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Contact

1 Dent DriveDepartment of ChemistryBucknell UniversityLewisburg PA 17837
Rooke Chem 215 (offc)Rooke Chem 227 (lab)570-577-3676 (offc)drovnyak@bucknell.edu
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Education

1993 : University of Richmond, B.S., Chemistry 1999 : Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Ph. D. , Physical Chemistry (Advisor: Robert Griffin)1999-2000 : Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Postdoctoral Associate (Advisor: Robert Griffin)2000-2003 : Harvard Medical School, Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: Gerhard Wagner)

Appointments

2026--2029 : Bucknell Presidential Professorship2015 : Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Bucknell University 2009 : Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Bucknell University 2003 : Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Bucknell University 2001 : Fellow of the National Cancer Institute (NIH –NRSA) at the Harvard Medical School

Other Appointments

Experimental NMR Conf Executive Committee (Cochair elect ’25 , Cochair ‘26) 2025 - 2026Experimental NMR Conf Executive Committee (Treasurer) April 2019 – 2026SMASH NMR Advisory Board Aug 2018 - presentSpecial Features/Issues Co-Editor, Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry 2018 - 2024Faculty Fellow, Bucknell Office of Sponsored Projects Sep 2018 - May 2023Assistant Editor, Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A and Part B Sep 2014 - Dec 2018

Honors/Awards

2021. Joseph Priestley Service Award, Susquehanna Valley Section of the American Chemical Society 2014. Dean’s Fellow, Bucknell University. 2012. Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence, Bucknell University.

Books

[4] “Modern NMR Approaches for the Structure Elucidation of Natural Products Volume 2”, Antony J. Williams, Gary E. Martin, David Rovnyak, Editors. RSC Publishing, (2016).[3] “Modern NMR Approaches for the Structure Elucidation of Natural Products Volume 1: Instrumentation and Software”, Antony J. Williams, Gary E. Martin, David Rovnyak, Editors. RSC Publishing, (2015).[2] I. Tinoco, K. Sauer, J.C. Wang, J.D. Puglisi, G. Harbison, D. Rovnyak, “Physical Chemistry: Principles and Applications in Biological Sciences”, 5’th edition, Pearson, (2013).[1] “Modern NMR Spectroscopy in Education”, D. S. Rovnyak and R. A. Stockland. Jr. (book) Editors. ACS Symposium Series, Oxford University Press, Volume 969, (2007).

Recent Publications: (undergraduate coauthor; *M.S. or #M.A. coauthor)

