Graduate Student Symposium 2008

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Presentations and Abstracts

 

Oral Presentations

 

Wan-Yi Wu

A Non-chromatographic ELP-Intein Based Protein Purification System

 

Varun Kumar

 

Nanoparticle Formulation of Hydrophobic Solutes and Factors Governing the Stability

 

Stephanie Budijono

 

Composite Nanoparticles for Photodynamic Cancer Therapy

 

Yoosik Kim

 

Integration of Maternal Signals via Substrate Competition in Early Patterning of Drosophila Embryo

 

John Bishop

 

Thermoplastic Elastomers Containing Crystalline and Glassy Components from Single-Phase Melts

 

Joung Eun Yoo

 

Improving Polyaniline Conductivity Through Controlling the Size and Size Distribution of Its Template

 

Andrew Marencic

 

Sphere-Forming and Cylinder-Forming Block Copolymer Thin Films Aligned Under Double Shear

 

Samantha Sanders

 

Simulation Studies of Coarse Grained Surfactant Models

 

Santiago Romero-Vargas Castrillon

 

Effect of Surface Polarity on the Structure and Dynamics of Water in Nano-Scale Confinement

 

Peter DiMaggio

 

A Mixed-Integer Linear Optimization Framework for the Identification of Post-translational Modifications in Histone H3 using Electron Transfer Dissociation Tandem Mass Spectrometry

 

Andrew Ferguson

 

Solubility and Molecular Conformations of n-Alkane Chains in Water

 

Peter Verderame

 

Operational Planning of a Large-Scale Industrial Batch Plant under Demand Uncertainty

 

Denis Shcherbakov

 

Pursuing Stability in Aqueous Blends of Micro- and Nanoscale Colloidal Spheres

 

Edward Matteo

 

Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide in Depleted Hydrocarbon Reserves

 

Kristen Marino

The Effect of Platinum on Al Diffusion Kinetics in NiAl

 

Shuyang Pan

The Use of Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy in Probing Poly(dimethylsiloxane)-Functionalized Graphene Sheet Interface

 

 

Poster Presentations

 

Robert Batten

Classical Disordered Ground States: Super-Ideal Gases, Stealth and Equi-Luminous Materials

 

Meghan Bellows

 

A Novel Framework for De Novo Protein Design and its Applications

 

Baley Fong

 

Self-Cleaving Intein-Mediated Protein Purification in Pichia Pastoris

 

Jitendra Kanodia

 

Computational Modeling of Maternal Morphogen Gradients in the Drosophila Embryo

 

Chang Su Kim

 

Enhancing Phase Separation in Inverted Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells for Improved Efficiencies

 

Stephanie Lee

 

Controlling Grain Growth in Solution-Processed Organic Semiconductors for Thin Film Transistors

 

Sheng Li

 

Characterization of Novel Semicrystalline Ethylene-α-Olefin Block Copolymers

 

Thomas Lombardo

 

Structural and Mechanical Properties of Glassy Water in Nanoscale Confinement

 

Michael McAllister

 

Functionalized Single-Sheet Graphene

 

Robert Scogna

 

The Effect of Ionic Aggregation on the Yield Stress of Ethylene/Methacrylic Acid Ionomers

 

Ashwin Subramani

 

Single Sequence Secondary Structure Prediction for Globular Proteins

 

Jacob Tarver

 

An Investigation of Polyelectrochromism in Water-Dispersible Polyaniline for Use in Passive Display Elements