Kayla N. Green
About Dr. Green
Dr. Kayla N. Green is a native Texan, born and intellectually raised in the Lone Star State. Dr. Green obtained a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry under the direction of Marcetta Darensbourg at Texas A&M University in 2007 studying resin bound synthetic models of Acetyl CoA Synthase and Hydrogenase enzymes. Her interests in applied inorganic chemistry led her to the Advanced Imaging Center where she completed post-doctoral studies under the direction of Dr. Dean Sherry at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. In 2010, Dr. Green started her independent career at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, and was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2016 and full professor in 2022. Her research team focuses on the development of small molecules as therapeutics for diseases caused by oxidative stress, novel catalysts for challenging hydrocarbon transformations, and electrochemical biosensors. Her work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert A. Welch Foundation, ACS Petroleum Research Fund, Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc., and the Moncrief Foundation.
Honors
- 2022 ACS Outreach Volunteer of the Year - DFW Section
- 2021-22 TCU Clark Society Endowed Faculty Award
- 2020 Finalist: Texas Christian University Ferrari Award for Service
- 2020 American Chemical Society, Women’s Chemist Committee Rising Star Award
- 2020 Tarleton Alumni Academic Forum Honoree for the College of Science and Technology
- 2019 Texas Christian University Deans’ Research and Creativity Award
- 2018 American Chemical Society E. Ann Nalley Southwest Region Award for Volunteer Service
- 2018 American Chemical Society Dallas-Fort Worth Section Chemistry Ambassador Award
- 2016 Journal of Coordination Chemistry, Emerging Leader Feature
- 2015 American Chemical Society, Emerging Investigators in Bioinorganic Chemistry
Education
- UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Postdoctoral Training Program, 2008 — 2010
Advisor: Professor A. Dean Sherry - Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Doctor of Philosophy, Inorganic Chemistry–December 2007
Dissertation: “Immobilized Metallodithiolate Ligand Supports for Construction of Bioinorganic Model Complexes”
Advisor: Professor Marcetta Y. Darensbourg - Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX
Bachelor of Science, Magna cum Laude, August 2003
Major: Chemistry
Green Research Group
Postdoctoral Scholars
- David Mingle, Ph.D. Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Centre
- Hannah K. Pyle, Chemistry, Loughborough University, England
- Nitish Kumar, Ph.D. Pharmacy, Guru Nanak Dev University
Graduate Students
- Tahmina Afroz, 2022-present
- Nora Del Bosque, 2022-present
- Sarah Dunn, 2022-present
- Nathaniel McKinney, 2025-present
- Caden-Jack Walls, 2025-present
Undergraduate Students
- Saba Anjum
- Luke Chouteau
- Spencer Lanyon
- Mark Sayegh
- Killian Lyon
- Davis Wagnon
- Benito Morales
- Natalie Plascencia
Graduate Students
David Freire, TCU Ph.D. 2025
Katie Smith, TCU Ph.D. 2024
Kristof Pota, TCU Ph.D. 2022
Magy Mekhail, TCU Ph.D. 2022
Timothy Schwartz, TCU M.S. 2021
Marianne Burnett, TCU Ph.D. 2018
Samantha Brewer, TCU Ph.D. 2018
Hannah Johnston, TCU Ph.D. 2018
Sean Rodich, TCU M.S. 2016
Paulina Gonzalez, TCU Ph.D. 2015
Kimberly Lincoln, TCU Ph.D. 2015
Visiting Researchers
Grant Elam, Summer 2024 Southwest Oklahoma State University, Visiting From the Tim Hubin Lab
Kristof Pota, 2016-17 Hungarian Fulbright Scholar from the University of Debrecen
Undergraduate Students
Will Campa, Spring 2022 - Spring 2024
Jack Bonnell, Spring 2021 - Spring 2024
Christina Mantsorov, Spring 2021 - Spring 2024
Nena Jamison, Spring 2021
Nishu Sadagopan, Spring 2019 - Spring 2021
Nam Nguyen, Spring 2019 - Spring 2021
Emily Hoffer, Summer 2019 - Spring 2021
Diandria Veals, Summer 2019 - Spring 2021
Josh Witkop, Fall 2018 - present
Brian Niebuhr, Fall 2017- Spring 2019
Nhan Pham, Fall 2016- Fall 2018
Maddie Barnett, Fall 2016- Spring 2019
Jack Parker, Summer 2016- spring 2018
Ryan Itoh, Summer 2015- Spring 2017
Meghen Goulet, Summer 2015- Spring 2017
Matthew Canipe, Spring 2015- Spring 2016
Zach Dekam, Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
Brittney Chaney, Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
Sean Rodich, Spring 2014 - Spring 2015
Austin Green, Spring 2013 - Spring 2014
Travis Hayden, Spring 2013 - Fall 2014
Abby Moore, Fall 2012 - Spring 2013.
