ResearchFest 2016
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
2016 Award Winners
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"