Morning Session A (room 166) 10:15-12:00 noon

A1 Stereoselective Synthesis of Biologically Relevant Spirocyclic Oxindoles

Gary E. Arevalo, Joseph J. Badillo, and Annaliese K. Franz*

A2 Orthogonally Protected Thiazole and Isoxazole Diamino Acids:

An Efficient Synthetic Route

Keith C. Coffman, Jeffrey D. Butler, and Mark J. Kurth*

A3 Using NMR techniques to determine the protonation state of critical histidines in the ferredoxin-dependent bilin reductase

Michael A. Richley, James B. Ames, J. Clark Lagarias, and Andrew J. Fisher*

A4 Investigating the Role of Positively Charged Residues within the Pseudo-Iron-Sulfur Cluster Loop of Archaeoglobus fulgidus Uracil DNA Glycosylase

Tai Holland, Lisa Engstrom, and Sheila S. David*

A5 Probing the DNA recognition feature of MutY glycosylase using OG analogs

Shin Lan Liu, Paige McKibbin, Michelle L. Hamm, Sheila S. David*

A6 Stereoselective Synthesis of 14C-labelled lutein

Laura McWade, Marc Julliard, Hosea D. Matel, Krishnan Nambiar,* and Andrew J. Clifford

A7 Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Unnatural Sialosides

Musleh Muthana, Zahra Khedri, Saddam Muthana, Xi Chen*

Morning Session B (room 176) 10:15-12:00 noon

B1 Quantifying the DNA Repair Activity of MUTYH Variants associated with

Colorectal Cancer

Cindy Chang, Alan Raetz. Sheila S. David*

B2 Synthesis of seven-membered ring analogs on 2H-indazoles

Andrew J. Ferreira, Danielle M. Solano, Mark J. Kurth*

B3 The oxidation of Na4Si4 to prepare type I clathrate and silicon nanoparticles.

Steven Hananouchi, Tonya M. Atkins, Xuchu Ma, Julia Wang, Susan M. Kauzlarich*

B4 Kinetics of the Oxidative Regulation of E. coli CTPS by Diamide, Hydrogen Peroxide, and Copper Phenanthroline

Brian L. Hua, Enoch P. Baldwin,* Till Giese

B5  Synthesis and SAR Analysis of Mitochondrial Fission Inhibitors and Analogs

Ruben Martinez, Jodi Nunnari, Laura Lackner, Jared T. Shaw*

B6 A review on the inhibitory effect of ammonia on the photosynthetic oxygen evolution of the PSII protein complex

Qi Mo, Troy Stich, David R. Britt*

B7 Comparison of enzymes for biofuels production in thermophilic cyanobacteria

Tony Pan, Oliver G. Hernaez, Avik Patel, Michael R. Connor, Shota Atsumi*

Afternoon Session A (room 166) 12:45-2:00 pm

A8 Optimizing the Efficiency of alpha-Galactosylceramide Synthesis through Regulation of Tetrabutylammonium Iodide

Francine Park, Matt Schombs, Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague*

A9 Synthesis of Heterocyclic Totarol Analogs for Inhibition of FtsZ

Florentine U. Rutaganira, Michelle B. Kim M.S., Dr. Jared T. Shaw*

A10 Synthesis and characterization of a redox active MRI T2 agent

Rachel Smith, Elizabeth Osborne, Angelique Louie*

A11 Synthesis of Mn doped Si Nanoparticles for Biological Imaging

Jolinda Tam, Tonya M. Atkins, Angelique Louie, and Susan M. Kauzlarich    

A12 Theoretical Hydration Energies of Biologically Relevant alpha-Keto Amides

Henry Wedler, Christian S. Hamann, Dean Tantillo*

Afternoon Session B (room 176) 12:45-2:00 pm

B8 Expression and Purification of Miro1, a Ca2+ Sensor for Mitochondrial Trafficking

Jane Halahan, Sunghyuk Lim, James Ames*

B9 Transesterification of Triacylglycerides for the Preparation of Biodiesel

Abel Silva, Lisa Anderson, Megan Danielewicz, Diana Wong, Annaliese K. Franz*

B10 Inhibitors of Amyloid Aggregation

Amy Tam, Binh C. Dao, Krishnan Nambiar

B11 Adsorption and Phase Transition of Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine Liposomes via Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

Mateo Hernandez, Elyse Towns*, Donald P. Land

B12 Enantioselective Synthesis of 3-hydroxy-2-oxindoles and 3,3-disubstituted-2-oxindoles

Casey Wong, Aziza Sahin and Annaliese Franz*

Keynote Address by Prof. Richard Larock (Iowa State University),

'Novel Biobased Plastics, Rubbers, Composites, and Coatings from Agricultural Oils and By-products'

Prof. Richard Larock

Richard C. Larock, Distinguished Professor, received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1972, after completing his undergraduate training at the University of California, Davis, in 1967. Since his arrival at Iowa State, he has been a fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a recipient of a DuPont Young Faculty Award, and a winner of two Merck Academic Development Awards, an Iowa Regent's Award for Faculty Excellence, the 2003 ACS Edward Leete Award, the 2004 Paul Rylander Award of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society, and a 2004 ACS Arthur C. Cope Senior Scholar Award, and the 2009 ACS Award Midwest Region. He is the author of four books on organomercurials and synthetic organic methodology. Dr. Larock's research interests include organopalladium chemistry and organic polymers.

More at http://www.chem.iastate.edu/faculty/Richard_Larock/research.html

Contact: Tel : 515-294-4660, Email : larock@iastate.edu