Honors Research Presentations, Spring 2023

From left to right - Professor Jacquelyne Read, Lewis MacMillan '23, Samantha Hedley '23, Andrew Sasser '23, Ava Neijna '23, Theodore Press '23, and Dean Jon Kull

The Department of Chemistry will be hosting 5 Honors Research Presentations next week.

On May 30th:

"Design and Synthesis of Pt Catalysts for Enantioselective Hydration of Racemic Nitriles"

"Towards an Understanding of the Thermodynamics of Zinc and Copper Binding to Human Superoxide Dismutase 1 (SOD1) Using Isothermal Titration Calorimetry (ITC)"

Adviser: Professor Dean Wilcox

On June 1st:

Ava Neijna '23

"Evaluating AggR Expression and Purification Methods for Crystallization Trials"

Adviser: Dean Jon Kull

Lewis MacMillan '23

"Power or Prediction: Applying Data Techniques to understand Organic Charge Transfer Complexes"

Adviser: Professor Jacquelyne Read

Samantha Hedley '23

"Progress Towards the Transmembrane Domain Structures of Mitophagy Proteins Atg32 and Atg33 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"

Adviser: Professor Michael Ragusa