e-mail:  cdrain@hunter.cuny.edu Prof. Drain in his Hunter College Lab Biography Charles Michael Drain is Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. from Tufts University in the laboratory of Barry B. Corden, and did postdoctoral work in the laboratory of David Mauzerall at The Rockefeller University. At this time he examined self-organizing systems composed of porphyrins and lipid bilayers and developed one of the first examples of a purely organic, synthetic phototransistor. He also examined the interactions between chiral center in ion channels and lipids with Nobel Laureate R.Bruce Merrifield. The following two years he was a guest researcher in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Jean-Marie Lehn at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, ULP France, where he developed methodologies to self-assemble porphyrins in highly specific geometries. Afterwards he spent two years as a research fellow in the Holten/Kirmaier laboratory at Washington University studying the complex photodynamics of nickel porphyrins and self-assembled porphyrin arrays. Since joining Hunter College in January, 1996, his research continues to focus on the design, synthesis, and characterization of ion-active and/or photo-active self-assembling and/or self-organizing systems. He received the Galvani Prize of the Bioelectrochemical Society in 1989. Dr. Drain started his careed in chemistry at the University of Missour in St. Louis. UMSL Chemistry He participated in two patents and has received grant support from the N.S.F., The Rockefeller University, French Ministry of Science, and the Chateaubriand foundation. C.M. Drain CV