NSCRC 2008

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Poster Set-Up, Registration and Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM	Welcoming Remarks by Laila Dafik
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM	German Exchange Update-Rostock, Germany, March 2008 by Wendy Iskenderian, MIT
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM	Mark M. Chen (MIT) "Polyisoprene Specificity in N-linked Glycosylation"
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM	Patrick Ng (Northeastern University) "Methodology for the Preparation of PET Imaging Ligands"
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM	Erin Iski (Tufts University) "AgCl Monolayers on Au(111): Novel, Ultra-stable and Atomically-flat Surfaces"
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM	Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:05 AM	Sanghamitra Mitra (Boston University) "Impact of sequence and structure on the redox properties of thioredoxin and glutaredoxin"
11:05 AM - 11:25 AM	Darin Bellisario (Tufts University) "Temperature Effects on the Formation of Dialkyl Sulfide Self-Assembled Monolayers on Au(111)"
11:25 AM - 11:45 AM	Carl Christianson (Boston College) "Probing the mechanism of a tyrosine 2,3- aminomutase from enediyne natural product biosynthesis"
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM	LUNCH
12:30 PM - 12:50 PM	Shuyu Wang (Harvard University) "Capturing AlkA in Action: X-ray Crystallography of a DNA Repair Glycosylase With Unusually Broad Substrate Specificity"
12:50 PM - 1:10 PM	Jeffrey Garber (Dartmouth College) "Amphiphilic Block Copolymers Precursors to Cobalt Polymer Hybrids"
1:10 PM - 2:45 PM	Poster Session - Remis Sculpture Court, Aidekman Arts Center
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM	Poster Take-Down
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM	Break
3:20 PM - 4:20 PM	Keynote Lecture - Professor Stuart Schreiber, The Broad Institute "Small-Molecule Probe and Drug Discovery"
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM	Awards Presentation
4:50 PM - 5:00 PM	Closing Remarks