Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2020
S.M., University of Chicago, 2017
B.A., Haverford College, 2013
GCIS E033
929 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637 USA
sohail@engelgroup.uchicago.edu
(773)-702-6066
S.H. Sohail, S. Sohoni, P.-C. Ting, L.R. Fantz, S.M. Abdulhadi, C. MacGregor-Chatwin, A. Hitchcock, C.N. Hunter, G.S. Engel and S.C. Massey "Functional Connectivity of Red Chlorophylls in Cyanobacterial Photosystem I Revealed by Fluence-Dependent Transient Absorption", J. Phys. Chem B 129 , 3191–3197 2025
J.S. Higgins*, M.A. Allodi*, L.T. Lloyd, J.P. Otto, S.H. Sohail, R.G. Saer, R.E. Wood, S.C. Massey, P.-C. Ting, R.E. Blankenship and G.S. Engel "Redox conditions correlated with vibronic coupling modulate quantum beats in photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes", PNAS 118 , e2112817118 2021
J.S. Higgins, L.T. Lloyd, S.H. Sohail, M.A. Allodi, J.P. Otto, R.G. Saer, R.E. Wood, S.C. Massey, P.-C. Ting, R.E. Blankenship and G.S. Engel "Photosynthesis tunes quantum mechanical mixing of electronic and vibrational states to steer exciton energy transfer", PNAS 118 , e2018240118 2021
S.H. Sohail, J.P. Otto, P.D. Cunningham, Y.C. Kim, R.E. Wood, M.A. Allodi, J.S. Higgins, J.S. Melinger and G.S. Engel "DNA scaffold supports long-lived vibronic coherence in an indodicarbocyanine (Cy5) dimer", Chemical Science 11 , 8546-8557 2020
S.C. Massey, P.-C. Ting, S.-H. Yeh, P.D. Dahlberg, S.H. Sohail, M.A. Allodi, E.C. Martin, S. Kais, C.N. Hunter and G.S. Engel "Orientational Dynamics of Transition Dipoles and Exciton Relaxation in LH2 from Ultrafast Two-Dimensional Anisotropy", JPCL 10 , 270–277 2019
M.A. Allodi, J.P. Otto, S.H. Sohail, R.G. Saer, R.E. Wood, B.S. Rolczynski, S.C. Massey, P.-C. Ting, R.E. Blankenship and G.S. Engel "Redox Conditions Affect Ultrafast Exciton Transport in Photosynthetic Pigment-Protein Complexes", J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9 , 89-95 2018
S.H. Sohail*, P.D. Dahlberg*, M.A. Allodi, S.C. Massey, P.-C. Ting, E.C. Martin, C.N. Hunter and G.S. Engel "Communication: Broad Manifold of Excitonic States in Light-Harvesting Complex 1 Promotes Efficient Unidirectional Energy Transfer in vivo", J. Chem. Phys 147 , 131101 2017
Congratulations to Professor Sara Sohail on accepting her position as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Swarthmore College.
Congratulations to Jake Higgins, Marco Allodi, Lawson Lloyd, John Otto, Sara Sohail, Ryan Wood, Sara Massey, and Po-Chieh Ting as well as our collaborators in the Blankenship Group on having their paper entitled, "Redox conditions correlated with vibronic coupling modulate quantum beats in photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes" published in PNAS.
Congratulations to Jake Higgins, Lawson Lloyd, Sara Sohail, Marco Allodi, John Otto, Ryan Wood, Po-Chieh Ting and our collaborators in the Blankenship Group on their paper being published in PNAS. The paper is entitled, "Photosynthesis tunes quantum mechanical mixing of electronic and vibrational states to steer exciton energy transfer".
Sara Sohail, John Otto, Ryan Wood, Marco Allodi, and Jake Higgins have had their paper entitled "DNA scaffold supports long-lived vibronic coherence in an indodicarbocyanine (Cy5) dimer" has been accepted to Chemical Science. The paper was written in collaboration with Joe Melinger, Paul Cunningham and Youngchan Kim at NRL.
Best of luck to Dr. Sara Sohail on starting her postdoc in Hoi Sung Chung's group at NIH
Congratulations to Sara Massey, Po-Chieh Ting, Shu-Hao Yeh, Pete Dahlberg, Sara Sohail, Marco Allodi, and our collaborators in the Kais group and Hunter Group on having their paper entitled, "Orientational Dynamics of Transition Dipoles and Exciton Relaxation in LH2 from Ultrafast Two-Dimensional Anisotropy", published online in JPCL.
Congratulations to Sara Sohail on winning the PHYS Division Poster Award at the Boston ACS Meeting for her poster entitled, "Following excitonic pathways in cyanobacteria by 2D electronic spectroscopy".
Congratulations to Ryan Wood, Sara Sohail, and Sara Massey on presenting their work at the 256th ACS National Meeting.
Congratulations to Marco Allodi, John Otto, Sara Sohail, Ryan Wood, Brian Rolczynski, Sara Massey, and Po-Chieh Ting as well as our collaborators in the Blankenship Group on having their paper entitled, "Redox Conditions Affect Ultrafast Exciton Transport in Photosynthetic Pigment-Protein Complexes", published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
Congratulations to Sara Sohail, Pete Dahlberg, Marco Allodi, Sara Massey, Po-Chieh Ting and our collaborators in the Hunter Group on having their paper entitled, "Broad Manifold of Excitonic States in Light-Harvesting Complex 1 Promotes Efficient Unidirectional Energy Transfer in vivo", accepted to JCP as a Communication.
Congratulations to Sara Sohail on receiving a Department of Defense NDSEG fellowship!
Sara Sohail and Sarah Zinn receive Honorable Mention from the NSF Graduate Fellowship Competition
Congratulations to Richard Mazuski, Sara Sohail, Ryan Wood and Sarah Zinn on passing their qualifying examination and being admitted to candidacy.
Congratulations to Sara Hess on winning the Nathan Sugarman Teaching Award from the Department of Chemistry.
Welcome to Sara Hess, Richard Mazuski, and Ryan Wood, who have joined the group as Graduate Students.