Dr. Reid’s research interests inlude kinetic analysis and modeling of biological and chemical systems. As a graduate student, his emphasis was on the Kinetic Analysis of Thiol Oxidation to Study the Effects of Fluorinated Groups on Metal Phthalocyanine Catalysts. Such technology is used in wastewater and petroleum treatment in mining facilities, pulp and paper mills, and oil refineries. Dr. Reid’s current research focuses on building kinetic models to describe lipid metabolism and alterations caused by breast cancer via multi-modal, nonlinear optical microscopy techniques. The goal is to correlate such models with DNA aberrations on the epigenetic level to further understand the cross talk between cellular metabolism and DNA methylation/histone modification. This research involves a cross functional team of undergraduate, graduate and faculty level chemical engineers, pharmaceutical scientists and physicists from both Hampton University and the University of California, Irvine.
