Sara Brazill
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

B.S. (Chemistry) 1997, Saint John Fisher College Ph.D. (Chemistry) 2002, University of California - Riverside Email: sbrazill@mail.colgate.edu (315) 228-6605

Teaching Interests: Analytical Chemistry, General Chemistry, Electroanalytical Biosensors, and Chemical Separations.

Research Interests: The development of miniaturized/portable analytical devices for clinical and environmental applications, electrophoretic separation coupled to electro-chemical detection, DNA and protein biosensors.  Detailed descriptions of current research projects are available.

Selected Publications

•  S. A. Brazill; N. E. Hebert; W. G. Kuhr.  “The Use of Electrochemically Labeled Nucleotide Terminators for Known Point Mutation Analysis.” Electrophoresis 2003, in press.
•   N. E. Hebert; W. G. Kuhr; S. A. Brazill.  “A Microchip Electrophoresis Device with Integrated Electrochemical Detection: A Direct Comparison of Constant Potential Amperometry and Sinusoidal Voltammetry.” Anal. Chem. 2003, ASAP.
•  N. E. Hebert; B. Snyder; R. L. McCreery; W. G. Kuhr; S. A. Brazill.  “The Performance of Pyrolyzed Photoresist Carbon Films in a Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis Device with Sinusoidal Voltammetric Detection.”  Anal. Chem. 2003, ASAP.
•  Davis, C. B.; Shamansky, L. M.; Rosenwald, S. E.; Stuart, J. K.; Kuhr, W. G.; Brazill, S. A.  “Independently-Addressable Micron-Sized Biosensor Elements.” Biosens. Bioelectron. 2003, 18, 1299-1307. 
• D. S. Zhao; B. Roy; M. T. McCormick; W. G. Kuhr; and S. A. Brazill “Rapid Fabrication of a Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Microfluidic Capillary Gel Electrophoresis System Utilizing High Precision Machining.” Lab Chip 2003, 3, 93-99.
• N. E. Hebert; W. G. Kuhr; S. A. Brazill.  “Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis Coupled to Sinusoidal Voltammetry for the Detection of Native Carbohydrates.”  Electrophoresis 2002, 23, 3750-3759.
•  S. A. Brazill; S. E. Bender; N. E. Hebert; W. G. Kuhr.  “Sinusoidal Voltammetry: A Frequency Based Electrochemical Detection Technique."  J. Electroanal. Chem. 2002, 531, 119-132.
•  S. A. Brazill; W. G. Kuhr.  “A Single Base Extension Technique for the Analysis of Known Mutations Utilizing Capillary Gel Electrophoresis with Electrochemical Detection.”  Anal. Chem. 2002, 74, 3421-3428.

Asterisks indicate undergraduate student co-authors who conducted their research in collaboration with a faculty member at Colgate.

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