Prof. Keith Stine

Prof. Keith J Stine is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Department Chair at the University of Missouri. He received his BS in Chemistry from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1984, and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from MIT in 1988. From 1998 to 1990, he was a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA in the lab of Charles M. Knobler. He joined the UMSL faculty in 1990. He served as the Chair of the Faculty Senate and University Assembly for two years and was appointed Department Chair in August 2019. His research effort involves studies of modified surfaces and nanostructures. The surface modification of nanostructures is pursued with a focus on their prospective applications in bioanalytical chemistry such as immunoassays, sensors, or separations. His other projects concern the study of lipid monolayers and bilayers as models of processes occurring at the surface of cell membranes, and the use of these monolayers in molecular recognition studies.