2014 Sigma Xi Poster Session

Students that did research over summer 2014 at Swarthmore or other academic institutions and industries presented their research at the annual Sigma Xi poster session, held Sept 19-20, 2014 in Eldridge Commons.

CHEMISTRY
Peter Amadeo:  "Revised Diastereoselective Approach to Bis-­‐Spiroketals Using Sulfinyl Iron(0) Diene Complexes"
Sooyun Choi:  "Spectroscopic and computational studies of vinylanisole isomers"
Shenstone Huang:  "Structural Studies of Influenza A M2 Full-­‐Length Protein"
Weite Liu:  "Synthesis and characterization of organometallic tungsten and molybdenum complexes as electrocatalysts"
Martin Mathay:  "Optimization of the extraction of myclobutanil from solid samples by HPLC"
Julia Murphy:  "Diastereoselective Synthesis Directed by Planar Iron(0) Tricarbonyl Diene Complexes"
Raundi Quevedo:  "Electrode Functionalization via Nucleophilic Substitution and Alkyl Radicals"
Melissa Trofa:  "Physical properties and structural preferences of isoeugenol: a computational study"

Julia Murphy '15 and Prof. Paul Rablen

BIOCHEMISTRY
Audrey Allen:   'Crystallization of two catalytically inactive mutants of the AI-­‐2 processing protein, LsrF"
Supriya Davis:  "Investigation of the GQ binding, stabilization, and selectivity of macrocyclic ligands"
Bryan Green:  "Site Directed Spin Labeling Structural EPR Studies of Full Length Influenza A M2 Protein"
Jason Hua:  "The 1.43 Ã… X-­‐ray crystal structure of the Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans Ribose Binding Protein (RbsB)"
Joo Hyun June Lee:  "Study of TCP and ZnTCP's stabilizing interaction with human telomeric DNA"
Josh Turek-­‐Herman:  "Polypyridyl Ru complexes as G-­‐quadruplex DNA ligands"

Raundi Quevedo '16 and Josh Turek-Herman '16