Department of Chemistry March 24-27, 2007

 

Highlights From The National ACS Meeting Recently, 16 undergraduate chemistry students (Ryan Baldridge, Joel Deye, Thomas Fabre, Craig Girten, Sean Goins, Dan Hogan, Adam Ketron, Matthew Lauer, Celeste Morris, Stephanie Proctor, Whitney Schmidt, Mark Seger, Rebecca Seger, Maria Versluis, Jennifer Walter and Tony Wilson) from Northern Kentucky University presented their research at the 233rd American Chemical Society National Meeting in Chicago, IL. Thousands of scientists attended the ACS meeting which featured important research advances in drug discovery, energy, and nanotechnology. (Links: Poster Presentations) Traveling with the students were seven faculty, Drs. McGill, Oliver, Walters, Bullen, Paula, Russell and Kempton. The students were not the only ones making presentations at the meeting. Dr. Walters presented a talk entitled "Wikis, podcasts and screencasts (oh my!) in undergraduate chemistry coursework and research" about his use of alternative methods of delivering course content and solutions (Links: abstract). Dr. Bullen gave a talk on "Open access peer reviewed portal for communicating chemistry: Analytical Sciences Digital Library." Dr. Bullen is an editor for Analytical Sciences Digital Library (Links: abstract). Together, Drs. Walters and Bullen presented their recent success with their nanomaterials course they recently taught in a talk called, "Development of a nanomaterials one week intersession course at NKU" (Links: abstract). In addition to presenting the exciting work at NKU and attending talks given by some of the top chemists from around the globe, students and faculty alike were able to find time to enjoy both the fine food and many outstanding museums in the Chicago area.

	POSTER PRESENTATIONS
	Joel R. Deye, Robert A Wilson, Matthew Lauer, Rebecca A. Seger, Celeste A. Morris, Heather A. Bullen, and Keith A. Walters. "New methods of membership recruitment for SAACS at Northern Kentucky University." 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, IL, March 2007. (Links: abstract)
	Craig D. Girten, Jody R. Helton, Donald A. Tomalia, Kristi H. Martines, Heather A. Bullen, and Keith A. Walters "Surface modification of G4 and G5 PAMAM dendrimers.” 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, IL, March 2007. (Links: abstract)
	Stephanie M Proctor, Hazel A Barton and Heather A. Bullen, "Impact of pyoverdin siderophores extracted from Pseudomonas aeruginosa on bacterial adhesion to metal oxide surfaces.” 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, IL, March 2007. (Links: abstract)
	Thomas Fabre, Jerome D Hogan, Keith A. Walters, Kristi H. Martines, Donald A. Tomalia and Heather A. Bullen "Design and characterization of drug delivery systems across the blood brain barrier.” 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, IL, March 2007. (Links: abstract)
	Jerome D Hogan, Thomas Fabre, Keith A. Walters, Kristi H. Martines, Donald A. Tomalia and Heather A. Bullen "ATR-FTIR analysis of the interaction of biotinylated dendrimers with blood brain barrier models”. 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, IL, March 2007. (Links: abstract)
	Ryan Baldridge, Adam C. Ketron, Jennifer Walter, John Ledford, Diana L. McGill, Patrick Schultheis and Kristi H. Martines, "Sub-cellular localization of two P-type ATPases, Atp13a1 and Atp13a2." 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, IL, March 2007. (Links: abstract)
	Celeste A. Morris and Keith A. Walters, "Developments in fullerene-transition metal supramolecular systems and molecular wire precursors.” 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, IL, March 2007. (Links: abstract)
	Whitney L Schmidt and Heather A. Bullen, "Catecholate siderophore complexation on metal oxide surfaces.” 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, IL, March 2007. (Links: abstract)
	Maria Versluis, Michael Lape, Christopher Elam, Robert Kempton and Stefan Paula, "Synthesis and evaluation of novel hydroquinone analogs as inhibitors of the sarco/endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase.” 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, IL, March 2007. (Links: abstract)
	Sean M. Goins, James Kareth, and Keith A. Walters, "Continued synthesis of symmetric and asymmetric ligation points for organometallic supramolecular systems.” 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, IL, March 2007. (Links: abstract)
	Robert A Wilson, and Heather A. Bullen, "Surface modification of stainless steel medical implants for biofouling prevention.” 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, IL, March 2007. (Links: abstract)
	Rebecca A. Seger, and Keith A. Walters, "Synthesis of a new isocyanide ligand for efficient photo-induced charge transfer processes within an octahedral W(0) compound.” 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, IL, March 2007. (Links: abstract)
	Matthew Lauer, Areej Saqr, Donald Tomalia, Kristi H. Martines, and KC Russell, "Coupling surface groups to dendrimers to enable passage through the blood brain barrier.” 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, IL, March 2007. (Links: abstract)
	Joel R. Deye, "Synthesis of a novel fullerene-bipyridine ligand for photoelectric applications.” 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, IL, March 2007. (Links: abstract)
	Mark Seger and KC Russell, "Synthesis and properties of soluble flavobenzocyclynes.” 233rd ACS National Meeting. Chicago, IL, March 2007. (Links: abstract)