2024 Student Research Symposium
Friday, August 2, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Student Life Center
Guest Speaker
Professor of Chemical Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Dan Nomura
“Reimagining Druggability Using Chemoproteomic Platforms”
Awards
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Richard Armstrong Prize for Research Excellence
Xiaoyu “Lily” Yu, Winner
Katherine Clowes Moster, Runner-up
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Chemistry Focused Poster Awards
Katie Penton – “Bioactive Exploration of Commercially Unavailable Oxazolomycins and Identification of Oxazolomycin D Biosynthetic Gene Cluster”
Sydney Bates – “Leveraging Oxazolomycin Biosynthesis to Investigate the Biological Impact of the Spirocycle Moiety and Taking Steps to Elucidate Mechanism of Action”
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Biology-Focused Poster Awards
Jenny Tran – “Dissecting the functional role of an active site gate in the initiation of eukaryotic heme biosynthesis”
Emilee Patterson – “Investigating Elicitor/Regulator Pairs for Induction of Secondary Metabolism in Streptomyces”
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Overall Poster Award
Katherine Stefanski – “Small-molecule modulators of protein raft affinity and raft stability”
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Flash Talks
Jenny Tran (VU)
Brynn Roman (VU)
Sourav Roy (St. Jude)
Hannah Thirman (VU)
Sarah Comer (VU)
Greg Phelps (St. Jude)
Matt Munneke (VU) -
Oral Presentations
Abigail Rose (VU)
Maowei Hu (St. Jude)
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