SUCS 2020 Postgraduate Symposium
Wednesday, 25 November 2020. 9:30am – 4:30pm.
This seminar will be delivered via Zoom – Please email chemistry.researchsupport@sydney.edu.au for zoom link and password.
Host: SUCS executive team, Professor Chiara Neto & Dr Jonathan Danon
Program:
| Chair | Time | Speaker | Title |
| Genevieve Sergeant | 09:30-09:45 | Bryce Mullens | Unexpected structural properties in 4d and 5d metal oxides |
| 09:45-10:00 | Lachlan Adamson | Pore structure controls stability and molecular flux of engineered protein cages | |
| 10:00-10:15 | Joy Ghrayche | Fluorescent methods to study peptides and proteins in vitro | |
| 10:15-10:30 | Reginald Young | Targeting the DBHS family of proteins to treat telomerase-active cancers | |
| 10:30-10:45 | Jianping Zhu | Studies of cellular lead uptake using a rhodamine-based fluorescent probe | |
| Break | |||
| Bryce Mullens | 11:00-11:15 | Eleanor Kearns | Investigating the structure-activity relationship in an isoreticular series of TTF based metal-organic frameworks. |
| 11:15-11:30 | Zixi Xie | Investigation of Spin Crossover Behaviours via Encapsulation of Xylene Isomers | |
| 11:30-11:45 | Jyah Strachan | Nano-chevrel phase electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution | |
| 11:45-12:00 | Xiaochen Fu | Triazine-based 2D hydrogen bonded framework for non-enzymatic electrochemical glucose sensing | |
| 12:00-12:15 | Harrison Moore | Developing conductive and redox-active ruthenium metalloligands for the synthesis of 2- and 3- dimensional porous materials | |
| Lunch | |||
| Shurui Miao | 13:00-13:30 | Prof. Louise Sharpe | COVID-19 Responses: current and post-pandemic HDRs |
| 13:30-13:45 | Karen Hakobyan | Controlled polymer photosynthesis | |
| 13:45-14:00 | Mutian Cui | Synthesis of Altenusin analogues as tau aggregation inhibitors | |
| 14:00-14:15 | Jason Johansen-Leete | RaPID discovery of novel therapeutics for COVID-19 | |
| 14:15-14:30 | Alicia Cheng | Polymerisation-induced self-assembly (PISA) as a template system for TiO2 nanostructures | |
| 14:30-14:45 | James Lloyd | Development of selective p38 gamma activators for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease | |
| Break | |||
| