2014 Conference

Program

Morning Session A (room 166) 10:00 am – noon

A1 Isothermal Titration Calorimetry and X-ray Crystallography to Understand the Binding of Camphor to P450cam

Mavish Mahomed, David B. Goodin.

A2 Determining the Function of a Zinc Binding Site in the DNA Glycosylase MutY and Homologues

Anisha N. Rajavel. Sheila David

A3 Investigation of Enhancement of X-Rays by Nanoparticles with Electron Paramagnetic Spectroscopy

Ryan Taylor, Ting Guo

A4 Functional Characterization of Conserved Molecular Interactions in the Active Site of Mannitol 2-Dehydrogenase

James Lucas, Justin Siegel

A5 Computational Study of Counterion Effects on NMR Chemical Shifts of Strychnine

Kate A. Gibson, Teresa A. Palazzo, Dean J. Tantillo

A6 Engineering cyanobacteria to produce biofuel from CO₂ and sugar

Noeli Acoba, Jordan McEwen, Shota Atsumi

A7 Cloning, purification, and crystal structure studies of Bacteriodes fragilis LpxA

Kai Fong, Alice Ngo, Daniel Fox, Andrew Fisher, Xi Chen

A8 NMR Structural Studies of a GCAP1 Mutant (V77E) in a Ca²⁺-free Activator State

Mitchel Davis, Chris Lim, James B. Ames

Morning Session B (room 176) 10:00 am – noon

B1 Intermolecular Interactions in Fullerene Cocrystallizations

Susanne Y. Chen, Kamran B. Ghiassi, Marilyn M. Olmstead, Alan L. Balch

B2 Synthesis and reactivity of bisarylthiolato and bisaryloxo tetrylenes

Joshua Queen, Felicitas Lips, and Philip P Power

B3 Visible-Light Driven Photocatalysis with Chromium Doped SrTiO3 Particles for Solar Energy to Hydrogen Fuel Conversion

Justin R. Mulcahy, Benjamin A. Nail, and Frank E. Osterloh

B4 Synthesis and Crystal Structure of Novel Barium Arsenide-Iodide

Nhon Tran, Jili-Anna Dolyniuk, Kirill Kovnir

B5 Is It Possible to Isolate and Characterize Y3C112?

Sahar Fakhri, Evan Sarina, Alan Balch

B6 Catalytic Ability of NaBArF in Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions

Hailey Hibbard, Sean Wilson, Annaliese Franz

B7 Exploring Potential Thermoelectric Materials: Synthesis and Characterization of YbSb and YbTe

Airi Kawamura, Yufei Hu, Susan M. Kauzlarich

B8 Constrained bithiazoles as correctors for the ΔF508 cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene

Alex L Bagdasarian, Deanna Montgomery, Michael W Lodewyk , Baoxue Yang, Choong L Yoo, Alan S Verkman, Dean J Tantillo, Mark J Kurth

Afternoon Session A (room 166) 1:00 – 3:00 pm

A9 Detecting the enhancement of X-ray energy deposition by nanomaterials free of side effects

Zi Yao, Arjun Sharmah, and Ting Guo

A10 Dinitrogen Reduction with the Use of Ruthenium-Based Metal Complexes

Sokena Zaidi, Louise Berben

A11 Investigating Intact Phospholipid Vesicles on Oxidized Gold Using ATR-FTIR

Dalena Tran, Elyse Towns, Donald P. Land

A12 Studying the Structure-Activity Relationship of FtsZ Inhibitors Through Amide Bonds and Diamine Chain Lengths

Valerie Huynh, Kevin S. Martin, Gabriella M. Nepomuceno, Clarissa Tadeus, Terrence E. O’Brien, David E. Anderson, James B. Ames, Jared T. Shaw

A13 Solid Phase Synthesis of MUC1Q11

Fadi Khoury, Teri Jo Lanoue, Hamed Malekan, Xi Chen

A14 NMR Structural Studies of Homeodomain HOXD13 bound to Duplex DNA

Dayton Dang, Matthew Turner, James B. Ames

A15 Crystallization of UDP-GlcNAc 2-epimerase from Neisseria meningitidis

Hoonsan Ong, Jasper Guan, Lei Zhang, Yanhong Li, Andrew Fisher, Xi Chen

A16 Investigating the rate of Hydrogen Evolution with phosphine ligands on [Fe4N(CO)12]-

Michael Kagan, Emily J. Thompson, Louise A. Berben

A17 Photocatalytic Properties and Water-Splitting Activity of α-Fe2O3 Nanoparticles

Megha Chandrashekhar, Timothy Shelton, Frank E. Osterloh

Afternoon Session B (room 176) 1:00 – 3:00 pm

B9 Exploring the structure activity relationship of FtsZ inhibitors by Suzuki couplings and amide formation

Katie M. Chan, Gabriella M. Nepomuceno, Luiz A. E. Pollo, Terrence E. O’Brien, Francisco J. Sarabia, David E. Anderson, James B. Ames, Jared T. Shaw

B10 Effects of Wastewater-Based Culturing Techniques on Microalgae Growth and Lipid Production

Alex Schramm, Lisa Anderson, Annaliesse Franz

B11 Engineering E. coli for the Production of Biochemicals

Judy Du, Shuchi Desai, Shota Atsumi

B12 Model Enzyme Design on β-Glucosidase

Patricia Boerger, Carolina Ryklanskyss, Justin Siegel

B13 Efficient Synthesis of Oxindole Heterocycles Using Montmorillonite

Richard L. Wood, Jacob P. MacDonald, Kristen J. Darnell, Annaliese K. Franz

B14 HpCgtA – A novel galactosyltransferase from Helicobacter pylori J99

Xue Sheng, Yanhong Li, Vireak Thon, Hai Yu, Chelsea D. Anorma, Xi Chen

B15 Engineering Thermostability into PNGase F for Enhanced Efficiency of Glycoprotein Analyses

Peter Konyn and Justin B. Siegel

B16 Characterization of human Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase by site-directed mutagenesis and de novo computational design of a Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase

Ryan J. Boyd, Justin B. Siegel

B17 Materials for Lithium-ion Batteries: Synthesis and Characterization of SiAs2

Sarah Synnestvedt, Kathy Lee, Kirill Kovnir

Keynote Presentation (room 176)

Prof. Michael Gelb, University of Washington, “The Chemistry of Newborn Screening: Saving Lives Before it is Too Late”.