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2025 Ph.D. and M.S. Defenses

October 22
Wednesday
10:30 AM
CHEM 11B
Ph.D. DEFENSE
Quantification of Lipid-Protein Interactions and the Maintenance of Critical Infrastructure for Scientific Enterprise
Issac Eason, Chemistry and Biochemistry
October 20
Monday
2:00 PM
CHEM 305
Ph.D. DEFENSE
Multilayer 3D Chiral and Achiral Polymers: Design, Synthesis, and Characterization.
Hao Liu, Chemistry and Biochemistry
October 20
Monday
9:30 AM
ESB II 102A
Ph.D. DEFENSE
Site Isolated Vanadium Oxidative Catalysis in Metal Organic Frameworks: Exploring Oxidative Dehydrogenation and Oxidative Polymerization
Thomas Ericson, Chemistry and Biochemistry
October 20
Monday
9:00 AM
ESB I 120
Ph.D. DEFENSE
Interrogation of CCR3-CCL11 docking with NMR spectroscopy: less flexible N-terminal of ligand
Jun Jang, Chemistry and Biochemistry
October 17
Friday
3:00 PM
ESB I 201
Ph.D. DEFENSE
KirBac1.1 Functionality with Ammonium, Allostery, and N-terminal Regions and Development of Functional Assays for Insertases
Carver Rasberry, Chemistry and Biochemistry
October 17
Friday
3:00 PM
ESB I 120
Ph.D. DEFENSE
Sustainable Polymers by Design: PET Copolymers for Recycling and Styrene-Trehalose Thermosets for Degradability
Tan Nguyen, Chemistry and Biochemistry
October 17
Friday
10:00 AM
CHEM 107
Ph.D. DEFENSE
Interactions of Phosphatidylinositol,4-5,bisphosphate (PIP2) and Phosphatidylserine (PS) with Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Intracellular Domain (EGFR-ICD)
Ronald Villaber, Chemistry and Biochemistry
October 14
Tuesday
10:00 AM
ESB II 102A
Ph.D. DEFENSE
Conjugate Addition and Thiol–Ene Polymerizations from Sugar-Based Feedstocks
Mudassir Syed, Chemistry and Biochemistry
October 10
Friday
3:00 PM
CHEM 305
M.S. DEFENSE
Synthesis and Property Study of Multilayer 3D Conjugated Polymers via Suzuki–Miyaura and Sonogashira Coupling
My Phan, Chemistry and Biochemistry
October 10
Friday
11:00 AM
ESB I 120
Ph.D. DEFENSE
Synthesis of Cu(II) quinoxolinol complexes and their catalytic applications
Xiayu Huo, Chemistry and Biochemistry
October 9
Thursday
11:30 AM
ESB II 102A
M.S. DEFENSE
Closed-loop (Up)recycling of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS) via Nitrile Functionalization and Dynamic Crosslinking
Regina Obele, Chemistry and Biochemistry
March 28
Friday
8:00 AM
ASB 108
Ph.D. DEFENSE
Optimization and Application of LC-MS/MS Techniques for Characterizing Glycans, Proteins, and Metabolites in Complex Biological Samples
Md Abdul Hakim, Chemistry and Biochemistry
March 27
Thursday
2:00 PM
CHEM 011B
Ph.D. DEFENSE
Inhibition of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor by Anionic Phospholipids
Ronald Arlet Villaber, Chemistry and Biochemistry
March 26
Wednesday
1:00 PM
Chem 101
Ph.D. DEFENSE
Advancing LC-MS/MS Bioanalytical Techniques to Investigate Glycomic, Glycoproteomic, and Proteomic Alterations in Complex Biological Systems and Diseases"
Andy Bennett, Chemistry and Biochemistry
March 21
Friday
3:00 PM
CHEM 305
M.S. DEFENSE
Study of HCl/DCl Van der Waals complexes and their Isotopologues via Rotational Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemistry
Muhammad Qasim Ali, Physical
March 14
Friday
1:00 PM
CHEM 305
Ph.D. DEFENSE
Mining Steroidal Withanolides and Nonribosomal Peptides for Anticancer and Antibacterial Activity
NicholasLaRoe
March 14
Friday
11:00 AM
ESB II 102A
Ph.D. DEFENSE
Organic Superbases in Catalytic Antimony-Carbon bond formation and Frustrated Lewis Pair Hydrogenation of Imines.
Jacob Culvyhouse, Inorganic
March 12
Wednesday
2:00 PM
CHEM 305
Ph.D. DEFENSE
Design of Protein-Derived Carbon Dots for Targeted Biomarker Labeling for Diagnostic Bio-Imaging and Targeted Therapeutics
Sara Strickland, Chemistry and Biochemistry
March 4
Tuesday
8:00 AM
CHEM 011B
Ph.D. DEFENSE
Cu(II)-Schiff base complexes for sustainable catalytic applications”
MARIANO GUAGLIARDO, Chemistry and Biochemistry