Chemistry Honors Students Present 48 Research Posters During Honors Day Event

Photo by Denise Greathouse

Chemistry majors participate in Honors Poster Exhibition.

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Honors Day was held April 18 and featured research presentations by the junior and senior honors students. The list below includes the honors students, project titles, and faculty mentors for the 48 projects presented.

• Leslie Paige Baldwin – Visible-Light-Mediated Oxidation of Hydroxylamines: A New Pathway to Indole Synthesis | Nan Zheng
• Haley Owens Birch – Designing a Tethering Structure that Optimizes the Catalytic Function of Bimetallic Systems | Stephan Kilyanek
• Heather K. Bogey – Can Native Enzyme Conformation Act as a Template for Refolding of RNase A? Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam
• Austin Keith Bramwell – Selectivity of Structural Analogs of Urushiol, the Allergen in Poison Ivy, for Cysteine-containing Proteins | Wesley Stites
• Sarah D. Burnett – Modeling the Three-dimensional Structure of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1 | Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam
• Augustin Julio Casals – Chemical Stability and Binding to a Small Molecule Analysis of Cdc42 WT and Cdc42 F28L | Paul Adams
• Kailey Annette Claunch – Exploring the Inhibition of β-Galactosidase | Susanne Striegler
• Ashleigh R. Ellenwood – Fluconazole Derivatives | Matt McIntosh
• Amy Nicole James – Improving Photocatalytic Activity by Appending a Quinone to Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complex | Nan Zheng
• Sana Ashraf Khan – Origin of Esters and Fatty Acids in Beer | Jack Lay
• Alexandrea H. Kim – Lactoferricin Peptides: The Importance of Methyl-Trp and Gln for Structure and Activity | Denise Greathouse
• Marlee E. Maier – Evaluation of Exercise Associated Muscle Cramp Risk Based on Sweat Rate and Sweat Electrolyte Concentrations | Brendon McDermott
• Craig McLean – Predicting Marine Siderophore Production: A Bioinformatic Analysis | Paul Adams
• Emily K. Miller – Polydopamine-Wrapped Nanoparticles for Antibiotic Delivery | Jingyi Chen
• Hannah N. Miller – Synthesis of Microgel Polymers as Catalysts | Susanne Striegler
• Armin Mortazavi – Detection of Helix Fraying in Designed Transmembrane Alpha Helices | Roger Koeppe II
• Roshni Jitendrakumar Patel – Engineering a Mutation in the Heparin Binding Pocket of the Human Fibroblast Growth Factor | Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam
• Nhu Q. Phan – Allocation of Amino Acids in Broiler Breeders | Jack Lay
• Cole David Plunkett – Effect of Single Point Mutation in the Switch I Binding Pocket of Ras Protein Cdc42 on Interactions with Small Molecule ZCL278 | Paul Adams
• Julie Rhee – Staphylococcal Nuclease and Ubiquitin Local Folding Energies and Rates using PEPS-HDX-ESI-MS | Wesley Stites
• Jennifer Rebecca Silva-Nash – Regulation of the Reaction between Cytochrome c and Cytochrome Oxidase | Frank Millett
• Tyler Matthew Sweat – A Study of Approaches to the Synthesis of Transition Metallaanthracenes | Neil Allison
• Jordana Kathryn Thibado | Influence of Cholesterol on Single Arginine-Containing Transmembrane Helical Peptides | Roger Koeppe II
• Cody Timmerman – Soluble Expression, One-step Purification, and Biophysical Characterization of the C-Terminal Domain of ALB-3 from Pisum sativum | Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam
• Savannah K. Ullrich – Controlling the Deposition of Gold on Janus Nanodumbbells | Jingyi Chen
• Levi D. Watson – Fundamental Studies of Macromolecule Microdialysis Calibration | Julie Stenken
• Ryan M. Wendt – Investigating Possible Interactions between Ionizable Residues in Model Transmembrane Peptides | Roger Koeppe II
• Rima S. Bhakta – Synthesis of New Ipomoeassin F Derivatives with an Ester, Amide-Modified Aglycone | Wei Shi
• Michael G. Dasso – Engineering Human Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF1-delta222 mutant) for Enhanced Stability and Increased Mutagenic Activity | Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam
• Christian James Goodnow – Electrochemical Reduction of Molybdenum (VI) Species | Stefan Kilyanek
• Daniel J. Griffin – The Development of a Novel Triazole-Containing Ipomoeassin F Derivative using 'Click Chemistry' | Wei Shi
• Garrett Ryan Hadley – The Bifunctionalization of Cyclobutylanilines by Photoredox Catalysis | Nan Zhang
• George I Hristoskov – Characterizing the Influence of a RAS Inhibitor on the Conformational Stability of Cdc42 and a Fast-Cycling Cdc42 Variant | Paul Adams
• Justin Michael Klucher – Enzyme Kinetics Studies to Guide Mathematical Modeling of Microdialysis Sampling of in situ Biochemistry | Julie Stenken
• Kelsey R. Knobbe – Solid-State NMR to Investigate the Interaction between Ionizable Arginine and Glutamic Acid Residues in Transmembrane Peptides | Denise Greathouse
• Anusha S. Majagi – Generating Biologically Active FGF1 Dimer Using Chemical Cross Linking Methods | Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam
• Madison N. Martinez – Applications of the Targeting Mechanism of Clostridium histolyticum ColH Collagen-Binding Domain| Joshua Sakon
• Madeline C. Meier – Verification of the Geometric Coefficient K using Electrochemical Time of Flight Experiments | David Paul
• Maya Merriweather – Classification of the conformational stability of a Ras effector protein | Paul Adams
• Logan G. Mills – Evaluating the Inhibition of β-galactosidase from Aspergillus oryzae | Susanne Striegler
• Collin Jeffrey Mondrik – Total Synthesis of Brartemicin and a 3|5-Dihydroxy-Substituted Analog | Wei Shi
• Elizabeth Lea O' Daniel – Investigation of FGF-R136E: Analysis of Protein Structure | Suresh Kumar
• Fred W. Pohlman II – Isolation and Characterization of Heparin from Bovine Intestinal and Respiratory Tissue | Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam
• Christopher C. Randall –| Design of a Human Fibroblast Growth Factor (phFGF-1) with Enhanced Stability and Increased Mitogenic Activity | Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam
• Russell A. Sharp – Identifying the Structure of Salmon Sperm DNA from DNA Fiber | Joshua Sakon
• Hunter D. Vines – Biochemical Studies of the Interaction between Ligand-Binding Domain of Estrogen Receptor Alpha and Histone Acetyltransferase 1 | Yuchun Du
• Carly S. Welsh – Development of Palladium-Based Bioorthogonal Reactions | Wei Shi
• Abigail M. Williams – Surface Immobilization of Terpyridine Compounds | Stefan Kilyanek