Departmental News

• Dr. Elka Georgieva organized a workshop, “Designing and conducting multidisciplinary studies on membrane protein structure and folding” at DiscoverBMB 2024 (the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) in San Antonio, TX. During the workshop at DiscoverBMB 2024, Dr. Elka Georgieva delivered a talk on her multidisciplinary studies of membrane proteins.
• At DiscoverBMB 2024, Olamide Ishola, a graduate student in the Georgieva lab, presented a poster Production and reconstitution in lipid nanoparticles of an engineered chimera construct of the Mtb EfpA drug exporter with apolipoprotein by Olamide Ishola#, Adeyemi Ogunbowale#, Md Majharul Islam, Elaheh Hadadianpour, Saman Majeed, Oluwatosin Adetuyi, Elka R. Georgieva*.
• Prof. Jorge A. Morales presented the lecture “Electron nuclear dynamics in the age of ion cancer therapy, machine learning and quantum computing” at the 63rd Sanibel Symposium, Saint Augustine, Florida, February 29, 2024, and at the American Chemical Society Spring 2024 Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 20, 2024.
• Mr. Debojyoti Das, a student of the Morales group, presented the lecture “Pioneering Machine Learning/Electron Nuclear Dynamics Simulations of Ion Cancer Therapy Reactions” at the American Chemical Society Spring 2024 Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 18, 2024.
• Dr. Raheleh Ravanfar presented a talk at the ACS Spring 2024 meeting in New Orleans, LA, entitled “Tyrosine/tryptophan chains protect flavocytochrome P450 against oxidative damage”.
• Levin Ozer - an undergraduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a poster entitled “Synthesis and Characterization of Halogenated Salophen Ligands and Uranyl Complexes” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans in the undergraduate poster session March 18.
• Xiaoyu Huo - a graduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a poster entitled “Cu(II)- Quinoxolinol complexes for catalytic oxidation of benzylic and heterocyclic alcohols” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans in the Division of Organic chemistry poster session March 19.
• Dylan M. T. Eralie - a graduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a talk entitled “Salophen Uranyl Complexes: The effects of electron-donating and withdrawing groups on uranyl oxo bonds” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans as part of the Division of Inorganic chemistry symposium on Coordination Chemistry: Lanthanides and Actinides March 20.
• Dylan M. T. Eralie - a graduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a talk entitled “Small Town Science: Increasing chemistry literacy, relatability, and accessibility” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans as part of the Division of Chemical Education symposium “Fundamentals of Chemistry Outreach Education: From Program Design to Assessment” March 20.
• Dr. Hans Lischka presented a talk at the ACS Spring 2024 meeting in New Orleans, LA titled “Tuning the Biradical Character of Graphene Quantum Dots by Insertion of h-BN Domains” March 19, 2024, ACS Spring 2024, Session “Informed Design of Quantum Dots and Quantum Dot Assemblies for Energy Applications”.
• Jiahe Xu, a student in Prof. Korzeniewski’s group, gave the oral presentation “Confocal Raman Microscopy as a Probe of Chemical Structure and Composition within Processed Polymers and Electrode-Supported Films,” in the session on Developments in Raman Spectroscopy at Pittcon 2024 in San Diego, CA.
• Jeremy Lawrence presented the poster “Tracking Properties of Processed Graphene Oxide Using Confocal Raman Microscopy,” (co-authors J. Kaur, E. L. Quitevis and C. Korzeniewski) at Pittcon 2024 in San Diego, CA.
• Levin Ozer - an undergraduate student in the Gorden research group - was selected to participate in the first Department of Energy/National Nuclear Science Administration Graduate studies workshop to be held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta in April.

