April 4, 2022
9:00 AM - Thesis Submission (isaac.li@ubc.ca)
5:00 PM - URC presentation title & abstract submission (don.nguyen@ubc.ca)
April 12, 2022
Chemistry Undergraduate Thesis Defence (8:30 AM - 12:00 PM)
Location: EME 1151
Format: 15 min presentation + 15 min committee Q/A
Also streaming on Zoom, but with limited interactions: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/67305191071?pwd=WlJVRnFYTTdEKzhyYjN3VDZMM3hXZz09 |
| Meeting ID: 673 0519 1071 |
| Passcode: 808336 |
| Time | CHEM449 Student | Supervisor | Committee members |
| 8:30-9:00 | Emily Knudson-Goerner | Zandberg | Nguyen, Shipley |
| Establishing a workflow for linkage analysis of oligosaccharides and polyshaccharides | |||
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Heather Ng-Cornish | Zandberg | Murch, Durall |
| Smoke taint volatile phenol concentrations and glycosidic counterparts in Vitis vinifera berries and wine | |||
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Jessica Ollinik | Zandberg | Erland, Murch |
| Deducing seasonal changes in bovine milk oligosaccharides | |||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Simona Mastroianni | Murch, Shipley | Erland |
| The antimicrobial properties of breadfruit leaves for cosmetic applications | |||
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break | ||
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Olivia Dixon | Menard | Neeland, Shipley |
| Towards a total synthesis of rotundial | |||
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Scott Stussi | Pranckevicius | Godin, Smith |
| Title: TBD | |||
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Kadie Wert | Godin, Peleato | Perry, Pranckevicius |
| Carbon nitride as a potential water treatment for natural organic material | |||
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Ziyi Zhang | Godin | Jack, Menard |
| Post synthetic chemical structure modification of carbon nitride through amide linkages | |||
Chemistry Undergraduate Research Conference (1:30 PM - 5:00 PM)
Location: EME foyer
Format: In-person poster presentation
Please hang your poster on your poster board before the URC starts. Each person will find a number on the board to match your assigned poster number below
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | |
| #1: Emily Knudson-Goerner Supervisor: Zandberg "Establishing a workflow for linkage analysis of oligosaccharides and polyshaccharides" |
#2: Heather Ng-Cornish Supervisor: Zandberg "Smoke taint volatile phenol concentrations and glycosidic counterparts in Vitis vinifera berries and wine" |
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#3: Jessica Ollinik |
#4: Simona Mastroianni Supervisor: Murch, Shipley "The antimicrobial properties of breadfruit leaves for cosmetic applications" |
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| #5: Olivia Dixon Supervisor: Menard "Towards a total synthesis of rotundial" |
#6: Scott Stussi Supervisor: Pranckevicius "TBD" |
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| #7: Brooke Kwan Supervisor: Dang "Diversification of the anticancer tabersonine scaffold using cytochrome P450 monooxygenases" |
#8: Kadie Wert Supervisor: Godin, Peleato "Carbon nitride as a potential water treatment for natural organic material" |
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| #9: Ziyi Zhang Supervisor: Godin "Post synthetic chemical structure modification of carbon nitride through amide linkages" |
#10: Allison Leam Supervisor: Li "Visualizing the tensile forces of cell adhesion using DNA-based molecular force probes" |
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| #11: Micah Yang Supervisor: Li "Characterization of tension gauge tether rupture forces" |
#12: Dyuti Raghu Supervisor: Li "Development of protocols for calibration of dual-trap optical tweezers" |
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| #13: Shilong Pan Supervisor: Li "Identification and sizing of extracellular vesicles from blood plasma using lipid and protein markers" |
#14: Darina Vekhova Supervisor: Menard "Investigation of NOX2 inhibition mechanism via protein labelling" |
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| #15: Arantxa Da Fonseca Supervisor: Menard "Evaluating changes in membrane potential and calcium influx in L-type calcium channels caused by a barbiturate-based chemical probe" |
#16: Alexander Fennell Supervisor: Menard "Development of unilamellar vesicles and bioinformatic analysis of MFG-E8, a glycoprotein implicated in neurodegenerative disease" |
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| #17: Amos Chua Supervisor: Wolthers "Identification of a compatible redox partner for a heme-bound flavodoxin from Fusobacterium nucleatum" |
#18: Emmanuella Oduro Supervisor: Wolthers "Kinetic and functional analysis of the restored arginase component of ornithine decarboxylase/arginase from Fusobacterium nucleatum" |
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| #19: Guilherme Zandamela Supervisor: Zandberg "Towards next generation glycan sequencing: A combined capillary electrophoretic and electroosmotic method for oligomeric and monomeric characterization of complex polysaccharides" |
#20: Julia Hansen Supervisor: Zandberg "Preparation of highly purified N-glycans for the evaluation of metabolism of dairy glycoproteins by gastrointestinal microbes in vitro" |
Award Announcement (5:00 PM)
Please rejoin us back at 5:00 at EME foyer, we will announce the winners of the research conference
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