2014 Sigma Xi Poster Session
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Students that did research over summer 2014 at Swarthmore or other academic institutions and industries presented their research at the annual Sigma Xi poster session, held Sept 19-20, 2014 in Eldridge Commons.
CHEMISTRY
Peter Amadeo: "Revised Diastereoselective Approach to Bis-‐Spiroketals Using Sulfinyl Iron(0) Diene Complexes"
Sooyun Choi: "Spectroscopic and computational studies of vinylanisole isomers"
Shenstone Huang: "Structural Studies of Influenza A M2 Full-‐Length Protein"
Weite Liu: "Synthesis and characterization of organometallic tungsten and molybdenum complexes as electrocatalysts"
Martin Mathay: "Optimization of the extraction of myclobutanil from solid samples by HPLC"
Julia Murphy: "Diastereoselective Synthesis Directed by Planar Iron(0) Tricarbonyl Diene Complexes"
Raundi Quevedo: "Electrode Functionalization via Nucleophilic Substitution and Alkyl Radicals"
Melissa Trofa: "Physical properties and structural preferences of isoeugenol: a computational study"
![Julia Murphy '15 and Prof. Paul Rablen](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/main_page_image/public/assets/images/chemistry-biochemistry/Julia_Paul%20Sigma%20Xi%202014%20300.png.webp?itok=smlBNniR)
Julia Murphy '15 and Prof. Paul Rablen
BIOCHEMISTRY
Audrey Allen: 'Crystallization of two catalytically inactive mutants of the AI-‐2 processing protein, LsrF"
Supriya Davis: "Investigation of the GQ binding, stabilization, and selectivity of macrocyclic ligands"
Bryan Green: "Site Directed Spin Labeling Structural EPR Studies of Full Length Influenza A M2 Protein"
Jason Hua: "The 1.43 Ã… X-‐ray crystal structure of the Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans Ribose Binding Protein (RbsB)"
Joo Hyun June Lee: "Study of TCP and ZnTCP's stabilizing interaction with human telomeric DNA"
Josh Turek-‐Herman: "Polypyridyl Ru complexes as G-‐quadruplex DNA ligands"
![Raundi Quevedo '16 and Josh Turek-Herman '16 standing in front of their project poster](https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/styles/main_page_image/public/assets/images/chemistry-biochemistry/Raundi_Josh%20Sigma%20Xi%202014%20300.png.webp?itok=9TrMKB77)
Raundi Quevedo '16 and Josh Turek-Herman '16