Contact

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

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         

2015  :  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            

Special Features/Issues Co-Editor, Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry             Aug 2018 - CurrentFaculty Fellow, Bucknell Office of Sponsored Projects Sep 2018 - May 2023Assistant Editor, Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A and Part B               Sept 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)


[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).