Lindberg Group News

May 2025

Amber's model identifying atmospheric signatures of biologically-caused disequilibrium has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal! 

Kali (MS), Thomas (BS), Eric (BS), and Caleb (BS) graduated! 

April 2025

Thomas, Eric, and Zane each presented their work at the 2025 NAU Undergraduate Symposium! 

At the 2025 Chemistry department awards, Marlee was awarded Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year, Zane the Undergraduate Researcher of the Year, and Eric the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant of the Year! 

November 2024 

NAU News interviewed Shae about her and Anna's recent outbursts work! 

October 2024

Shae's paper about the N2-CO binary has been accepted for publication in  PSJ! 

Shae and Anna's paper about explosions in various cryogenic binary mixtures was just published in JGR Planets! 

September 2024

William and Guillermo presented their work at the Flagstaff Festival of Science STEM Poster Session! 

Shae and Anna's paper about explosive (!) outbursts in binary systems upon cooling and the planetary implications has been accepted for publication in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets! 

August 2024 

Our collaborative proposal led by Will Grundy of Lowell Observatory has been selected for funding by NASA in the Solar System Workings program! 

July 2024

Anna's manuscript titled "Ice Formation, Exsolution, and Multiphase Equilibria in the Methane-Ethane-Nitrogen System at Titan Surface Conditions" has been accepted in The Planetary Science Journal! 

June 2024

We submitted a collaborative DOE proposal with Andre Clayborne (George Mason University) and Jeremy Palmer (University of Houston) to team up with Suzie Neidhart and others and DOE sites to look at polymer structure and dynamics! 

May 2024

We just submitted a collaborative proposal with the Vázquez group from St. John's University to use advanced stats to understand molecular structure! 

A bunch of team members won awards and graduated this spring. Congratulations Heather, Dillon, Marlee, Thomas, and Guillermo! 

April 2024 

The 2024 NAU Undergraduate Symposium is happening April 26 from 9am to 4pm. Go check out some amazing work by NAU undergrads, including our own Marlee, Heather, Guillermo, William, and Nolan! 

Shae and Anna's manuscript describing our work with low temperature outbursts upon cooling has been submitted! 

We've had two projects selected for funding from the Northern Arizona University NASA Space Grant program for the 2024/2025 cohort! 

March 2024

We're looking for an undergraduate to join our team through the Interns-to-Scholars (I2S) program. See this handshake posting for more information! 

February 2024

Anna has submitted a manuscript describing her work with the N2+CH4+C2H6 ternary system! 

BP's work describing the low temperature vapor pressures of oxygen and ammonia ices has been accepted for publication in Planetary and Space Science! 

Alex's cover depicting our interface identification method is on the cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B! 

Shae just submitted her manuscript about the CO+N2 binary! 

January 2024

Guillermo has been awarded a ¡MIRA! Scholarship! 

December 2023

Shane's article describing a novel method to identity interfaces is now available in JPCB! 

Steve's work describing a method to obtain optical constants of astrochemically relevant ices from reflectance experiments has been accepted for publication in the Planetary Science Journal! 

Shane's work describing interfaces has been chosen to appear on the cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B! 

November 2023

Shane's method to identify surface atoms from molecular configurations has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B! It will be part of a Greg Voth Festschrift. 

September 2023

BP has submitted our manuscript about vapor pressures of cryogenic ices! 

August 2023

Our manuscript about Laboratory measurement of volatile ice vapor pressures with a quartz crystal microbalance is now available in Icarus! 

Our collaborative work led by Will Grundy about laboratory measurements of ice vapor pressures has been accepted for publication in Icarus! Look out for more information soon!

A manuscript let by Steve Tegler describing work to measure optical constants of ices at low temperatures has been submitted!  

June 2023

We've been awarded a TRIF Student Mentored Research Training Grant to fund some of our polymer electrolyte work! 

