Ria J. Betush

• CHEM 105: Physiological Chemistry
• CHEM 112: General Chemistry 1 lab
• CHEM 114: General Chemistry 2
• CHEM 221: Organic Chemistry 1
• CHEM 222: Organic Chemistry 1 lab
• CHEM 224: Organic Chemistry 2
• CHEM 225: Organic Chemistry 2 lab
• CHEM 325: Organic Spectroscopic Methods
• CHEM 326: Organic Spectroscopic Methods lab
• CHEM 356: Chemical Literature
• CHEM 366: Structural Biochemistry

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Rochester, October 2014
• Masters in Chemistry, University of Rochester, May 2010
• B.S. in Chemistry, Grove City College, May 2008

Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Bioorganic chemistry (peptide synthesis and small molecular weight gelators)

• American Chemical Society (ACS)

• Betush R.J., Urban J.M., Nilsson B.L. "Balancing hydrophobicity and sequence pattern to influence self-assembly of amphipathic peptides." Peptide Science. 2018,110 (1), e23099. https://doi.org/10.1002/bip.23099
• Welch, J.J., Swanekamp, R.J., King, C., Dean, D. A., Nilsson, B.L. “Functional Delivery of siRNA by Disulfide-Constrained Cyclic Amphipathic Peptides.” ACS Med. Chem. Lit.. 2016, 7 (6), 584–589. DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.6b00031
• Swanekamp, R.J.; Welch, J.J.; Nilsson, B.L. “Proteolytic Stability of Amphipathic  Peptide Hydrogels Composed of Self-Assembled Pleated β-Sheet or  Coassembled Rippled β-Sheet Fibrils” Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 10133-10136. DOI: 10.1039/C4CC04644G
• Swanekamp, R. J.; DiMaio, J. T. M.; Bowerman, C. J.; Nilsson, B.  L. "Coassembly of Enantiomeric Amphipathic Peptides into Amyloid-Inspired  Rippled β-Sheet Fibrils," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 5556-5559.  DOI: 10.1021/ja301642c