Thank you to everyone who made our 9th Annual Clorox-Amgen Graduate Student Symposium a success! And congratulations to all of the presenters for outstanding talks and posters. For more information, check out the schedule and presentation abstracts (schedules and abstracts from past Graduate Student Symposia can be found in our Event Archive). The winners of the best talk and best poster awards this year were:
BEST TALKS
Niels Zussblatt - "New non-precious-metal mesoporous carbon electrocatalysts and their properties"
Emily Davidson - "Self-Assembly and Crystallization of P3EHT Containing Block Copolymers"
BEST POSTERS
Kelly Ibsen - "Mapping conformational epitopes via random peptide display and high-throughput sequencing"
Jimmy Liu - "Phase field mapping for fast and accurate polymer simulations"
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Carl Tilbury gives a talk on "Enhancing the Accuracy and Applicability of Mechanistic Crystal Growth Models for Rapid Morphology Predictions" |
Mark Joswiak gives a talk on "Size-Dependent Surface Free Energy of Water Nanodroplets: Energetic and Entropic Components and Implications for Nucleation" |
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Geoffrey Poon gives a talk on "Accelerating nucleation with trace additives" |
Arash Nowbahar gives a talk on "Interfacial Polymerization Kinetics for Reverse Osmosis Membranes" |
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Matthew Idso gives a talk on "Photo-responsive membrane proteins in nanostructured silica as new materials for light-activated ion transport" |
Zachariah Berkson gives a talk on "Correlating atomic-scale compositions, structures, & properties of heterogeneous zeolite catalysts" |
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Niels Zussblat gives a talk on "New non-precious-metal mesoporous carbon electrocatalysts and their properties" |
Corinne Carpenter gives a talk on "Directed self-assembly of diblock copolymers in multi-VIA configurations: using chemically patterned substrates to reduce defectivity and placement errors" |
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Emily Davidson gives a talk on "Self-Assembly and Crystallization of P3EHT Containing Block Copolymers" |
Nicholas Cadirov gives a talk on "Characterizing the Surface Interactions between Gecko-Inspired Adhesives and Diversified Substrates" |
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Alex Schrader gives a talk on "Characterizing surface hydration through parallel measurements of water diffusivity and surface forces" |
Abe Pressman gives a talk on "Estimating ribozyme kinetics from analysis of in vitro evolution" |
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John Henske gives a talk on "Engineering Regulation in Anaerobic Gut Fungi during Lignocellulose Breakdown" |
Douglas Vogus gives a talk on "Engineering polymer drug conjugates to schedule synergistic chemotherapeutics" |
