Great results at the Manitoba Chemistry Symposium!
The annual Manitoba Chemistry Symposium was held at Brandon University this weekend. Congratulations to many undergraduate and graduate students, listed below, who won poster or oral presentation awards!
[Biochemistry Division – Graduate Student Poster]
1st – Billy Vuong – “Hypoxia-Activated SN-38: Targeting Hypoxic Tumors”
2nd – Yuhua Fang – “An Optimized PARP-1 Enzymatic Assay for Screening Small Molecules as Potential PARP-1 Inhibitors”
3rd – Kiran Krishnamurthy – “Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of HIV-1 Tat-Protein at Physiological pH”
3rd – Aisha Majeed – “Phytochemical Studies on Sapium integerrimum”
[Synthetic Division – Graduate Student Poster]
1st – Arun Krishnamurthy – “Network Structure of Nuclear Structure of Nuclear Waste Glasses at Canister-Centerline Temperature”
2nd – Chukwuebuka Onyema – “α-Glucosidase Inhibiting Natural Products From Chromolaena Hromolaena Ordorata”
3rd – Tanner Blesener – “Electron Transfer Properties of Ferrocene-BODIPY-Fullerene NIR Absorbing Triads”
[Inorganic Division – Undergraduate Student Poster]
1st – Jesse Schmidt – “Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Pseudo-Octahedral Iron Complexes of Bis-Phenanthridine Ligands”
2nd – Robert Ortiz – “Synthesis and Characterization of Hybrid Phenanthridine-Carbene (N^C) Ligands and their Transition Metal Complexes”
[Biochemistry Division – Undergraduate Student Poster]
1st – Harjasmin Mander – “Synthesis of Forskolin Derivatives as Selective Activators of Adenylyl Cyclase 6”
[Organic Division – Undergraduate Student Poster]
1st – Baldeep Sidhu – “Electrochemical Hydrogenation of Unsaturated N-Heterocyclic Substrates”
[Graduate Student Oral Presentation]
1st – Milan Teraiya – “Proteomics of Temozolomide Resistant Glioma”
2nd – Ismael Elayan – “The Bimolecular Catalytic Transformation of Methyl Vinyl Ketone Oxide: A DFT Study”
[Undergraduate Student Oral Presentation]
1st – Robert Ortiz – “Synthesis and Characterization of Hybrid Phenanthridine-Carbene (N^C) Ligands and their Transition Metal Complexes”
3rd – Jesse Schmidt – “Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Pseudo-Octahedral Iron Complexes of Bis-Phenanthridine Ligands”
Photo credits: Dr. Eric Bushnell (Brandon University)