Kimberly Hyde (Co-Advisor with Giri Akkaraju), Fall 2012 -Spring 2013
Hunter Scarborough, Summer 2012-Spring 2014
Ryker Saunders, Summer 2012-Spring 2014
Michael Offutt, Summer 2012-Fall 2012
Trang Nguyen, Spring 2011-Spring 2013
Nicola Welch, Spring 2012
Lauren Rutter, Summer 2011 – Spring 2012
Kyle Shufelt, Fall 2011
Brittany Casares, Spring 2011 – Fall 2012
Kara Brusoski, Fall 2010-Spring 2011
High School Students
Lara Turan, Trinity Valley High School 17, currently attending Columbia University majoring in bioengineering.
Collin Davda, Trinity Valley High School 14, currently a chemistry major at CalTech.
Diandria Veals '21, "Synthesis and Characterization of an Iodo-substituted Macrocyclic Complex: Comparison of Pyridine Modification." Currently attending UT Southwestern School of Medicine
Nishu Sadagopan '21, "Evaluation of the therapeutic efficacy of small pyridine-containing molecules for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases." 2021 John V. Roach Chemistry Senior Scholar AwardNam Nguyen '21, "Evaluation of the therapeutic efficacy of small pyridine-containing molecules for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases." 2021 DFW ACS Outstanding Undergraduate Chemistry Student Award
Emily Hoffer '21, "Serendipitous Inorganic Helix Formation From a pH Responsive Inorganic Complex." 2020 TCU Clark Scholar, Currently attending UT Southwestern School of Medicine
Timothy Schwartz ’20, "Electronic Influence of Substitution on the Pyridine Ring within NNN Pincer-Type Molecules." Currently a PhD student at the University of Minnesota
Brian Niebuhr '19, "Electronic control of copper macrocyclic complexes". Currently attending Indiana School of Medicine, Purdue Campus.
Maddie Barnett, '19, "Measuring antioxidant activity of pyridol containing N-heterocyclic amine molecules". Currently attending Long School of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio
Nhan Pham '18, "Methylation of pyridophane tetra-aza macrocyclic complexes". Currently attending graduate school (PhD program) at University of Delaware.
Matthew Canipe '16, ” Enhancing blood brain barrier permeability of Alzheimer’s therapeutic agents using glucose”. Currently in medical school at UT Southwestern.
Austin Green '16, ”Crystallographic evaluation of chelidamic acid congeners”. Austin has completed pharmacy school at UT Austin during which time he participated in a summer research project at John Hopkin's.
Sean Rodich '15, ”Applications of bioconjugates and peptides for the development of biosensors”. After completing his M.S. degree with the Green Group, Sean is currently attending the Texas A&M School of Medicine (WHOOP!).
Hunter Scarborough '14, ”Solid phase synthesis of ferrocene-biotin bioconjugates and reactivity with avidin”. Hunter completed medical school at Baylor College of Medicine and is a practicing physician.
