Mr. T. Lee Servatius
Mr. T. Lee Servatius
Laboratory Instructor
206 Houghton Hall
SUNY College at Fredonia
Fredonia, NY 14063
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      Lee Servatius began volunteering at SUNY College at Fredonia in the summer of 2000. Newly retired from a productive teaching career as a middle-school teacher in the Fredonia Central School system, he began working as a research assistant in the laboratory of Dr. Philip Kumler. Lee's major efforts at that time were carrying out thermal analyses using DSC (differential scanning calorimetry) and TGA (thermal gravimetric analyses) of a variety of proteins, part of a collaborative effort between Dr. Kumler's laboratory and one at the University of Washington.
      In the fall of 2002, the Chemistry Department received a donation of a sophisticated robotic automatic synthesizer (Advanced Chem Tech Model 496 MOS) arranged by alumnus Dr. Gregory Roth from the major pharmaceutical firm of Boehringer-Ingelheim. Lee was successful in getting the instrument installed and up and running. Lee is involved in planning the first instructional use of the synthesizer in the undergraduate organic chemistry lab for the fall 2002 semester. He continues to use the instrument to synthesize small peptides for use in Dr. Kumler's research program. He will also be involved in the lecture-laboratory Combinatorial Chemistry that will be offered by Dr. Kumler in the Spring 2003 semester. He is a co-principal investigator with Dr. Kumler on a grant that is in preparation for submission to the National Science Foundation; this grant proposes to incorporate combinatorial chemistry and solid-phase methodologies throughout the chemistry curriculum at Fredonia.