May 2023

Anna did a great job giving the Flagstaff Astronomy on Tap at Mother Road Brewing about Titan Underground! Anna focused less on Titan subways, and more on karst systems. 

We've reached the end of another year. Clarissa Zeiger graduated (BS, Physics) and is off to bigger and better things at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology! 

April 2023

A manuscript led by our collaborator Will Grundy describing a method to measure low temperature vapor pressures has been submitted! 

February 2023

Gerrick and others were interviewed about the Monsoon/HPC at NAU! 

January 2023

Anthony received a ¡MIRA! Scholarship! 

December 2022

The Lindberg group has moved back into the chemistry department! 

September 2022

We just submitted a manuscript describing Shane's work to characterize interfaces! 

Our work with the Gage group is now available in the journal Biology. 

August 2022

Our work with the Gage group on pH induced extension of peptides has been accepted in Biology! 

New collaborator Anita Mattson just submitted a proposal for a NSF-CCI that we're excited to be part of! 

July 2022

David Trilling from the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science has led an effort to expand the NSF-funded CCC2NAU program, which will help Coconino Community College students transition to NAU by facilitating research opportunities. The Lindberg group is proud to be part of the program! You can read more about it here, and CCC students can look out here for soon-to-come paid internships! 

June 2022 

A manuscript describing our collaborative work with the Gage group at UMass Lowell on the effect of pH on peptide extension has been submitted! 

Shae's manuscript has been accepted for publication in JCP! 

May 2022

Freddy's work on CAGE interfaces was accepted for publication in PCCP! 

Gerrick has been recognized with the Department of Chemistry John Wettaw Faculty Excellence Award for his contributions to the department as a teacher! 

April 2022

Shae submitted her manuscript on mapping solid-fluid coexistence lines in cryogenic binary mixtures! 

Jason presented his work at the  9th Annual Hooper and Undergraduate Research Awards Reception! 

March 2022

Jason is featured in an article about using informatics to study Pluto!

December 2021

Shane has joined the group to help us understand polymer electrolytes better! 

November 2021

Alex won 3rd place at the Sigma Pi Sigma Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Virginia! 

October 2021

Tristan Donnelly at the Arizona Daily Sun interviewed Gerrick and wrote a great article about some of our work. 

September 2021

Gerrick gave a Flagstaff Festival of Science talk about some of our astrochemistry work! 

August 2021

Our n-alkanes paper in Liquids is now available! We take a close look at liquids from methane to pentadecane and introduce a new way of understanding entropy changes in liquids. 

We have submitted a manuscript describing Freddy's work studying the deep eutectic solvent CAGE at a vacuum-liquid interface! 

Alex did a great job giving her final REU presentation titled 'Failure to Social Distance: Exceeding Gathering Limits in Titan's Lakes'! It's been a great, productive summer! 

Our paper about n-alkane liquids has been accepted for publication in the journal Liquids. 

June 2021

Anna's paper about methane+ethane mixtures is now available from the Planetary Science Journal! 

Alex Rosenthal has joined us for the summer in the NAU Astronomy REU program! 

May 2021

Lovenia received the Undergraduate Research Award from the Begovac Experiment Fund for her poster presentation at the 2021 NAU Undergraduate Symposium! 

April 2021

Lovenia did a great job presenting her research into real behavior in eutectic systems at the Statewide Arizona/NASA Space Grant Undergraduate Research Internship Symposium! 

Freddy has successfully defended his Master's thesis! 

Lovenia has received a 2021/2022 Hooper Undergraduate Research Award to fund her research into eutectic systems relevant to the outer Solar System! 

Anna's paper about the methane + ethane binary system is now available here.

March 2021

Anna's paper about the methane + ethane binary system has been accepted to the Planetary Science Journal! More details to come. 

February 2021

Former graduate student Erin Carter has (almost) completed her medical degree and will begin her residency at Utah this summer! 

January 2021

Our NSF proposal led by PI Cindy Browder is about to be submitted to the Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future program! Cindy did a great job pulling the collaboration together! I'm really excited about this project and it's prospects; let's hope the NSF panel agrees. 

