CHEMISTRY RESEARCH DAY - Feb 14, 2003

Titles of Posters - Alphabetized by Last Name of the first Author

2. Kwangwook Ahn and Nicole S. Sampson: "Dependence of Cholesterol Oxidase Activity on Lipid Membrane Phase"

3. Burcu Anil and Daniel P. Raleigh: "Probing the Folding of the N-terminal Domain of L9 Using Non-Natural Amino Acids"

4. Carlos Avila-Orta, Rajesh H. Somani, Ling Yang, Gad Marom and Benjamin S. Hsiao: "Effect of Fiber on Shear-Induced Crystallization of i-PP in UHMWPE/i-PP and Aramid/i-PP Composites"

5. Sarbajit Banerjee and Stanislaus S. Wong: "Carbon Nanotube Sidewalls and End Caps as Target Sites for Chemical Modification"

6. Alasdair F. Bell, Yuguo Feng, Hilary A. Hofstein, Sapan Parikh, Jiaquan Wu, Michael J. Rudolph, Caroline Kisker, Adrian Whitty and Peter J. Tonge: "Stereoselectivity of Enoyl-CoA Hydratase Results from Preferential Activation of One of Two Bound Substrate Conformers"

7. Huanyan Cao and Kathlyn A. Parker: "Total Synthesis of the Sidechain of Papulacandin D"

8. Loretha Carlisle-Moore, Todd J. Sullivan and Peter J. Tonge: "Characterization of Human Enoyl Reductase from the Human Fatty Acid Synthase Complex and Study of FtsZ from M. Tuberculosis"

9. Amber Carr and George Stell: "Virial Coefficients for an Inverse-Power-Law Potential"

10. Joseph Carvalho and Kathlyn A. Parker: "Studies Toward the Synthesis of Bisabosqual A."

11. Bruno Chapsal and Iwao Ojima: "Efficient Synthesis of Triols via Rh-Catalyzed Regioselective Intramolecular Silylformylation of Alkynes"

12. Jin Chen, Qing Huang, Xinyuan Wu and Iwao Ojima: "Synthesis of a Small Library of Taxoids for Antitubercular Activity"

13. Xiaolin Cheng, Viktor Hornak and Carlos L. Simmerling: "Improved Conformational Sampling through an Effecient Combination of Mean-Field Simulation Approaches"

14. Gina Chiarella, Jianfeng Jiang, Janet Haff, Stephen A. Koch and Michelle Millar: "Modeling Iron Hydrogenase Active Site: Derivatives of cis-Tetracarbonyldiiodoiron and Bis[5-methyl-2-thio-phenyl]phenylphosphine, [PS2'H2]."

15. Gina Chiarella and Stephen A. Koch: "Modeling Iron Hydrogenase Active Site: Making Cyanide Precursors"

16. Wen-Hua Chiou, Nobuhiro Mizutani and Iwao Ojima: "New and Efficient Synthesis of 1-Azabicyclo[4.4.0]alkane Amino Acid by Rh-Catalyzed Cyclohydrocarbonylation"

17. Jaehyun Cho, Rengin Soydaner and Daniel P. Raleigh: "Electrostatic Interactions in Denatured State of NTL9"

18. Guanglei Cui and Carlos L. Simmerling: "Conformational Complexity: From Biomolecule Structure Refinement to Protein Folding"

19. Sean M. Curtis, Joseph W. Lauher and Frank W. Fowler: "A Designed Supramolecular Approach to an Organic Nanotube"

20. Catherine Dignam and Michelle Millar: "Pushing the Limits of the Steric Parameter with New Bulky Phosphines"

21. Yu-Shin Ding, Nora Volkow and Joanna S. Fowler: "Is the l-threo enantiomer of MP (Ritalin) inactive in the brain when the drug is given orally?"

22. Masaki Fujiwara and Iwao Ojima: "Novel Rh-Catalyzed [2+2+2+1] Cycloaddition Reaction of Enediynes"

23. Michael Y. Gelfer, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Mariam Rafailovich: "Control of the Structure and Properties in Polymer-Organoclay Nanocomposites"

24. Raphael Geney, Viktor Hornak and Carlos L. Simmerling: "Protein Loop Predictions Using Low Barrier Molecular Dynamics"

25. Janet Haff, Dao Nguyen, Francois Dejean and Michelle Millar: "What is so special about the nickel center in hydrogenase enzymes?"

