2024 Welch Conference Poster Session

2024 Poster Awardees

Undergraduate Students

  1. Will Smith (Baylor University) - "Hydrogen-Tunneling with Low KIE Measured in the Mediated Decay of the Co(CH3COOH)+Complex"
  2. Haley Fossett (Wayland Baptist University) - "NO RADIOACTIVITY REQUIRED! A New Approach To RecA Mediated DNA Strand Exchange”
  3. Nafisa Azizi (Rice University) - "Characterizing Different Group 1 Intron Ribozymes for a Novel Ribozyme Antibiotic”

Graduate Students

  1. Bo Couture (UT Dallas) - "Radical-Mediated Regiodivergent C(sp3)–H Functionalization of NSubstituted Indolines via Enzymatic Carbene Transfer” and Macayla Guerrero (Texas A&M University) -"Dicarbofunctionalization of Vinyl Azaarenes Using a Multicomponent Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Approach to Synthesize 1,1-Diarylalkanes”
  2. Jaeyul Kim (Univ. of Houston) - “One-pot Synthesis of Ga,Al-*BEA Zeolites as Novel Catalysts for Upgrading Biomass to Value-added Chemicals Reaction” and Zurwa Latif (UT Dallas) - "Two-Phase Strategy for the Enantioselective Total Syntheses of the Vallesamidine and Schizozygane Alkaloids”
  3. Rafiqul Islam (Univ. of Houston) - “Polyurethane-Based Shape-Memory Polymers with Embedded Au-Ag Nanoshells for Triggerable Structural Transformations” and Samya Samanta (Texas A&M Univ.) - “β-Phenethylamine Synthesis: N-Pyridinium Aziridines as Latent Dual Electrophiles”

Postdoctoral Scientists

  1. Ting Ma (Texas A&M Univ.) - “A Conjugated Ladder Polymer For Acidic Polymer-air Batteries"
  2. Venkata Ramankrishna Gujjula (UT Dallas)- "Streamlined Strategy for Scalable and Enantioselective Total Syntheses of the Eburnane Alkaloids”
  3. Mamta Bhandari (Rice Univ.) - "CCC Carbene Pincer Mg Complexes and Reactivity: NHC Ring Expansion and Decarbonization”

Laboratory Heads

  1. D. Emma Fan (UT Austin) - "Continuous Metabolite Monitoring and Drug Response Enabled by Massively Parallel and Versatile Microbubble Nano-Assembly”
  2. Catherine Schein (UTMB Galveston) - "Physicochemical Property Consensus (PCPcon) Proteins For Alphaviral Vaccines And Diagnostics”
  3. Ruibin Liang (Texas Tech Univ.) - "Development of Multiscale Simulation Approaches for the Characterization of Photochemical Reactivities in Biomolecules”