Steven L Castle, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Introduction. This report summarizes the results that were generated under the auspices of the mentoring environment in my laboratory from January 2013 to the present. A total of eight undergraduates participated in the mentoring environment during this period. Their names and accomplishments are listed below. Evaluation of […]
BYU MEG report
Emily Bates, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The academic objectives were met by the proposal. Students learned to sequence DNA and to interpret the sequence to know if there was a rare genetic change occurring in the sequence that they interpreted. Students learned […]
Mentoring Undergraduates Via Organic Synthesis
Steven L. Castle, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Introduction This report summarizes the results of the mentoring environment in my laboratory that were generated from January 2012 to present. During this period, a total of seven undergraduates performed research in my laboratory. Their names and accomplishments are listed below. Evaluation of Academic Objectives Our academic […]
Mimics of Antimicrobial Peptides and Glycolipid Immunology
Paul Savage, Chemistry and Biochemistry Academic Objectives The primary objective of this project was to provide a research experience for as many undergraduate students as possible in a laboratory involved in research in fields spanning chemical, immunological and microbiological disciplines. By working closely with senior graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, undergraduate researchers learned how research […]
Ambient Ionization Sources for Mass Spectrometry
Paul Farnsworth, Chemistry Description of Scholarly Activities MEG funding directly supported the efforts of three students in my laboratory during the calendar year 2011. A graduate student, Manan Dhunna, received partial support (approximately one-third of his annual stipend) during the year. His role, in addition to carrying out his own research on ambient ionization sources, […]
Optimization of eCFPS for the Production of Engineered Virus-Like Particles
Dr. Bradley C Bundy, Chemical Engineering Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met: The academic objectives of this grant were met. Each specific aim was completed as described in the proposal and the results were reported in a peer-review journal (listed in section below) and at academic conferences. The results […]
Supramolecular Chemistry for Students
Drs. Roger Harrison, John Lamb, David Dearden, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met Students working in the mentoring environment synthesized compounds and worked with separation and mass analyzer instruments. They learned how to make new compounds by organic synthesis and characterize their compounds by […]
Rational design of the metabolite mimics as Novel Antibiotics targeting SAM-I/II Riboswitches
Dr. Young Wan Ham, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met In our 2009 MEG application, we have proposed structure-based rational design of metabolite mimics based on S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) as novel antibiotics targeting SAM-I/II riboswitches and subsequent development of fluorescence assay to evaluate binding of […]