Today’s Undergraduate Symposium will feature 28 outstanding undergraduate chemistry major researchers and undergraduate researchers working with chemistry faculty. The event will take place at Union South from noon to 4:45 p.m.
This campus-wide symposium showcases the “creativity, achievement, research, service learning, and community-based research” of nearly 700 undergraduates across all areas of study at UW-Madison.
Students selected to participate include undergraduates from the Burstyn, Cavagnero, Forest, Ge, Gellman, Hamers, Jin, Kiessling, Li, Nathanson, Pedersen, Record, Schomaker, Stahl, Tang, Weisshaar research groups.
Talks
12:30-1:45 p.m.
Sift & Winnow Room
Pharmaceutical Mixture Toxicity to Arabidopsis thaliana
Madison Czerwinski, Mentor: Prof. Joel Pedersen
Industry B Room
Mass Spectrometry-Focused Method Development and Application for Crustacean Neuropeptide Analysis
Kylie Helfenbein, Mentor: Prof. Lingjun Li
Wisconsin Idea Room
Regiospecificity of Galactan Polymerization by Divergent GlfT2 Orthologs
Patric Sadecki, Mentor: Prof. Weiping Tang
Agriculture A Room
Using Velocity Anisotropy to Analyze Turbulence in Giant Molecular Clouds
Alecio Madrid, Mentor: Audra Hernandez
2-3:15 p.m.
Preferential Interactions of Sugars with Nucleobases and Aromatics
Emilio Jacobo, Mentor: Thomas Record
Kinetic study of Kharash-Sosnovsky allylic oxidation of olefins
Jingyi Zhao, Mentor: Shannon Stahl
3:30-4:45 p.m.
Characterizing Nanoparticle Association with Bacterial Cell Wall Interfaces by Solid State NMR
James O’Rourke, Mentor: Joel Pedersen
Lightning Talks
12:30-1:45 p.m.
Development of Nanoparticle Based Artificial Antibodies for the Detection of Troponin-I
Cyrus Colah, Mentor: Prof. Ying Ge (Northwoods A)
Investigating analogs of eflornithine, an irreversible inhibitor of ornithine decarboxylase
Luke Oxtoby, Mentor: Prof. Jennifer Schomaker (Fifth Quarter Studio)
Evaluating the roles of antibacterial nylon-3 polymer properties against Clostridium difficile
Casey Ritts, Mentor: Prof. Samuel Gellman (Fifth Quarter Studio)
3:30-4:45 p.m.
Optimization of the Gp2 mini-protein scaffold
Boyu Yin, Mentor: Prof. Samuel Gellman (Northwoods A)
Posters
12:30-1:45 p.m.
#64 – Synthesis of model heme-thiolate ligand precursors with variable intramolecular hydrogen bonding
Michael Milbauer, Mentor: Prof. Judith Burstyn
#100 – Probing the Thermodynamic Stability of the Ribosome via Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Aniruddha Srivastava, Mentor: Prof. Silvia Cavagnero
#121 – Electrostatic Contributions of Aromatic Residues in Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions
Stephen Early, Mentor: Prof. Laura Kiessling
#154 – Biochemical Studies of Sub2 Designed to be Sensitive to Chemical Analog
Jack McCann, Mentor: Aaron Hoskins
#160 – Investigating the role of GlfT2 in mycobacterial cell wall assembly
Lili Kim, Mentor: Prof. Laura Kiessling
#194 – Assembly of a Confocal Microscope for Single-Molecule FRET Studies on Nascent Protein Folding
Tess Carlson, Mentor: Prof. Silvia Cavagnero
#197 – Reaction Dynamics of Atmospheric Nitrogen Oxide Removal by the Sea-Surface Microlayer
Melvin Matthew, Mentor: Prof. Gilbert Nathanson
#209 – Impact of Metabolism on Toxicity of Carbamezepine in Plants
Rebecca Hoehn, Mentor: Prof. Joel Pedersen
#232 – Synthesis of polymeric antigens to stimulate cross presentation via cathepsin S-mediated pathway
Angie Jasper, Mentor: Prof. Laura Kiessling
#250 – Effects of the YjeP channel on indolicidin’s permeabilization activity on E. coli
Sam Rider, Mentor: Prof. James Weisshaar
#262 – Characterizing unwrapping in transcription initiation by FRET and single-round transcription assays
Clare Cimperman, Mentor: Prof. Thomas Record
2-3:15 p.m.
#168 – Study of the influence of band bending on photoelectrochemical activity of diamond
Claudia Yan, Mentor: Prof. Robert Hamers
3:30-4:45 p.m.
#27 – What modifications are required in the T4aP disassembly protein to allow it to assemble pili?
Paula Atsaves, Mentor: Prof. Katrina Forest
#84 – Synthesis of layered double hydroxide nanomaterials for oxygen evolution electrocatalysis
Richard Costello, Mentor: Prof. Song Jin
#111 – Measuring the Interaction of Solutes with Protein Surface Types using Vapor Pressure Osmometry
Taylor Bye, Mentor: Prof. Thomas Record
#181 – Effects from arginine and lysine on stability in coiled coil and beta hairpin systems
Alexander Passow, Mentor: Prof. Samuel Gellman
#279 – Predicting and Interpreting the Hofmeister Effects of Salts with Nucleic Bases and Aromatics
Runyu Hong, Mentor: Prof. Thomas Record