Michal Sabat
Senior Scientist
Nanoscale Materials Characterization Facility (NMCF)
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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Department of Chemistry

Ph.D. 1976 University of Wroclaw, Poland
M.S. 1970 University of Wroclaw, Poland

Department of Materials Science & Engineering
University of Virginia
PO Box 400745
395 McCormick Road
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4745
Office: MSE Building Room 101
p: 434- 924-7862
f: 434- 982-5660
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postdoctoral experience | professional experience | research interests | awards & honors | selected publications

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1981-1983

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1980-1981

Director, Molecular Structure Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1990-2010

Lecturer in Chemistry, Director of X-Ray Crystallography and Molecular Graphics, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston , IL , 1986-1989

Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Stereochemistry, National Research Council (CNR), Florence, Italy, 1983 -1986.

Soft Materials and Biomaterials
Applications of Crystal Engineering and Supramolecular Chemistry in Materials Science
Modern X-Ray Techniques in Materials Science and Nanotechnology
Structural Chemistry and X-Ray Crystallography

1999 David Harrison III Award for Undergraduate Advising

“Mechanistic Studies of Ethylene Hydrophenylation Catalyzed by Bipyridyl Pt(II) Complexes” McKeown, B.A.;  Gonzalez, H.E.;  Friedfeld, M.R.;  Gunnoe, T.B.;  Cundari, T.R.; and Sabat, M. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 19131

“Photophysical and Analyte Sensing Properties of Cyclometalated Ir(III)  Complexes” Leavens, B. B. H.  Trindle, C.O.,  Sabat, M.,  Altun. Z., Demas, J.N. and DeGraff, B.A.  J. Fluoresc., 2011,21, 1319.

“Identification of NRMT, an α-N-methyltransferase That Methylates RCC1 and the Retinoblastoma Protein RB” Schaner Tooley, C. E.,  Petkowski, J. J. , Muratore-Schroeder,T. L. , Shabanowitz, J. , Sabat, M., Minor, W.,  Hunt, D. F.  and  Macara, I. G. Nature, 2010, 466, 1125.

“Reversible Mechanochromic Luminescence of Solid-State Difluoroboron Avobenzone”, Zhang, G.; Lu, J.; Sabat, M.; Fraser C.L .J. Am.Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 2160.

“Self-Assembly of Supramolecular Fibers and Thermoreversible Gels in Non-Polar Media by a Propargylic Alcohol with Fluorinated and Non-Fluorinated Aromatic Rings.“ Borges, A.R.; Hyacinth, M.A.; Lum, M.; Dingle, C.M.; Hamilton, P.L.; Chruszcz, M.; Pu, L.; Sabat, M.; Caran, K.L. Langmuir, 2008, 24, 7421.

“Diversity Space and Its Application to Library Selection and Design”, Fitzgerald, S.H.; Sabat, M.; Geysen, H.M. J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2006, 46, 1588.

Total: 280 publications in refereed journals, 5 book chapters, 18 invited talks, 86 presentations at scientific meetings. Supervised: 2 doctoral thesis projects, 2 postdoctoral advisees, 45 undergraduate researchers.