The undergraduate summer research fellows presented posters on their accomplishments on July 25, 2019. Twenty-four of the presentations were on work done in the Chemistry Department, representing 8 different groups. For more on the event, visit News@Wesleyan. A list of the chemistry presenters is below the photographs.
Sydney Taylor-Klaus ’20, O’Neil Group
Leila Etemad, ’20, Personick Group
Sally Landon Tepper, ’22, Northrop Group
Amy Liu, ’20, Taylor Group
| Anastasia Saar | “Allosteric Regulation in the MutS Protein” |
| Miranda Nestor | “MD Simulations of CAP to Detect Allostery without a Conformational Change” |
| California Clark | “Natural Product Analogue Synthesis to Fight Caner” |
| May Do | “Synthesis of Analogs of Rocaglamide via the IFB Reaction” |
| Alexandra Goss | “Synthesis of Nigrospine” |
| Aryan Vavila | “Investigating the Electrical Properties of Zigzag and Armchair Cyclacenes” |
| Sally Tepper | “Study of Methyl Propiolate in Thiol-Michael ‘Click’ Reactions” |
| Jaina Wollowitz | “A Computational Investigation of the Mechanisms of Thiol-Vinylsulfone Reaction Initiators” |
| Christopher Falls | “The Rotational Spectra of Phenylsulfur Pentaflouride” |
| Valerie Balog | “iPSC-derived Astrocyte and Motor Neuron Co-Culture in a Lentiviral Expression Model of SODI-A4V Amyotrphic Lateral Sclerosis” |
| Camille Chossis | “Cell Non-Autonomous Effect of GLIA on Neurodegeneration in C9ORF72 Dependent Frontotemporal Dementia and Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis” |
| Matthew Huston | “Inhibition of Specific Cancer Cell Lines Using Rocaglamide Derivatives” |
| Daniel Kulick | “Motor Neuron Specific Sensitivity to Organochlorine Pesticides” |
| Sydney Taylor-Klaus | “Biochemical Analysis of Superoxie Dismutase I” |
| Leila Etemad | “Generating Bimetallic Silver-Platinum Nanoprisms and Methods to Interconvert Between Nanoprisms and Bipyramids” |
| Abrar Habib | “Plasmonic Approach to Synthesizing Bimetallic Nanoparticles as Functional Catalysts” |
| Claire (Jing Jin) Wang | “Optimization of Palladium Nanoparticle Syntheses for the Underpotential Deposition of Silver” |
| Nafisa Masud | “Elucidating Protein Dynamics with the Kinetic Ensemble Approach” |
| Nicholas Wells | “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of ALS-Causing Superoxide Dismutase I Mutations” |
| Brynn Assignon | “Creating Chimeric Proteins Using a Domain Swapping Mechanism” |
| Colleen Castro | “Using Molecular Docking Techniques to Find an Inhibator of Heptosyltransferase I in E. coli“ |
| Amy (Zhiqi) Liu | “Investigation of Kinetics and Protein Dynamics of Escherichia coli Heptosyltransferases II” |
| Kate Luo | “Investigating the Mechanism of LigAB Catalyzed Lignin Degradation” |
| Kate Sundberg | “The Synthesis of a Probe for Lignin Depolymerization Detection” |