Mina Sumita

Lansing, Michigan Area

Higher Education

Michigan State University 2006 - 2012
Visiting Research Associate
Wayne State University 2000 - 2006
Graduate Research Assistant
Wayne State University 1999 - 2001
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Colorado at Denver 1997 - 1999
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Colorado at Denver 1997 - 1999
Graduate Mathematics and Chemistry Tutor, Center for Learning Assistant

Wayne State University 1999 - 2006
Ph.D., Chemistry University of Colorado at Denver 1996 - 1999
M.S., Chemistry University of Colorado Boulder 1992 - 1995
B.A., Chemistry

English
Japanese

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
East Lansing, MI
2006 to 2012
Visiting Research Associate
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
1999 to 2006
Graduate Research Assistant
Wayne State University
Denver, CO
1997 to 1999
Graduate Research Assistant

Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
2006
Ph.D. in Chemistry
University of Colorado
Denver, CO
1999
M.S. in Chemistry
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO
1995
B.A. in Chemistry

Synthesis of alternate-site isotopic labeled ribonucleoside 5-triphosphates, Chemical and enzymatic phosphorylation to synthesize nucleoside 5-triphosphate, and in vitro transcription, Synthesis of nucleoside phosphoramidites, and solid phase RNA synthesis (ABI DNA/RNA synthesizer), Product analysis by IR, HPLC, FPLC, MALDI, NMR, UV-VIS spectroscopy, Circular dichroism, UV-melting studies, Fluorescence spectroscopy, and Surface Plasmon Resonance, RNA structural and dynamics studies by NMR, Radioactive labeling of RNA, Gel electrophoresis, chemical and enzymatic probing, and gel shift assays, RNA-metal complex binding assays, Asymmetric reaction of unnatural amino acids, Peptide synthesis