Chemistry II

    Location

    Fauci Integrated Science Complex, Smith Labs, 154

    Start Date

    22-4-2026 9:00 AM

    End Date

    22-4-2026 12:45 PM

    First Advisor

    Amber Hupp

    Second Advisor

    Andre Isaacs

    Third Advisor

    Gaby Avila-Bront

    Fourth Advisor

    Joshua Farrell

    Department

    Chemistry

    Description

    9 - 9:15 A.M. | Gillian Atienza '27 (Faculty Mentor: Amber Hupp) Stir bar sorptive extraction and HPLC analysis of UV filters in sunscreen

    9:15 - 9:30 A.M. | Ella Fletcher '27 (Faculty Mentor: Andre Isaacs) Exploring pyridopyrimidines as potential detectors for chemical warfare agents

    9:30 - 9:45 A.M. | Luke Wadzinski '26 (Faculty Mentor: Gaby Avila-Bront) Studying binary self-assembled monolayers

    9:45 - 10 A.M. | Vedanth Natarajan '27 (Faculty Mentor: Joshua Farrell) Art and chemistry: Modeling pigment-binder interactions and solvent-gels to restore an 18th-century oil painting

    10 - 10:15 A.M. | Break

    10:15 - 10:30 A.M. | Juan Hernandez '27 (Faculty Mentor: Christine Hagan) Investigating the binding mechanism between AcrB and CdiA in E. coli

    10:30 - 10:45 A.M. | Zoe Noonan '27 (Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Landis) Electrochemical detection of ascorbic acid on nanoporous gold electrodes

    10:45 - 11 A.M. | Cristina Pedorella '26 (Faculty Mentor: Kenneth Mills) Why so salty? analyzing the impact of amino acid residue mutations in an intein of an extremophile

    11 - 11:15 A.M. | Shannon Briseno '27 (Faculty Mentor: Kevin Quinn) A divergent approach to natural product synthesis

    11:15 - 11:30 A.M. | Break

    11:30 - 11:45 A.M. | Elaine Kelly '26 (Faculty Mentor: Gaby Avila-Bront) Synthesizing gold nanoparticles

    11:45 A.M. - 12 P.M. | Connor MacDougal '27 (Faculty Mentor: Brian Linton) Hydrogen bonding in amino acid derivatives

    12:15 - 12:30 P.M. | Katrin White '27 (Faculty Mentor: Kenneth Mills) To splice or not to splice: Creating a trans-splicing intein from a cis-splicing intein from M. leprae

    12:30 - 12:45 P.M. | Nora Brink '26 (Faculty Mentor: Bianca Sculimbrene) Aryl fluoride as a phosphate protecting group

    Comments

    Faculty Mentors: Christine Hagan, Elizabeth Landis, Kenneth Mills, Kevin Quinn, Brian Linton, Bianca Sculimbrene

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    Schedule for Chemistry I (Smith Labs 155, 9 A.M. - 12:45 P.M.): 

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    Chemistry II

    Fauci Integrated Science Complex, Smith Labs, 154

    9 - 9:15 A.M. | Gillian Atienza '27 (Faculty Mentor: Amber Hupp) Stir bar sorptive extraction and HPLC analysis of UV filters in sunscreen

    9:15 - 9:30 A.M. | Ella Fletcher '27 (Faculty Mentor: Andre Isaacs) Exploring pyridopyrimidines as potential detectors for chemical warfare agents

    9:30 - 9:45 A.M. | Luke Wadzinski '26 (Faculty Mentor: Gaby Avila-Bront) Studying binary self-assembled monolayers

    9:45 - 10 A.M. | Vedanth Natarajan '27 (Faculty Mentor: Joshua Farrell) Art and chemistry: Modeling pigment-binder interactions and solvent-gels to restore an 18th-century oil painting

    10 - 10:15 A.M. | Break

    10:15 - 10:30 A.M. | Juan Hernandez '27 (Faculty Mentor: Christine Hagan) Investigating the binding mechanism between AcrB and CdiA in E. coli

    10:30 - 10:45 A.M. | Zoe Noonan '27 (Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Landis) Electrochemical detection of ascorbic acid on nanoporous gold electrodes

    10:45 - 11 A.M. | Cristina Pedorella '26 (Faculty Mentor: Kenneth Mills) Why so salty? analyzing the impact of amino acid residue mutations in an intein of an extremophile

    11 - 11:15 A.M. | Shannon Briseno '27 (Faculty Mentor: Kevin Quinn) A divergent approach to natural product synthesis

    11:15 - 11:30 A.M. | Break

    11:30 - 11:45 A.M. | Elaine Kelly '26 (Faculty Mentor: Gaby Avila-Bront) Synthesizing gold nanoparticles

    11:45 A.M. - 12 P.M. | Connor MacDougal '27 (Faculty Mentor: Brian Linton) Hydrogen bonding in amino acid derivatives

    12:15 - 12:30 P.M. | Katrin White '27 (Faculty Mentor: Kenneth Mills) To splice or not to splice: Creating a trans-splicing intein from a cis-splicing intein from M. leprae

    12:30 - 12:45 P.M. | Nora Brink '26 (Faculty Mentor: Bianca Sculimbrene) Aryl fluoride as a phosphate protecting group