2016

This year we had excellent panelists in Career Panel. It was a very productive session.The Research Talks and Posters were all very interesting. Our Department was backing us to the tilt to make ResearchFest a grand success.

Shout out to our sponsors for always supporting us wholeheartedly.

Oral Presentations

William E. McEwen Fellowship Award for Outstanding Presentation

• Mahalia Serrano (Vachet Group), "Selective Enrichment of Biomarkers Using Amphiphilic Polymers for Enhanced Mass Spectrometric Analysis"

Dr. Paul Hatheway Terry Graduate Scholarship Award for Outstanding Presentation

• Derek MacPherson (Hardy Group), "Caspase‑7 with Reprogrammed Specificity Allows Identification of Exosites for Substrate Recognition"

Marvin D. Rausch Scholarship Award for Outstanding Presentation

• Poornima Rangadurai (Thai Group), "Non-equilibrium Behavior in Artificial Nanoassemblies - Mechanistic Investigations and Implications"

Marvin D. Rausch Scholarship Award for Outstanding Presentation

• Lawrence Renna (DV Group), "The Discovery of Ionic Transport in Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites and its Implications on Solar Cell and Non-Volatile Memory Applications"

Poster Presentations

Dr. Paul Hatheway Terry Award for Outstanding Poster Presentation

• Ziwen Jiang (Thai Group), "Smart Organic Two-Dimensional Materials Based on a Rational Combination of Non-covalent Interactions"

William E. McEwen Fellowship Award for Outstanding Poster Presentation

• Jordan Elliott (Farkas Group), "Toward Macrophage-Based Reporters for Reeducation"
• Joseph Hardie (Rotello/Farkas Group), "Simultaneous cytosolic delivery of a chemotherapeutic and siRNA using nanoparticle-stabilized nanocapsules"
• Ryan Landis (Rotello Group), "Crosslinked Polymer-Stabilized Nanocomposites for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Biofilms"
• Ngoc Le (Rotello Group), "Array-Based Cancer Sensing Using Host-Guest Doubled Arrays"
• Bach Pham (Chen Group), "Single Molecule Detection of Proteases Using OmpG Nanopore"
• Joseph Tilitsky (Gierasch Group), "How DnaK Binds a Client Protein"
• Bib Yang (Chen Group), "Selective Detection of Protein Homologues by Outer Membrane Protein G Nanopore"
• Dongming Zhou (Kittilstved Group), "Perturbation of semiconductor reduction potential by Aliovalent dopant"