Degree Information:

B.S. Harvey Mudd College, 1995
Ph.D. Penn State University, 2000

Teaches:

General Chemistry (Chem 11, 13)
General Chemistry Laboratory (Chem 13)
Instrumental Analysis (Chem 111)

Research:

Microcolumn separations of proteins, nucleic acids, and other biomolecules.
Fluorescence assays of DNA-protein binding interactions.

Recent Publications:

S. W. Suljak, F. D. Swanek, P. F. Gavin, A. G. Ewing, “Analysis of Chemical Processes at Single Bovine Adrenergic Chromaffin Cells With Micellar Electrokinetic Capillary Chromatography and Electrochemical Detection”, J. Separation Sci. 26, 61-68 (2003).

P. J. Ream, S. W. Suljak, A. G. Ewing, K. A. Han, “Micellar Electrokinetic Capillary Chromatography-Electrochemical Detection for Analysis of Biogenic Amines in Drosophila melanogaster”, Anal. Chem. 75, 3972-3978 (2003).

J. L. Pittman, A. I. Terekhov, S. W. Suljak, S. D. Gilman, “Optically Gated Vacancy Electrophoresis in Microfluidic Devices”, Anal. Chim. Acta 496, 195-204 (2003).

S. W. Suljak, L. A. Thompson, A. G. Ewing, “Improving Resolution for Channel-Format Chip-Based Electrophoresis with Electrochemical Array Detection”, J. Separation Sci. 27, 13-20 (2004).

Recent Presentations:

S. W. Suljak, A. G. Ewing, “Micellar Electrokinetic Channel Chromatography”, The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, New Orleans, LA, March 12-17, 2000.

P. J. Ream, S. W. Suljak, K.-A. Han, A. G. Ewing, “MEKC Analysis of Drosophila melanogaster with Electrochemical Detection”, 24th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography & Electrophoresis, Las Vegas, NV, May 20-24, 2001.

S. W. Suljak, W. Tan, “Novel Design and Application of DNA Probes for Bioanalysis”, Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition, American Chemical Society, Orlando, FL, May 8, 2003.

S. W. Suljak, J. L. Smith, W. Tan, “Design and Application of a Molecular Beacon Aptamer for VEGF Analysis”, The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chicago, IL, March 7-12, 2004.