Lisa Berreau

College of Science

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Lisa M. Berreau is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Her research is focused on using small molecule chemistry to address important challenges in bio-medicine and to advance mechanistic understanding of chemical reactions involving O2. In a collaborative project with Professor Abby Benninghoff (Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences, USU) funded by the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Berreau’s laboratory is developing novel flavonol-based carbon monoxide-releasing molecules for applications as molecular tools to explore the beneficial effects of CO in biological systems.In a second project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), her laboratory is elucidating mechanistic details of how inexpensive first-row transition metals and O2 can be used to break carbon-carbon bonds in chemical reactions of importance to catalysis. The current research team advancing these projects is comprised of graduate and undergraduate students, including a PDRF/American Heart Association pre-doctoral fellow and undergraduate URCO recipients. Dr. Berreau is the principal investigator on two recent NSF Major Research Instrumentation awards that have brought a 500 MHz NMR spectrometer and a bench-top X-ray crystallography system to the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. In 2016 Dr. Berreau was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.