Kana Takematsu became interested in physical chemistry after working in Laurie Butler’s lab to investigate gas phase dynamics during her undergraduate studies at University of Chicago. She pursued her interests in graduate school at Caltech, working with Mitchio Okumura to study the spectroscopy and kinetics of gas phase intermediates in the Earth’s atmosphere. She then joined Harry Gray’s group at Caltech for her postdoctoral work to extend her training to the condensed phase, studying charge transfer processes in metal-modified azurin mutants and inorganic complexes. In July 2015, she joined the Department of Chemistry at Bowdoin College as an assistant professor in chemistry and biochemistry. B.S. University of Chicago Ph.D. California Institute of Technology

Physiology and molecular biology of plant seed germination and development; characterization of genes and proteins that are involved in plant responses to the stress hormone abscisic acid.

Tryptophan-accelerated electron flow across a protein-protein interface K. TakematsuŦ, H. R. WilliamsonŦ, A. M. Blanco-Rodríguez, L. Sokolová, P. Nikolovski, J. T. Kaiser, M. Towrie, I. P. Clark, A. Vlček, J. R. Winkler, H. B. Gray. JACS, 2013, 135, 15515-15525. Spectroscopic studies of the Jahn Teller effects in the 2Eʺ Ã state of the nitrate radical NO3 K. Takematsu, N. C. Eddingsaas, D. R. Robichaud, and M. Okumura. Chem. Phys. Lett., 2013, 555, 57-63. Competing pathways in the 248 nm photodissociation of propionyl chloride and the barrier to dissociation of the propionyl radical L. R. McCunn, M. J. Krisch, K. Takematsu, L. J. Butler, F. R. Blasé, and J. Shu. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2004, 108, 7880-7894. Photodissociation of CH3OCl to CH3O at 248 nm M. J. Krisch, L. R. McCunn, K. Takematsu, L. J. Butler, F. R. Blasé, and J. Shu. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2004, 108, 1650-1656.