Kira was selected for an LSAMP  research award to fund her work on the properties of geranic acid! 

December 2020

Anna received pretty favorable reviews on her methane+ethane manuscript. Just a little more work and it'll be out there!

November 2020

NAU News has an article about the grant that Jennifer Hanley and I recently received from NASA!

October 2020

Anna just submitted her manuscript, with some cool simulations from Shy, about the methane+ethane binary system! 

August 2020

There's an interview with Anna in NAU News about her recent NASA FINESST award! 

My NASA/SSW proposal with Jennifer Hanley at Lowell Observatory has been recommended for funding! 

June 2020

Anna was awarded a 2020 NASA FINESST for her proposal to study Titan surfaces and their analogues!  

May 2020

Lovenia was awarded a 2020/2021 NAU/NASA Space Grant! 

Caitlan, Kyle, Holly, and Holly have all graduated. Congratulations! 

April 2020

Kyle is a 2020 Gold Axe winner!

Kyle was awarded the 2020 Keim Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research! 

Caitlan successfully defended her thesis on peptide structure and dynamics! 

Kyle has decided to join the graduate program at the University of Chicago! 

March 2020

It appears the Lindberg group is taking hold. I received word that I will be promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure starting fall 2020! 

February 2020

Kyle has been accepted to a bunch of great grad programs. We'll see what he chooses! More to come! 

Joe Baker from the College of New Jersey, longtime collaborator and friend of the lab, will be visiting NAU during his sabbatical in 2020/2021! 

January 2020

Our work in PeerJ Physical Chemistry on molten carbonate electrolytes was one of the top 5 viewed articles for 2019. This article was the third one published in the journal and there are currently six accepted articles total, but nevertheless we made the list! Check it out, if you haven't already! 

November 2019

Gerrick gave a seminar titled 'Making Proteins Dance on Cue: Designing Ionic Liquid-Based Solutions That Selectively Affect Protein Behavior' in the CEIAS Seminar series! 

The new NAU/Lowell Astrophysical Materials Lab website is now online! 

October 2019

I have updated to the newer google sites. Weird formatting abounds! 

I was able to present some of our recent work with ionic liquids and biological systems at the first ParslFest at the University of Chicago. I was able to show how some of our workflows are helping make Parsl more functional, catch up with some old friends, and make some new ones. 

September 2019

Our work with Andy Koppisch and collaborators is now published in PLoS One! 

Mark Brodie at the Phoenix NPR member station KJZZ interviewed me about our research into insulin preservatives! Mark did a great job making me intelligible! 

Anna did a great job presenting her work with cryogenic ethane at the Fifth Flagstaff Astronomy Symposium! 

My work on liquid-vacuum interfaces of molten carbonate salts has been accepted for publication in PeerJ Physical Chemistry! 

Caitlan presented her work on peptide behavior and synthesis at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego! 

August 2019

Our collaborative work let by the Koppisch group into the mode of action of the deep eutectic solvent CAGE has been accepted for publication in PLOS One! 

The last of my graduate work (probably) was just accepted for publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B. It's a relief to know that will be published! 

Our two recent papers were mentioned on NAU News today. Here and Here. 

We just resubmitted the proofs for Erin's FlgM paper in PCCP. The final version will be available soon! 

Collin Clayton at the Arizona Daily Sun wrote a wonderful article about NAU's new materials research center: ¡MIRA! Featuring a quote from me! 

July 2019

Erin's work about an ionic liquid inducing structure in the intrinsically disordered protein FlgM has been accepted for publication in PCCP! 

Kerry Bennett wrote an article about Shy and Anna's work with the ice lab for NAU News! It has been picked up by phys.org as well. 

Collaborator Jennifer Hanley wrote a nice article about our recent CO-N2 work for Gemini Focus. 

