Thank you everyone for making our program such a success ! Our three-year grant for the ’20-’21, ’21-’22, and ’22-’23 years has now run its course.
We hope we will be back for the summer of 2026. Please check in with us in late fall of 2025.
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Peer-Reviewed Publications with REU Co-Authors
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2007-2009
- “Development of an Automated Microfluidic Reaction Platform for Multidimensional Screening: Reaction Discovery Employing Bicyclo[3.2.1]octanoid Scaffolds” John R. Goodell, Jonathan P. McMullen, Nikolay Zaborenko, Jason R. Maloney, Chuan-Xing Ho (REU 2007), Klavs F. Jensen, John A. Porco, Jr. and Aaron B. Beeler. J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 6169-6180.
- “Revisiting the IspH Catalytic System in the Deoxyxylulose Phosphate Pathway: Achieving High Activity” Youli Xiao, Lisa Chu (REU 2008), Yiannis Sanakis and Pinghua Liu. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 9931-9933.
- “Optimizing the switching function for non-equilibrium free-energy calculations: An on-the-fly approach.” Gerrick E. Lindberg, Timothy C. Berkelbach (REU 2007), and Feng Wang, J. Chem. Phys. 2009, 130, 174705.
- “Histone Acetyltransferase p300 is a Coactivator for Transcription Factor REL and is C-Terminally Truncated in the Human Diffuse arge B-Cell Lymphoma Cell Cine RC-K8.” Garbati, M. R.; Alco, G. (REU 2009), Gilmore, T. D. Canc. Lett., 2010, 291, 237.
- “Electron Transfer Photoredox Catalysis: Intramolecular Radical Addition to Indoles and Pyrroles.” J. Tucker, J. Narayanam, Scott Krabbe (REU 2009), C. Stephenson Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 368.
- “Electronic structure of N,N’-ethylene-bis(1,1,1-trifluoropentane-2,4-dioneiminato)-copper(II) (Cu-TFAC), from soft X-ray spectroscopies and density functional theory calculations.” A. DeMasi; S. W. Cho; L. F. J. Piper; A. R. H. Preston; K. E. Smith; R. J. Allenbaugh; W. Alex Barksdale (REU 2007); L. H. Doerrer Chem. Phys. 2010, 12, 3171.
- “Tin-Free Radical Cyclization Reactions Initiated by Visible Light Photoredox Catalysis.” J. W. Tucker; J. D. Nguyen; J. M. R. Narayanam; Scott W. Krabbe (REU 2009); C. R. Stephenson Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 4985.
- ”Structural correlates of protein melting temperature.” E. A. Franzosa; K. J. Lynagh (REU 2009); Y. Xia Proceedings of the 4th International Beilstein Symposium on Experimental Standard Conditions of Enzyme Characterizations (2010), pp 99-106.
2013-2015
- “Quantifying Lipid Contents in Enveloped Virus Particles with Plasmonic Nanoparticles” A. Feizpour, X. Yu, H. Akiyama, C. M. Miller, E. Edmonds (REU 2013); S. Gummuluru, B. M. Reinhard Small 2015, 11 (13), 1592-1602.
- “Gallium(III) Promoted Halocyclizations of 1,6-Diynes.” Strom, K. R.; Impastato, A. C.; Moy, K. J.; Landreth, A. J. (REU 2014); Snyder, J. K. Org. Lett. 2015 17 (9), 2126-2129.
- “Halocyclizations and Cycloisomerizations of Bisaryl 1,6-Diynes” Kyle R. Strom, Anna C. Impastato, Jaime A. Duque (REU 2015), John K. Snyder. Heterocycles 2017, 95, 1184-1196.
- “Identifying the protein interactions of the cytosolic iron sulfur cluster targeting complex essential for its assembly and recognition of apo-targets” Vo, A.; Fleischman, N. M.; Froehlich, M. J.; Lee, C. Y.; Cosman, J. A.; Glynn, C. A.; Hassan, Z. O. (REU 2015); Perlstein, D. L. Biochemistry 2018, 57, 2349-2358.
- “A Central Region of NEMO is Required for IΚΚβ−Induced Conformational Change and for Signal Propagation” Shaffer, R.; DeMaria, A. H.; Kagermazova, L.; Liu, Y.; Babaei, M.; Penix, S. (REU 2014); Cervantes, A.; Jehle, S.; Makowski, L.; Gilmore, T. D.; Whitty, A.; Allen, K. N. Biochemistry 2019, 58, 2906-2920.
Presentations
2007-2009
- Alco, G. M. (REU 2009), Garbati & TD Gilmore. 2009. “Histone acetyltransferase p300, a coactivator for transcription factor REL, is C-terminally truncated in the human diffuse large B-cell lymphoma cell line RC-K8.” American Cancer Society National Meeting & Exposition. August 16-20, 2009. Washington DC, Poster presentation by Goekcen M. Alco.
- Krabbe, S. W. (REU 2009); Tucker, J. W.; Narayanam, J. M.; Stephenson, C. R. “Intramolecular C-C Bond Formation by Photoredox Catalysis.” American Chemical Society, 239th National Meeting, March 2010, San Francisco, CA. Talk presented by Corey Stephenson.
