2015 Poster Sessions

Poster Sessions

Congratulations to our ResearchFest 2015 poster award winners! Thanks to everyone who presented posters this year for your help in showcasing the fantastic research being conducted here at UMass.

3M Award for Outstanding Poster Presentation

• Ololade Fatunmbi (Kaltashov Group), "Utilizing in Silico and/or Native ESI Approaches to Privide New Insights on Haptoglobin/Globin and Haptoglobin/Receptor Interactions"

LiquiGlide Award for Outstanding Poster Presentation

• Gulen Yesilbag Tonga (Rotello Group), "Supramolecular Regulation of Bioorthogonal Catalysis in Cells Using Nanoparticle-Embedded Transition Metal Catalysts"

William E. McEwen Fellowship Award for Outstanding Poster Presentation

• Vanessa Chaplin (Knapp Group), "Manipulating Catalytic Activity of HIF Hydroxylases"
• Lawrence Renna (Venkataraman Group), "Pervoskite Solar Cells: Why Do the Degrade? The Kinetics of Ion Transport and its Implications on Stability"
• Christie Cutting (Venkataraman Group), "Shifting Perspective: Photovoltaics for Indoor Light Applications"
• Carolyn Carr (Maroney Group), "TBA"
• Kevin Dagbay (Hardy Group), "Probing the Domain Architecture of Caspase-6 Reveals Mechanisms for its Regulation"
• Scott Eron (Hardy Group), "Deciphering the Regulatory Effects of Phosphorylation on the Apoptotic Caspase-7"
• Joseph Tilitsky (Gierasch Group), "Binding of an Hsp70 Molecular Chaperone to its Protein Substrate is Hierachial"
• Joseph Hardie (Farkas & Rotello Group), "Cytosolic Delivery of Therapeutic RNA Nucleotides and Hydrophobic Drugs Using Self-Assembled Gold Nanoparticle-Stabilized Nanocapsules for Breast Cancer Therapy"