Chemistry

2021 Virtual Presentations:

Can we design the antimicrobial peptide Buforin II to be more effective against bacteria?
Student author(s): Gabriela Kim ’23
Faculty supervisor: Donald E. Elmore, Louise Darling

Carbon Cycle Anomalies in New England Coastal Ocean Summers
Student author(s): Sofia Alejandra Castillo Cieza ’23
Faculty supervisor: Rachel Stanley

Design and Synthesis of Novel DCM-MJ-I-21 Derivatives as Pancreatic Anti-Cancer Agents
Student author(s): Angelina Zhang ’22
Faculty supervisor: Dora Carrico-Moniz

Developing a More Efficient Assay for the Quantification of Lipid Vesicles
Student author(s): Wania Ahmad ’22
Faculty supervisor: Don Elmore, Louise Darling

Developing a red fluorescent redox sensor
Student author(s): Jenna Meyers ’24
Faculty supervisor: Mathew Tantama 

Developing Mass Spectrometric Techniques for Improved Analysis of Noble Gases
Student author(s):  Julie WonYoung Hwang ’23; Sophia Meier ’22
Faculty supervisor: Rachel Stanley

Developing Single-Colored Ratiometric Sensors of ATP
Student author(s): Mary Canzano ’22; Meliza Perez ’22
Faculty supervisor: Mathew Tantama

Engineering a sensor of ligand-induced bradykinin receptor endocytosis
Student author(s): Sarina Sun ’21
Faculty supervisor: Mathew Tantama

Exploring Nucleic Acid Stability Using Biochemical Techniques
Student author(s): Erin Kim ’22; Rahaf Zaza ’24
Faculty supervisor: Megan Nunez

Investigating Activity and Potential Cocktail Therapies with a Designed Histone-Derived Antimicrobial Peptide
Student author(s): Brianna Perry ’22
Faculty supervisor: Louise Darling, Don Elmore

Net Community Production Patterns at the New England Shelfbreak Front
Student author(s): Lindsey Baldwin ’23
Faculty supervisor: Rachel Stanley

Pyrazole Synthesis
Student author(s): Izzy Burdick ’22
Faculty supervisor: Adrian Huang

The Role of low-energy (< 20 eV) electrons in astrochemistry
Student Author(s): Qin Tong (Rong) Wu ’24
Faculty supervisor: Christopher Arumainayagam

Stabilization of Antimicrobial Peptide DesHDAP1 in Crowded Environment
Student author(s): Amy Liu ’22
Faculty supervisor: Don Elmore, Louise Darling

Storm Watch: NCP Change on the Horizon The effect of abiotic factors on calculated net community production in the Atlantic Ocean
Student author(s): Madeleine Schwede ’23; Justin Ossolinski, WHOI affiliated; Zoe Sandwith, WHOI affiliated
Faculty supervisor: Rachel Stanley

Synthesis of Isoprenylated Coumarin Derivatives for Future Studies on Their Mechanism of Action as Anticancer Agents
Student author(s): Rosalind Lucier ’22; Mayaa Appiah ’23
Faculty supervisor: Dora Carrico-Moniz