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Wednesday, August 22, 2001
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
Knox College students will discuss the research projects they are conducting this summer at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday mornings during August, in the Wilson House, South and West Streets on the Knox campus in Galesburg, Illinois. The schedule is:
August 28
Doug Kinscherff, Jimmy Jain, Bassam Khamis, Nick Zafiropoulos
Prior seminars:
June 12
Tom Clayton — Synthesis and Characterization of Copper Dimer Liquid Crystals
Andrew McDowell — Studying Materials with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Relaxation
June 19
Natalie Adolphi — Magic-Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (MAS-NMR): A
Novel Technique for Studying Deuterium in Metals
June 26
Andy Mehl — Studying protein folding through protein minimization
Judy Thorn — Investigating the role of the cytoskeleton in the development of Xenopus
laevis
Mary Crawford — Relative rate techniques and product studies for Atmospheric Chemistry
July 3
Diana Cermak — Organic Chemistry in 3D: Dealing With Chirality in Organic Synthesis
Nitya Jacon — Two genes are responsible for the function of a peroxidase enzyme in
tobacco plants
Janet Kirkley — Temperature alters cytokine secretion and response of RAW 264.7 cells
July 10
Scott Nelson — Regulation of Expression of a Peroxidase Gene in Tobacco: Cloning and Promoter Analysis
RaeAnna Zatarski — The synthesis of alpha - amino farnesyl phosphonic acid
Jade Hellie — Frog Deformities and the Environment: Observing the development of frogs exposed to xenobiotic chemicals in pulsed doses
Soumya Ramananda — The effects of Retinoic Acid on the development of Xenopus laevis
July 17
Joshua Abrams — The Elusive Quasicrystal
Kathryn Palacio — Effect of Heat Stress on Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane Function in Barley Aleurone Layers
Jimmy Jain — Protein purification of GrpE protein 114-197
Poornima Raghunathan — Effect of Retinoic Acid on Medaka Development
July 24
Tom Danielson — Conduction Electrons and NMR Spectroscopy of Quasicrystals
Nick Zafiropoulos — Synthesis and Isolation of Monosubstituted Carboxylate Ligands on Liquid Crystalline Tetraoctanoatedicopper(II) and Tetrabutanoatedicopper(II)
Judy Jenkins — Atomic Emission Spectroscopy and Inductively Coupled Plasma
July 31
Naomi Win, Soumya Ramananda, Judy Jenkins
August 3
Bassam Khamis — "The role of small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) in the Cell"
Poornima Raghunathan — "Effect of Retinoic Acid on Medaka Development"
Judy Jenkins — "Fluorescence & Quenching"
August 7
Tom Danielson — "Knight Shift and Conduction Electrons - The Quasicrystal Mystery Continues!"
Kathryn Palacio — "Effect of Heat Stress on Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane Function in Barley
Aleurone Layers"
August 14
Doug Kinscherff, Corey Bausch, Jade Hellie, RaeAnna Zatarski
August 21
Joshua Abrams — "The death of scientific inequalities: A final chapter on Quasi-crystals"
Jimmy Jain — "Creating a Deletion Mutant: Grp-E Fusion Protein 88-138"
Naomi Win — "Synthesis of amino phosphonates"
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