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Sheryl Dykstra

Associate Teaching Professor
Sheryl Dykstra

Sheryl Dykstra

Professional Appointments and Affiliations

Director of Undergraduate Organic and Instrumentation Laboratories

Assistant Head for Undergraduate Outreach

Office:

211 Whitmore Laboratory

University Park, PA 16802

Education:

Ph.D., Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 2008

B.S., Biochemistry, Grove City College, 2003

Information:

Dr. Dykstra currently teaches Chem 213W, Organic Chemistry Laboratory, as well as a variety of organic lecture courses such as Chem 202, Chem 212, and Chem 430.

Selected Publications:

Boonyarattanakalin, S., Hu, J., Dykstra-Rummel, S., August, A., and Peterson, B. R. “Endocytic Delivery of Vancomycin Mediated by a Synthetic Cell Surface Receptor: Rescue of Bacterially Infected Mammalian Cells and Tissue Targeting In Vivo” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 268-269.



Boonyarattanakalin, S., Martin, S. E., Dykstra, S. A. and Peterson, B. R. “Synthetic Mimics of Small Mammalian Cell Surface Receptors” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 16379-16386.