Program

We are preparing the program for 2019, and information will be posted here as it becomes available. If you wish to participate as a speaker, please submit your abstract to Professor Jim Ames (email: jbames@ucdavis.edu) by Friday April 26, 2019. The program for last year's Conference can be found here.

A PDF version of the program may be found under "Downloadable Files".

Information below is subject to change

Winners of the Best Presentation Awards to be listed below

Morning Session A (room 1001) 10:00 AM – Noon (Chemical Biology)

A1. Synthesis of N2-Alkyl 8-Oxo-2’-deoxyguanosine Oligonucleotides for use as Substrate Analogs for DNA Repair Protein MutY

Madeline Bright, Robert Van Ostrand, Chandrima Majumdar, and Sheila David

A2. In vivo and In vitro Evaluation of Synthetic Iboga Analogs for Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Jayashri Viswanathan and David Olson

A3. TDP-43 Fibrils as a Model System for Aggregation in Alzheimer’s Disease

Natalie Boulos and Dylan T. Murray

A4. Potency Studies on Chemically Modified Anti-miR122 in HuH-7 Cells

Shannon S. Lu, Kevin M. Pham, and Peter A. Beal

A5. Development of Bioluminescent Probes for In Vivo Imaging of Extracellular Analytes

Joseph AbouAyash, Justin O’Sullivan, Marie C. Heffern

A6. RNA Editing Enzyme Contains a Vital Hydrogen Bond Linkage Between Active Site and Inositol Cofactor

Kimberly Maldonado, Andrew J. Fisher and Peter A. Beal

A7. Cyanobacteria Xylose Catabolism Project

Jake Newman and Shota Atsumi

A8. Secondary Dynamics in Cyanobacterial Phytochrome Chp1

Henry Agnew, Nathan C. Rockwell, J. Clark Lagarias and Delmar S. Larsen

Morning Session B (room 1002) 10:00 AM – Noon (Organic & Inorganic Synthetic Chemistry)

B1. Stabilization of Dibromocuprate Anion Achieved Through Use of Monovalent Gold-Phosphine Complex as a Molecular Container

Lauren McNamara, Daniel T. Walters, Alan L. Balch, Marilyn M. Olmstead

B2. Turning up the heat: The Synthesis and Structure of a New Zintl Phase, Yb₃AlSb₃, for High Temperature Thermoelectricity

An T. Nguyen, Allan He, and Susan M. Kauzlarich

B3. Toward Renewable Energy Storage using An Earth Abundant Metal Complex

Lauren C. Reynolds, Amela Arnold, Louise A. Berben

B4. Synthesis of N-Sulfonyl Imine Substrates for the Investigation of Diastereoselective Reactions using Substituted Nucleophiles

Martin Bravo and Jared Shaw

B5. Davis–Beirut Reaction: Synthesis of N-Phenyl 2H-Indazoles via Acid Catalysis

Niklas Kraemer, Clarabella J. Li, Julio M. Larach, Jie S. Zhu, Makhluf J. Haddadin, and Mark J. Kurth

B6. Synthesis and Characterization of a Redox-Active Bis(imino)pyridine Ligand Al(III) Complex

Keyan Li, Nathan A. Phan, and Louise A. Berben

B7. Rh-Catalyzed Si-H Insertion Reaction of Diazoacetates for the Synthesize of Novel Organosiloxane Hybrid Nanomaterials

Karina Targos and Annaliese K. Franz

B8. Single Crystal Growth of Yb14Zn1-xGaxSb11 (for x = 0.2, 0.5, 0.7) via Metal Flux

Ryan Corro, Elizabeth Wille, Susan Kauzlarich

Morning Session C (room 1003) 10:00 AM – Noon (Physical & Analytical Chemistry)

C1. Carbon Incorporation into Magnesium Silicate via Laser Ablation

Sally Burke, Casey Sugie, and Alexandra Navrotsky

C2. Characterization of a Supersonic Molecular Beam for Astrochemical Kinetics Studies

Sonja Bumann, Zachary Buchanan, Sommer Johansen, Kyle N. Crabtree

C3. Hydrogen Evolution from Dye-Sensitized SrTiO₃ Nanoparticles under Visible Irradiation

Brian Roehrich, Ruirui Han, and Frank E. Osterloh

C4. Synthesis of Gold Nanorods in a Mesoporous Silica Shell

Justin Arntzen, Kristin Peck, Ting Guo

C5. Modelling the Na₂Ge-GeSe₂ glass chalcogenide system

Max Win and Davide Donadio

C6. Monte Carlo Simulation of Proton Transport Across Biological Membranes

Owen H. Bratton and Alexei Stuchebrukhov

C7. Molecular Dynamics Simulation of N-Linked Glycosylated Proteins

Brian Yuen and Lee-Ping Wang

C8. Structural and Thermodynamic Characterization of TIA1 Self-Assembly

Rachelle Stowell and Dylan T. Murray

Afternoon Session A (room 1001) 1:00 – 2:30 PM (Chemical Biology)

