Houston Cole

PhD in Chem from UTA (23’) | Instructional Assistant Professor of Chemistry | Synthetic/medicinal chemistry

[Alisher Talgatov @AT_SynChem]

Check out our newest paper in collaboration with Dr. Wenfang Sun and colleagues!

Hypoxia-Active Iridium(III) Bis-terpyridine Complexes Bearing Oligothienyl Substituents: Synthesis, Photophysics, and Phototoxicity toward Cancer Cells | Inorganic Chemistry https://t.co/70SgM2rQGI

[UTA Chemistry & Biochemistry @UTAChemistry]

🎉🔬It's a wrap #SWRM2024! 👏🧪! 🥳 @jabuonomo Lab undergrads launched with brilliant posters, and 🚀our grads closed with amazing presentations! 🌟 Prof. Shelor and Dr. Vali also added their science to the chemistry finale! 🙌Thanks @BaylorCBC & SWRM @AmerChemSociety ! 👏🧪✨

[American Society for Photobiology @ASPhotobiology]

August's member of the month is Shiyong Wu! Shiyong is a past president of ASP and received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Nebraska. Shiyong currently runs the Shiyong Wu Lab at Ohio University!

[McFarland Laboratory @McFarland_Labs]

Congratulations to @houstoncole5 for graduating with his PhD in Chemistry! He is our first PhD graduate from @utarlington and we couldn’t be more proud of him! 🎓🥳🥼 @UTAChemistry @UTAScience @UTAGradSchool #MaverickScience

[Inorganic Chemistry @InorgChem]

Read @McFarland_Labs latest study! Ru(II) Phenanthroline-Based Oligothienyl Complexes as Phototherapy Agents (https://t.co/tBwOu7Cf0E). @HoustonCole5 @UTA_Science @UTAChemistry @A_Frances_chem @martae_alberto #Ruthenium #PDT

[NIH @NIH]

News: First-in-human trial of oral drug to remove radioactive contamination begins https://t.co/2KknBizOU3

[Phil Knutson, PhD ⌬ @Phil_Knutson]

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

I drew this last year using all kinds of natural and synthetic dyes, pigments, etc. Many of them were taken from books on textile dyes that I poured through. This took a ton of time and a ton of research. But, it was a fun piece to create! #chemtwitter

[Alex Speed @awhspeed]

Here's a snapshot of my grad school funding. I was grateful to get scholarships in grad school. However, grad students today, 15 years later, will recognize those amounts as unchanged. #SupportOurScience

[UTA Chemistry & Biochemistry @UTAChemistry]

Thank you to all who participated in the 2023 CGSA Poster Session!
Congratulations to all our winners!🥳🏆
1st place🥇: Houston Cole (@HoustonCole5 @McFarland_Labs )
2nd Place 🥈: Brandon Watson (@BrandonT_Watson)
3rd Place🥉: Haritha Asokan Sheeja

#MaverickScience X @UTAScience

[Jon Freeman @freemanjb]

Registration is now open!

Join us for a FREE, first-of-its-kind symposium & think tank on the inclusion & advancement of LGBTQ+ people in STEM at @AAAS in DC on May 30, featuring policymakers, researchers, community members, @NSF, @NIH, & @WHOSTP.

https://t.co/eUMth7AeJE

[UTA Chemistry & Biochemistry @UTAChemistry]

Best of luck to our #Discover2023 Chemistry & Biochemistry poster finalists 🏆Ayesh Ali Kan (Prof. So) in the graduate division and Ana Gonzalez Ledesma (Prof. Rajeshwar) in the undergraduate division. We are proud of you!!! 🧡💙

#MaverickScience x @UTAScience

[UTA Science @UTAScience]

The Discover Student Research Symposium is happening now until 12 pm in COB and CRB; come see all the great research on display! Finalists will present at 1 pm in @UTAPlanetarium, followed by awards.

[Houston Cole @HoustonCole5]

@ItsAnji201_09_3 @McFarland_Labs @UTAChemistry Thank so much, Anji! We haven't published the crystallographic data for the complexes yet, but stay tuned! 🧑‍🔬

[Houston Cole @HoustonCole5]

Excited to share my poster on the development of some hypoxia-active Ru(II) PDT agents! "Evaluation of a New Class of Highly Active Ruthenium (II) Photosensitizers That Show Anticancer Effects in Hypoxia"
@McFarland_Labs @UTAChemistry
#RSCPoster #RSCInorg #RSCChemBio

[Houston Cole @HoustonCole5]

@BillTapper5 @McFarland_Labs @UTAChemistry Thanks so much, Bill! It's hard to say when PDT will enter the mainstream. However, people all over the world are bringing PDT to the clinic, and I am optimistic! For example, TLD1433 is in clinical trials for bladder cancer (NMIBC), and things are looking very promising thusfar.

[Megan E. Damico, Ph.D. @MicrobialMeg]

This #firstgen student successfully defended her PhD today! Thank you to everyone who came to support me in person and on zoom. It took a village to get me here and I am forever grateful. I'm tickled to be the first ever, Dr. Damico 🥰
#PhDone @UNCG @bio_uncg

[Gurleen Kaur @GurleenK121]

Glad to be offered this opportunity by #RSCChemBio #RSCInorg #RSCPoster to share our work from @McFarland_Labs @UTAChemistry on "Exploring the Mechanistic Possibilities for Light-responsive Metallodrugs in Phototherapy"

Happy to answer any questions!!👩‍🔬

[Alisher Talgatov @AT_SynChem]

Happy to present our work from @McFarland_Labs at the global Twitter poster conference organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry!

Looking forward for your questions and replies🤓
#RSCPoster #RSCInorg

[Houston Cole @HoustonCole5]

@Francois_Gabbai @McFarland_Labs @UTAChemistry As for localization, I cannot comment on that just yet, but ICP-MS experiments are currently underway, so stay tuned! (2/2)

[Houston Cole @HoustonCole5]

@Francois_Gabbai @McFarland_Labs @UTAChemistry Thank you! You make a great point regarding the lipophilicity, but we believe more may be at play. We believe that the "4T" unit allows access to particularly cytotoxic excited states, and one of our major projects right now is gaining a better understanding of this! (1/2)

[Houston Cole @HoustonCole5]

@vishal_iiserb @McFarland_Labs @UTAChemistry Thank you! We are currently using a variety of spectroscopic techniques to better understand the oxygen-dependent and oxygen-independent mechanisms at play.