ResearchFest 2016

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

2016 Award Winners

Talk Winners 2016

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 Winners 2016

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"