Date: April 1, 2013
Through the generosity of donor Thomas Duff, the Duff Travel Award helps aspiring graduate researchers travel to conferences in order to present their research to a wider audience. These awards are available to Chemistry and Chemical Biology graduate students in good standing who will be the primary presenter of research at an upcoming national or international conference. Each recipient will be given up to $1,000 to cover travel expenses for their forthcoming presentations.
The 2013 Duff Travel Award has been awarded to the following students (from left to right): Fuguo Jiang, Wenchun Feng, Lisa Hurd, Maria Panteva, Gina Moriarty, Kathleen Field, Mu Chen, Shreyas Shah, Voshadhi Amarasinghe, and Boning Wu. Not pictured: Lu Yang
Name |
Advisor |
Title of Presentation |
Conference |
Conference Dates |
Type of Presentation |
Kathleen Field |
Alan Goldman |
"Determination of Metal-Ligand Bond Energies for Pincer Iridium Catalysts" |
245th American Chemical Society National Meeting New Orleans, LA |
April 7th-11th, 2013 |
Oral |
Shreyas Shah |
KiBum Lee |
"Manipulating the Cellular Microenvironment to Enhance the Neuronal Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells" |
International Society for Stem Cell Research Boston, MA |
June 12th-15th, 2013 |
Oral |
Boning Wu |
Edward Castner |
"Aspects of using ionic liquids anions as electron donors" |
Gordon Research Conference Chemistry & Physics of Liquids Holderness, NH |
August 4th-9th, 2013 |
Poster |
Wenchun Feng |
Eric Garfunkel |
"Interfacial Bonding and Morphological Control of Electrodeposited Polythiophene and ZnO" |
Gordon Research Conference Thin Film & Crystal Growth Mechanisms Biddeford, ME |
July 7th-12th, 2013 |
Poster |
Lu Yang |
Sagar Khare |
"Computational de novo design of biocatalysts for non-biological C-C bond forming reactions" |
Protein Society 27th Annual Symposium Boston, MA |
July 20th-23rd, 2013 |
Poster |
Maria Panteva |
Darrin York |
"Origin of mutational effects in the catalytic mechanism of glmS ribozyme" |
245th American Chemical Society National Meeting New Orleans, LA |
April 7th-11th, 2013 |
Poster |
Fuguo Jiang |
Joseph Marcotrigiano |
"Biochemical and Structural Basis for RNA Recognition and Activation by human Innate Immune Receptor RIG-I" |
Keystone Symposia Positive Strand RNA Viruses Boston, MA |
April 28th-May 3rd, 2013 |
Poster |
Voshadhi Amarasinghe |
Jing Li |
"Ion beam assisted SiC layer exfoliation and transfer to new substrates" |
The International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials Miyazaki, Japan |
September 29th-October 4th, 2013 |
Oral |
Mu Chen |
Jeehiun K. Lee |
"Steric Effects in the Characterization of Proton Affinities of N,N'-Diamidocarbenes" |
61st ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry Minneapolis, MN |
June 9th-13th, 2013 |
Oral and Poster |
Gina Moriarty |
Jean Baum |
"Altered Cu-binding profile of acetylated alpha-synuclein" |
Science Research Conference: Molecular Mechanisms and Physiological Consequences of Protein Aggregation Big Sky, MT |
June 23rd-28th, 2013 |
Poster |
Lisa Hurd |
Kai Hultzsch |
"Lithium Diamidobinaphthyl Catalysts for Asymmetric Hydroamination" |
Gordon Research Conference Organometallic Chemistry Newport, RI |
July 7th-12th, 2013 |
Poster |