Prof. David Huffman grew up in a small farming community in central Illinois and attended college in Greenville, South Carolina. After college he managed a package plant for biological wastewater treatment. A volunteer lecture in a high school class led to an enjoyable year teaching science, math, and history courses. The ease of this experience led him to begin a master’s degree in Inorganic Chemistry at Illinois State University under the direction of Dr. Douglax X. West, performing EPR and measuring magnetic moments of metal thiosemicarbazone complexes, later tested as antifungal and anticancer agents. For doctoral studies, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Kenneth S. Suslick at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, synthesizing new hindered metalloporphyrins and their peptide complexes, using novel 15-mer amphiphilic peptides. He then performed postdoctoral research with Dr. Thomas V. O’Halloran at Northwestern University, first studying copper resistant bacteria, then yeast and human metallochaperones and their molecular targets. Huffman is a Professor of Chemistry at Western Michigan University.He studies the function of copper transporting proteins.
Prof. Huffman gave a Seminar talk on Wednesday April 24, 2024 at the Faculty of Science Boardroom, Chiromo Campus, University of Nairobi on the Study of Copper Transport in Human Cells. This seminar was attended by both staff and students from Chemistry, Bio-Chemistry & Biology.
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