Undergraduate Research Conference
The
conference is sponsored by the
UC Davis Department
of Chemistry and by
Prof.
Richard Larock (Department of Chemistry,
Conference program
The conference begins at 10 am with registration in room 172 followed by the opening address at 10:20 am in room 176. Presentations are then scheduled in two parallel sessions in rooms 166 and 172. Sessions will be moderated by a faculty member who also facilitates a brief discussion after each presentation. A free lunch is served in the Gunrock Pub Patio area. After a keynote address by Prof. Cynthia Burrows, the conference concludes at ~3:30 with the awards ceremony.
| Registration, Coffee,
|
10:00 - 10:20 a.m. |
| Opening Address in room 176 | 10:20 - 10:30 a.m. |
| Morning Sessions A (room 166) and B (room 176) | 10:30 - 12:00 noon |
| Free lunch in Gunrock Pub Patio | 12:00 - 12:45 p.m. |
| Afternoon Sessions A (room 166) and B (room 176) | 12:45 - 2:00 p.m. |
| Refreshments in Room 172 | 2:00 - 2:10 p.m. |
| Keynote Address by Prof. Cynthia Burrows | 2:10 - 3:00 p.m. |
| Awards Ceremony | 3:15 - 3:30 p.m. |
Morning Session A (room 166) 10:30-12:00 noon
A1 Photocatalytic Water splitting with layered nanosheet structures
Latisha Paw U, Mark Allen, Frank Osterloh
A2 Co-crystallizing various amine compounds with fullerenes
Faye Bowles, Thelma Garcia, Dr. Alan Balch
A3 Effect of incubation time on covalent bond formation between APD-DOTA and mAb 2D12.5 G54K Fab
Catherine Dufour, Bernadette Marques, Claude Meares
A4 Dynamic Web-Based Chemical Education Toolset
Matt Barkovich, Delmar Larsen
A5 Synthesis of 2’-fluoro-N-methylformamidopyrimidine lesions within DNA
Christa Parmer, Sheng Cao, and Sheila David
A6 Separation and Characterization of Endohedral Fullerenes
Kelly Chen, Brandon Mercado, Alan Balch
Morning Session B (room 176) 10:30-12:00 noon
B1 Progress Towards a Geranyl Pyrophosphate Mimic
Victor Lui, Michael Lodewyk, Dean Tantillo
B2 The Efficient Synthesis of a Potent Immuno-stimulatory Agent: alpha-Galactosylceramide
Francine Park, Matt Schombs,, Suvarn Kulkarni, Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague
B3 Ultrafast spectroscopy and the blue/green light activated cyanobacteriochrome Tlr0924
Lucy Freer, Lu Zhao, AJ Thibert, Nathan Rockwell, Clark Lagarias, Delmar Larsen
B4 The Diastereoselective Synthesis of (+/-)-Heliotropamide by a One-Pot Four-Component Reaction
Gregory Chin, Jared T. Shaw
B5 Monitoring the Binding of Y-ABD to Antibody 2D12.5 in Aqueous Solution using Overlayer Enhanced Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (OE-ATR-FTIR)
Simon Park, Travis C. Ruthenburg, Tolulope Aweda, Donald P. Land, Claude Meares
B6 Picosecond dynamics of the far-red Fluorescent Phytochrome Mutant, Cph1
Lu Zhao, Lucy Freer, Clark Lagarias, Keenan Taylor, Delmar Larsen
Afternoon Session A (room 166) 12:45 – 2:00 pm
A7 E1 and C1: Synthesis of Mitochondrial Fusion and Fission Inhibitor Analogs
Ruben Martinez, J. Shaw, L. Lackner
A8 Size effect of platinum nanoparticle catalyzed reactions for hydrogen production
Alexander M. Sutherland, Yongquan Qu, Jennifer Lien and Ting Guo
A9 Self- assembled porphyrin nanostructures
Tony Vu, John Jacobsen, Craig Medforth, John Shelnutt, Neil Schore
A10 Asymmetric Catalysis of Friedel-Crafts Alkylation with Isatin and Electron-rich Arenes Using Sc (III) Complex
Aziza Sahin, Toby Chang, Nadine V. Hanhan, Annaliese K. Franz
A11 Target Identification of 534F6
Katherine Hurley, Jared T. Shaw
Afternoon Session B (room 176) 12:45 – 2:00 pm
B7 Synthesis of 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galactopyransoly-L- serine/threonine for glycopeptides synthesis
Musleh Muthana, Saddam Muthana, Xi Chen
B8 Disulfone Analogs: HIV-1 Entry and IN Inhibitors
Denise Mullery, Ivy Kekessie, Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague
B9 Optimizing the Asymmetric Addition of Pi-Nucleophiles to Isatins Using a Chiral Sc(III) Catalyst
Toby Chang, Aziza Sahin, Nadine V. Hanhan, Annaliese K. Franz
B10 An Oxazolo[3,2-b]indazole based Route to 1H-Indazolones
James Oakdale, Mark Kurth
B11 Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of New Amino Silanol Catalysts for Asymmetric Synthesis
Jennier Etcheson, Taewoo Min, Ngon Tran, Annaliese Franz
2:10 - 3:00 pm Keynote Address by Prof. Cynthia Burrows (University of Utah),
'The Chemistry of Guanine Oxidation leading to DNA Mutations'
Prof. Cynthia J. Burrows
University of Utah
Activities & Awards