Rachel A. Saylor

  • Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Areas of Study

Education

  • BS, Wittenberg University, 2010
  • PhD, University of Kansas, 2015

Developing and employing analytical techniques to solve neurobiological problems.

Oberlin undergraduate student coauthors are underlined:

Rigby, E.L. and Saylor, R.A. “To fluoresce or not to fluoresce: Investigation of structural and fluorescence characteristics of CBI-dopamine, CBI-serotonin, and their structural analogs,” Analytical Chemistry, 2023, 95, 14889 – 14897.

Gonzalez Quevedo, P., Rigby, E.L., Kearney, S., Saylor, R.A. “Optimized derivatization of primary amines with the fluorogenic reagent naphthalene-2,3-dicarboxaldehyde toward reproducible quantitative analysis in biological systems,” Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2023, 418 (18), 4297-4306.

Saylor, R.A. and Lunte, S.M. “Role of Bioanalytical Chemistry in the Twenty-First Century” in: L.T. Kubota, J.A. Fracassi, M.M. Sena, and W.A. Alves (Eds.), Tools and Trends in Bioanalytical Chemistry, Springer Nature, 2022.  

Spring 2025

Structure and Reactivity in Chemistry — CHEM 101

Bioanalytical Chemistry — CHEM 361

Notes

Rachel Saylor Coauthored Article Published

October 18, 2023

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Rachel Saylor has published an article, "To Fluoresce or Not to Fluoresce: Investigation of Structural and Fluorescence Characteristics of CBI-Dopamine, CBI-Serotonin, and Their Structural Analogs" in Analytical Chemistry. Her coauthor is Elizabeth Rigby ’22.

Rachel Saylor Coauthored Article Published in "Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry"

February 1, 2023

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Rachel Saylor recently published an article, "Optimized derivatization of primary amines with the fluorogenic reagent naphthalene‐2,3‐dicarboxaldehyde toward reproducible quantitative analysis in biological systems," in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. Coauthors are Paola Gonzalez Quevedo ’21, Elizabeth Rigby ’22, and Samuel Kearney ’22.

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