26. Jia-Cherng Horng, Viktor Moroz and Daniel P. Raleigh: "Rapid Cooperative Two-State Folding of a Miniature a-ß Protein and Design of a Thermastable Variant"

27. Zihao Hua, Victor C. Vassar and Iwao Ojima: "Syntheses Of New Chiral Monodentate Phosphite Ligands and their Use in Asymmetric Hydrogenations"

28. Haidong Huang and Dale G. Drueckhammer: "Synthesis of a Potential Zn²⁺ Receptor"

29. Qing Huang, Xinyuan Wu, Jin Chen and Iwao Ojima: "Two Ways to Synthesize Enantiomerically Pure ß-Lactams"

30. Hongliang Jiang and Benjamin Chu: "Characterization of Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) /Poly(ethylene glycol)-g-Chitosan ( PLGA/PEG-g-CHN ) Composite Films Prepared by Electrospinning"

31. Ju Hoan Joh, Lin Chen and Nicole S. Sampson: "Optimization of a Fertilin Adhesion Assay for Studying Fertilization"

32. Juyeon Jung and Nicole S. Sampson: "Understanding Enzyme Motion"

33. Michael Kahn, Sarbajit Banerjee and Stanislaus S. Wong: "Solubilization of Oxidized Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Aqueous and Organic Solvents Using Amino Crown Ether"

34. Gary O. Kasper, Pei-Hua Liu and Nancy S. Goroff: "Two Routes for Synthesizing Triynes"

35. Zachary E. Katsamanis, Li Cui, Lu Zhou, Jason A. Estrada, Sung-Yun (Joe) Woo and Nancy S. Goroff: "Synthesis of a Bucky Belt Using a Novel Scaffold-Tether Strategy"

36. Ioannis Katsoulis and Kathlyn A. Parker: "A Novel Approach to the C1-C13 Part of (+)-Discodermolide via a Desymmetrization of a Diynol"

37. Daisuke Kawakami, S. Ran, C. Burger, I. Sics, C. Avila-Orta and Benjamin S. Hsiao: "Structural Formation of Amorphous Poly(ethylene terephthalate) under Uniaxial Deformation"

38. Kwangsok Kim, Charles Chang, Xinhua Zong, Jonathan Chiu, Dufei Fang, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Benjamin Chu: "Biodegradable Polymer Scaffold for Cell Delivery"

39. Namjun Kim and Clare P. Grey: "Using One and Two Dimensional Solid State ¹⁷O MAS NMR to Detect the Oxygen Ionic Motion in Nb and Ta-doped Bi₂WO₆"

40. Samidha Konkar and Nicole S. Sampson: "Identification of a Low Molecular Weight Egg Receptor for the Sperm Protein Cyritestin that Mediates Fertilization"

41. Nicole Kruh and Peter J. Tonge: "Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and its Interaction with the Host Protein, Coronin1-A"

42. Alton Lam, Joseph W. Lauher and Frank W. Fowler: "Application of a Host-Guest Strategy Towards the Synthesis of Novel Organic and Transition Metal Complexes"

43. Chi-Lun Lee, Johan Skule Høye and George Stell: "A Thermodynamic Self-Consistent Theory for Simple Fluids"

44. Suk Kyoung Lee, Dave Townsend, Michael P. Minitti and Arthur G. Suits: "Photofragment Vector Correlations by DC Slice Imaging"

45. Ying Li and Daniel P. Raleigh: "Studies of the Structure of the Denatured State of the c-crk N-terminal SH3 Domain"

46. Dehai Liang, Kwangsok Kim, Yin K. Luu, Michael Hadjiargyrou, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Benjamin Chu: "Laser Light Scattering Study on Interactions Between DNA and PLA-PEG-PLA Triblock Copolymer"

47. James Lightstone, Heather Mann, Ming Wu, Philip M. Johnson and Michael G. White: "Gas-Phase Production of Molybdenum Carbide, Nitride and Sulfide Clusters and Nanocrystallites"

