Laura Albrecht
PhD Candidate
Email: laura.albrecht@dal.ca
Why Dal?
Reputation and Halifax. But it's offered me so much more.
What inspires me
Computational science allows us to delve into the “atomic heart” of chemistry. Using computational methods I can study water structures and their interactions with proteins on a molecular level. This helps us understand water’s crucial role in biological processes, which may figure importantly in the development of novel therapeutics.
Teaching, labs, research groups
- CHEM2401/2402 laboratory teaching assistant
- Assistant supervisor for a fourth year Honours Chemistry student
Publications
- Albrecht, L.; Boyd, R. J.; Mó, O.; Yanez, M. Cooperativity between hydrogen bonds and beryllium bonds in (H2O)nBeX2 (n =1-3, X = H, F) complexes. A new perspective. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., DOI:10.1039/C2CP42534C
- Albrecht, L.; Hally, D.; Boyd, R. J. Stabilizing effect of solvent and guest residue amino acids on a model alpha-helix peptide. J. Comp. Theo. Chem., http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comptc.2012.06.027
- Albrecht, L.; Boyd, R. J. Visualizing Internal Stabilization in Weakly Bound Systems Using Atomic Energies: Hydrogen Bonding in Small Water Clusters. J. Phys. Chem. A, (2012) 116(15) 3946-3951
- Wu, J.; Albrecht, L.; Boyd, R. J. Effect of Counterions on the Protonation State in a Poly(G)-Poly(C) Radical Cation. J. Phys. Chem. B, (2011), 115(49), 14885-14890
Guignard, M.; Albrecht, L.; Zwanziger, J. W. Zero-Stress Optic Glass without Lead. Chem. Mat. (2007), 19(2), 286-290
Awards, honours, conferences
- ACEnet Research Fellowship for Graduate Studies, Dalhousie University
- Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowship for Doctoral Study in Chemistry, Dalhousie University
- Gerry Dauphinee Graduate Scholarship in Chemistry, Dalhousie University
244th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, August 2012, Philadelphia, PA, USA - 9th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists July 2011, Santiago de Compestela, Spain