Grace Stokes
B.S. Chemistry, Stanford University
Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Northwestern University
Monitoring adsorption of pharmaceuticals to lipids, transmembrane peptides, and protein-coated surfaces using laser-based spectroscopy methods
National Science Foundation grant: "CAREER: Quantifying How Peptoids Interact with Lipid Membranes" (2019-2024)
Cottrell Scholar Award, Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement, 2018-2021
Clare Boothe Luce Professorship (2014-2021)
- General Chemistry (Chem 11, 11L)
- General Chemistry (Chem 12, 12L)
- Quantum Chemistry (Chem 151)
- Chemical Thermodynamics (Chem 152)
Baiz, C.R.; Berger, R.F.; Donald, K.J.; de Paula, J.C.; Fried, S.D.; Rubenstein, B.; Stokes, G.Y.; Takematsu, K.; Londergan, C. “Lowering Activation Barriers to Success in Physical Chemistry (LABSIP): A Community Project,“ Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.3c07015
Stokes, G.Y. “How faculty with minimal programming experience implemented Jupyter Notebooks in physical and general chemistry courses” In Teaching Programming across the Chemistry Curriculum; ACS Symposium Series; 2021; Vol 1387 pp 13-27. 10.1021/bk-2021-1387.ch002
Rowe, Penny M.; Fortmann, L.; Guasco, T. L.; Wright, A.*; Ryken, A.; Sevier, E.*; Stokes, G.Y.; Mifflin, A. L.; Wade, R.; Cheng, H.; Pfalzgraff, W.; Beaudoin, J.; Rajbhandari, I.; Fox-Dobbs, K.; Neshyba, S. “Integrating polar research into undergraduate curricula using computational guided inquiry,” Journal of Geoscience Education 2020, DOI: 10.1080/10899995.2020.1768004.
Landry, M. R.*, Rangel, J. L.*, Dao, V. P.*, MacKenzie, M. A.*, Gutierrez, F. L.*, Dowell, K. M.*, Calkins, A. L.*, Fuller, A.A.; Stokes, G.Y. "Length Impacts Adsorption of Water-Soluble Peptoids to Phospholipid Membranes," J. Phys. Chem B2019, 10.1021/acs.jcb.9b04641. Special Issue: Pacific Conference on Spectroscopy and dynamics
Jimenez, C. J.*, Tan, J.*, Dowell, K. M.*, Gadbois, G. E.*, Read, C.A.*, Burgess, N.*, Cervantes, J. E.*, Chan, S.*, Jandaur, A.*, Karanik, T.*, Lee, J. J.*, Ley, M.C.*, McGeehan, M.*, McMonigal, A.*, Palazzo, K.L.*, Parker, S.A.*, Payman, A.*, Soria, M.*, Verheyden, L.*, Vo, V. T.*, Yin, J.*, Calkins, A. L.*, Fuller, A.A.; Stokes, G. Y. "Peptoids advance multidisciplinary research and undergraduate education in parallel: Sequence effects on conformation and lipid interactions," Biopolymers 2019, 323256; doi:10.1002/bip.23256. Special issue: Peptoids
Stokes, G.Y.; DiCicco, E.N.*; Moore, T. J.*; Cheng, V.C.; Wheeler, K.Y.; Soghigian, J.; Barber, R.P.; Edgerly, J.S. “Structural and Wetting Properties of Nature’s Finest Silks (Order Embioptera),” Royal Society Open Science, 2018, 5: 180893; doi: 10.1098/rsos.180893.
Fearon, A.D.;* Stokes, G.Y. “Thermodynamics of Indomethacin Adsorption to Phospholipid Membranes” Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2017, 121, 10508-10518.
Calkins A. L.; Rangel, J. L.; Yin, Jennifer; Landry, M. R.; Fuller, A. A.; Stokes, G.Y. “A Thermodynamic Description of the Adsorption of Simple Water-Soluble Peptoids to Silica” Langmuir 2016, 32, 11690-11697.
Osborn, PTM; Addison, JB; Jordan, JS; Yarger, JL; Damle VG; Rykaczewski, K; Chang, SL, Stokes, G.Y.; Edgerly, JS “Surface and Wetting Properties of Embiopteran (Webspinner) Nanofiber Silk” Langmuir 2016, 32, 4681.
Stokes, G.Y. and Conboy, J. C. "Measuring Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator (SERM)- Membrane Interactions with Second Harmonic Generation" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 1409-1417
Buchbinder, A.M., Gibbs-Davis, J.M., Stokes, G.Y, Peterson, M.D., Weitz, E. Geiger, F.M. "Method for evaluating vibrational mode assignments in surface-bound cyclic hydrocarbons using sum frequency generation" J. Phys. Chem. C, 2011, 115, 18284-18294.
Stokes, G.Y., Chem, E.H., Buchbinder, A.M. Paxton, W.F., Keely, A., Geiger, F.M. "Atmospheric heterogeneous stereochemistry" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 13733-13737.