Departmental News

• Dr. Elka Georgieva organized a workshop, “Designing and conducting multidisciplinary studies on membrane protein structure and folding” at DiscoverBMB 2024 (the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) in San Antonio, TX. During the workshop at DiscoverBMB 2024, Dr. Elka Georgieva delivered a talk on her multidisciplinary studies of membrane proteins.
• At DiscoverBMB 2024, Olamide Ishola, a graduate student in the Georgieva lab, presented a poster Production and reconstitution in lipid nanoparticles of an engineered chimera construct of the Mtb EfpA drug exporter with apolipoprotein by Olamide Ishola#, Adeyemi Ogunbowale#, Md Majharul Islam, Elaheh Hadadianpour, Saman Majeed, Oluwatosin Adetuyi, Elka R. Georgieva*.
• Prof. Jorge A. Morales presented the lecture “Electron nuclear dynamics in the age of ion cancer therapy, machine learning and quantum computing” at the 63rd Sanibel Symposium, Saint Augustine, Florida, February 29, 2024, and at the American Chemical Society Spring 2024 Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 20, 2024.
• Mr. Debojyoti Das, a student of the Morales group, presented the lecture “Pioneering Machine Learning/Electron Nuclear Dynamics Simulations of Ion Cancer Therapy Reactions” at the American Chemical Society Spring 2024 Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 18, 2024.
• Dr. Raheleh Ravanfar presented a talk at the ACS Spring 2024 meeting in New Orleans, LA, entitled “Tyrosine/tryptophan chains protect flavocytochrome P450 against oxidative damage”.
• Levin Ozer - an undergraduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a poster entitled “Synthesis and Characterization of Halogenated Salophen Ligands and Uranyl Complexes” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans in the undergraduate poster session March 18.
• Xiaoyu Huo - a graduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a poster entitled “Cu(II)- Quinoxolinol complexes for catalytic oxidation of benzylic and heterocyclic alcohols” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans in the Division of Organic chemistry poster session March 19.
• Dylan M. T. Eralie - a graduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a talk entitled “Salophen Uranyl Complexes: The effects of electron-donating and withdrawing groups on uranyl oxo bonds” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans as part of the Division of Inorganic chemistry symposium on Coordination Chemistry: Lanthanides and Actinides March 20.
• Dylan M. T. Eralie - a graduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a talk entitled “Small Town Science: Increasing chemistry literacy, relatability, and accessibility” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans as part of the Division of Chemical Education symposium “Fundamentals of Chemistry Outreach Education: From Program Design to Assessment” March 20.
• Dr. Hans Lischka presented a talk at the ACS Spring 2024 meeting in New Orleans, LA titled “Tuning the Biradical Character of Graphene Quantum Dots by Insertion of h-BN Domains” March 19, 2024, ACS Spring 2024, Session “Informed Design of Quantum Dots and Quantum Dot Assemblies for Energy Applications”.
• Jiahe Xu, a student in Prof. Korzeniewski’s group, gave the oral presentation “Confocal Raman Microscopy as a Probe of Chemical Structure and Composition within Processed Polymers and Electrode-Supported Films,” in the session on Developments in Raman Spectroscopy at Pittcon 2024 in San Diego, CA.
• Jeremy Lawrence presented the poster “Tracking Properties of Processed Graphene Oxide Using Confocal Raman Microscopy,” (co-authors J. Kaur, E. L. Quitevis and C. Korzeniewski) at Pittcon 2024 in San Diego, CA.
• Levin Ozer - an undergraduate student in the Gorden research group - was selected to participate in the first Department of Energy/National Nuclear Science Administration Graduate studies workshop to be held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta in April.

Departmental News

• Dr. Elka Georgieva organized a workshop, “Designing and conducting multidisciplinary studies on membrane protein structure and folding” at DiscoverBMB 2024 (the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) in San Antonio, TX. During the workshop at DiscoverBMB 2024, Dr. Elka Georgieva delivered a talk on her multidisciplinary studies of membrane proteins.
• At DiscoverBMB 2024, Olamide Ishola, a graduate student in the Georgieva lab, presented a poster Production and reconstitution in lipid nanoparticles of an engineered chimera construct of the Mtb EfpA drug exporter with apolipoprotein by Olamide Ishola#, Adeyemi Ogunbowale#, Md Majharul Islam, Elaheh Hadadianpour, Saman Majeed, Oluwatosin Adetuyi, Elka R. Georgieva*.
• Prof. Jorge A. Morales presented the lecture “Electron nuclear dynamics in the age of ion cancer therapy, machine learning and quantum computing” at the 63rd Sanibel Symposium, Saint Augustine, Florida, February 29, 2024, and at the American Chemical Society Spring 2024 Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 20, 2024.
• Mr. Debojyoti Das, a student of the Morales group, presented the lecture “Pioneering Machine Learning/Electron Nuclear Dynamics Simulations of Ion Cancer Therapy Reactions” at the American Chemical Society Spring 2024 Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 18, 2024.
• Dr. Raheleh Ravanfar presented a talk at the ACS Spring 2024 meeting in New Orleans, LA, entitled “Tyrosine/tryptophan chains protect flavocytochrome P450 against oxidative damage”.
• Levin Ozer - an undergraduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a poster entitled “Synthesis and Characterization of Halogenated Salophen Ligands and Uranyl Complexes” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans in the undergraduate poster session March 18.
• Xiaoyu Huo - a graduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a poster entitled “Cu(II)- Quinoxolinol complexes for catalytic oxidation of benzylic and heterocyclic alcohols” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans in the Division of Organic chemistry poster session March 19.
• Dylan M. T. Eralie - a graduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a talk entitled “Salophen Uranyl Complexes: The effects of electron-donating and withdrawing groups on uranyl oxo bonds” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans as part of the Division of Inorganic chemistry symposium on Coordination Chemistry: Lanthanides and Actinides March 20.
• Dylan M. T. Eralie - a graduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a talk entitled “Small Town Science: Increasing chemistry literacy, relatability, and accessibility” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans as part of the Division of Chemical Education symposium “Fundamentals of Chemistry Outreach Education: From Program Design to Assessment” March 20.
• Dr. Hans Lischka presented a talk at the ACS Spring 2024 meeting in New Orleans, LA titled “Tuning the Biradical Character of Graphene Quantum Dots by Insertion of h-BN Domains” March 19, 2024, ACS Spring 2024, Session “Informed Design of Quantum Dots and Quantum Dot Assemblies for Energy Applications”.
• Jiahe Xu, a student in Prof. Korzeniewski’s group, gave the oral presentation “Confocal Raman Microscopy as a Probe of Chemical Structure and Composition within Processed Polymers and Electrode-Supported Films,” in the session on Developments in Raman Spectroscopy at Pittcon 2024 in San Diego, CA.
• Jeremy Lawrence presented the poster “Tracking Properties of Processed Graphene Oxide Using Confocal Raman Microscopy,” (co-authors J. Kaur, E. L. Quitevis and C. Korzeniewski) at Pittcon 2024 in San Diego, CA.
• Levin Ozer - an undergraduate student in the Gorden research group - was selected to participate in the first Department of Energy/National Nuclear Science Administration Graduate studies workshop to be held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta in April.