[56] David Rovnyak, Henry B. Rovnyak, “Viewpoint: the classical symmetry number”, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.6c01212
[55] Christopher R. Feudale, Josephina R. Vermillion, Joseph Feudale, Joshua Do, Sabrina Arroyo, Juan Barrera, Madeleine Whitsitt, Marion Duval, Colby Grames, Bret Hatzinger, MaKenzie Hilling, Tia Kean, JaSayle Rivera, Mia Shum, Hannah Zyra, David Rovnyak, Moria C. Chambers, Sarah J. Smith, Peptide Science, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/pep2.70015 .
[54] Henry B Rovnyak, Lucille E Cullen*, David Rovnyak, “Decoherence Principles and Algorithms for One-Dimensional Nonuniform Sampling Schedules for Multidimensional NMR”, Analyt. Chem. 2025. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5c03754
[53] Erik R Andersson, Amanda L Bayless, Robert B Brua, Fabio Casu, Leo L Cheng, Munki Choo, Arthur S Edison, Hamid R Eghbalnia, Candace C Fleischer, Goncalo J Gouveia, Jeffrey C Hoch, Gagandeep Kaur, Da-Wei Li, Wimal Pathmasiri, István Pelczer, Fay Probert, Daniel Raftery, David Rovnyak, Michael Secreto, Tracey B Schock, Panteleimon G Takis, Mario Uchimiya, David S Wishart, Ali Yılmaz, Lloyd W Sumner, Robert Powers, Valérie Copié, Teklab Gebregiworgis, “Securing the Future of NMR Metabolomics Reproducibility: A Call for Standardized Reporting”, Analyt. Chem. 97(38), 20655–20666, 2025.
[52] Nicole C Rondeau, Joanna Raup-Collado, Helen V Kogan, Rachel Cho, Natalie Lovinger, Fatoumata Wague, Allison J. Lopatkin, Noelle G. Texeira, Melissa E Flores, David Rovnyak, Jonathan W. Snow, “Remodeling of cellular respiration and insulin signaling are part of a shared stress response in divergent bee species”, Insects 16(3), 300, 2025.
[51] Helen V Kogan, Shannon G Macleod, Nicole C Rondeau, Joanna Raup-Collado, Victoria A Cordero, David Rovnyak, Corey A Marshalleck, Meghna Mallapan, Melissa E Flores, Jonathan W Snow, “Transcriptional control of a metabolic switch regulating cellular methylation reactions is part of a common response to stress in divergent bee species”, J Exp Biol, 227 (11), jeb246894, 2024.
[50] D. Rovnyak, ”Advances in Non-uniform Sampling NMR”, Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy, 111, 69-127, 2024. DOI:10.1016/bs.arnmr.2024.01.001
[49] David Rovnyak, Jiayi He, Sophie Kong, Kyle W. Eckenroad*, Gregory A. Manley, Raeanne M. Geffert, Michael R. Krout, Timothy G. Strein, “Determining Sequential Micellization Steps of Bile Salts with Multi-CMC Modeling”, J Colloid and Interface Science, Accepted and In Press, 2023.
[48] Lucille E Cullen*, Alan Marchiori, David Rovnyak,” Revisiting Aliasing Noise to Build More Robust Sparsity in Nonuniform Sampling 2D‐NMR”, Magn Reson Chem, 1, 2023.
[47] Jayne C McDevitt, Riju A Gupta, Sydney G Dickinson, Phillip L Martin, Jean Rieuthavorn, Amy Freund, Marie C Pizzorno, Elizabeth A Capaldi, David Rovnyak, “Methodology for Single Bee and Bee Brain 1H-NMR Metabolomics”, Metabolites 11(12), 864 (2021).
[46] Emma J Robinson*, Matthew C Taddeo, Xin Chu, Weixing Shi, Craig Wood, Christopher Still, Virginia G Rovnyak, David Rovnyak, “Aqueous Metabolite Trends for the Progression of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Female Bariatric Surgery Patients by Targeted 1H-NMR Metabolomics”, Metabolites 11(11), 737 (2021).
[45] Yulia Pustovalova, Frank Delaglio, D Levi Craft, Haribabu Arthanari, Ad Bax, Martin Billeter, Mark J Bostock, Hesam Dashti, D Flemming Hansen, Sven G Hyberts, Bruce A Johnson, Krzysztof Kazimierczuk, Hengfa Lu, Mark Maciejewski, Tomas M Miljenovic, Mehdi Mobli, Daniel Nietlispach, Vladislav Orekhov, Robert Powers, Xiaobo Qu, Scott Anthony Robson, David Rovnyak, Gerhard Wagner, Jinfa Ying, Matthew Zambrello, Jeffrey C Hoch, David L Donoho, Adam D Schuyler,“NUScon: A community-driven platform for quantitative evaluation of nonuniform sampling in NMR”, Magn. Reson., 2, 843–861, (2021).
[44] Marie C Pizzorno, Kenneth Field, Amanda L Kobokovich, Phillip L Martin, Riju A Gupta, Renata Mammone, David Rovnyak, Elizabeth A Capaldi, “Transcriptomic Responses of the Honey Bee Brain to Infection with Deformed Wing Virus”, Viruses 13(2), 287 (2021).
[43] Mark S. Roginkin, Ikenna E. Ndukwe, D. Levi Craft, R. Thomas Williamson, Mikhail Reibarkh, Gary E. Martin, David Rovnyak, ”Developing Nonuniform Sampling Strategies to Improve Sensitivity and Resolution in 1,1-ADEQUATE Experiments”, Magn. Reson. Chem., DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4995 (2020).
[42] Matthew A. Zambrello, D. Levi Craft, Jeffrey C. Hoch, David Rovnyak, Adam D. Schuyler,” The influence of the probability density function on spectral quality in nonuniformly sampled multidimensional NMR” J. Magn. Reson., 311 (2020) 311:106671.
[41] David Rovnyak, “The past, present, and future of 1.26 T2”, Concepts Magn. Reson., 47:2 (2019) e21473.
[40] Taddeo, M.C.; *Robinson, E.J.; Hassid, N.Y.; Chu, X; Shi, W.; Wood, C.; Still, C.; Rovnyak, D., ”A Robust Protocol for Extracting Aqueous Metabolites of High Lipid Sera” Current Metabolomics, (2019) 7: 1. https://doi.org/10.2174/2213235X07666190124120112
[39] David Rovnyak and George C. Shields “A Roadmap to Successful Collaborations between Primarily Undergraduate Institutions and Research Institutions” in Credit Where Credit is Due: Respecting Authorship and Intellectual Property, Patricia A. Mabrouk, Judith N Currano, editors, ACS, Washington, D.C., ACS Symposium Series, Vol 1291, Chapter 11, 105-127 (2018). DOI: 10.1021/bk-2018-1291.ch011 [38] Meier, A.R., *Yehl, J.B., *Eckenroad, K.W., Manley, G.A., Strein, T.G., Rovnyak, D.,” Stepwise aggregation of cholate and deoxycholate dictates the formation and loss of surface-available chirally selective binding sites”, Langmuir, 34 (22), pp 6489–6501 (2018). DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b00467 [37] Craft, D.L., Sonstrom, R.E., Rovnyak, V.G., Rovnyak, D. ,”Nonuniform sampling by quantiles”, J. Magn Reson. 288, 109-121 (2018). [36] *Shauna L. Anderson, David Rovnyak, Timothy G. Strein,”Identification of Edible Oils by Principle Component Analysis”, in revision with J. Chem. Ed. 94(9), 1377-1382 (2017)
[35] *Matthew M. Miele, *Shauna L. Anderson, *Scott C. Blackburn, *Sarah L. Bradley, D. Levi Craft, *Conor J. Flynn, Tyler J, Fulton, and David Rovnyak, “NMR Characterization of Adulterants in Health Supplements”, The Chemical Educator 21, 139-142 (2016). [34] *Matthew M. Miele, B.A. Irving, B. R. Wenrich*, P.L. Martin, D. Rovnyak, “Reproducibility and Stability of Aqueous Metabolite Levels in Extracted Serum by NMR Spectroscopy” Current Metabolomics 5(1), 45-54 (2016). [33] Kyle W. Eckenroad*, Gregory A. Manley, Jenna B. Yehl*, Ross T. Pirnie, Timothy G. Strein, David Rovnyak “An edge selection mechanism for chirally selective solubilization of binaphthyl atropisomeric guests by cholate and deoxycholate micelles” Chirality 28(7) 525-533 (2016).
[32] Shauna L. Anderson*, David Rovnyak, Timothy G. Strein, “Direct Measurement of the Thermodynamics of Chiral Recognition in Bile Salt Micelles” Chirality 28(4) 290-298 (2016).

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