CHEMISTRY RESEARCH DAY POSTER TITLES
Friday, March 2, 2001

*Chu/Hsiao

Tianbo Liu, Quan Wan, Christian Burger, Hongjun Cai, and Benjamin Chu:
"Nanofabrications in Polymer Solitions"

Dehai Liang, Tianbo Liu, Liguo Song, and Benjamin Chu:
"Mixed Triblock Copolymers used as DNA Separation Medium in Capillary Electrophoresis"

Ling Yang and Benjamin S. Hsiao:
"In-situ X-ray studies of Molecular Orientation Enhancement in Polyhedral Oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS)/iPP nanocomposites"

Xuan Fu and Benjamin S. Hsiao:
"Crystallization Behavior Studies of Isotactic Propylene Containing Nanoscale Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes (POSS) Molecules"

Zhigang Wang, Norbert Stribeck and Benjamin S. Hsiao:
"Morphology development upon melting of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene formed at high pressure by Ultra SAXS and DSC"

Kwangsok Kim, Wanda Chen, Dufei Fang, Xinhua Zhong, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Benjamin Chu:
"Bioabsorbable Nanostructured Polymer Membrane for Cell Delivery"

R.H. Somani, L. Yang, L. Liu, B. S. Hsiao, S. Srinivas, A. Tsou, and H. Fruitwala:
"Orientation-Induced Crystallization in Polymers"

Shaofeng Ran, Christian Burger, Defei Fang, Xinhua Zong, Sharon Cruz, Benjamin Hsiao and Benjamin Chu:
"In-situ Synchrotron-Based WAXD/SAXS Studies of the Structural Development of PBO/PPA during Solution Spinning"

Meiki Yu, Kwangsok Kim, Dufei Fang, Xinhua Zong, Wanda Chen, Benjamin S. Hsiao and Benjamin Chu:
"In-Vitro Degradation of Nanostructured Poly(D,L-Lactide) Membrane"

Xinhua Zong, Dufei Fang, Kwangsok Kim, Wanda chen, Jeyoung Kim, Sharon Cruz, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Benjamin Chu, Sean Li, Elliot Chen, Collin E.M.
Brathwaite:
"Fabrication of Nanstructured Poly-D,L-lactide-co-glycolide Membranes via Electrospinning Process and Its Applications"

Mikhail Gelfer, Hyun Hoon Song, Carlos A. Avila Orta, Christian Burger, Litzhi Liu, Mayu Si, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Benjamin Chu, and Miriam Rafailovich:
"Temperature Dependence of Organoclay Morphology"

Mikhail Gelfer, Hyun Hoon Song, Carlos A. Avila Orta, Christian Burger, Litzhi Liu, Mayu Si, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Benjamin Chu, and Miriam Rafailovich:
"Effect of Organoclays on Structure and Reheology of Polystyrene and Acrylate Polymers"

Shaofeng Ran, Christian Burger, Dufei Fang, Xinhua Zong, Sharon Cruz, Benjamin Chu and Benjamin S. Hsiao:
"In-situ Synchrotron-Based WAXD/SAXS Studies of the Structural Development of PBO/PPA dring Solution Spinning"
 

*Drueckhammer

Yimin Zhu and Dale Drueckhammer:
"Backbone Modification of Coenzyme A"

Wei Yang, Huan He, and Dale Drueckhammer:
"Computer-guided design in Molecular Recognition: Design and Synthesis of a Glucopyranose Receptor"

Wei Yang and Dale Drueckhammer:
"Computer-guided design in molecular recognition: a database search method based on surface complementarity"

Ji Xie and Dale Drueckhammer:
"Design and Synthesis of Cooperative Glucose Receptor"

Jenny Xun and Dale Drueckhammer:
"Fluorinated Coenzyme A Analogues"

Donghoon Lee and Dale Drueckhammer:
"Syntheses of Palmitoyl-CoA Analogues"

Yi Liu, Xuehui Wang, and Dale Drueckhammer:
"Computer-Guided Design in Molecular Recognition: Design and Synthetic Approach to a Rigid Amide-Linked DNA Mimic"

*Fowler/Lauher

Tritin Tran, Frank W. Fowler, and Joseph Lauher:
"Supramolecular Synthesis of Polydiacetylenes via Host-Guest Strategy"

