Jessica Knight

Jessica Knight
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
CPISB 302H
(907) 786-1739
jrknight3@alaska.edu

Education

Ph.D.   Washington State University, Organic Chemistry                                                          

B.S.     Lewis Clark State College, Chemistry

Biography

It was while attending Lewis Clark State College that I fell in love with the field of organic chemistry. The idea that we can design and develop new molecules to do anything we want them to, specifically it was affecting the human body that fascinated me. In my Ph. D. Studies, I focused in drug development and design, expecting that I would one day work in the drug development industry. It was through my teaching assistantship that I found my real passion was teaching organic chemistry. I observed that many students bound for the medical field had a perception that the purpose of ochem was a weed-out class. It is my goal and passion to change that perception and help our future doctors and pharmacists to understand that organic chemistry is essential to their future understanding of a variety of topics including drug metabolism, an essential topic for one who would be prescribing medications. My Current research interests are in Chemical education.

Teaching Responsibilities

  • Chem 105 General Chemistry 1
  • Chem 321 Organic Chemistry 1
  • Chem 322 Organic Chemistry 2
  • Chem 323L Organic Chemistry lab
  • Chem 481 Chemistry Seminar 1
  • Chem 482 Chemistry Seminar 2

Publications

Knight, J. R., Kabasenche, W. 鈥淢odern-Age Centaurs鈥�: A Proposal for Integrative Ethics,

  1. Chem. Educ 2022 99 (10), 3360-3363 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00271

Xu, S., Knight, J. R., Brummett, B., Shieh, M., Cui, Q., Yingying Wang, Y., Ramush, G., Xian, M. Benzothiazole-Derived Sulfones and Sulfoxides as Reactive Templates for Biothiols and Sulfane Sulfurs, Org. Lett. 2022, 24,13, 2546鈥�2550, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.2c00734

Savoy, E. A.; Olatunji, F. P.; Yoon, H.; Mesbahi, N.; Knight, J. R. and Berkman, C. E., Acid labile linkers in Chemical Linkers in Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs) 2021, pp. 213-231 DOI:10.1039/9781839165153-00213

Knight, J. R.; Wang, Y.; Xu, S.; Chen, W.; Berkman, C. E.; Xian, M, A modular template for the design of thiol-triggered sensors and prodrugs, Spectrochim. Acta A Mol. Biomol. Spectrosc. 2021, 247-253, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2020.119072.

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