Education: Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Johns Hopkins, 1994. B.S., Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1988.

Research interests of the Peeples lab are in the field of biochemical engineering, with particular focus on bioprocesses under extreme environments and environmentally beneficial biocatalysis. Specific interests include interfacial catalysis, engineering stability in microbial catalysts, microbial physiology in extreme environments, and enhancing efficiencies of environmental toxin biodegradation.

Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, Extremophile biocatalysisbioremediationinterfacial catalysis

Peeples, T L. “Introduction to Biochemical Engineering: Synthesis, Resourcefulness, and Effective Communication in Group Learning“ Chemical Engineering Education” Vol. 37. No. 3, 2003. pp. 174-179. Fang J, Chan O, Kato C, Sato T, Peeples T, Niggemeyer K. “Phospholipid FA of piezophilic bacteria from the deep sea.” Lipids. Vol. 38. No. 8, 2003, pp. 885-7. Li, M. and Peeples, T. L. “Purification of hyperthermophilic archaeal amylolytic enzyme (MJA1) using thermoseparating aqueous two-phase systems. Journal of Chromatography B Vol 807, 2004, pp. 69-74. Olivo, H. F, Osorio-Lozada A. , and Peeples, T. L. “Microbial oxidation/amidation of bsulfanyl carboxylic acids –First asymmetric synthesis of (+)-(S)-modafinil” Tetrahedron: Assymetric Vol 16, 2005, pp. 3507-11. Horacio F. Olivo, Emmanuel Ankudey, and Tonya Peeples “Lipase-Mediated Epoxidations Utilizing UHP And Ethyl Acetate” Green Chemistry Vol 8. No. 10, 2006, pp. 923-926. Jin-Woo Kim and Tonya Peeples “Screening Extremophiles for Bioconversion Potentials” Biotechnology Progress Vol. 22 No. 6, 2006, pp. 1720-1724.