Seminar Projects

To fulfill the requirements for graduation in Chemistry and Biochemistry students develop research proposals, projects that are modeled after the process whereby scientists procure funding for research. They then defend them before faculty and students. Below is a list of titles of recent projects:

Comparative Biomarker Analysis of Male and Female Breast Cancer for Improved Combined Diagnosis and Treatment (Biochemistry)

Phenylcinnamides Coupled to a Peptide Vector as a Novel Therapeutic for Brain Tumors
(Biochemistry)

Effects of Epigallocatechin Gallate Injections on Cholesterol in the Serum of  Mice (Chemistry)

Male Birth Control through Small Molecule Inhibition of BRDT (Biochemistry)

A Novel Mechanism for Fast-Response Reversible Photorheology in Reverse Micelles (Chemistry)

The Mechanochromic Luminescence of Gold(I) Isocyanide Complexes with Crown Ether Ligands (Chemistry)

Epigenetic Plasticity of Arabidopsis in a Changing Environment Through the Regulation of Flowering Locus C (FLC) (Biochemistry)

Hydrogen Production: Improving organometallic catalysts for the electrolysis of water (Chemistry)

An Investigation of the Morphine Transport in Malpighian Tubules of Calliphora stygia and its Implications in Forensic Entomotoxicology (Biochemistry)

The Effect of Post-mortem Index (PMI) and Temperature on eNOS mRNA in Mouse Heart Tissue (Biochemistry)

An Approach to Quantify Natural Abundances of Dopamine to Assist in Diagnosing ADHD (Chemistry)

Antiangiogenic Effects of Sunitinib and Cyclophosphamide Combination Treatments on Mouse 9L Gliosarcoma (Biochemistry)

Laboratory-directed Protein Evolution of Butyryl-CoA Dehydrogenase (BCD) from Clostridium Acetobutylicum (Biochemistry)

Two-Photon Photoemission Spectroscopy (2PPE) for Probing Toluene on Cu (111) (Chemistry)