Amy and Kerry Bennett from NAU News wrote a great article about our work developing new preservatives for medicine. Thanks Kerry & Amy!  It has been picked up by other sites as well. 

Shy has successfully defended her thesis! 

June 2019

Shy and Anna's collaborative work with the Astrophysical Ice lab is now available in the Astronomical Journal! 

May 2019

Our collaborator Steve Tegler was interviewed about our work on the spectroscopy of N2+CO mixtures. 

Kyle will be a 2019/2020 NAU/NASA Space Grant Intern! 

NAU News and the Arizona Daily Sun have articles about Kyle and the other NAU 2019 Goldwater Scholarship recipients! 

April 2019

Kyle received the 2019 Charlies Price Award from the NAU Chemistry Department. 

Kyle, Kenisha, Ramon, and Will presented at at the 2019 NAU Undregraduate Research Symposium! 

Ava received a 2019/2020 NAU/NASA Space Grant! 

Kyle is a recipient of the 2019 Goldwater Scholarship! 

Kyle was awarded the Charles Price scholarship from the NAU Chemistry department!

Kenisha presented her work at the 2019 UGRADs Symposium! 

Kyle's HURA proposal was selected for funding for the 2019/2020 academic year! 

Shy and Anna's collaborative work with the Astrophysical Ice lab on CO+N2 has been accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal! 

March 2019

Shy & Caitlan presented their research at the 2019  Graduate Student Government (GSG) poster symposium! 

January 2019

Shy and Anna's collaborative paper on a strange spectroscopic feature in mixtures of carbon monoxide and nitrogen has been submitted for publication! 

December 2018

Ramon's Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation proposal was selected for funding! 

Some of my (Gerrick's) graduate work on determining the melting point of ice (or other materials!) using a glassy intermediate with Feng Wang has been submitted for publication! 

Group alumnus Alex is about to be a software developer for eFuneral! 

September 2018

Porter's work together with the Multifunctional Materials lab (Browder lab) has been accepted for publication in Solid State Ionics! 

Our NASA Solar System Working proposal on Kuiper belt objects has been recommended for funding! 

Our paper about ices on Pluto has been accepted to Icarus! 

August 2018

Shy, Caitlan, and I traveled to the University of Chicago to participate in the Parsl Hackathon. 

July 2018

Our project funded by the National Institute of Minority Health And Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health through the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative is now featured on their website! 

June 2018

Kevin's paper about volatile organic interfaces is officially available! Congratulations Kevin!  

May 2018

Caitlan and Rachel have officially earned their BS degrees and Alex officially earned her MS! 

Shy, with our collaborator Will Grundy, was interviewed for a documentary about Pluto. I can't wait to see how it turned out. 

April 2018

Rachel won the 2018 Junia McAlister Award and the Ken Bean Teaching Assistant Award!

Lauren won the 2018 Russ Powell Scholarship!

Caitlan won the 2018 Clint Lane Scholarship! 

Kyle won the 2018 Undergraduate Research Award and the Nancy & Henry Wettaw Organic Chemistry Scholarship!

Alex won the 2018 Graduate Research Award!

Alex has successfully defended her Master's thesis! Congratulations Alex! 

Our collaborators, Cindy Browder and Cornel Ciocanel and their groups, were just featured in an article about multifunctional material design in AZTechConnect (see pages 15 & 16)! The modeling our group is doing is even mentioned!  

Our insulin proposal has received official approval from NIMHD! 

Alex has decided to join the Johns Hopkins Chemistry PhD program! 

We received the galley proof for Kevin's manuscript! 

March 2018

Alex, Shy, and Lauren presented their work at ACS in New Orleans and Rachel at LPSC in Houston! 

Rachel has decided to join the UW PhD program! 

Lauren has accepted a summer REU internship at UC Davis! 

February 2018

Our SHERC pilot proposal was recommended for funding! 

We hosted Prof. Frank Vázquez from St. John's University for a great department seminar! 

I/Gerrick gave a talk at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the Science Speaker Series. It was a lot of fun, with great faculty and impressive students. 

