Sponsored by Dr. Seemon H. Pines, Prof. Peter and Mrs. Sandra Beak, Dr. Terry M. Balthazor, Merck & Co. and the Obiter Company
Allerton Park, Saturday, November 2, 2024
2024 Conference Schedule
| 8:00 am | Check-in / Continental Breakfast |
| Session I: | NOLAN GREEN, CHAIR |
| 8:30 am | Opening Remarks |
| 8:50 am | PROF. JOOMYUNG (VICKY) JUN Rational Design of Modular Chemical Probes for Biological Drug Delivery |
| 9:20 am | SAGNIK CHAKRABARTI (PROF. LIVIU M. MIRICA) Catalytically Competent Nickel(I) Compounds with Isocyanides as Spectator Ligands |
| 9:40 am | ZACHARY M. FIRESTEIN (PROF. M. CHRISTINA WHITE) Palladium/SOX Catalyzed Tertiary Allylic Aryl Amination |
| 10:00 am |
Poster Session I |
| 10:50 am | YUE YU (PROF. WILFRED A. VAN DER DONK) Peptide Extension after Chain Reversal by Ureido-Forming Condensation Domains |
| 11:10 am | ANTONIO J. LaPORTE (PROF. MARTIN D. BURKE) Directed Coevolution of Chemicals |
| 11:30 am | JOSEPH FORZANO (PROF. JEFF K.F. CHANG) Controlling Photosensitizer Efficiency through Photoinduced Electron Transfer for ALDH1A1-Activated Photodynamic Therapy |
| 11:50 am | Lunch in the Main Dining Room - Group I Tables will be assigned to each person previously. Tables will be seated and called to go through buffet. |
| 12:40 pm | Lunch in the Main Dining Room - Group II Tables will be assigned to each person previously. Tables will be seated and called to go through buffet. |
| Session II: | SHAWN SCHOWE, CHAIR |
| 1:40 pm | MATTHEW J. BOCK (PROF. SCOTT E. DENMARK) Boronic Ester Design Enables Rapid, Anhydrous, and Homogenous Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling of Secondary Alkylboronates |
| 2:00 pm | ANGELA Y. THOMAS (PROF. ANGAD P. MEHTA) Utilizing Antibody Coated mRNA-LNPs for Targeted Delivery of Cancer Therapeutics |
| 2:20 pm | Poster Session II Poster session and snacks in the Gallery. Talks resume in the library at 3:10 p.m. |
| 3:10 pm | ZHENCHUANG XU (PROF. JEFFREY S. MOORE) A Journey of Furan-Based Monomers in Polymerization Reactions |
| 3:30 pm | AMANDA SMITH (PROF. PAUL J. HERGENROTHER) Development of Improved Immunotherapy Cancer Treatments |
| 3:50 pm | Break |
| 4:05 pm | Closing Remarks and Presentation of the Seemon H. Pines Award, Verbanac Awards, and Terry Balthazor Awards |
The annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference is held at beautiful Allerton Park, an English-style estate located approximately 20 miles southwest of Champaign. At this conference one student from each organic chemistry research group presents his/her work in the old library of the Robert Allerton House. Two more students from each group present their work in the form of a poster. Lunch is enjoyed in the grand dining hall, and after lunch free time is used to wander through the more than 5,000 acres of forest and prairie along the Sangamon River. The park features formal English gardens and over 100 outdoor sculptures. At the end of the day, the Seemon Pines award is given to the most outstanding presentation.