5th Annual SCI Summer Research Colloquium
Friday, August 9, 2019
Anne and Charles Duncan Hall, Rice University
Program Overview:
8:00 AM Breakfast and Registration, Martel Hall (main foyer of Duncan Hall)
8:45 AM Welcome Remarks, McMurtry Auditorium
9:00 AM Oral Session 1
10:45 AM Oral Session 2
12:00 PM LUNCH and Undergraduate Poster Session, Martel Hall
2:00 PM Oral Session 3
3:30 PM Oral Session 4
4:45 PM Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Poster Session I, Martel Hall
5:30 PM Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Poster Session II, Martel Hall
6:30 PM Awards Ceremony, McMurtry Auditorium
Full Program:
Link to PDF of full program with abstracts here
8:00 AM Breakfast and Registration, Martel Hall (main foyer of Duncan Hall)
8:45 AM Welcome Remarks, McMurtry Auditorium
9:00 AM Oral Session 1 (McMurtry Auditorium)
Session Chair: Alena Klindziuk
O-1.1 – Lin Yuan, “Photocatalytic Hydrogenation of Monolayer Graphene Using Pd Nanocones” (co-authors C. Zhang, X. Zhang, M. Lou, F. Ye, C. R. Jacobson, P. M. Ajayan, P. Nordlander, and N. J. Halas)
O-1.2 – Behnaz Ostovar, “Exploring Size Dependency of Hot Carrier Emission through Interband and Intraband Transitions in Gold Nanorods” (co-authors Y. Cai, L.J. Tauzin, A. Ahmadivand, R. Zhang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link)
O-1.3 – Nicholas Moringo, “A mechanistic examination of salting out in protein-polymer membrane interactions” (co-authors L.D.C. Bishop, H. Shen, A. Misiura, N.C. Carrejo, R. Baiyasi, W. Wang, F. Ye, J.T. Robinson, C.F. Landes)
O-1.4 – Takuma Makihara, “Probing Coherent Terahertz Magnons in YFeO3 in High Magnetic Fields for Ultrafast Antiferromagnetic Spintronics” (co-authors G.T. Noe II, X. Li, K. Hayashida, N.M. Peraca, K. Tian, H. Nojiri, and J. Kono)
O-1.5 – Anastasiia Misiura, “Convergence of ensemble and single-molecule techniques to understand protein liquid chromatography” (co-authors H. Shen, C. Dutta, N.A. Moringo, L.D.C. Bishop, and C.F. Landes)
10:15 AM BREAK
10:45 AM Oral Session 2 (McMurtry Auditorium)
Session Chair: Jaime Moya
O-2.1 – Tania Lopez Silva, “Chemical functionality of Multidomain Peptide Hydrogels governs early host immune responses” (co-authors D.G. Leach, A. Azares, I. Li, D.G. Woodside, J.D. Hartgerink)
O-2.2 – Yilin Li, “A copolymer strategy to improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries using polymeric cathodes” (co-authors S. Park and R. Verduzco)
O-2.3 – Anthony Giljum, “Compressive Microscopy Foveation with the STOne Transform” (co-authors W. Liu and K. Kelly)
O-2.4 – Steven Demers, “Investigating Cholesterol Orientation in Lipid Bilayer by Raman Spectroscopy” (co-authors M. Simeral, A. Zhang, H. Hughes, and J. Hafner)
O-2.5 – Alena Klindziuk, “Theoretical Investigation of Transcriptional Bursting: a Multi-State Approach” (co-author A. Kolomeisky)
12:00 PM LUNCH and Undergraduate Poster Session, Martel Hall
2:00 PM Oral Session 3 (McMurtry Auditorium)
Session Chair: Melia Bonomo
O-3.1 – Xiaoyu Lu, “Engineering mind-reading biosensors: High-throughput development of voltage indicators for in vivo neuroimaging”(co-authors H.Z. Liu, E.Y. Gou, A.S. Guan, J. Reimer, A.S. Tolias, and F. St-Pierre)
O-3.2 – Weijian Li, “Optical modulation of optical properties of 1T-TaS2 at low intensity” (co-author G.V. Naik)
O-3.3 – Miranda Gallagher, “In situ detection of plasmonic nanoparticle transformation during catalysis on the single particle level” (co-authors S.S.E. Collins, A. Al-Zubeidi, J. Zepeda O, S. Link, and C.F. Landes)
O-3.4 – Laura Flagg, “Hot Start Formation Implied by Detection of CO in CI Tau b” (co-authors C. Johns-Krull, L. Nofi, J. Llama, L. Prato, K. Sullivan, D.T. Jaffe, G.N. Mace)
O-3.5 – Pratiksha Dongare, “Resonant Heat Transfer for Solar Thermal Desalination” (co-authors A. Alabastri, O. Neumann, J. Metz, I. Adebiyi, P. Nordlander, and N.J. Halas)
3:00 PM BREAK
3:30 PM Oral Session 4 (McMurtry Auditorium)
Session Chair: Alena Klindziuk
O-4.1 – Anna Crumbley, “Methane Bioreforming for the Production of Ammonia: A Microbial Consortia 'Bio Haber-Bosch'” (co-authors S. Garg, J.M. Clomburg, J.L. Pan, and R. Gonzalez)
O-4.2 – Benjamin Clark, “Aluminum Nanocubes have Sharp Corners” (co-authors C.R. Jacobson, M. Lou, D. Renard, G. Wu, L. Bursi, A.S. Ali, D.F. Swearer, A. Tsai, P. Nordlander, and N.J. Halas)
O-4.3 – Danyel Eduardo Cavazos Cavazos, “Measurement of 3-body losses in a quasi-1D 6Li gas near a p-wave Feshbach resonance” (co-authors Y. Chang, R. Senaratne, and R.G. Hulet)
O-4.4 – Melia Bonomo, “Modularity and Flexibility Quantify Unique Perceptions of Music and Speech in the Human Brain” (co-authors C. Karmonik, A.K. Brandt, J.T. Frazier)
O-4.5 – Minghe Lou, “Quantifying Gas Phase Molecular Constituents Using Frequency-modulated Rotational Spectroscopy” (co-authors D.F. Swearer, S. Gottheim, D.J. Phillips, J.G. Simmons Jr., N.J. Halas, and H.O. Everitt)
4:45 PM Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Poster Session A, Martel Hall
5:30 PM Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Poster Session B, Martel Hall
6:30 PM Awards Ceremony, McMurtry Auditorium