48. Yeon-Hee Lim and Kathlyn A. Parker: "Synthetic Studies Toward the Total Synthesis of SNF4435 C and SNF4435 D"

49. Chen Lin and Dale G. Drueckhammer: "The Synthesis of Copper (II) Receptor Designed by CAVEAT"

50. Michael Liu and David Hanson: "Measuring Conceptual Understanding in General Chemistry"

51. Xianghong Liu, Richard Gross and Arthur G. Suits: "Comparison of the Reaction Dynamics of Ground and First Excited State Oxygen with Pentane, Examined via Crossed Beam Imaging"

52. Yuanbing Mao, Sarbajit Banerjee and Stanislaus S. Wong: "Hydrothermal Synthesis of Perovskite Nanotubes"

53. Bernadette McGann and Kathlyn A. Parker: "Synthesis of a Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) Analog"

54. Doris Melgarejo, Jianfeng Jiang, Janet Haff and Stephen A. Koch: "Modeling Iron Hydrogenase Active Site: A. Organometallic Moieties as Precursors"

55. Doris Melgarejo and Stephen A. Koch: "Modeling Iron Hydrogenase Active Site: B. Dimeric Cyanide Derivative which Mimics the Active Center of Iron-Only Hydrogenase."

56. Michael P. Minitti and Arthur G. Suits: "Ion Pair Imaging Spectroscopy with DC Slice Imaging"

57. Pravin A. Nair, Jiaquan Wu, Alasdair F. Bell, Joseph J. Barycki, Leonard J. Banaszak and Peter J. Tonge: "Biochemical and Spectroscopic Characterisation of Human Heart L-3-Hydroxyacyl-CoA Dehydrogenase"

58. Polina Novichenok and Peter J. Tonge: "Protein Substrates for Fatty Acid Biosynthesis Enzymes"

59. Asim Okur, Bentley Strockbine, Viktor Hornak and Carlos L. Simmerling: "Evaluating Force Field Personality with Decoy Inkblots"

60. Christopher Oliveri and Stephen A. Koch: "The Synthesis of New Amine Trithiolate Ligands"

61. Christopher Oliveri, Stephen A. Koch and Michelle Millar: "Models for the Active-Site of Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase/Acetyl-CoA Synthase"

62. Xi Ouyang, Joseph W. Lauher and Frank W. Fowler: "Supramolecular Synthesis of Polytriacetylene and Polytetracetylene using Host and Guest Strategy"

63. Parul Patel and Daniel P. Raleigh: "Amyloid Formation in the 15-19 Fragment of Human Calcitonin"

64. Luming Peng, Jennifer E. Readman, Namjun Kim and Clare P. Grey: "¹⁷O Solid State NMR Studies on Faujasite Type Zeolites"

65. Fernando O. Raineri, Shu Yan Chen and Harold L. Friedman: "Fluctuating Electronic Coupling in Nonadiabatic Electron Transfer Reactions in Solution"

66. Fernando O. Raineri, Johan Skule Høye and George Stell: "Thermodynamics of Solutions of Spatially Aligned Charged Rods and Polyelectrolyte Solutions. Influence of the Length and Charge Distribution"

67. Richa Rawat and Peter J. Tonge: "Mechanism of Inhibition of InhA, the Enoyl-ACP Reductase from Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, by Isoniazid"

68. Kenny S. Roberts, Samidha Konkar and Nicole S. Sampson: "Fertilin ß Peptide-Substituted Norbornyl Polymers: High Potency Inhibitors of in vitro Fertilization"

69. Daniel Roe, Asim Okur, Viktor Hornak and Carlos L. Simmerling: "Studying Protein Unfolding Pathways"

70. Jennifer P. Routh and George Stell: "Self-Consistent Simple SCOZA Applied to the RPM"

71. Paul Schuber and Kathlyn A. Parker: "Synthetic Analogs of SNF4435C and SNF4435 D"

72. Khurshida Shahidullah, Shiva Ataluri and Francis Johnson: "A New Approach to The Total Synthesis of Lexitropsins with Alkyl Sulfonate Ester Tether"

73. Vladimir Simov and Dale G. Drueckhammer: "Synthesis of a Catalyst for Enolate Formation"

74. Raj H. Somani, L. Yang and Benjamin S. Hsiao: "Orientation-Induced Crystallization Precursor Structures in Polymers"

75. Kun Song and Carlos L. Simmerling: "Decoy Structure Collection by Molecular Dynamics"

76. Eryk Stolarzewicz and Kathlyn A. Parker: "An Improved Strategy for Sequencing by Hybridization: Universal Bases in Synthetic Oligonucleotide and Peptide Nucleic Acid Probes"