A9. Function-Oriented Synthesis Yields an Improved Analog of Iboga Alkaloids

Alex Pell, Zefan Hurley, and David Olson

A10. Probing the Hydrogen Bond Network in FUS Fibril Assemblies

Rebecca Rafique and Dylan T. Murray

A11. Ca²⁺-dependent Regulation of Ryanodine Receptor 2 (RyR2) by Calmodulin

Ramanjeet Kaur, Qinhong Yu, David Anderson, and James Ames

A12. Synthesis of N2-Modified 8-Oxo-2’-deoxyguanosine phosphoramidites

Ellen Chu, Robert Van Ostrand, Madeline Bright, and Sheila David

A13. Thermal Stability and Catalytic Efficiency Analysis of Beta-glucosidase B (BglB) Point Mutations for Computational Design

Brian Herrel, Emily Imbuelten, Peishan Huang and Justin Siegel

A14. Structural analysis pertaining to activity and stability of Beta-glucosidase mutants

Henrique Noro Frizzo, Matthew Sy, Peishan Huang, Justin Siegel

A15. Structural Characterization of the Serotonin-Binding Protein L194D1 Using X-ray Crystallographic Methods

Chi Pham and Andrew J. Fisher

Afternoon Session B (room 1002) 1:00 – 2:30 PM (Organic & Inorganic Synthetic Chemistry)

B9. Vapor-induced single-crystal-to-single-crystal phase transitions of bis(cyclohexyl isocyanide) gold(I) complexes

Venoos Moshayedi, Lucy M. C. Luong, Marilyn M. Olmstead, Alan L. Balch

B10. Synthesis of Indole-Based Hydroxamic Acids to Investigate as Selective HDAC Inhibitors

Adon C. Kwong, Blanca I. Gomez, Annaliese K. Franz

B11. Size and Shape Control of Solution-Grown Bi2Te(3-x)Sex Nanoplatelets

Matthew Bolton, Zheng Ju, and Susan M. Kauzlarich

B12. Studies Toward Chiral-at-Silicon Oxazoline Ligands

Emma Tribble, Austin Kelly, and Annaliese K. Franz

B13. NMR Quantification of Halogen-Bonding Ability to Evaluate Catalyst Activity

Teresa Tang and Annaliese K. Franz

B14. Using ³¹P and ¹⁹F NMR Spectroscopy to Quantify the Hydrogen-Bonding Ability of Medicinally Relevant Organocatalysts

Mira Milic, Julia J. Jennings, Karina Targos, Annaliese K. Franz

Afternoon Session C (room 1003) 1:00 – 2:30 PM (Physical & Analytical Chemistry)

C9. Investigating Large Surface Photovoltages in Rh-doped SrTiO₃

Nathan E. Soland, Ruirui Han, and Frank E. Osterloh

C10. Optimization of Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry for the analysis of glycoproteomics

Rachel Rice, Qiongyu Li, and Carlito Lebrilla

C11. Manipulating Human Intestinal Epithelium Cell Surface N-glycans influences Salmonella Infection

Kavya G. Achyutuni, Ying Sheng, Yixuan Xie, Carlito B. Lebrilla

C12. Development of a Food Carbohydrate Encyclopedia Using a Mass Spectrometry-based Monosaccharide Composition Analysis Platform

Yiyun Liu, Matthew J. Amicucci, Thai-Thanh T. Vo, Carlito B. Lebrilla

C13. Using the Chemistry Triplet to Analyze the Evolution of Students' Knowledge Structures

Alexandra Milkey, Spivey McLane, and Ozcan Gulacar

C14. The Effects of Integrating a Socio-Scientific Issue into the General Chemistry Curriculum on Students Motivation and Self-Efficacy

Aryana Nabavizadeh and Ozcan Gulacar

Keynote Address (room 176) 3:00 – 4:00 pm: Prof. Bill Gerwick (UC San Diego)

Abstract: Multidisciplinary marine biomedical research in the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine at Scripps Institution of Oceanography brings together students and researchers from diverse backgrounds, including pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, and microbiology. The major focus of these studies is the discovery of new anticancer, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory or neurotoxic compounds from marine algae, with a special emphasis on blue-green algae (cyanobacteria). Additionally, through studies of how these unique molecules are being formed, we are gaining insight into how to manipulate these biosynthetic pathways using genetic engineering so as to create molecules of increased potency and specificity, and in large volume from culture.