Gayan B. Wijeratne, Ph.D.

Affiliations: 
2010-2015 Chemistry University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States 
 2015-2018 Chemistry Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 
 2018- Chemistry University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States 
Area:
Inorganic/Bioinorganic Chemistry
Website:
https://sites.uab.edu/wije/about-gayan/
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Bio:

Education
B.Sc. 2009, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Ph.D. 2015, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Postdoctoral - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Awards & Honors
NSF CAREER Award, 2021
Doctoral Dissertation Honors, University of Kansas, 2015
Higuchi Doctoral Progress Award for the most superior, post-comprehensive graduate student, University of Kansas, 2015
Amini/Bailey Scholarship for Research Accomplishments, University of Kansas, 2014
Emily V. Berger Scholarship for Outstanding Incoming Graduate Student, University of Kansas, 2010
Prof. R. S. Ramakrishna Memorial Gold Medal for Inorganic Chemistry, University of Colombo, 2009

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Samith B Jayawardana grad student 2020- UAB
Shanuk R Rajapakse grad student 2020- UAB
Pritam Mondal post-doc 2019- UAB
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Omweri JM, Tekin V, Saini S, et al. (2023) Chelation chemistry of manganese-52 for PET imaging applications. Nuclear Medicine and Biology. 108874
Mondal P, Ishigami I, Yeh SR, et al. (2022) The Role of Heme Peroxo Oxidants in the Rational Mechanistic Modeling of Nitric Oxide Synthase: Characterization of Key Intermediates and Elucidation of the Mechanism. Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
Mondal P, Rajapakse S, Wijeratne GB. (2022) Following Nature's Footprint: Mimicking the High-Valent Heme-Oxo Mediated Indole Monooxygenation Reaction Landscape of Heme Enzymes. Journal of the American Chemical Society
Mondal P, Tolbert GB, Wijeratne GB. (2021) Bio-inspired nitrogen oxide (NO) interconversion reactivities of synthetic heme Compound-I and Compound-II intermediates. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 226: 111633
Mondal P, Ishigami I, Gérard EF, et al. (2021) Proton-coupled electron transfer reactivities of electronically divergent heme superoxide intermediates: a kinetic, thermodynamic, and theoretical study. Chemical Science. 12: 8872-8883
Mondal P, Ishigami I, Gérard EF, et al. (2021) Proton-coupled electron transfer reactivities of electronically divergent heme superoxide intermediates: a kinetic, thermodynamic, and theoretical study. Chemical Science. 12: 8872-8883
Zolnhofer EM, Wijeratne GB, Jackson TA, et al. (2020) Electronic Structure and Magnetic Properties of a Titanium(II) Coordination Complex. Inorganic Chemistry
Mondal P, Wijeratne GB. (2019) Modeling Tryptophan/Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase with Heme Superoxide Mimics: Is Ferryl the Key Intermediate? Journal of the American Chemical Society
Wijeratne GB, Bhadra M, Siegler MA, et al. (2019) Copper(I) Complex Mediated Nitric Oxide Reductive Coupling: Ligand Hydrogen Bonding Derived Proton Transfer Promotes N2O(g) Release. Journal of the American Chemical Society
Parham JD, Wijeratne GB, Mayfield JR, et al. (2019) Steric control of dioxygen activation pathways for Mn complexes supported by pentadentate, amide-containing ligands. Dalton Transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
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