Phone: 828-227-3668
Email: summers@email.wcu.edu
Office Address: Natural Science Building, Room 332

Education:

• Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

Publications & Presentations:

• Jack S. Summers, Anthony Giordano, Michael Sturgess, and John Shimko, Methods for detecting and quantifying binding and inhibition of binding of species to nucleic acids. US Patent #US 7,037,660 B2, May 2, 2006.
• Jack S. Summers*, Karel Base, Hakim Boukhalfa, Jason E. Payne,1 Barbara Ramsay Shaw, and Alvin L. Crumbliss, “The Use of Phosphorus Ligand NMR Probes to Investigate Electronic and Second-Sphere Solvent Effects in Ligand Substitution Reactions at Manganese(II) and Manganese(III),” Inorg. Chem., 2005, 44, 3405-3411.
• Jack S. Summers,* John Shimko, Fredric L. Freedman, Christopher T. Badger, and Michael Sturgess, “Displacement of Mn2+ from RNA by K+, Mg2+, Neomycin b, and an Arginine Rich Peptide: Indirect Detection of Nucleic Acid/Ligand Interactions using Phosphorus Relaxation Enhancement (PhoRE),” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2002, 124, 14934-14939.
• Jack S. Summers*, Charles G. Hoogstraten, R. David Britt, Karel Base, Barbara Ramsay Shaw, Anthony A. Ribeiro, and Alvin L. Crumbliss, “31P NMR Probes of Chemical Dynamics: Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancement of the 1H and 31P NMR Resonances of Methylphosphite and Methylethylphosphate Anions by Selected Metal Complexes,” Inorg. Chem., 2001, 40, 6547-6554.
• Jack S. Summers and Barbara Ramsay Shaw, “Boranophosphates as Mimics of Natural Phosphodiesters in DNA,” Curr. Med. Chem. 2001, 8, 1147-1156.