The Seventh Annual Castle Conference will be held on Saturday, April 18, 2009. The schedule of events is presented below.
Graduate oral presentations will take place in CHE 100.
The poster sessions will be held on the first floor of NES, as will lunch.
Note: These times are subject to change. Please check this page for updates on the times and locations of events.
| Time | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 8:45 AM | Welcome Session | Registration and Breakfast (NES 1st Floor Lobby) |
| 8:45 AM | Introduction | |
| 9:00 AM | Wai Sheung Ma | Norselic Acid A-E, Five New Anti-Leishmanial Steroids Isolated From Antarctic Sponge Crella sp. |
| 9:15 AM | Jason Cuce | Mass Spectrometry Screening for Palmerolide A in Cultures of Synoicum adareanum |
| 9:30 AM | Xue Xu | Donor-Acceptor Carbene Transfer Reaction on Cyclopropanation towards electron deficient olefins |
| 9:45 AM | Michelle Cortes-Salva | A Novel Route for the Synthesis of N, N'-Disubstituted Guanidines using Copper Catalyzed Cross Coupling Reactions |
| 10:00 AM | 15 Minute Break | |
| 10:15 AM | Jeremy Beau | Drug Discovery from Floridian Mangrove Endophyte |
| 10:30 AM | Shawn Larson | The Organocatalytic Ring-Opening of Aziridines |
| 10:45 AM | J. Alan Mascheck | Isolation of Protein with Strong Anti-Influenza Activity from the Antarctic Red Marine Algae Gigartina skottsbergii |
| 11:00 AM | Chungsik Kim | Stereoselective synthesis of expoxides from diazoacetates via ylide intermediates using Co(III)corroles |
| 11:30 AM | Dr. John Shelnutt | Plenary Speaker |
| 12:30 - 2:30 PM | Lunch and Poster Session | Graduate and Undergraduate Students (NES 1st Floor) |
| 2:30 PM | Emma Farrel | How the body makes primary fatty acid amides |
| 2:45 PM | Christi Young | Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Influenza A Non-structural Protein 1 (NS1) RNA Binding Domain |
| 3:00 PM | Justin Moses | Catalytic Promiscuity of SgAP and the Potential for Decontamination |
| 3:15 PM | Brent Hilker | Electric Field Enhanced Sample Preparation for Synthetic Polymer MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry via Induction Based Fluidics (IBF) |
| 3:30 PM | Ramakanth Ananthoji | Controlled drug delivery in novel zeolite-net-like metal-organic frameworks (rho-ZMOFs) -hydrogel composites |
| 3:45 PM | 15 Minute Break | |
| 4:00 PM | Alaa Hashim | Oxidative Acitivities of Catalytic Metallopeptides |
| 4:15 PM | Roger Bass | Polymer-Carbon Nanotube Interface within Shape Memory Polymer |
| 4:30 PM | Sumit Handa | Synthesis and Photophysical Studies of Photocaged N-Protected Glycine for Peptidyl α-Amidating Monooxygenase (PAM) |
| 4:45 AM | Mohamed H. Alkordi | Insight into the Directed Assembly of MetalOrganic Materials |
| 5:00 PM | Zhenming An | Amidated Peptides Found in Mouse Pituitary Cell Line ATT-20 Using a New Mass Spectometry Based Screening Method |
| 5:30 PM | Awards Ceremony | (CHE 100) |