11:00 AM Millipore Sigma luncheon
11:30 AM Prof Paul Hergenrother Luncheon
12:00 PM Student posters
12:00 PM Nicholas Hopper – “Methyl Pyruvate Hydrogenation on Pd(111); Reaction Kinetics from First-Principles”
12:10 PM Robert Bavisotto – “Effects of Terminus on Tribochemical Reactions of Midchain Length Carboxylic Acids on Copper”
12:20 PM Gabrielle Grimes – “Investigation of student understanding of acid-base chemistry in undergraduate analytical chemistry”
12:30 PM Allison Tomczyk – “Exploring Modifications to Scale-Themed Instruction in General Chemistry II: Determining Content Area and Scale Concepts Targets”
12:40 PM Fatoumata Diawara – “Are we meeting students’ needs? Matching the difficulty level of chemistry text with student reading comprehension abilities”
12:50 PM Ethan Kub – “Development of an LC-MS Method to Quantify Ceramide Levels and test Combination Therapies on Glioblastoma Cancer Cells”
1:00 PM Mohammad Mohiminul Islam – “Development and validation of LC-MS/MS method for quantitative bioanalysis of carmofur in rat plasma”
1:10 PM Vilashini Rajaratnam – “Shake Flask Lipophilicity Assay, PAMPA and RED Plasma-Protein Binding Assay of ARN14988, an acid ceramidase inhibitor, a potential drug for glioblastoma”
1:20 PM Vilashini Rajaratnam – “LC-MS/MS Method Development and Validation for Quantification of ARN14988, an acid ceramidase inhibitor, in rat model”
1:30 PM Sterling Pharma presentation
2:00 PM Student posters
2:00 PM Alex Drena – “Studying the Pre-A Motif of Truncated Hemoglobin N”
2:10 PM Shahama Alam – “Probing the mechanism of the enzyme Cytochrome c Nitrite reductase (CcNiR): studies of the wild type and its variants”
2:20 PM Trevor Melkonian – “Structural and Functional Characterization of PlInd4, a PLP-Dependent L-Arginine Oxidase from the marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea”
2:30 PM Jonathan Mielke – “Abstract for UWM Graduate Symposium”
2:40 PM Victoria Mandella – “The Search For Intermediates in the Cytochrome C Nitrite Reductase Catalyzed Reduction of Nitrite”
2:50 PM David Schreurs – “Search for the Optimal Measurement of Student Ability”
3:00 PM Seminar: Prof Paul Hergenrother (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
If you would like to attend contact Alex at asdrena@uwm.edu