Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference 2010

Saturday, April 10, 2010

 



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DEADLINES:

Oral Presentation Abstract--MARCH 22, 2010, midnight

Poster Presentation Abstract--MARCH 31, 2010, midnight

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Boston University

Life Science and Engineering Building

24 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215

Program Schedule:

8:00am - 9:00am

Poster Set-Up and Registration, Breakfast

9:00am - 9:10am

Welcoming Remarks--Raeanne L. Napoleon, NSYCC Chair

9:10am - 9:30am

01- April Jewell (Tufts University)

Gently Lifting Gold’s Herringbone Reconstruction: Trimethylphosphine on Au(111)”

9:30am - 9:50am

O2 –Bennett Greenwood (Brandeis University)

Reactivity of a Reduced Zirconium-Heterobimetallic Towards Small Molecule Activation”

9:50am - 10:10am

O3- Dmitry Kurouski (SUNY Albany)

Amyloid Fibrils are “Alive” Spontaneous Refolding from One Polymorph to Another.”

10:10am - 10:30am

O4- Elizabeth Neuhardt (Keene State University)

Norris-Richards Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship Research Report”

10:30am - 10:50am

O5- Florentina Tofoleanu (University College Dublin)

Structural and stability properties of Alzheimer's Abeta fibrils near bilayer lipid membranes”

10:50am - 11:50am

Coffee Break and First Poster Session (Odd Numbered Posters)

11:50am - 12:10pm

O6- Lee Lee Chung (University of New Hampshire)

Measuring Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in New Hampshire Mussels using Zwitterionic Hydrophilic Liquid Chromatography/ Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry”

12:10pm - 12:30pm

O7 – Margaret Flook (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Z-Selective and syndio-selective ring opening metathesis polymerization with molybdenum hexaisopropylterphenoxide monopyrrolide complexes”

12:30pm - 12:50pm

O8 – Melissa Loving (Northeastern University)

          “Magnetostructural Transitions in FeRh Thin Films”

12:50pm - 1:10pm

O9 – Michael Laha (Tufts University)

Fabrication of an elastic gel for applications in tissue engineering – mechanical and biological effects”

1:10pm - 1:40pm

LUNCH

1:40pm - 2:00pm

O10 - Nkeng Asong (Tufts University)

The Free O-H Bond in TiO2 – A gateway to reactivity”

2:00pm - 2:20pm

O11 - Thaddaeus Webster (University of New Hampshire)

Enhancing Algae Lipid and Biodiesel Production by Temperature Stressing”

2:20pm - 2:40pm

O12 – Ryan A. Brawn (Boston University)

Enantioenriched Allenylsilanes as Building Blocks for Stereocontrol in Organic Synthesis”

2:40pm - 3:40pm

Coffee Break and Second Poster Session (Even Numbered Posters)

3:40pm - 3:45pm

Keynote Introduction – Josh McNally, NSYCC Vice Chai

3:45pm - 4:45pm

Keynote Address- Professor JoAnne Stubbe, MIT

4:45 pm -5:00 pm

Closing Remarks and Awards Presentation

This conference is being sponsored by: