International Research Experience for Undergraduates
2004 Participants
- Megan Dowdy from Winthrop University worked in the group of Dr. Tom Lyons investigating the synthesis and purification of transmembrane hormone receptors hypothesized to have ceramidase activity.
- Frantz Duchatellier from the University of Florida worked in the group of Professor Lisa McElwee-White with researching the Oxidation of Methanol using heterobimetallic catalysts.
- Claudia Giambartolomei from George Washington University (DC) worked in the group of Dr. Micheal Scott researching the synthesis of Trinuclear Zinc(II) Catalyst and its use in the transesterification of phosphate diester bonds.
- Edwin Homan from the University of Florida worked in the group of Dr. Ronald Castellano researching the synthesis and characterization of tris(heteroaryl) substituted 1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene derivatives as improved tripodal chelating ligands.
- Eric Jamison II from Lincoln University (PA) worked in the group of Dr. Weihong Tan researching the Ultrasensitive DNA detection usin highly fluorescent bioconjugated nanoparticles.
- John Maciejewski from Penn State University (PA) worked in the group of Dr. John Reynolds under the supervision of Ben Reeves researching the Synthesis and Characterization of New Electrochromic Materials.
- Monique E. Johnson from Lincoln University (PA) worked in the group of Dr. Y. Charles Cao researching The Formation and Spectrum Regimes of PbS and other Semiconducting Nanocrystals.
- Courtney Phillips is an undergraduate from Western Kentucky University. Courtney worked in the lab of Dr. Lisa McElwee-White working on the catalytic carbonylation of disubstituted amines to ureas.
- Diogenes Placencia from Sacred Heart University worked in the Winefordner group researching matrix effects of Aluminum with graphite and Silicon matrix in LIBS.
- Joy Wattawa from Reed College worked in the group of Dr. Randy Duran researching
- Dalia Lopez Colon from University of Puerto Rico in Humacao worked in the group of Laurence Sabatier researching the Proteomic Analysis of the Systemic Immune Response of Drosophila.
- Elizabeth Karnas from the College of St. Elizabeth worked in the group of Dr. Patrick Pale to continue research on the mechanistic study of palladium and silver catalyzed cross coupling reactions.
- Rebecca Martin from New College of Florida worked in the group of Dr. Jacques Delaire and Dr. Keitaro Nakatani researching a New Family of Organic Compounds for Second-Order Nonlinear Optics: the low molecular weight glasses.
- Hannah Toomey from the University of Texas at Arlington worked in the group of Clément Sanchez researching the Assembly of manganese clusters with a dendrimer template.
- Kristen Yarmey from Penn State University in State College, PA, used nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) to study the interactions between peptides and membranes with Dr. Erick Dufourc of the Institut Europeen de Chimie et Biologie in Bordeaux, France.
- Anna Lisa Vagstad from Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC working under Dr. Max Malacria and Dr. Emmanuel Lacote with Iodine(III) Mediated Preparations of Nitrogen-Containing Sulfur Derivatives
- Celia Brancour from Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) worked in the group of Dr. Eric Enholm creating a library of functionalized tatrates for DNA transfection agent precursors.
- Sylvestre Gug from Universite Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France), worked in the group of Dr Jon D. Stewart, assessing the substrate selectivities of eight Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenase toward alkyl-substitued piperidinone.
- Claire Mathieu, from the University of Pierre et Marie Curie worked in the group of Dr. Randy Duran, researching Gateless AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors responds to block colpolymers.
- Vincent Rietsch from the University of Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg) worked in the group of Dr. E. Enholm researching a New Route to the RGD-keto-Pro Cyclized Tetrapeptide.