January 2018

Kevin's work on volatile benzene-cyclohexane interfaces has been accepted for publication! 

Porter's work on ion transport in polymers, in collaboration with the Browder and Ciocanel groups, has been submitted for publication.  

November 2017

Alex coordinated the "Research in Chemistry: Opportunities and Student Experiences" seminar, where NAU Chemistry Graduate students talk to undergraduates about why to get involved with research and how to go about it. 

October 2017

Lauren received the 2017 Goodman Scholarship to fund her research and attend the spring ACS National Meeting in New Orleans! 

Gerrick gave the Chemistry department seminar. 

September 2017

Gerrick visited Bozeman to give a seminar to the Montana State Chemistry Department about our work with ionic liquids and proteins. Thanks to Sharon Neufeldt for a great visit. 

Our collaborative proposal with Jennifer Hanley at Lowell Observatory has been selected for funding by NASA! 

Erin's manuscript entitled The Ionic Liquid [C4mpy][Tf2N] Induces Bound-like Structure in the Intrinsically Disordered Protein FlgM has been submitted! 

Lauren, Rachel, and Alex all presented posters at the 2017 NAPSA Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Poster Session. 

August 2017

Alex is presenting our work on ionic liquids in biological systems at ACS in DC! 

July 2017

Kevin's work on volatile organic interfaces was submitted for publication!  

June 2017

Gerrick gave a seminar at Colorado State about our work using ionic liquids to affect protein and peptide structure. 

May 2017

Lauren, Alex, and Gerrick are off to participate in the 2017 Fixman Summer Theory Program at Colorado State!

Erin will attend BU School of Medicine this fall! The Lindberg group is great training for medical school. Congratulations Erin! 

Kevin is off to UA College of Medicine Phoenix! It's tough to see him go, but the world needs more good MDs. 

Lauren won 2nd Place for her research poster entitled "Molecular dynamics simulations of solvent effects on ion transport in solid polymer electrolytes" at the 2017 UGRADS Symposium!

Rachel Huchmala, friend of the lab, received a NAU/NASA Space Grant to work with our collaborator Dr. Jennifer Hanley next year! 

Alex and I received our 2017 NAU RCA Awards! Rumor has it this is the first time two awards in one year have gone to the same group! 

April 2017

Alex won the Chemistry Department 2017 Graduate Scholar Award!

Kevin, Shy, and Lauren presented posters at UGRADS. Not to be left out, Alex and Porter judged posters, and Gerrick just went. 

Kevin was mentioned in a NAU News Spotlight for completing the 2016-2017 NAU/NASA Space Grant Undergraduate Research Internship Program and presenting his results of at the Arizona/NASA Space Grant 26th Annual Statewide Symposium. 

Porter successfully defended his thesis! 

Kevin presented a poster at AbSciCon! 

Saturday 4/22 Kevin is presenting his work at the Statewide Arizona Space Grant Symposium!  

Kevin received the Gold Axe Award this evening!

Alex has won the 2017 NAU Award for Most Promising Graduate Student Researcher/Scholar in recognition of her "excellence in graduate student research and scholarship." 

Gerrick has won the 2017 NAU Award for Most Promising New Scholar for demonstrating the potential to contribute outstanding research and scholarship to his discipline.

Alex is competing in the Arizona 3-Minute Grad Slam (AZ3MGS)! AZ3MGS is a statewide competition for the best three minute talk about graduate student research and discovery.

Kevin is presenting his work in a poster at the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco! 

March 2017

Kevin is presenting his work in a poster at the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco! 

Alex won second place in the 3 Minute Research Presentation competition!

Kevin has earned the NAU Gold Axe Award for his outstanding contributions to the university! Congratulations Kevin! 

February 2017

Kevin has won a Student Travel Award from the Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity to attend the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco this April! 

Shy, Kevin, and some of our NAU Astrophysics Ice Lab collaborators all presented at the 2017 NAPSA Workshop: Volatiles Across the Solar System! 

