NSCRC 2007

Saturday, April 21, 2007

 
MIT
The Ray and Maria Stata Center
Building 32
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA
{click here for map and directions}
 
 
Please note: Posters must fit inside 4' width
 
 
 

Program Schedule:

8:30am - 9:00am Poster Set-Up and Registration, Breakfast
9:00am - 9:15am Welcoming Remarks Laila Dafik
9:15am - 9:30am German Exchange Update--Boston, August, 2007 NSYCC Executive Committee
9:30am - 9:50am
"Selective Palladium-Catalyzed Arylation of Ammonia"
David S. Surry (MIT)
9:50am - 10:10am
"Towards the Chemical Synthesis of an Arm-Chair Carbon Nanotube"
Richard K. Hughes, Jr. (Boston College)
10:10am - 10:30am
"Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of the Dramatic Surface Activity of Au{111} at Low Temperatures Due to the Effect of Styrene Adsorption"
Ashleigh E. Baber (Tufts University)
10:30am - 10:45am Coffee Break One
10:45am - 11:05am
"An Isolable and Monomeric Phosphorus Radical that is Stabilized by the Vanadium (IV/V) Redox Couple"
Paresh Agarwal (MIT)
11:05am - 11:25am "Development of an Undergraduate Green Organic Chemistry Laboratory Experiment: Reduction Chemistry Involving Polymethylhydrosiloxane (PMHS)" Kathryn O'Brien (Suffolk University)
11:25am - 11:45am
"Artificial enzymes: In Silico Design and QM/MM Characterization"
Anastassia N. Alexandrova (Yale University)
11:45am - 12:30pm Lunch
12:30pm - 12:50pm
"Total Synthesis of the Marine Metabolite Bistramide A"
Jason T. Lowe (Boston University)
12:50pm - 1:10pm
"Genetic Design, Expression, and Properties of Spider Silk-Like Block Copolymers"
Olena S. Rabotyagova (Tufts University)
1:10pm - 2:15pm Poster Session
2:15pm - 2:30pm Break
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Keynote Lecture- "Drugging the Undruggable"
by Professor Gregory L. Verdine, Harvard University
3:30pm - 3:50pm Awards Presentation
3:50pm - 4:00pm Closing Remarks, Poster Take-Down
Generous Corporate Sponsors of the 2007 Chemistry Research Conference

 

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