Best Presentation Awards
2024 Best Presentation Awards: The awards for this year were given in three research categories.
Chemical biology: Amy Chabroux (Olson lab), Ethan Hintz (David lab), Jennifer Lee (Siegel lab)
Inorganic/organic chemistry: Anthony Witt (Power lab), Tania Shahvali (Shaw lab), Zane Haidar (Pitts lab)
Physical/analytical chemistry: Bohan Li (Koski lab), Cedric Centers (Crabtree lab), Erin Morissette (Lebrilla lab)
2023 Best Presentation Awards: The awards for this year were given in three research categories.
Chemical biology: Samuel Carter (Olson lab), Wenrui Chen (Chen lab), Olivia Jacobs (Beal lab), Nicholas Robertson (Murray lab), Issac Yu (Ames lab)
Inorganic/organic chemistry: Sydney Figueroa (Franz lab), Emily Jimenez (Shaw lab), Andrew Li (Osterloh), Bronson Ruiz (Power lab), Yu Cheng Wang (Kauzlarich lab)
Physical/analytical chemistry: Vicky Huynh (Koski lab), Elika Javaheri (Atsumi lab), Emma Laurence (Liu lab), Rachel Shey (Hammock lab)
2022 Best Presentation Awards: The awards for this year were given in three research categories.
Chemical Biology: Natasha Deo (David lab), Jason Yi (Murray lab), and Vibha Sharma (Heffern lab)
Organic/Inorganic Chemistry: Alexandria Adams (Balch lab), Jeffery Toman (Shaw lab) and Arista Wu/Brandon Vernoy (working with Ozcan Gulacar)
Physical/Analytical Chemistry: Jackson Demaray/Stanislav Moroz (Stuchebrukov lab), Nicholas Cheng (Lebrilla lab) and Xian Fong/Archie Mangubat (Wang lab)
2021 Best Presentation Awards: The awards for this year were given in three research categories.
Chemical Biology: Madeline Bright from the David lab, Mateo Cepeda from Atsumi lab, Bryant Luu from Chen lab
Organic/Inorganic Chemistry: Keyan Li from the Berben lab, Rongqing Shang from the Kauzlarich lab, Banana Isbeih from the Balch lab
Physical/Analytical Chemistry: Caleb Crowder Walton from the Crabtree lab, Brianca Netto from the Liu lab, Vincent Chang from the Lebrilla lab
2020 Best Presentation Awards: The awards for this year were given in four research categories.
Chemical Biology Session I: Conan Lee from Atsumi lab, Winnie Chen from Lebrilla lab, Serena Kutney from the Franz lab
Chemical Biology Session II: Shannon Lu from the Beal lab, Hiroaki Yamada from the Ames lab, Seona Patel (seopatel@ucdavis.edu) from the Olson lab
Organic/Inorganic Chemistry: Christopher Lowe from the Balch lab, Teresa Tang from the Franz lab,
Physical/Analytical Chemistry: Hannah Reeves from the Wang lab , Ruimeng Wang from the Wang lab
2019 Best Presentation Awards: The awards for this year were given in three research categories.
Best presentation in Chemical Biology was shared by Henry Agnew (Larsen group), Rebecca Rafique (Murray group) and Jayashri Viswanathan (Olson group).
Best presentation in Organic/Inorganic was shared by Lauren McNamara (Balch group) and Mira Milic (Franz group).
Best presentation in Physical/Analytical was shared by Brian Yuen (Wang group), Yiyun Liu (Lebrilla group) and Nathan Soland (Osterloh group).
2018 Best Presentation Awards: The awards for this year were given in three research categories.
Best presentation in Chemical Biology was shared by Arya Azinfar (Olson group) and Devin Minter (Atsumi group).
Best presentation in Organic/Inorganic was shared by Kelly Gullett (Power group) and Niklas Kraemer (Kurth group).
Best presentation in Physical/Analytical was shared by Brian Roehrich (Osterloh group) and Gabriella Lahti (Koski group).
2017 Best Presentation Awards: The awards for this year were given in three research categories.
Best presentation in Chemical Biology was awarded to Ardavan Farahvash (Stuchebrukhov group).
Best presentation in Organic/Inorganic Chemistry was awarded to Navtej Singh Grewal and Ming Yin Kwong (Kauzlarich group).
Best presentation in Physical/Analytical Chemistry was awarded to Jessi Hartman (Donadio group) and Alec Tyra (Mukhopadhyay group).
