2014 Schoenborn Graduate Research Symposium

Continental Breakfast / Welcome 8:00 – 8:20 AM

Opening Remarks 8:20 – 8:30 AM

Oral Presentations 8:30 – 10:10 AM

Energy

 8:30 AM Ezinne Achinivu
Isolation and recovery of lignin from lignocellulosic biomass using recyclable protic ionic liquids (PILs)
 9:00 AM Oscar Bernal
Mimicking the Plant Leaf: Cellular Composite Materials for Capturing Solar Energy and Gas-Phase Biocatalysis
 9:30 AM Dennis McOwen2
A Better Battery: Using a New Lithium Salt to Improve Li-ion Battery Stability and Safety

Coffee Break 10:00 – 10:30 AM

Oral Presentations 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Biotechnology

10:30 AM Aaron Hawkins1
Producing Industrial Chemicals From Carbon Dioxide By Exploiting Microbial Hyperthermophilicity
 11:00 AM Cathy Fromen3
Pulmonary Delivery of PRINT Therapeutics
 11:30 AM Marc Kai
Immune System Interactions with Precision Nano-materials

Lunch 12:00 PM
12:30 PM Dr. Harold B. Hopfenberg
Camille Dreyfus Professor Emeritus

Announcement of the 2014 Vivian T. Stannett Fellow Award
Daniel Morales – Fellow    Nathan Galinsky – Runner-Up
12:45 PM  Dr. Srini Raghavan (Ph.D. NC State, 1998)
Polymeric Materials that Stop Severe Bleeding: A Story of our Attempt at Translating Fundamental Discoveries in the Lab into a Life-Saving Technology

Oral Presentations 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Materials

1:30 PM Stephanie Lam
Smart Materials from Air and Liquid: Design and Investigation of Novel Classes of Stimuli Responsive Foams
2:00 PM Ying Liu
Self-folding of Polymer Sheets via Local Light Absorption
2:35 PM Preeta Datta
Creating monodisperse polyacrylamide free-radically via thermal frontal polymerization in confined geometries

Poster Session 3:00 – 4:30 PM

Materials

Daniel Armstrong
Semi-Crystalline Block Copolymer Gels for Applications as Dielectric Elastomer Actuators
Abstract

Mandi Burns
Microstructural Rearrangement of Nanodiamond Gels
Abstract

Duncan Davis
Shape Memory Polymers and Self Folding
Abstract

Martin Dufficy
Hierarchical Carbon Nanofiber Electrodes with Integrated Tin Nanoparticles
Abstract

Matt Melillo
Swelling Studies of Polysiloxane Networks for Applications in Water Purification
Abstract

Brittany Mertens2
The Impact of Surfactants on Norovirus Colloidal Stability and Surface Adhesion
Abstract

Kenneth Mineart
Molecularly Asymmetric Triblock Copolymers: Understanding the Diblock-Triblock Copolymer Transition
Abstract

Daniel Morales3
Fundamentals and Applications of Hydrogel Actuation by Electric Fields
Abstract

Alex Richter
Functionalized Environmentally Benign Nanoparticles
Abstract

Timothy Shay1
Novel Human-device Interfaces: Hydrogel EKG Electrodes and Microfluidic Sweat Monitoring
Abstract

Laura Weiser
Developing Predictive Models for Peptoids
Abstract

Junjie Zhao
Highly Adsorptive MOF-Fiber Composites for Hazardous Gas Removal
Abstract

Catalysis

Donny Bhuana
Core-Shell Fischer-Tropsch Catalyst for Combined Liquid Fuel Synthesis and Upgrading
Abstract

Patrick Fahey
Elementary Dehydrogenation, Dehydration, and Carbon-Carbon Bond Breaking in Pyrolysis of Alcohols and Ethers
Abstract

Nathan Galinsky
Supported Oxides for Methane Conversion with Integrated CO2 Capture – Activation and Deactivation Mechanism Studies
Abstract

Mark Schulte
Process Intensification of Gas-phase Biocatalysis by Scalable Cellular Composites
Abstract

Taylor Schulz
Catalytic Deoxygenation of β-Hydroxymyristic Acid and Lauric Acid Esters
Abstract

Arya Shafiefarhood
Mixed Oxides with Tuneable Thermodynamic Properties for Methane Oxidation
Abstract

Simon Thompson
Hydrodeoxygenation of Guaiacol and Anisole over PdRe/C Catalysts
Abstract

Biotechnology

Taliman Afroz
Sugar Utilization by E. coli at the Single-cell Level
Abstract

Sophie Carrell
Novel Interactions Between the NF-κB and BMP Signaling Pathways in the D. melanogaster Embryo
Abstract

Jonathan Conway
Role of Multi-domain, Surface Layer Homology Proteins in Biomass Degradation by the GenusCaldicellulosiruptor
Abstract

Carlos Cruz
Design of Multi-specific Proteins with Affinity for Solid Surfaces
Abstract

Ahmed Gomaa
Programmable Removal of Bacterial Strains Using Genome-targeting CRISPR-Cas Systems
Abstract

Ashley Jermusyk
Using Synthetic Gene Networks to Model and Understand Signaling Interactions
Abstract

Xiaji Liu
Morphodynamics of T Lymphocyte Migration
Abstract

Michael O’Connell
Modeling dorsoventral patterning of the Drosophila embryo in silico reveals critical details overlooked by fluorescence imaging studies
Abstract

Anisur Rahman
Quantitative Analysis of mTOR Activation Downstream of Akt
Abstract

Jeffrey Zurawski
Biochemical and Transcriptomic Analysis of Cellulolytic Caldicellulosiruptor Species Growing on Untreated Switchgrass
Abstract