Chemistry Graduate Research Symposium

8:30 am Registration and Breakfast

9:30 am Opening Remarks: Dr. Matthew Allen, Wayne State University

9:40 am Physical Chemistry Talk: A simple two-camera 3D imaging system– Blessed C. Oguh

10:00 am Analytical Chemistry Talk: Recycling gadolinium from wastewater after magnetic resonance imaging– Sethma Wijesinghe

10:20 am Organic Chemistry Talk: Catalytic Stereoselective βGlycosylation Utilizing Singly Protonated Phenanthrolinium Salt – Suendues Noori

10:40 am Inorganic Chemistry Talk: Synthesizing Cu-based metastable, bimetallic phosphide nanoparticles via cation exchange: mapping out the guest metal uptake varying synthetic parameters vs. leveraging the tool “vacancy modulation” – Faria Sultana

11:00 am Keynote Speaker: Dr. Javier Concepcion, Brookhaven National Laboratory

12:00 pm Lunch

1:20 pm Biochemistry Talk: Repurposing Paromomycin as Heparanase Inhibitors for Potential Cancer Therapeutics– Hawau Abdulsalam

1:40 pm Flash Talks

2:40 pm Break and Poster Session A

3:50 pm Break and Poster Session B

4:50 pm Closing Remarks and Awards