Thirteen undergraduate students participated 2013. They worked in eight different research laboratories in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Over a period of three summer months all students got an excellent inside about the ongoing scientific research and expectations of UWM graduate students. At  the end of the program all students presented their work in form of a poster and summarized their work in a scientific written report. Many of these results will be part of future publications. The best poster was presented by Matthew Hoag.

Award ceremony (Matthew Hoag and Prof. Arnold)

As a group, we also visited Cambridge Major Laboratories, a leading provider of custom development and manufacturing services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

Group visit at Cambridge Major Laboratories

The best poster was presented by Matt Hoag, who worked in the Group of Prof. Moran. The title of his poster was: Discovery of the Native Substrate of Human Renalase Isoform 1& Proposed Chemical Mechanism. Matt started at UWM in 2009 and selected biochemistry as his major. He is currently a graduate student in Prof. Moran’s group.

Matthew Hoag

Andrew Rivers worked in the group of Prof. Silvaggi. The title of his presented poster was: Expression, Purification and Preliminary Kinetic Analysis of Staur4563 from Stigmatella Aurantiaca.

Andrew Rivers

Brenton Carmichael worked in the group of Prof. Moran. The title of his presented poster was: Redefining Renalase? Stumbling across the substrate.

Brenton Carmichael

Chay Teng Yeo worked in the group of Prof. Peng. The title of her presented poster was: Modification of Pyrimidine Nucleosides via “Click” Chemistry.

Chay Teng Yeo

Colin Brook worked in the group of Prof. Hossain. The title of his presented poster was: Tsuji-Trost Palladium-Catalyzed DAAA of Enol Carbonates.

Colin Brook

Collin Lemmer worked in the group of Prof. Silvaggi. The title of his presented poster was: Expression, Purification and Prelimiary Kinetic studies of FR7_3041, an ADCSF Enzyme for Pelosinus fermentans.

Colling Lemmer

Angel Corona worked in the group of Prof. Frick. The title of his presented poster was: Design and Cloning of Fluorescent Human Helicase DHX58 (LGP2): Building the Tools to Study Viral Helicases.

Angel Corona

Daniel Love worked in the group of Prof. Pacheco. The title of his presented poster was: UV/Vis Spectropotentiometric Study of Histidine 267 to Methionine Mutant of ccNiR.

Daniel Love

Hyeyoung Eom worked in the group of Prof. Peng. The title of her presented poster was: Coumarin Derivatives: Synthesis, Photochemistry and Future Application in DNA.

Hyeyoung Eom

Jonathan Bogart worked in the group of Prof. Arnold. The title of his presented poster was: The Synthesis of Non-Secosteroid VDR-Coactivator Inhibitors using the Hantzsch Reaction. Jonathan started at UWM in 2009 and selected chemistry as his major. He is currently a graduate student at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Jonathan Bogart

Joshua Preston worked in the group of Prof. Arnold. The title of his presented poster was: Gene sequencing of the Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor Alpha (PPARα) in pBind. Joshua started at UWM in 2009 and is currently working at Sigma Aldrich.

Joshua Preston

 Robin Goy worked in the group of Prof. Arnold. The title of his presented poster was:  Expression and Purification of Retinoic X Receptor Gamma.

Robin Goy

Tyler Fenske worked in the group of Prof. Schwabacher. The title of his presented poster was: Preparation of Quinolones For Synthetic Molecular Receptors Tyler started at UWM in 2008 and selected chemistry as his major. He is currently a graduate student in Prof. Schwabacher’s group.

Tyler Fenske