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Veronika Szalai (Fed)

Research Chemist/Project Leader

Veronika A. Szalai joined NIST in 2010 and is currently a Research Chemist/Project Leader in the Biophysical and Biomedical Measurement Group, where her work focuses on advanced electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and instrumentation development for biometrology. She received an A.B. in Chemistry from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Yale University, where her thesis work centered on biophysical chemistry measurements of water oxidation chemistry in photosynthesis. After completing post-doctoral work on DNA electrochemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Veronika advanced to the rank of tenured associate professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. During that time, she and her group elucidated the biophysical chemistry of copper and the amyloid peptide of Alzheimer's disease and developed methods to create guanine quadruplex-based DNA nanostructures.

Selected Programs/Projects

Selected Publications

Awards

2019 NIST Bronze Award

Publications

Iron-sulfur clusters are involved in post-translational arginylation

Author(s)
Verna Van, Janae Brown, Corin R. O’Shea, Hannah Rosenbach, Ijaz Mohamed, Nna-Emeka Ejimogu, Toan Bui, Veronika Szalai, Kelly Chacón, Ingrid Span, Aaron T. Smith
Eukaryotic arginylation is an essential post-translational modification that both modulates protein stability and regulates protein half-life through the N

Patents (2018-Present)

Nucleic Acid Nanostructures

NIST Inventors
Jacob Majikes and Veronika Szalai
Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and composition of a nucleic acid tile with addressable locations for placement of molecular species that can function as sensors, reporters, or enhancers of measurement systems. Embodiments of the present invention may also include a nucleic

Ferrocene-Bodipy: A Single Electron Transfer Activatable Fluorescent Molecular Probe

NIST Inventors
Jeremiah Woodcock and Veronika Szalai
Industrial electrochemical processes have been growing in importance for decades. However, with the need for improved efficiency in these processes comes the need for better fundamental understanding. For example, improved battery performance requires accessible, more precise metrology to aid in
Created May 21, 2019, Updated March 18, 2024