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The
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry hosted the 43rd
annual Silver Symposium on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. in
219 Brown Laboratory. All of our graduate student participants gave
excellent presentations, with four being singled out as Award
winners:
1st Place: Kristen DeMeester, “Remodeling
of the Peptidoglycan Backbone Reveals Details about Bacterial Cell
Wall Structure and Immune Recognition”
(Mentor:
Prof. Catherine Grimes)
2nd Place: Manman Lu, “Understanding
the Interplay between HIV-1 Capsid and Cyclophilin A Using Magic
Angle Spinning NMR”
(Mentor: Prof. Tatyana Polenova)
Tied for 3rd: Amy Schaefer, “Rescuing
the Response of the Crohn’s Associated NOD2 Mutants”
(Mentor: Prof. Catherine Grimes)
Andrea Potocny, “Linear Tetrapyrrole Metal Complexes as
Efficient Photosensitizers of Singlet Oxygen for Use in Photodynamic
Therapy”
(Mentor: Prof. Joel Rosenthal)
A
jury composed of representatives of each major research area in the
department judged the participants on the basis of both the
effectiveness of the presentation and the quality of the research.
The Silver award consists of a certificate and an honorarium
supported by the Joel Silver Award Fund (given in memory of Joel L.
Silver, a graduate student killed in a traffic accident in his last
doctoral year [1971]). We wish to thank all the participants and the
jurors and heartiest congratulations to the award winners.