2011 Sigma Xi
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Students that did research over summer 2011 at Swarthmore or other academic institutions and industries presented their research at the annual Sigma Xi poster session.
Biochemistry
Raymundo Alfaro-Aco '12 and Steven Miller, Crystallographic studies of the Autoinducer-2 processing enzyme LsrG in Escherichia Coli
Steven Barrett '13, Jesse Platt, and F. Bradley Johnson, Interactions between Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAP1 and G-quadruplexes
Tiffany Lee '12, Tinting Wu, Catherine Crouch, and Tobias Baumgart, Effects of Electrostatic Interactions and Membrane Curvature on Binding of BIN1-BAR Protein to Lipid Membranes
Daniel Ly '12, Purification and crystallization of LsrF mutants in E. coli
Elizabeth Matlock '12, Amy Vollmer, and Alison Holliday, Extraction, analysis, and bacterial enrichment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Little Crum Creek sediment
John Nicoludis '12, Steven Barrett '13, and Liliya Yatsunyk, Stabilization and structural rearrangement of Tel22 in the presence of N-methyl porphyrins under low K+ conditions
Samuel Tanner '14 and Christopher H. Henkels, Incorporation of the unnatural amino acid trifluoromethylphenylalanine into superfolder green fluorescent protein in vivo
Vienna Tran '13 and Ronald Pruzan, Targeting hTERT mRNA for degradation with single-and double-stranded thio-phosphoramidate and phosphoramidate oligonucleotides
![Daniel Ly '12 presents his research at the 2011 Sigma Xi poster session.](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/main_page_image/public/assets/images/chemistry-biochemistry/SigmaXi2011_Dan_370.jpg.webp?itok=FkpFXyqI)
Chemistry
Travis Mattingly '13 and Alison Holliday, The detection of melamine in condensed milk using ion mobility spectrometry
Daniel Pak '12 and Alison Holliday, Optimization of SPME ESI-IMS Parameters to Detect Parts Per Billion Concentrations of Tebuconazole
Wystan Palmer '12 and Robert Paley, Diastereoselective Synthesis of Bis-spiroketals Directed by Planar Chiral 2-Sulfinyl Diene Iron(0) Tricarbonyl Complexes
Hanna Rose '12 and Henry Ainley, Design and synthesis of nickel(II) complexes for use as catalysts in hydrogen fuel production
Mary Alice Upshur '12 and Kathleen Howard, SDSL Reveals Multiple Conformations of Influenza A M2 Protein
Harry Wang '13 and Robert F. Pasternack, Inhibition of Conversion of Hemin to Hemozoin (Malaria Pigment)
![Harry Wang '13 and Vienna Tran '13 at the 2011 Sigma Xi poster session.](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/main_page_image/public/assets/images/chemistry-biochemistry/SigmaXi2011_HarryVienna_370.jpg.webp?itok=bf7Th-7s)