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Professor ZUO, YUEGANG (Dartmouth)
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Phone: (508) 999-8959
Email: yzuo@umassd.edu

**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**

Education:
1992 - Ph.D. Swiss Federal Institute for Water Resources and Water Pollution Control (EAWAG), associated with Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Dübendorf - Zurich, Switzerland, Ph.D. in environmental sciences

1984 - M.S. Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Science and Institute of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, M.S. in environmental analytical chemistry

1982 - B.S. Wuhan University, Hubei, China. B.S. in analytical chemistry

Professional History:
1999 - present - Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

1994 - 1998 - Research Scientist, Southeast Environmental Research Program, Florida International University.

1992 - 1994 - Postdoctor, Drinking Water Research Center, FIU,

1988 - 1992 - Research assistant, EAWAG

1986 - 1988 - Research Associate, Head of eco - effect group, Research Center for Eco - environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.

1984 - 1986 - Research Assistant, Institute of Environmental Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science(IEC - CAS). Beijing.

1982 - 1984 - Research Assistant, IEC - CAS

Current Research Support:
2008 - 2011 Occurrence and Photochemical Degradation of Estrogenic Steroids in Coastal Seawater, National Science Foundation, NSF - US. $249,997.

2009 - 2010 Isolation and identification of anti - breast cancer components in cranberry and their free - radical quenching properties. Massachusetts Commonwealth Agricultural Research Fund. $38,000.

2005 - 2009 The Chinese Innovative Research Consortium on Persistent Toxic Substances Grant (PI: Guibin Jiang at The Research Center for Eco - Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science). $880,000

Selected Publications:
(1) Chengjun Wang, Yuegang Zuo and Chen - lu Yang (2009) Selective catalytic reduction of NO by NH3 in flue gases over a novel Cu - V/Al2O3 catalyst at low temperature. Environmental Engineering Science. 26, 1429 - 1434.

(2) Yue Jiao and Yuegang Zuo (2009) Ultrasonic extraction and HPLC determination of anthraquinones, aloe - emodine, emodine, rheine, chrysophanol, and physcione, in Radix Polygoni multiflori. Phytochem. Anal. 20, 272 - 278.

(3) , Chengjun Wang, Jiping Zhou, Amita Sachdeva and Vanessa C. Ruelos (2008) Simultaneous determination of creatinine and uric acid in human urine by high performance liquid chromatography. Analytical Sciences 24, 1589 - 1592.

(4) Yuegang Zuo, Kai Zhang, Jingping Wu, Christopher Rego and John Fritz (2008) An accurate and non - destructive GC method for determination of cocaine on US paper currency. J. Separation Sci. 31, 2444 - 2450.

(5) Yuegang Zuo, Chengjun Wang, Yuejuan Lin, Jinwen Guo and Yiwei Deng (2008) Simultaneous determination of anthraquinones in radix Polygoni multiflori by capillary gas chromatography coupled with flame ionization and mass spectrometric detection. J. chromatogr. A 1200, 43 - 48.

(6) Lin Deng, Feng Wu, Nansheng Deng and Yuegang Zuo (2008) Photoreduction of mercury(II) in the presence of algae Anabaena cylindrical. J. Photochem. Photobiol. B: Biology 91, 117 - 124.

(7) Yuegang Zuo and Yuejuan Lin (2007) Solvent effects on the silylation - gas chromatography - mass spectrometric determination of natural and synthetic estrogenic steroid hormones. Chemosphere 69, 1175 - 1176.

(8) Kai Zhang and (2006) Natural phenolic antioxidants in human fluids: analytical approaches and antioxidant capacity studies. Pak. J. Anal. & Envir. Chem. 7, 39 - 47.

(9) Johnathan Fritz and (2007) Simultaneous determination of tetracycline, oxytetracycline, and 4 - Epitetracycline in milk by high - performance liquid chromatography. Food Chemistry 105, 1297 - 1301.

(10) , Kai Zhang and Yuejuan Lin (2007) Microwave - accelerated derivatization for the simultaneous gas chromatography - mass spectrometric analysis of natural and synthetic estrogenic steroid hormones. J. Chromatography A 1148, 211 - 218.

(11) Yuegang Zuo, Chengjun Wang and Thuan Van (2006) Simultaneous determination of nitrite and nitrate in dew, rain, snow and lake water samples by ion - pair high - performance liquid chromatography. Talanta 70, 281 - 285.

(12) Hao Chen and Yuegang Zuo (2007) Identification of flavonol glycosides in American cranberry fruit. Food Chemistry 101, 1357 - 1364.

(13) Yiwei Deng, Hao Chen, Taixing Wu, Metthew Krzyaniak, Amina Wellons, Dawn Bolla, Kenneth Douglas and Yuegang Zuo (2006) Iron - catalyzed photochemical transformation of benzoic acid in atmospheric liquids: Product identification and reaction mechanisms. Atmospheric Environment 40, 3665 - 3676.

(14) Y. Zuo, K. Zhang and Y. Deng (2006) Occurrence and photochemical degradation of 17a - ethinylestradiol in Acushnet river estuary. Chemosphere 63, 1583 - 1590.

(15) Yuegang Zuo and Ronald D. Jones (2006) Where is the Missing Sink for Photochemically Produced Carbon Monoxide in the Marine Surface Water. In Water Pollution: New Research, ed. by A.R.Burk, Nova Publishers, Hauppauge NY.