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Chemistry Graduate Student Research

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

New Methods to Induce Selectivity in Electrochemical Reactions by Modifying the Electrode Surface, Enqi Feng

Bivalent Agents for Inhibiting and Degrading Tetracycline Destructase Enzymes, Emily Williford

Efforts toward the synthesis and biological evaluation of YM/FR analogs, Siyue Liu

Synthesis of Addressable Libraries: New Lessons and the Need for Proper Characterization for Microelectrode Array-Based Reactions, Albert Huang

Insights from open conformations of EcMscK, hTRPV4, and hHCN1 into the structural basis of ligand-regulated ion channel gating, Jonathan Mount

Elucidating the first protective mutation from inherited Alzheimer’s Disease - Apolipoprotein E3 Christchurch (APOE3ch) and insights into APOE ligand-receptor interactions, Yun Chen

Vibrational Dynamics of the Intramolecular H-Bond in β-diketones and Intermolecular H Bonding in Halide-Receptor Complexes Investigated with Transient and 2D IR Spectroscopy, Jessika Lira-Santos Dean

αB-Crystallin Phosphorylation Induces a Condensatopathy to Worsen Post-Myocardial Infarction Cardiomyopathy, Md Moydul Islam

Antimicrobial Mechanisms of Human Lipocalin-2, Lindsey Steinberg

Design, Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Applications of Functional Bottlebrush Architectures through Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization, Yipei Zhang

Anodic Cyclizations to Form Alkaloid Ring Systems and the Role of the Second Oxidation Step, Zachary Tyler Medcalf

Student Self-Efficacy and Attitude in Organic Chemistry: A Comparison of Two Pedagogical Approaches, Matthew Autry

Dimerization of the Fluoride Channel Fluc in Membranes, Melanie Ernst

Synthesis and Functional Properties of Metal Chalcogenide Semiconductors, Jiang Luo

Engineering and Evolving Substrate-Specific Hsp104 Variants, Jeremy James Ryan

HTRA1 Prevents and Reverses α-Synuclein Aggregation, Rendering it Non-toxic and Seeding Incompetent, Sheng Chen

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Understanding the Chemical Context of Interactions in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Garrett Ginell

Determinants and Dysregulation of Matrin-3 Material Properties in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Macy L. Sprunger

Structural Basis of Gating in MSL Channels, Jingying Zhang

Evaluating the Utility of S100A8/A9 as a Non-Invasive Biomarker, Leah Mellett

Unraveling Vibrational Spectral Signatures of Strongly Hydrogen-Bonded Protons via Development of Novel Gas-Phase Ultrafast Spectroscopic Methods, Liangyi Chen

Biosynthetic Strategies for Microbial Siderophore Assembly, Jinping Yang

DFCP1 Regulates Lipid Droplet Catabolism in an NTPase-Dependent Manner, Victoria Anne Ismail

Dipole Effects in the Angular Distributions of Photoelectron Spectroscopy, C. Annie Hart

Development of Dibenzofuran Linkers and Phenazine-Based Redox-Responsive Foldamers, Ruth Son