Student Seminars
Student Seminars Archive
*All Seminars are scheduled for 1 PM, Patricia A. Sullivan Science Building, 301 McIver Street, Rm 201, unless otherwise stated.
Lindsay Caesar
PhD Defense
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Nadja Cech
Talk Title: Bioinformatics Strategies to Understand the Complexities of Medicinal Natural Product Mixtures
Chris Collins, PhD
Dr. Chris Collins, Chemistry Account Manager at Waters Corporation
B.S. in Chemistry at East Carolina University
Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at North Carolina State University
Title: Maximize Your Resolution: How to Control Separations with Chemistry
Graduate Student Presentation – Jennifer Simpson
PhD Literature Seminar
Title: “The Homeostatic Effects of N6-methyladenosine on Cancer Progression”
Advisor: Dr. Norman Chiu
Abstract: Forthcoming
Graduate Student Presentation – Heather Winter
PhD Literature Seminar
Title: Exploration of the Human Microbiome with MALDI-TOF MS Fingerprinting
Advisor: Dr. Nadja Cech
Graduate Student Presentation – Zeinab Al Subeh
Ph.D. Literature Seminar
Title: “Multifunctional pH-Sensitive Nanoparticles Loaded into Microbubbles as a Novel Drug Delivery System for Chemotherapeutic Agents”
Advisor: Dr. Nicholas Oberlies
Graduate Student Presentation – Kristof Cank
PhD Literature Seminar
Title: Targeting FREP1: A New Approach for Antimalarial Drug Development
Advisor: Dr. Nicholas Oberlies
Graduate Student Presentation – Gabby Dailey
PhD Literature Seminar
Title: “Viral Submarine Science: How subgenomic RNA helps Flaviviridae propagate”
Advisor: Dr. Ethan W. Taylor
Graduate Seminar Speaker: Nicholas Cochran – This Thursday 9am
MS Thesis Defense – CHE 602
Talk Title: Genetic Switching during Protein Synthesis and the Role of Quadruplexes in HIV-1’s nef Gene
Advisor: Dr. Ethan W. Taylor
Olalekan Oyekunle
MS Thesis Defense – CHE 602
Talk Title: Growth media studies approach to enhanced production of the bioactive fungal metabolite Viridicatumtoxin A
Advisor: Dr. Nicholas Oberlies
Faith Howell
MS Thesis Defense – CHE 602
Talk Title: Mass Spectrometric Detection of Cortisol in Hair Samples
Advisor: Dr. Norman Chiu
Osbin Perdomo
MS Thesis Defense – CHE 602
Title: Measuring Distances Between Nucleotides Using CW-EPR and Dual Site-Directed Spin Labels to Distinquish Parallel Quadruplexes from B-DNA
Advisor: Dr. Ethan W. Taylor
Matt Wright
MS Thesis Defense – CHE 602
Title: Rapid and Improved Assay of Surfactins from Bacillus subtilis, 203R via LC-ESI-MS.
Advisor: Dr. Nadja Cech
Patricia Boyd
MS Thesis Defense – CHE 602
Title: “Computational Modeling of Small Non-Coding RNA Intramolecular Structure and the Determination of Their Collisional Cross Sections”
Advisor: Dr. Norman Chiu
Joseph Mwangi
PhD Dissertation Seminar CHE 752
Title: “Ion mobility mass spectrometry of isomeric RNA biomarkers.”
Advisor: Dr. Norman Chiu
Jennifer Doyle
MS Thesis Defense – CHE 602
Title: “Towards the Stereoselective Syntheses of 2-Methylcitrate and 2-Methylisocitrate and Their Use in Studying the Methylcitrtic Acid Cycle in Bacillus subtilis.”
Advisor: Dr. Jason Reddick
Tyler Wilson
MS Thesis Defense – CHE 602
Title: “Investigation into the Mechanism of Catalysis for the Kinetic Resolution of α,α-Disubstituted γ-Hydroxy Esters”
Advisor: Dr. Kimberly Petersen
Emily Britton
Ph.D. Dissertation Seminar – 752
Title: “New Strategies to Identify Bioactive Compounds from Complex Matrices to Combat Drug-resistant Bacterial Infections”
Advisor: Dr. Nadja Cech
Rufaida M. Al Zoubi
Ph.D. Dissertation Seminar – 752
Title: “Molecular Level Studies on The Cannabinoid Receptor Type 1 (CB1): Biased Signaling and MD Simulations”
Advisor: Dr. Patricia H. Reggio
Israa Isawi
Ph.D. Literature Seminar – 751
Title: “Molecular insight into LSD’s psychoactive action”
Advisor: Dr. Patricia H. Reggio
Cassandra Naphen
Ph.D. Literature Seminar – 751
Title: “Natural Products Advancements and Incorporation of Metabolomics and Genomics Data for Novel Drug Discovery”
Advisor: Dr. Nadja Cech