77. Deborah Stoner-Ma and Peter J. Tonge: "Chromophore Formation in Green Fluorescent Protein"

78. Bentley Strockbine and Carlos L. Simmerling: "Computational Folding Studies of the Trpcage Protein"

79. Todd J. Sullivan, Francis Johnson and Peter J. Tonge: "Structure Activity Relationships of Triclosan Congeners against the Enoyl Reductases from E. coli (FabI) and Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (InhA)"

80. Aiwu Sun, Sung Ik Yang, Carol Creutz and Nancy S. Goroff: "STM Investigation of Self-Assembled Halo-alkyne Films"

81. Hui Tang and Nicole S. Sampson: "Membrane Binding of Cholesterol Oxidase"

82. Yuefeng Tang and Daniel P. Raleigh: "Characterization of Peptide Fragments Derived from Villin Headpiece Subdomain: Evidence for Non-Random Structure in the Unfolded State"

83. Daniel Tofan, David Hanson and Troy Wolfskill: "XML- and Java-Based Software Design for Real-Time Measurement of Student Learning through Computer Analysis"

84. David Townsend, Michael P. Minitti and Arthur G. Suits: "DC Slice Imaging"

85. Sylvia Tracz, Miles Driscoll and Daniel P. Raleigh: "Protein Misfolding and Disease: Amyloid Formation by Amylin"

86. Ioana Ungureanu and Iwao Ojima: "New T-Butoxycarbonylation of Beta-Lactams: A Key Step for Efficient Semisynthesis of Docetaxel Analogs"

87. Peng Wang and Kathlyn A. Parker: "A Novel Strategy for Key Synthons of (+)-Discodermolide"

88. Yanmei Wang, Qicong Ying, Jun Zhang, Dehai Liang, Dufei Fang and Benjamin Chu: "DNA Sequencing by Capillary Electrophoresis Using Polyacrylamide and Poly (N,N-Dimethylacrylamide) Quasi-Interpenetrating Network"

89. Jeffrey A. Webb, Pei-Hua Liu, Yi Zhang, Lei Li and Nancy S. Goroff: "Three New Perhalocumulenes (C₄X₄)"

90. Kevin Witter, Frank W. Fowler and Joseph Lauher: "Studies towards the Synthesis of 1,6-Polytrienes"

91. Xinyuan Wu and Iwao Ojima: "Design and Synthesis of Novel Water-Soluble Taxoids for Tumor-Activated Prodrugs using anti-EGFR Monoclonal Antibodies"

92. Ling Yang and Benjamin S. Hsiao: "In-situ Rheo-SAXS and Rheo-WAXD Studies of Shear Induced Structures in Model Polyethylene Blend"

93. Yongliang Yang, Jessica Leber, Jordan Amatuegwu and Dale G. Drueckhammer: "Synthesis of a Potential Cooperative Glucose Sensor"

94. Michael P. Zacharias, Iwao Ojima and Victor Vassar: "Rhodium-Catalyzed Formation of Unsymmetrical 5-7-5 Ring Systems"

95. Hong Zhao and Kathlyn A. Parker: "Enfumafungin. Studies in a Model System for Control of Terpene Backbone Migrations"

96. Zhou Zhou and Kathlyn A. Parker: "Progress toward Total Synthesis of Bisabosqual A"

97. Yimin Zhu and Dale G. Drueckhammer: "Synthesis Toward a Sialic Acid Receptor"

98. Steven X. Zong, Kwang-sok Kim, Jonathan Chiu, Sean Li, Elliott Chen, Barbar Garlick, Collin Brathwaite, Thomas Zimmerman, Dufei Fang, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Benjamin Chu: "Prevention of Post-Surgical Adhesions"

99. Steven X. Zong, Jonathan Chiu, Kwang-sok Kim, Dufei Fang, Michael Hadjiargyrou, Eimilia Entcheva, Harold Bien, Lihong Yin, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Benjamin Chu: "Nanofiber Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering"

100. Jacque Zwahlen, Jiaquan Wu, Alasdair F. Bell and Peter J. Tonge: "Ligand Activation in Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase and Enoyl-CoA Hydratase"