Sean Curtis, Frank W. Fowler, and Joesph Lauher:
"Incorporating Halogenated Alkynes into Supramolecular Synthesis"
 

*Goroff

Jeffrey A. Webb, Jaap E. Klinjin and Nancy S. Goroff:
"Iodoalkynes as Acidic Probes of Lewis Basicity by 13C MNR"

Jeffrey A. Webb, Kunxin Gao, and Nancy S. Goroff:
"Well-Defined Organic Precursors to All-Carbon Molecules"

Zachary E. Katsamanis, Jeremy B. Branzetti, George D. Xipoleas, and Nancy Goroff:
"Conjugated Molecular Belts: Synthesis Using a Cyclodextrin Scaffold"
 

*Grey

Jenny Readman, Ian Gameson, Joseph Hriljac, Peter Edwards, Paul Anderson and Clare Grey:
"A Rietveld Study of Cadmium Metal and Zinc-Oxide Clusters Formed Within Zeolite-A"
 

Namjun Kim and Clare Grey:
"Investigations of Bismuth Vandates by Using 51V and 17O Solid State MWR"

Santanu Chaudhuri, Michael Castiglione, Francis Wang, Mark Wilson, Paul A. Madden, and Clare Grey:
"Study of Fluoride Ion Motions in PbSnF4 and BaSnF4 Compounds With Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Solid State MWR Techniques"

Younkee Paik, Young J. Lee, Francis Wang, William Bowden, and Clare Grey:
"7Li MAS MWR Studies of Lithiated Manganese Dioxide Tunnel Structures: Pyrolusite and Ramsdellite"
 

*Koch

Jianfeng Jiang and Stephen A. Koch:
"trans-[Fe(CO)2(CN)4]2 - a Fe(CO)(CN) compound for the 21st Century"
 

*Millar

Catherine F. Dignam, Jian-Feng Jiang, and Michelle Millar:
"Some New Chemistry of Sterically Encumbered Phosphine and Phosphite Ligands"
 

*Ojima
 

Nobuhiro Mizutani and Iwao Ojima:
"Synthesis of azabicyclo[X.Y.O.] alkane amino acids by Rh-catalyzed cyclohydrocarbonylation"

Raphael Geney and Iwao Ojima:
"Molecular modeling studies on the tubulin-taxol interactions"

Dansu Li and Iwao Ojima:
"Synthesis of a novel epothilone B analog as a potential photoaffinity label"

Zihao Hua, Nobuhiro Mizutani, Pengyi Zhang, and Iwao Ojima:
"Enantioselective Desymmetrization of Aminodienes and Dydroxydienes via Chiral Rh complex-Catalyzed Cyclohydrocarbonylation"

Xinyuan Wu and Iwao Ojima:
"Synthesis of amino-aza-sugars and their derivatives through efficient ring expansion of beta-lactams"

Xudong Geng, Christopher P. Borella, Dansu Li, Songnian Lin, Paula Pera, Ralph J. Bernacki and Iwao Ojima:
"Design and Synthesis of De Novo Macrocyclic Hybrids as Potenntial Anticancer Agents"

Dominique Bonafoux, Beihan Wang, Zihao Hua, and Iwao Ojima:
"New Fluorinated Ligands for the Rhodium-catalyzed Hydoformylation of Alkenes"

Dominique Bonafoux and Iwao Ojima:
"Desymmetrization of 4-dimethylsiloxy-1.6-heptadiyne through sequential double silylformylation"

Christopher Borella, Matthew Sturm, Robert Tynebor, and Iwao Ojima:
"Synthesis and SAR of Advanced 2nd Generation Taxoids"

Matthew Sturm, Christopher Borella, Robert Tynebor and Iwao Ojima:
"Syntheses and SAR of Taxane Reversal Agents (TRA)"

Iona Maria Ungureanu, Iwao Ojima, Martine Ziliox, Clare P. Grey, Steven O. Smith, Susan B. Horwitz and George Orr:
"Solid State NMR Studies of the Taxoids-microtubule Interaction"
 

*Parise

Akhilesh Tripathi and John B. Parise:
"Microcrystallography at Synchrotron Sources"
 

*Raleigh

Satoshi Sato and Daniel Raleigh:
"The Folding of the Ribosomal Protein L9"

