Grad Oral Presentations - Physical Sciences: Chemistry (except biochemistry) II

Thursday, October 27, 2011: 6:30 PM-7:45 PM
Room C1/C2 (San Jose Convention Center)

Description: Selected graduate students present their scientific research to their peers, mentor-judges, and other conference participants in a unique forum for professional growth.



6:30 PM
Welcoming Remarks
6:35 PM
High School Students' Representations of Chemical Equilibrium
Nahyr Rovira Figueroa, MS , Doctoral Student , Purdue University ; Mary Nakhleh, PhD , Professor , Purdue University
6:50 PM
Investigation of dynamic effects on the product selectivity in the acid catalyzed rearrangement of epoxides to carbonyl compounds
Diana Sepulveda-Camarena , Texas A&M University ; Daniel Singleton, PhD , Davidson Professor of Science , Texas A&M University
7:05 PM
Molybdenum-Catalyzed Reduction of Amides to Amines: The Mechanism Unravelled
Renzo Arias Ugarte, Ph.D Student , P.h.D Research Assistant , University Of Texas At El Paso ; Eduardo Cervantes, Undergraduate , Student , University Of Texas At El Paso ; Hemant Sharma, Ph.D , Assistant Professor , University Of Texas At El Paso ; Keith Pannell, Ph.D , Faculty , University Of Texas At El Paso
7:20 PM
Metabolite Profiling of Blood Serum for the Early Detection of Recurrent Breast Cancer
Leiddy Z. Alvarado , Purdue University ; Vincent M. Asiago , Purdue University ; Naraimhamurthy Shanaiah , Matrix-Bio, Inc ; G. A. Nagana Gowda , Purdue University ; Kwadwo Owusu-Sarfo , Purdue University ; Robert Ballas , Biomarker Associates, Inc ; Daniel Raftery , Purdue University