Associate Professor
Office: 235A Weyandt Hall
Phone: 724-357-5702
Email: jford@iup.edu
Office Hours
M: 2:00–4:00 p.m.
M/T/W/R 7:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Or by appointment
Education
BS, University of Cincinnati
PhD, Northeastern University
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University
Field
Analytical Chemistry
Courses
CHEM 102 — College Chemistry II
SCI 107/117 — Chemistry for Everyone
Research Interests
Bioanalytical purifications and separations, particularly of proteins; the expression, purification, and characterization of recombinant proteins; chromatographic theory and the mechanism of reversed-phase liquid chromatography.
Select Publications
J. Ko and J. C. Ford, Comparison of selected retention models in reversed-phase liquid chromatography, Journal
of Chromatography A, 913, 3 (2001).
J. Ko, J. Chilenski, T. Rodgers, and J. C. Ford, Modeling the effect of solvation on solute retention in reversed-phase liquid chromatography,
Journal of Chromatography
A, 913, 15 (2001).
Igor Quinones, John C. Ford, and Georges Guiochon, Multisolute Adsorption Equilibria in a Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography System, Chemical
Engineering Science, 55, 909 (2000).
Igor Quiones, John C. Ford and Georges Guiochon, High-concentration band profiles and system peaks in a ternary solute system, Analytical Chemistry, 72, 1495-1502 (2000).
W.J. Dress, S. J. Newell, A.J. Nastase, J. C. Ford, Analysis of amino acids in nectar from pitchers of Sarracenia pupurea (Sarraceniaceae). American
Journal of Botany, 84 , 1701 (1997).