Departmental News

• Dr. Elka Georgieva organized a workshop, “Designing and conducting multidisciplinary studies on membrane protein structure and folding” at DiscoverBMB 2024 (the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) in San Antonio, TX. During the workshop at DiscoverBMB 2024, Dr. Elka Georgieva delivered a talk on her multidisciplinary studies of membrane proteins.
• At DiscoverBMB 2024, Olamide Ishola, a graduate student in the Georgieva lab, presented a poster Production and reconstitution in lipid nanoparticles of an engineered chimera construct of the Mtb EfpA drug exporter with apolipoprotein by Olamide Ishola#, Adeyemi Ogunbowale#, Md Majharul Islam, Elaheh Hadadianpour, Saman Majeed, Oluwatosin Adetuyi, Elka R. Georgieva*.
• Prof. Jorge A. Morales presented the lecture “Electron nuclear dynamics in the age of ion cancer therapy, machine learning and quantum computing” at the 63rd Sanibel Symposium, Saint Augustine, Florida, February 29, 2024, and at the American Chemical Society Spring 2024 Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 20, 2024.
• Mr. Debojyoti Das, a student of the Morales group, presented the lecture “Pioneering Machine Learning/Electron Nuclear Dynamics Simulations of Ion Cancer Therapy Reactions” at the American Chemical Society Spring 2024 Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 18, 2024.
• Dr. Raheleh Ravanfar presented a talk at the ACS Spring 2024 meeting in New Orleans, LA, entitled “Tyrosine/tryptophan chains protect flavocytochrome P450 against oxidative damage”.
• Levin Ozer - an undergraduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a poster entitled “Synthesis and Characterization of Halogenated Salophen Ligands and Uranyl Complexes” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans in the undergraduate poster session March 18.
• Xiaoyu Huo - a graduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a poster entitled “Cu(II)- Quinoxolinol complexes for catalytic oxidation of benzylic and heterocyclic alcohols” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans in the Division of Organic chemistry poster session March 19.
• Dylan M. T. Eralie - a graduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a talk entitled “Salophen Uranyl Complexes: The effects of electron-donating and withdrawing groups on uranyl oxo bonds” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans as part of the Division of Inorganic chemistry symposium on Coordination Chemistry: Lanthanides and Actinides March 20.
• Dylan M. T. Eralie - a graduate student in the Gorden research group - gave a talk entitled “Small Town Science: Increasing chemistry literacy, relatability, and accessibility” at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans as part of the Division of Chemical Education symposium “Fundamentals of Chemistry Outreach Education: From Program Design to Assessment” March 20.
• Dr. Hans Lischka presented a talk at the ACS Spring 2024 meeting in New Orleans, LA titled “Tuning the Biradical Character of Graphene Quantum Dots by Insertion of h-BN Domains” March 19, 2024, ACS Spring 2024, Session “Informed Design of Quantum Dots and Quantum Dot Assemblies for Energy Applications”.
• Jiahe Xu, a student in Prof. Korzeniewski’s group, gave the oral presentation “Confocal Raman Microscopy as a Probe of Chemical Structure and Composition within Processed Polymers and Electrode-Supported Films,” in the session on Developments in Raman Spectroscopy at Pittcon 2024 in San Diego, CA.
• Jeremy Lawrence presented the poster “Tracking Properties of Processed Graphene Oxide Using Confocal Raman Microscopy,” (co-authors J. Kaur, E. L. Quitevis and C. Korzeniewski) at Pittcon 2024 in San Diego, CA.
• Levin Ozer - an undergraduate student in the Gorden research group - was selected to participate in the first Department of Energy/National Nuclear Science Administration Graduate studies workshop to be held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta in April.

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