Harold Monbouquette

Harold Monbouquette

PROFESSOR
CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING

Email: hmonbouq@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-8946

RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
  • Biochemical Engineering
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
  • N. Hamdi, J. Wang, E. Walker, N.T. Maidment, H.G. Monbouquette, “An electroenzymatic L-glutamate microbiosensor selective against dopamine”, J. Electroanal. Chem., 591, 33-40 (2006)
  • F.H. Ko and H.G. Monbouquette, “Photometric and Electrochemical Enzyme-Multiplied Assay Techniques Using b-Galactosidase as Reporter Enzyme”, Biotechnol. Progr., 22, 860-865 (2006)
  • N. Hamdi, J. Wang, H.G. Monbouquette, “Polymer films as permselective coatings for H2O2-sensing electrodes” J. Electroanal. Chem., 581, 258 – 264 (2005)
  • J. Wang, N.V. Myung, M. Yun and H.G. Monbouquette, “Glucose oxidase entrapped in polypyrrole on high-surface-area Pt electrodes: a model platform for sensitive electroenzymatic biosensors”, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 575, 139-146 (2005)
  • L. Goldsmith, M. Yu, L. Rome, H.G. Monbouquette, “Vault Nanocapsule Dissociation into Halves Triggered at Low pH”, Biochem., 46, 2865-2875 (2007)
  • I. Stanish and H.G. Monbouquette, “Ternary Complex Formation Dramatically Enhances Metal-Sorbing Vesicle Selectivity”, J. Membrane Sci., 194, 263-272 (2001)
  • D.T. Gallagher, H.G. Monbouquette, I. Schröder, H. Robinson, M.J. Holden, and N.N. Smith, “Structure of archaeal alanine dehydrogenase from Archaeoglobus: Active Site Analysis and Relation to Bacterial Cyclodeaminases”, J. Mol. Biol., 342, 119-130 (2004)
  • S. Lim, I. Schroeder and H.G. Monbouquette, “A thermostable shikimate 5-dehydrogenase from the archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus”, FEMS Microbiology Letters, 238, 101-106 (2004)
  • C. Radhakrishnan, M.K.F. Lo, M.V. Warrier, M.A. Garcia-Garibay, H.G. Monbouquette, “Photocatalytic Reduction of an Azide-Terminated Self-Assembled Monolayer Using CdS Quantum Dots”, Langmuir, 22, 5018-5024 (2006)
  • M. Warrier, M. K. F. Lo, H.G. Monbouquette and M.A. Garcia-Garibay, “Photocatalytic reduction of aromatic azides to amines using CdS and CdSe nanoparticles”, Photochem. Photobio. Sci., 3, 859-63 (2004).
EDUCATION
  • B.A. 1979 Harvard College
  • B.S. 1982 University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  • M.S. 1984 University of California at Davis
  • Ph.D. 1987 North Carolina State University
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
  • Department of Energy Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Young Faculty Award, 1990
  • TRW Excellence in Teaching Award, 1990-1991