January 2017

Alex was awarded a NAU SGS grant!  

December 2016

Alex was voted the best new organic lab TA this semester! 

Our dipeptide paper is now available!

November 2016

Our joint work with the Baker group, with Alex as first author, on the conformational sampling of dipeptides in ionic liquids has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Molecular Liquids!

Alex's outreach seminar to inform undergrads about research opportunities went great. 

Our collaboration with the NAU Ice Lab and other New Horizons scientists looking at ices on Pluto was submitted to the journal Icarus. 

October 2016

Willy Andrews, Dr. Browder, and Dr. Ciocanel were interviewed by NAZ Today about our project to develop energy storage materials! Watch the segment here.

September 2016

Our collaborative proposal with head PI Michael Wilde at the UChicago Computation Institute and others to further develop the Swift parallel scripting language was selected for funding by NSF!

Gerrick presented some recent results from our nucleotides project at the Second annual Flagstaff Astronomy Symposium. 

Porter and Alex each presented a poster about their work at the Northern Arizona Planetary Science Alliance (NAPSA) poster session.

August 2016

We have submitted Alex's work on dipeptide isomerization in ionic liquids to Journal of Molecular Liquids! 

Erin Carter has accepted a teaching position at Arizona State! Congratulations Erin! 

May 2016

Kevin Gochenour has earned a NAU/NASA Space Grant! 

Erin Carter, Alexanndra Heyert, and Delia Castillo have graduated!

Erin Carter earned the Graduate Scholars Award!

Stephanie Geneeha earned the Russ Powell Scholarship! 

April 2016

Kevin Gochenour has earned the Hooper Undergraduate Research Award! 

Alex Heyert has decided to join the group as a graduate student! 

Erin Carter has successfully defended her Master's thesis. Congratulations Erin! 

January 2016

My postdoctoral work on hydroxide behavior in anion exchange membranes has been accepted by JACS. It was also featured in a JACS Spotlight. 

October 2015

Our work with the Baker lab at TCNJ on the effects of ionic liquids on Trp-cage structure has been accepted to the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling!

September 2015

My postdoctoral work on the attraction of hydroxide and hydronium to the air-water interface has been accepted by JACS!

Porter Marsh has joined the group as a new graduate student. He's working on the effect of ionic liquids on biomolecules.

May 2015

Kevin won the Hypercube Award in Theoretical Chemistry!

Jenna won the Earl Hoyt Scholarship!

Cole Mercer, Stephanie Geneeha, and Julie Hayes have joined the group!

April 2015

Our study of prebiotic nucleobases has received funding from NASA!

March 2015

Jenna O'Hara has joined group! She was awarded a NASA Space Grant to fund our study of possible prebiotic precursors to nucleobases (in collaborartion with Michael Callahan).

February 2015

Gerrick was elected to the Faculty Grants Committee.

Our new GPUs (purchased together with the NAU HPC center) have arrived! Now we just have to get them running...

Professor Lindberg has been recognized for "making a positive impact" on the academic journey of student athletes at NAU.

January 2015

Our 2017 FGP proposal to look at ion transport in polymer membranes was funded!

November 2014

Kevin Gochenour has joined the group! He is looking at liquid-gas interfaces and the effects of confinement on hydrocarbon mixtures.

October 2014

Professor Lindberg has been nominated as a Fall 2014 outstanding educator.

September 2014

Erin Carter has joined the group (Joint advised with Professor Hartzell)!

Joint with the Baker group at The College of New Jersey, we have launched the Computational Chemistry Wiki to compile all things related to computational chemistry.

August 2014

Gerrick has arrived in Flagstaff! The lab is up and running and actively looking for students. Please get in touch if you want to learn more.

Summer 2014

The Lindberg group is coming to Northern Arizona University this August! We have openings for undergraduate and graduate researchers. Email me (gerrick.lindberg@nau.edu) if you're interested in learning more.