Erin Gray

Erin Gray teaches organic chemistry, and her research seeks to employ synthetic organic chemistry to answer unsolved questions in biology. She designs new catalytic transformations for the synthesis of complex molecules, with the goal of using these reactions to label and study biomolecules.

Erin Gray

Erin Gray

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, Department of Chemistry, Research Advisor: Professor Justin Du Bois, 2017-2019
  • Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Princeton University, Research Advisor: Professor Abigail G. Doyle, 2011-2017
  • B.S. in Chemistry, Furman University, Research Advisor: Professor Brian C. Goess, 2007-2011

Teaching

  • CHEM 241: Organic Chemistry I
  • CHEM 242: Organic Chemistry II
  • CHEM 347: Advanced Organic Chemistry
  • CHEM 401: Directed Individual Study
  • CHEM 421: Directed Individual Research
  • CHEM 432: Summer Directed Individual Research

Selected Publications

  • Kantarci, H.; Elvira, P. D.; Thottumkara, A. P.; Iyer, M.; Donovan, L. J.; Ambiel, N.; O’Connell, E. M.; Granados, A.; Zeng, H.; Saw, N. L.; Lutz, A. B.; Sloan, S. A.; Gray, E. E.; Tran, K. V.; Vichare, A.; Yeh, A. K.; Münch, A. E.; Huber, M.; Agrawal, A.; Morri, M.; Shamloo, M.; Tawfik, V. L.; Du Bois, J.; Zuchero, J. B. Schwann cells promote sensory neuron excitability during development. bioRxiv, 2022, DOI: 10.1101/2022.10.31.514415 (accessed 2022-11-01).
  • McMahon, C. M.; Choquette, K. A.; Stieber, S. C. E.; Gray, E. E. Remote Supergroup for Chemistry Undergraduates: An Inclusive Scientific Community for Primarily Undergraduate Institutions. J. Chem. Educ. 2022, 99, 3187.
  • Koster, A. K.; Reese, A. L.; Kuryshev, Y.; Wen, X.; McKiernan, K. A.; Gray, E. E.; Wu, C.; Huguenard, J. R.;
    Maduke, M.; Du Bois, J. Development and Validation of a Potent and Specific Inhibitor for the CLC-2 Chloride
    Channel. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2020, 117, 32711.
  • McMahon, C. M.; Choquette, K. A.; Stieber, S. C. E.; Gray, E. E. Remote Supergroup for Chemistry
    Undergraduates. Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research 2020, 4, 72.
  • Gray, E. E.; Nielsen, M. K.; Choquette, K. A.; Kalow, J. A.; Graham, T. J. A.; Doyle, A. G. Nucleophilic
    (Radio)Fluorination of α-Diazocarbonyl Compounds Enabled by Copper-Catalyzed H–F Insertion. J. Am. Chem.
    Soc. 2016, 138, 10802.
  • Shields, J. D.; Gray, E. E.; Doyle, A. G. A Modular, Air-Stable Nickel Precatalyst. Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 2166.
  • Gray, E. E.; Rabenold, L. E.; Goess, B. C. E-Selective Isomerization of Stilbenes and Stilbenoids Through
    Reversible Hydroboration. Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 6177.
  • Graham, T. J. A.; Gray, E. E.; Burgess, J. M.; Goess, B. C. An Efficient Synthesis of (±)-Grandisol Featuring 1,5-
    Enyne Metathesis. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 226.

Selected Presentations

  • Gray, E. E.; Choquette, K. A.; McMahon, C. M.; Stieber, S. C. E. Remote Supergroup for Chemistry Undergraduates. American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, Chicago, IL, August 24, 2022. (oral presentation)
  • Gray, E. E. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021: For the Development of Asymmetric Organocatalysis. Washington and Lee University Nobel Symposium, Lexington, VA, November 10, 2021. (oral presentation)

Awards and Honors

  • Stanford Neurosciences Institute Interdisciplinary Scholar, January 2018–June 2019
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, April 2012–July 2015
  • Pickering Teaching Award, Princeton University 2013
  • Beckman Scholar at Furman University, May 2010–July 2011
  • American Chemical Society Outstanding Senior Award, Furman University 2011
  • Award for Achievement in Organic Chemistry, Furman University 2010