January 28, 2013

 

McKimmon Center, NCSU
Western Boulevard and Gorman St., Raleigh NC

Continental Breakfast / Welcome 8:00 – 8:30 AM

Oral Presentations 8:30 – 10:10 AM

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Biotechnology

8:30 AM	Heath Johnson Cells let their fingers do the walking: How filopodia point migrating fibroblasts in the right direction
9:00 AM	Andrew Fock Growth phase transitions in the hyperthermophile Thermotoga maritima trigger unannotated Open Reading Frames (ORFs) encoding novel peptides
9:30 AM	Jaspreet Notey Stationary Phase: Wild-type archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus vs a spontaneous mutant

Coffee Break 10:00 – 10:30 AM

Oral Presentations 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

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Biotechnology

10:30 AM	Arpan Mukherjee Exploring the features of uranium oxidation and resistance in thermoacidophilic archaea
Catalysis
11:00 AM	Joshua McClure Non-Platinum Group Metal Electrocatalysts for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells
Materials
11:30 PM	Mohammed Khan  Engineering the shape of a liquid metal alloy by tuning its surface oxide skin
	Lunch 12:00 PM
12:30 PM	Dr. Timothy Nolen (Ph.D., 1988) Eastman Chemical Company Opportunities in the U.S. Chemical Industry: My View from the Inside

Oral Presentations 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

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1:30 PM	Rachita Sharma Principles and Engineering of Self-Propelling Particles
2:00 PM	Mohammad Hassan Structure-Property- Process Relationships for Meltblown Fibrous Media
2:30 PM	Alina Higham  Rheological study of crosslinking and gelation in multi-functional thiol and multi-functional acrylate systems involving an in situ comonomer catalyst

Poster Session 3:00 – 4:30 PM

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Materials

Sarah Atanasov
Nanoscale Modification of Kevlar via Atomic Layer Deposition for Enhanced Force Protection
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Nancy Burns
Chitosan Enhanced Nanofibers for Sublingual Drug Delivery
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Stephanie Lam
Functional foams from biopolymers
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M. Mohammed
Improving Electrical and Interfacial Properties and Developing New Applications for Eutectic Gallium Indium Liquid Metal Alloy
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Rohan Patil
Polymer Brush De-grafting and Analysis of Molecular Weight
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Alex Richter
Synthesis and Characterization of Environmentally Benign Nanoparticles
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Tian Tian
Synthesis of Nanofibers, Rods, and Other Soft Matter Structures by Shear Spinning Technique
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Edwin Walker
Ionic Conductivity as a Means of Monitoring Polymer Network Formation
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Energy and Catalysis

Ezinne Achinivu
Lignin Extraction from Biomass with Protic Ionic Liquids
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Martin Dufficy
Composite Nanofibers for Increased Lithium-Ion Anode Performance
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Patrick Fahey
GCxGC-TOFMS Analysis for Hydropyrolysis Oils
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Nathan Galinsky
Oxygen carrier with facilitated O₂-conduction for effective carbonaceous fuel conversion and CO₂capture
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Feng He
Effect of Oxygen Carrier on Particulate Emissions from Chemical Looping
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Ying Liu
Origami Inspired Self-Folding of Polymer Sheets via Light Absorption
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Dennis McOwen
Toward High-Voltage Li-Ion Batteries: Concentrated Electrolytes
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Arya Shafie-Farhood
Partial Oxidation of Methane Using Surface Modified Oxygen Carriers
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Keyi Sun
Catalytic Deoxygenation of Octanoic Acid over Supported Pd Catalysts
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Junjie Zhao
ZnO 3D Hierarchical Nanostructures for Photocatalysis Application
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Biotechnology

Taliman Afroz
Sugar Utilization in E. coli at the Single-cell Level
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Oskar Bernal
Highly reactive microbial non-woven bio-photocomposites for CO₂ recycling and H₂ production
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Sophia Carrell
Novel Interactions between the NF-κB and BMP signaling pathways in the Drosophila melanogaster embryo
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Aaron Hawkins
Systems Level Diagnostics of Metabolically Engineered Pyrococcus furiosus With Hybrid Oligonucleotide Microarray
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Ashley Jermusyk
Constructing a synthetic gene network to model and understand signaling interactions
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William Kish
Peptide-Based Affinity Adsorbents with High Binding Capacity for the Purification of Monoclonal Antibodies
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Astor Liu
Morphodynamics of T lymphocyte migration
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Lauren Ridge
Predicting the Nature of the Protein Corona Surrounding Nanoparticles
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Mark Schulte
Process Intensification (PI) of CO Adsorption Using NonGrowing High Intensity Clostridium ljungdahlii Biocoatings
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