Undergraduates Present Research at Honors Night

Junior and senior chemistry and biochemistry majors made poster presentations of their research during Honors Night, Thursday, April 23 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the UARK Ballroom, 644 W. Dickson Street.

The event was open to the public.

1.  Andrew Avery “Effect of Osmolytes on Proteins” (mentor Suresh Kumar)

2.  Ryan Bauer “Crystal Structure of the Collagen Binding Domain Derived from the ColH Gene of Clostridial Collagenase” (mentor Joshua Sakon)

3. Tammy Binz “Synthesis and Structural Analysis of a Diazapene Carbocation” (mentor Neil Allison)

4. Ryan Boswell “Formation of the Carbazic Acid Hydrazone Coupled with Allylic Diazene Rearrangement” (mentor Matt McIntosh)

5. Laura Bradney “Investigation of Antimicrobial and Lipid Perturbing Properties of Acylated Lactoferrin Peptides” (mentor Denise Greathouse)

6. Joshua Brown “Liquid-Phase NMR Studies of Lactoferricin Peptide” (mentor Denise Greathouse)

7. Geri Burkett “Investigation of the Anti-Angiogenic Properties of Lactoferricin Peptides” (mentor Denise Greathouse)

8. Carter Calef “The Synthesis of Allenes under Mild Conditions” (mentor Neil Allison)

9. Kaitlin Castleberry “Modeling of Ferrodoxin with Cyanobacteria FNR” (mentor Dan Davis)

10. Andreas Chen “Titanium Nanofiber Scaffolding: A Study on the Controlled Release Properties of Methylene Blue” (mentor Ryan Tian)

11. Hannah Duke “A Comparison of Retro and Wild Type Antifungal Peptides Based on Structure and Function” (mentor Suresh Kumar)

12. Jacqueline Duncan “Binding Affinities of Wild Type Cdc42Hs and Mutant T35A Compared Through In-Vitro Binding Assays” (mentor Paul Adams)

13. Emily Edwards “An Innovative Method for the Purification of Recombinant Proteins”  (mentor Paul Adams)

14. Thomas Fleri “Life in Outer Space? The Possibility of Life on Enceladus" (mentors Roger Koeppe and Tim Kral, Biological Sciences)

15. Whitney Gammill “A Comparative Study of High-Linoleic Acid Vegetable Oils in Producing Conjugated Linoleic Acid” (mentors Roger Koeppe and Andy Proctor, Food Science)

16. Cory Garren “Purification and Structural Characteristics of Ankyrin” (mentor Suresh Kumar)

17. Christopher Hall “Effect of a Non-Conservative Mutation in the Binding Domain of Cytochrome c on the Electron Transfer Rate to Cytochrome Oxidase” (mentor Frank Millett)

18. Katie Hamblin “A Biophysical Investigation of the non-classical release complex of Fibroblast Growth Factor-1 (FGF-1)” (mentor Suresh Kumar)

19. Amen Ismail “Effectiveness of Synthetic Crowding Agents in Simulating the Intercellular Environment” (mentor Suresh Kumar)

20. Christopher Knapp “S100A13- Annexin 1 Binding: What it means for FGF Export” (mentor Suresh Kumar)

21. Rodney LaGrone, Jr “Microdialysis Affinity Enhancers and Their Effect on the Localized Equilibria Present between Hydrophobic Drugs and Proteins” (mentor Julie Stenken)

22. Zachary Lewis “Exploration of the Synthesis and Properties of a New N-Heterocyclic Carbene: Dimethyldiazapene Carbene” (mentor Neil Allison)

23. Zachary Manning “Refinement of the Three-Dimensional Solution Structure of the Fibroblast Growth Factor Using Residual Dipolar Coupling Constraints” (mentor Suresh Kumar)

24. Cristina Melean-Murillo “Microdialysis Sampling of Macromolecules” (mentor Julie Stenken)

25. Caroline Nardi “Understanding the Molecular Mechanism Underlying the Secretion of Fibroblast Growth Factors” (mentor Suresh Kumar)

26. Jaime Nelson “Synthesis of Sclerophytin-Inspired Isobenzofurans and Their Growth Inhibitory Activity Against KB3 Cells” (mentor  Matt McIntosh)

27. Kellie Ong “Bioconjugation of Water-Soluble Quantum Dots with cpSRP43 using Heterobifunctional Crosslinker” (mentor David Paul)

28. Iryna Polyakova “Uptake and Cytotoxicity of Quantum Dots” (mentor David McNabb, Biological Sciences)

29. Latisha Puckett “Does the Staphylococcal Nuclease Protein Unfold to Exactly the Same Denatured State during the GdHCl Denaturation?” (mentor Wes Stites)

30. Christina Ragland “Explorations of Early Solar System History through Induced Thermoluminescence Studies” (mentor Derek Sears)

31. Clint Riley “Development of an Optimized Protocol for the Recombinant Expression of Two Cdc42Hs Mutants”  (mentor Paul Adams)

32. Miles Ritter “Microdialysis Sampling for Localized Delivery of Immune Modulators” (mentor Julie Stenken)

33. John Shellenberger “Nanowire-walled Hollow Microspheres for Nanomedicine” (mentor Ryan Tian)

34. John Sherrill “Expression, Purification, and Characterization of a Ras Protein, Rheb, in a Membrane like Environment” (mentor Paul Adams)

35. Kent Smith “Novel Methods of Alkylation for Differentiation of Methionine and Methionine Sulfoxide” (mentor Wes Stites)

36. Elizabeth Srader “Toward the Synthesis of Antascomicin B Expected Graduation” (mentor Matt McIntosh)

37. Brian St. Clair “Complexation Modeling Between Ferredoxin NAD+ Reducatase And Ferredoxin From Maize And Cyanobacteria” (mentor Dan Davis)

38. Maria Super “A Study of an Alternate, Mild α-Elimination Reaction to Form Carbene Compounds” (mentor Neil Allison)

39. Jessica Sutton “A Study of the Synthesis and Chemistry of a Transition Metal Complexed Quinone” (mentor Neil Allison)

40. Hiroko Takeuchi “Synthesizing the Water Soluble Q-Dots with cpSRP43 by Modification of the Q-dot Surface with Streptavidin and Bioconjugation of cpSRP43 and Biotin” (mentor Colin Heyes)

41. Rachel Thomas “Influence of Proline upon the Folding and Geometry of the WALP19 Transmembrane Peptide” (mentor Roger Koeppe)

42. Natalie White “Towards Understanding the Non-Classical Secretion of the Human Interleukin 1- Alpha” (mentor Suresh Kumar)