Six Bird Species at Rush Lake, Winnebago County, Wisconsin." K.C. Koldon*, W.S. Brooks and C.M. Byron.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, Feb. 14-16, 2003, Denver, Colo. "Comparison of the Electron Transfer Properties of Wild Type Glutaryl Coenzyme A Dehydrogenase with Clinically Relevant Mutated Forms of the Enzyme." J.E. Stockton*, F.E. Frerman and C.M. Byron.
• Synthesis, Activity and Complexation Effects of Glutaryl-CoA Analogs with Glutaryl-CoA Dehydrogenase. E.C. Ferguson*, L.M. Sharpe*, S.L. McKinney*, C.L. Donley*, G.K. Sewall*, A.L. Larsen* and C.M. Byron (1999) in Flavins and Flavoproteins 1999 (S. Ghisla, P. Kroneck, P. Macheroux, and H. Sund, Eds.) pp. 503-506, Rudolf Weber, Berlin.
• Synthesis of Substrate Analogs for Glutaryl-CoA Dehydrogenase: 3-Thia-Glutaryl-CoA and 4-Nitrobutyryl-CoA. P.L. Kultgen*, L. Edwards, Jr.* and C.M. Byron (1997) Microchem. J., 56, 4-9.
  * denotes student co-authors

Current Courses Taught

• Quantitative Chemical Analysis
• Chemical Instrumentation, Biochemistry
• Physical Chemistry: Thermodynamics
• Chemistry in Context: Global Chemistry, First Year Studies.