Diana S. Aga

Appointent: Associate Professor of Chemistry

Office:611 Natural Sciences Complex

Phone: (716) 645-6800 ext. 2226

Fax:(716) 645-6963

Email: dianaaga at buffalo edu

Home Page:http://www.chem.buffalo.edu/aga.php

Research Interests: environmental impacts of antibiotics and endocrine
disrupting chemicals, fate and transformations of organic pollutants in
soil, water, and biota, applications of immunochemical techniques in
environmental analysis, development of selective sample clean-up techniques
for environmental analysis,identification of novel metabolites of organic
contaminants by mass spectrometry

Recent Publications:

• Mojica, E. E., Kim, S., Aga, D. S. (2008) "Formation of N-ethylmaleimide (NEM)-glutathione conjugate and N-ethylmaleamic acid revealed by mass spectral characterization of intracellular and extracellular microbial metabolites of NEM," Applied Environmental Microbiology, 74:323-326.
• Farkas, M. H., Berry, J. O., Aga, D. S. (2007) "Determination of enzyme kinetics and glutathione conjugates of chlortetracycline and chloroacetanilides using liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry," Analyst,132:664-671. [Featured in the Inside Cover of the Journal].
• O’Connor, S., Aga, D. S. (2007) "Analysis of tetracycline antibiotics in soil: Advances in extraction, clean-up, and quantification," Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 26:456-465.

last updated: 12/08