Jessica Rouge

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry

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Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2013 – 2015
• Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Colorado, 2012
• B.S. , Biochemistry, Boston College, 2006

Research Focus

• Preserving biomolecule structure and function at inorganic nanoparticle surfaces
• Enzyme-mediated assembly of nanomaterials
• Nucleic acid aptamer selections for enhanced specificity in binding and catalysis applications
• siRNA, catalytic nucleic acids and the design of novel drug delivery approaches

Current Publications

Soyoung E. Seo, Mary X. Wang, Chad M. Shade, Jessica L. Rouge, Keith Brown and Chad A. Mirkin.  “Modulating the Bond Strength of DNA-Nanoparticle Superlattices.” ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 1771-1779.

Jessica L. Rouge, Timothy M. Sita, Liangliang Hao, Chad A. Mirkin. “Ribozyme-Spherical Nucleic Acids.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 10528-10531

Jessica L. Rouge, Liangliang Hao, Xiaochen A. Wu, William E. Briley, and Chad A. Mirkin. “Spherical Nucleic Acids as a Divergent platform for assembling RNA-Nanoparticle constructs through Enzymatic Ligation.” ACS Nano, 2014, 8, 8837-8843.

Jessica L. Rouge, Bruce E. Eaton, Daniel L. Feldheim. “Biomolecules in the Synthesis and Assembly of Materials for Energy Applications.” J. Energy & Environ. Sci. 2011, 4, 398 – 402.

Thomas A. Baker, Jessica L. Rouge, David J. Nesbitt. “Single molecule studies of quantum dot fluorescence intermittency: evidence for both dark and light-assisted blinking dynamics” Mol. Phys., 2009, 107, 1867-1878

Chad J. Dooley, Jessica Rouge, Nan Ma, Michael Invernale and Shana O. Kelley. “Nucleotide-stabilized cadmium sulfide nanoparticles.” J. Mater. Chem., 2007, 17, 1687-1691.