2016 Best Presentation Awards
1st prize: Colin Unger (Kovnir group): Development of a Solvothermal Reaction Pathway for the Synthesis of Various Transition Metal Chloride Formate Compounds
2nd prize: Sahana Rajan (Ames group): Structural Analysis of α-actinin-1, a Cytoskeletal Protein that Controls Neuronal Excitability in Learning and Memory
3rd prize (shared): Sydnee Green (David group): High-Throughput Fluorescence Assay for the Study of Click Modified Transition State Inhibitors for Base Excision Repair Glycosylases, and Andrew Teuthorn (Kurth group): An Intramolecular Anionic [3+2] Route to Benzoisoxazoles
2015 Best Presentation Awards
1st prize: Sokena Zaidi (Berben group): Metal Centered Catalysts Covalently Attached to High Surface Area Carbon Materials
2nd prize: Zi Yao (Shaw group): Discovery of New Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Bacterial Cell Division Protein FtsZ
3rd prize: Airi Kawamura (Kauzlarich group): Al Doping of Yb14 MgSb11 for Improved Thermoelectric Performance
2014 Best Presentation Awards
1st prize: Joshua Queen (Power group): Synthesis and reactivity of bisarylthiolato and bisaryloxo tetrylenes
2nd prize: Valerie Huynh (Shaw group): Studying the Structure-Activity Relationship of FtsZ Inhibitors Through Amide Bonds and Diamine Chain Lengths
3rd prize: James Lucas (Siegel group): Functional Characterization of Conserved Molecular Interactions in the Active Site of Mannitol 2-Dehydrogenase
2013 Best Presentation Awards
1st prize: Nicholas K. Brune (Osterloh group), Splitting Water With Rust: Photocatalytic Water Oxidation with Iron Oxide, for Fuel Generation Purposes
2nd prize: Molly Fensterwald (Shaw group), Synthesis of Antimicrobial Compounds to Identify DNA Gyrase Inhibitors in Gram-Negative Bacteria
3rd prize: Mavish Mahomed (Goodin group): Protein Engineering of Cytochrome P450 PikC and Antibiotic Evolution
2012 Best Presentation Awards
1st prize: Cory Weinstein (Power group), Investigation of Main Group Metal-Transition Metal Carbonyl Complexes
2nd prize: Chelsea D. Cates (Berben group), Iminopyridine (IP) Ga(III) Complexes promote exclusively 2-Electron Chemistry and IP2Ga(OH) activates CO2
3rd prize: Jackson Zhu (Kurth Group), Expedient Synthesis of a 72 Membered Isoxazolino-beta-ketoamide Library by a 2-3 Component Reaction
2011 Best Presentation Awards
1st prize: Larissa Miyachi (Guo Group), Functionalized Nanoparticles for Site-Specific Chemotherapy: DNA Linkers and Radiation-Induced Ligand Release
2nd prize: Thomas M. Brown (Power group), Sub-90 Deg Interligand Angles in Group 14 ElementDichalcogenolates
3rd prize: Alex B. Wood (Kurth group), Synthesis of β-Ketoamide Isoxazolines by a One-Pot, MulticomponentReaction
2010 Best Presentation Awards
1st prize: Gary E. Arevalo (Dr. Franz group) 'Stereoselective Synthesis of Biologically Relevant Spirocyclic Oxindoles'
2nd prize: Florentine U. Rutaganira (Dr. Shaw group) 'Synthesis of Heterocyclic Totarol Analogs for Inhibition of FtsZ'
3rd prize: Tony Pan (Dr. Atsumi group) 'Comparison of enzymes for biofuels production in thermophilic cyanobacteria'
2009 Best Presentation Awards
1st prize: Victor Lui (Tantillo group) 'Progress Towards a Geranyl Pyrophosphate Mimic'
2nd prize: Lucy Freer (Larsen group) 'Ultrafast spectroscopy and the blue/green light activated cyanobacteriochrome Tlr0924'
3rd prize: Musleh Muthana (Xi group) 'Synthesis of 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galactopyransoly-L- serine/threonine for glycopeptides synthesis'
2008 Best Presentation Awards
1st prize: Nicole Schirle (Beal group) 'Development and Screening of Macrocyclic Helix-Threading Peptides'
2nd prize: Alex Sutherland (Guo group) 'Eliminating Greenhouse Gases using a Novel Dry Reforming Catalyst'
3rd prize: Sean Beecroft (Lebrilla group) 'A Statistically Based Program to Classify Mass Spectra and Identify Spectral Markers'
4th prize: Kostia Malley (Larsen group) 'Chromophore dynamics in retinal Schiff bases and novel rhodopsin mimics characterized by ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy'
5th prize: Simon S.M. Park (Land group) 'An approach to Biosensors using Overlayer Enhanced Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared (OE-ATR-FTIR) Spectroscopy'
2007 Best Presentation Awards
1st prize (shared): Evan Horn, Investigation into an Efficient Synthetic Scheme Leads to Two New Sialic Acid Dimers and Ilya Yakovlev, A New Approach to Peptide Radiolabeling for the Imaging of Cancer by Positron Emission Tomography
2nd prize: Jason Holden, Designing a 3-phenyl-4,5-dihydroisoxazole-5-amide Library for Drug Discovery
3rd prize: Adrienne Kucma, Investigation of an Easy Synthesis of Yb11A10 (A=Sb, Bi)
4th prize: Ryan Henning, Mechanism Studies of a Multifunctional Sialyltransferase from Pasteurella multocida