Liliya Vugmeyster, Christopher D. Kroenke, Francis Picart, Arthur G. Palmer, III, and Daniel P. Raleigh:
"15N Rlrho measurements allow the determinatoin of ultrafast protein folding rates"

Jia-Cherng Horng, Stephen J. Demarest and Daniel Raleigh:
"Disecting the a-Lactalbumin Molten Globule State"

Farhana A. Mamun, Stephen J. Demarest, and Daniel Raleigh:
"Characterization of the a-domain of the molten globule state of equine lysozyme"

Miles Driscoll, Melanie Nilsson, and Dan Raleigh:
" Polypeptide Disorder to Order Transitions: Amyloid Formation by Polypeptide Hormones"
 

*Sampson

Jingyi Xiang and Nicole S. Sampson:
"Investigation of Substrate Specificity in the Reactin Catalyzed by Cholesterol Oxidase"

Kenny S. Roberts and Nicole S. Sampson:
"Synthesis of Multivalent Ligands as a Useful Probe in Sperm-Egg Interaction"

Kwang-Wook Ahn and Nicole S. Sampson:
"Dependence of cholesterol oxidase activitiy of lipid phase"

Samidha V. Konkar and Nicole S. Sampson:
"Identification of molecular components involved in sperm-egg membrane fusion"

Ye Yin and Nicole S. Sampson:
"Kinetic and Structural Analysis of the Role of Asparagine 485 in the Reaction Catalyzed by Cholesterol Oxidase"

Haishan Li and Nicole S. Sampson:
"Determination of the solution conformations of ECD peptide inhibitors of mammalian fertilization by NMR and molecular modeling"

Juyeon Jung and Nicole S. Sampson:
"Understanding Enzyme Motion; Using Protein Splicing to Synthesize Specifically Labled Protein Hinge Protein"
 

*Sieburth

Yanping Chen, Larissa Kuznetsova, Cui-Frank Li, Yeon-Hee Lim, Kevin F. McGee, Jr., Fangning Zhang, Man Zhu, David Rucando, and Scott McN.
Sieburth:
"Photocycloaddiations of 2-Pyridones. Beyond the Photodimer."

Yeon-Hee Lim and Scott McN. Sieburth:
"Title TBA"
 

*Stell/Raineri

Fernando O. Raineri and George Stell:
"Dieletrically Nontrivial Closures for the RISM Integral Equation"

Chin-Lun Lee and George Stell:
"A Random Walk Model for Protein Folding Dynamics"

Fernando O. Raineri and Harold L. Freidman:
"Nonlinear Aspects of Nonequilibrium Solvation"
 

*Suits

Xianghong Liu, Richard Gross, and Arthur Suits:
"Imaging Studies of chemical Reaction Dynamics"
 

*Tonge

Xiang He, Alasdair F. Bell and Peter Tonge:
"Photoconversion of GFP and its model compound"

Hilary S. Hofstein, Y. Feng, A. Bell, and Peter Tonge:
"Examining the Mechanism of Substrate Activation of Enoyl-CoA Hydratase.

Yuguo Feng, Alasdair Bell, Xiang He, Hilary Hofstein, Jacque Zwahlen, and Peter Tonge:
"Dissecting the Catalytic Mechanism of Enoyl-CoA Hydratase"

Sharada Sivaraman and Peter Tonge:
"Inhibition of the Enoyl Acyl Carrier Protein Reductase from E. coli by Triclosan"

Loretha Carlisle-Moore and Peter Tonge:
"Human Enoxi Reductase: Aspects of a Strategy to Test Nove1 Tuberculosis and Cancer Inhibitors"

Deborah Stoner-Ma and Peter J. Tonge:
"Application of Protein Ligation Methods to the Study of chemophore Formation in Green Fluorescent Protein"

Pravin Nair, Alasdair F. Bell and Peter J. Tonge:
"Biochemical and Spectroscopic Studies to Elucidate the Mechanism of Human Heart L-3-Hydroxyacyl-Coa Dehydrogenase"

Jiaquan Wu, Alasdair F. Bell, and Peter Tonge:
"Spectroscopic Investigation of Substrate Polarization by Medium Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase"

Richa Rawat and Peter Tonge:
"Probing the Mechanism of Inactivation of InhA, the Enoyl Acyl Carrier Protein Reductase, from Mycobacterium Tuberculosis"
 

*White

Michael White:
"Chemical Dynamics on Surfaces"