Everyone is Welcome to Attend the Symposium

University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry
NSF-REU Symposium
Thursday August 4, 2005
12:50 - 6:00 PM, CSC-12B
(click on a presenter's name to see their abstract          Back to the University of Pittsburgh's REU Home Page)

12:50 - 1:00 Introductory Remarks
1:00 - 1:20

Optimization of the Crosslinker and Monomer in an Ammonia Sensing Polymerized Crystalline Colloidal Array.
Claire Fleeger, Messiah College (Prof. Sanford Asher and Graduate Students Jeremy Walker & Kyle Kimble)

1:20 - 1:40 Voltammetric Study of Extracellular Dopamine in the Striatum of Anesthetized Rat.
James J. Kelly, Barry University (Prof. Adrian C. Michael)
1:40 - 2:00 Development of a Liquid-Liquid Extraction System for the Purification of the Fluorous Mitsunobu Reaction.
Elizabeth Sanger, Alfred University (Prof. Dennis Curran and Graduate Student Jonathan Tripp)
2:00 - 2:20 Structural Determination of the Phenol Dimer Through High-Resolution Electronic Spectroscopy with Comparison to Ab Initio Calculations: Investigating Biomolecules in the Gas Phase.
Kieran Gallagher-Gonzales, University of New Mexico  (Prof. David Pratt and Graduate Students Phil Morgan, Diane Mitchell)
2:20 - 2:40 Identification of Unique Molecular Targets in Breast Cancer Cells Using Difference 2D Gel Electrophoresis.
Jennifer Boyd, Erskine College (Prof. Billy Day and Graduate Student Miranda Sarachine) 
2:40 - 3:00 Development of Biodegradable Polymeric Carriers for Vitamin B12 Delivery
Richard Slaughter, University of Pittsburgh (Prof. Julie d’Itri and Graduate Student Vladimir Kovalchuk)
3:00 - 3:20

Break

3:20 - 3:40 More Luminescent Lanthanides Reporters: Polymetallic Dendrimer Complexes.
Wesley Smith, Trinity International University (Prof. Stephane Petoud and Graduate Student Grzegorz Filipczyk) 
3:40 - 4:00  Expanding the Frontiers of Diversity Oriented Synthesis using Resin-to-Resin Cross Enyne Metathesis.
Wendy Fields, North Carolina State University (Prof. Kazunori Koide)
4:00 - 4:20

Deprotection of Poly(2-Oxo-Morpholine-4-Carboxylic Acid Benzyl Ester) for Uses in Tissue Engineering
Tyler Pardee, Ithaca College (
Prof. Toby Chapman)

4:20 - 4:40 Electron Transfer Kinetics of Cytochrome C Covalently Attached to Carboxylic Acid-Terminated Self-Assembled Monolayer.
Kathyrn Knorr, St. Francis College (Prof. David H. Waldeck, Prof. Rose Clark, and Graduate Student Hongjun Yue)
4:40 - 5:00 Backbone and Side Chain Effects on Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Biosensors
Laura Anzaldi, Duke University (Prof. David H. Waldeck, Graduate Students Palwinder Kaur, Min Liu and Undergraduate Jennifer Treece)
5:00 Concluding Remarks
6:00

Picnic, Schenley Park

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Everyone is Welcome to Attend the Symposium