Sean Elliott Promoted to Full Professor
Professor Sean Elliott, who joined the Department of Chemistry in 2002 and was tenured in 2008, has been promoted to full Professor.
Professor Elliott’s research is at the intersection of biochemical processes and electron-transfer chemistry. By studying how electrons are moved within and between proteins in Biology, he and his group provide a novel, quantitative view of redox regulation, homeostasis, and oxidative stress. Using protein film electrochemisry (PFE), they probe how redox equivalents are stored, manipulated, and transferred in enzymes, in electron-transfer proteins, and in chains of electron-transfer proteins. They have addressed projects that reflect their interests in heme- and ironsulfur cluster-containing electron transfer proteins and enzymes. Professor Elliott has successfully developed new electrochemical methods for addressing questions of enzyme and metalloprotein function to monitor the flow of electrons themselves. Simultaneously, he has a growing research portfolio in the application of Bioinformatics to problems in Metals in Biology. Using sequence similarity network (SSN), he and his group examine the biological diversity of various multi-heme, iron-sulfur cluster and non-heme iron-dependent enzymes and proteins. Further, his group uses PFE and biophysical techniques to investigate the catalytic chemistry of multi-heme enzymes and bacterial peroxidases extensively.
Professor Elliott has received a Scialog Award from the Research Corporation for the Advancement of Science, a Smith Family Young Investigator Award, and the NSF-CAREER Award. In addition to his excellence in research, he has been recognized by Boston University for his educational skills with a Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching and for advising with the Templeton Award for Student Advising.