Kimberly Hyde ‘13, ”Cellular studies on the antioxidant and metal chelation abilities of N-heterocylic amines”. Kimberly completed medical school at Texas A&M University (WHOOP!) and is a practicing dermatologist.
Kara Brusoski, ‘11, ”Ferrocene-peptide conjugates as potential biosensors for cancer biomarkers”. Kara graduated from University of Florida Dental Program in Spring 2016 and is a practicing dentist in the U.S. Navy. Thank you for your service Kara!
Brittany Casares, ‘11,”Synthesis of Bifunctional Ligands Capable of Antioxidant Activity and Metal Sequestration”.
Former Co-workers and Students
Graduate Students
- Katie Smith, TCU Ph.D. 2024
- Kristof Pota, TCU Ph.D. 2022
- Magy Mekhail, TCU Ph.D. 2022
- Timothy Schwartz, TCU M.S. 2021
- Marianne Burnett, TCU Ph.D. 2018
- Samantha Brewer, TCU Ph.D. 2018
- Hannah Johnston, TCU Ph.D. 2018
- Sean Rodich, TCU M.S. 2016
- Paulina Gonzalez, TCU Ph.D. 2015
- Kimberly Lincoln, TCU Ph.D. 2015
Visiting Researchers
- Grant Elam, Summer 2024 Southwest Oklahoma State University, Visiting From the Tim Hubin Lab
- Kristof Pota, 2016-17 Hungarian Fulbright Scholar from the University of Debrecen
High School Students
- Lara Turan, Trinity Valley High School 17, now at Columbia University (bioengineering)
- Collin Davda, Trinity Valley High School 14, now at CalTech (chemistry)
Undergraduate Students
- Will Campa, Spring 2022 - Spring 2024
- Jack Bonnell, Spring 2021 - Spring 2024
- Christina Mantsorov, Spring 2021 - Spring 2024
- Nena Jamison, Spring 2021
- Nishu Sadagopan, Spring 2019 - Spring 2021
- Nam Nguyen, Spring 2019 - Spring 2021
- Emily Hoffer, Summer 2019 - Spring 2021
- Diandria Veals, Summer 2019 - Spring 2021
- Josh Witkop, Fall 2018 - present
- Brian Niebuhr, Fall 2017- Spring 2019
- Nhan Pham, Fall 2016- Fall 2018
- Maddie Barnett, Fall 2016- Spring 2019
- Jack Parker, Summer 2016- spring 2018
- Ryan Itoh, Summer 2015- Spring 2017
- Meghen Goulet, Summer 2015- Spring 2017
- Matthew Canipe, Spring 2015- Spring 2016
- Zach Dekam, Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
- Brittney Chaney, Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
- Sean Rodich, Spring 2014 - Spring 2015
- Austin Green, Spring 2013 - Spring 2014
- Travis Hayden, Spring 2013 - Fall 2014
- Abby Moore, Fall 2012 - Spring 2013
- Kimberly Hyde (Co-Advisor with Giri Akkaraju), Fall 2012 -Spring 2013
- Hunter Scarborough, Summer 2012-Spring 2014
- Ryker Saunders, Summer 2012-Spring 2014
- Michael Offutt, Summer 2012-Fall 2012
- Trang Nguyen, Spring 2011-Spring 2013
- Nicola Welch, Spring 2012
- Lauren Rutter, Summer 2011 – Spring 2012
- Kyle Shufelt, Fall 2011
- Brittany Casares, Spring 2011 – Fall 2012
- Kara Brusoski, Fall 2010-Spring 2011
W. Ostwald Dorpat, 1875
A. A. Noyes Leipzig, 1890
R. G. Dickinson Cal Tech, 1920
L. C. Pauling Cal Tech, 1925
M. J. Rogers Cal Tech, 1941
T. L. Brown Michigan State University, 1956
M. Y. Darensbourg University of Illinois, 1967
Kayla N. Green Texas A&M University, 2007
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