The School of Chemistry and Biochemistry holds its 2017 Graduate Research Symposium & Awards, sponsored by BASF. 

The symposium features the following talks: 

1:15-1:35 Haopeng Xiao, "Developing novel MS-based methods to characterize protein glycosylation in human cells"

1:40-2:00  Nicholas Kovacs, "Frozen in time: the history of proteins"

2:05-2:25 Xiaoling Zang, "Detecting cystic fibrosis acute pulmonary exacerbations by mass spectrometry-based metabolomics"

2:30-2:50  Mena Aioub, "Plasmonic nanoparticles for biological imaging and photothermal cancer therapy"

2:55-3:15 Madeline Vara, “Reinventing platinum-based nanocrystals for catalysis and energy conversion.”

3:20-3:40 Matt Sandridge, "Acid-catalyzed cyclizations of cyclopropyl carbinols"

An awards ceremony and reception follow the symposium.