27th Annual Organic Area

ALLERTON CONFERENCE

Allerton Park, Saturday, November 9, 2013

Poster Session I

1.  Steven Ballmer (Prof. Martin D. Burke)

A general and automated platform for the synthesis of small molecules

2. Chih-Chi Chu (Prof. Scott K. Silverman)

DNA-Catalyzed Conjugation of Nucleic Acids and Peptides

3. Chantal Garcia de Gonzalo (Prof. Wilfred A. van der Donk)

Mode of Action Studies of the S-linked Glycopeptide Sublancin

4. Paul Gormisky (Prof. M. Christina White)

Catalyst-Controlled Aliphatic C—H Oxidations with a Predictive Model for Site-Selectivity

5. Greg Kortman (Prof. Kami L. Hull)

[Zr=O] Catalyzed Synthesis of α,β-Unsaturated Ketones from Alkynes and Aldehydes

6. Ying Li (Prof. Steven C. Zimmerman)

Compact and Stable Quantum Dots Provided by Multidentate Neutral Polymer Ligands

7. Zachery Matesich (Prof. Scott E. Denmark)

Catalytic, Nucleophilic Allylation of Aldehydes with 2-Substituted Allyl Acetates: CO as a Stoichiometric Reductant

8. Tucker Maxson (Prof. Douglas A. Mitchell)

Repositioning HIV Protease Inhibitors as Anti-Virulence Drugs

9. Elizabeth Parkinson (Prof. Paul J. Hergenrother)

Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Compounds with Activity against Antibacterial Resistant Bacteria

10. Julie Pollock (Prof. John A. Katzenellenbogen)

Development of a new reagent for the rapid formation of 2-arylbenzimidazoles

11. Nina Sekerak (Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore)

Synthesis of Cross-Linked Carboxypolystyrene Particles with Diameter Spanning Four Orders of Magnitude

Poster Session II

  1. Yugang Bai (Prof. Steven C. Zimmerman)

Synthesis and Application of Single-Chain Polymer Nanoparticles From a Consecutive ROMP-RCM Process

2. Caitlin Deane (Prof. Douglas A. Mitchell)

Engineering Unnatural Variants of Plantazolicin Through Codon Reprogramming

3. Matthew Endo (Prof. Martin D. Burke)

C2'-OH of Amphotericin B Plays an Important Role in Binding the Primary Sterol of Human Cells but Not Yeast Cells

4. Dan Kohler (Prof. Kami L. Hull)

 Oxidative Amination of Olefins through Aerobic Palladium Catalysis

5. Subha Mukherjee (Prof. Wilfred A. van der Donk)

Substrate-Guided Investigation of Lanthipeptide Synthetase ProcM

6. Shauna Paradine (Prof. M. Christina White)

Iron-Catalyzed Intramolecular Allylic C—H Amination

7. Jessica Peh (Prof. Paul J. Hergenrother)

Degradation of Toxic RNA in Type 1 Myotonic Dystrophy (DM1)

8. Yi Ren (Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore)

Synthesis and development of materials for shock wave energy dissipation (SWED)

9. Naina Sharma (Prof. John A. Katzenellenbogen)

Design and Synthesis of Pyrazole-based Inhibitors of Toll-like Receptor Signaling

10. Andy Thomas (Prof. Scott E. Denmark)

Rapid Injection NMR Reveals Pre-Transmetalation Intermediates in the Suzuki-Miyaura Reaction

11. Shannon Walsh (Prof. Scott K. Silverman)

DNA catalysts with tyrosine kinase activity