2013-2015
- Landreth, A. J. (REU 2013); Strom, K.; Snyder, J. K.; Kedrowski, B. “Synthetic Utilization and Exploration of Gallium” From Abstracts of Papers, 247th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Dallas, TX, March 16-20, 2014. CHED-1022. Poster presentation by Adrian Landreth
- Tahsini, Laleh; Tiedemann, Margaret (REU 2013); Doerrer, Linda H. “Oxygen Donor Ligands and Oxidation States”. From Abstracts of Papers, 247th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Dallas, TX, United States, March 16-20, 2014 (2014), INOR-421. Talk presented by Linda Doerrer
- J. Fore, W. R. Premasiri, J. Irvine, M. Hatfield (REU 2014), A. N. Brodeur, L. D. Ziegler, “Body fluid analysis by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for forensic applications”, August 13, 2014, XXIVth International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, Jena Germany, invited talk presented by Larry Ziegler.
- S Penix (REU 2014), A Yeo & TD Gilmore. Characterization on of an Inhibitor of the NF-κB Signaling Protein NEMO. American Society for Cell Biology Annual Conference. December 2014, Philadelphia, PA. Poster. Poster presentation by Suhaily Penix.
- A. Woods (REU 2014), J. Freedman, M. Grinstaff “Contrast Agents: New Positively Charged Contrast Agents For Diagnosis of Osteoarthritis” 2015 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM, Washington, D.C., Feb 19 – 21, 2015. Poster presentation by Adam Woods
- Kingston, Shanika (REU 2014); Cunningham, Laura; Caradonna, John P. “Dioxygen Activation by Mononuclear Non-Heme Iron Oxygenases and the Corresponding Model Complexes” Abstracts of Papers, 249th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Denver, CO, United States, March 22-26, 2015 (2015), CHED-577. Talk presented by John Caradonna.
- Zhe Mei (REU 2015), Lawrence D. Ziegler, “Body Fluid Study by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Medical and Forensic Application”. AAAS 2016 Annual Meeting – Washington, DC, Feb. 14, 2016. Poster presentation by Zhe Mei.
2016-2018
Diana Diaz (REU 2016), Alfonzo, E. Beeler, A. B., “Generation of Carbonyl Ylides through Photoredox Catalysis”. Abstracts of Papers, 72nd Southwest Regional Meeting, ACS, Galveston, TX, Nov. 10-13, 2016. SWRM-337. Presentation by Diana Diaz.
Eduardo Estrada (REU 2016), Lindsey Walker, Jennifer Mcgarry, A. Andrew Pacheco, Sean J. Elliott “Electrochemical Characterization of Tetraheme Cytochrome c554 Variants” SACNAS Annual Conference – Long Beach, CA Oct 9-12. Poster Presentation by Eduardo Estrada.
Tamia Potter (REU 2016), Rob Shaffer, Adrian Whitty* “Protein-Protein Interactions: The Binding of IκBα to NEMO’s Zinc Finger”. ABCRMS 2016 Annual Meeting – Tampa, FL Nov 9-12, 2016. Poster presentation by Tamia Potter.
Yueli Chen (REU 2016), Kotyk, C. M.; Henebry, J. E.; Sun, C.; Steele, J. L.; Chen, Y.; Oswald, V. F.; Bacon, J. W.; Rheingold, A. L.; Doerrer, L. H. “Mn(III) in an All O-Donor Ligand Environment with Fluorinated Alkoxides” 253rd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2-6, 2017. INOR-1250. Presentation by Linda Doerrer.
Rodely Destine (REU 2017), Destine, R.; Caradonna, J.; Ibarra, C.; Knasin, A.; Nolan, D.; Boggs, D. “Expressions of Phenylalanine Hydroxylase and Various Mutants”. 255th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 18-22, 2018, BIOL-174. Presentation by John Caradonna.
Samantha Carter (REU 2017), Carter, S.; Elinburg, J.; Nelson, J.; Doerrer, L. “Synthesis and Characterization of Vanadium(IV), Vanadium(V) and Iron (III) Complexes of Perfluoropinacolate Ligands”, 255th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 18-22, 2018, BIOL-958. Poster presentation by Samantha Carter.
Waliyat Oyewole (REU 2017), Oyewole, W.; Huang, D. S.; Brown L. E. “Synthesis of Hydroxylamine Building Blocks for Oxime-Based Diversity Libraries”, 255th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 18-22, 2018, CHED-723. Poster Presentation by Waliyat Oyewole.
Guadalupe Aguirre (REU 2017), Aguirre, G.; Celenza, J.; Babaei Amameh, M, “Regulation of Plant Defense Compound Synthesis in Oilseed Crop Camelina sativa n Response to Biotic Stress”. 255th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 18-22, 2018, CHED-711. Poster presentation by Guadalupe Aguirre.
Samantha Carter (REU 2017), Elinburg, J.; Carter, S.; Henebry, J. Doerrer, L. “Luminescent Properties of Lanthanide Complexes with Perfluorinated Pinacolate and t-Butoxide Ligands”. 256th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Boston, MA, United States, August 19-23, 2018 (2018), INOR-421. Presentation by Linda Doerrer.