April 2006
MIT
The Ray and Maria Stata Center Building 3
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA
PROGRAM
8:30am – 9:00am Poster Set-Up and Registration, Breakfast
9:00am – 9:15am Welcoming Remarks (room 155)
9:15am – 9:30am German Exchange Presentation
9:30am – 9:50am D.R. Killelea (Tufts University) “Energy flow in gas-surface reactions”
9:50am – 10:10am Jessica C. DeMott (Brandeis University) “Hypercoordinate main group PNP pincer complexes”
10:10am – 10:30am Laura B. Sessions (Dartmouth College) “Block Copolymers for the Formation of Multimetallic Nanocomposite and Nanoparticle Systems”
10:30am – 10:50am Coffee Break
10:50am – 11:10am Ellen M. Sletten (Stonehill College) “A Flexible Stereospecific Synthesis of Polyhydroxylated Pyrrolizidines from Commercially Available Pyranosides”
11:10am – 11:30am Andrea J. Gabert (MIT) “Synthesis and characterization of ABA triblock copolymers with smectic C* liquid crystal side chains via ring opening metathesis polymerization using a bimetallic molybdenum initiator”
11:30am – 11:50am Alisa A. Mueller (Harvard University) “Structure and Mechanism of TadA, an Adenosine Deaminase That Acts on tRNA”
11:50am – 12:30pm Lunch
12:30pm – 1:30pm First Poster Session
1:30pm – 2:30pm Second Poster Session
2:30pm – 3:30pm Keynote Address by Professor Daniel Nocera of Massachusetts Institute of Technology:“Powering the Planet: The Challenge to Chemistry in the 21st Century”.
3:30pm – 3:50pm Awards Presentation
3:50pm – 4:00pm Closing Remarks, Poster Take-Down
SPONSORS
Strem Chemicals & Springer
AWARD PRESENTATIONS
Best oral presentation (graduate student), sponsored by Strem Chemicals:
D.R. Killelea (Tufts University) “Energy flow in gas-surface reactions”
Best graduate poster presentation, sponsored by Springer:
Vikki M. Tsefrikas (BC) “Progress Toward the First Chemical Synthesis of a Single Walled Carbon Nanotube”
The Brauner Undergraduate Book Award, sponsored by the Education Committee of NESACS, was presented by Dr. Ruth Tanner of Umass-Lowell. The award went to an undergraduate student who gave the best oral presentation at the conference:
Alisa A. Mueller (Harvard University) “Structure and Mechanism of TadA, an Adenosine Deaminase That Acts on tRNA”
Graduate Women in Science Award:
Olena Rabotyagova (Tufts) ” Relationship Between Collagen Structural Hierarchy and Susceptibility to Degradation by Ultraviolet Radiation”
ORGANISATION COMMITTEE
Chair: Ivan Korendovych, Tufts University
Vice-Chairs: Alfio Fichera, MIT William Neeley, MIT
WebMaster: Viatcheslav Azev, Tufts University
Program and Printing: Viatcheslav Azev, Tufts University Laila Dafik, Tufts University
Gifts and Journals: T. K. Subrahmanian, Tufts University Laila Dafik, Tufts University
Arrangement and Promotion: Sapna Sharma, UMass-Dartmouth Dr. LeAnn Williams, Shire
Steering Committee: Dr. Michael Strem, Strem Chemicals, Inc. Dr. Elena Rybak-akimova, Tufts University Dr. Ruth Tanner, Umass-Lowell Dr. Mohammad Movassaghi, MIT Dr. Lauren Wolf, NIST Dr. LeAnn Williams, Shire Dr. Sonia Taktak, MGH Dr. Aida Herrera, MIT
