Please note that this year's conference will be held at the University Club Conference Center. The center is located on Old Davis road near the arboretum. A map and driving directions are available here.

- Conference Photos

The conference is sponsored by the UC Davis Department of Chemistry and by Prof. Richard Larock (Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University). We also like to acknowledge a generous donation of coffee mugs from Fisher Scientific.

2008 Best Presentation Awards

1st prize ($200):

Nicole Schirle (Beal group) 'Development and Screening of Macrocyclic Helix-Threading Peptides'

2nd prize ($100):

Alex Sutherland (Guo group) 'Eliminating Greenhouse Gases using a Novel Dry Reforming Catalyst'

3rd prize ($50):

Sean Beecroft (Lebrilla group) 'A Statistically Based Program to Classify Mass Spectra and Identify Spectral Markers'

4th prize ($50):

Kostia Malley (Larsen group) 'Chromophore dynamics in retinal Schiff bases and novel rhodopsin mimics characterized by ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy'

5th prize ($50):

Simon S.M. Park (Land group) 'An approach to Biosensors using Overlayer Enhanced Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared (OE-ATR-FTIR) Spectroscopy'

2007 Best Presentation Awards

1st prize (shared):

Evan Horn, Investigation into an Efficient Synthetic Scheme Leads to Two New Sialic Acid Dimers

Ilya Yakovlev, A New Approach to Peptide Radiolabeling for the Imaging of Cancer by Positron Emission Tomography

2nd prize:

Jason Holden, Designing a 3-phenyl-4,5-dihydroisoxazole-5-amide Library for Drug Discovery

3rd prize:

Adrienne Kucma, Investigation of an Easy Synthesis of Yb11A10 (A=Sb, Bi)

4th prize:

Ryan Henning, Mechanism Studies of a Multifunctional Sialyltransferase from Pasteurella multocida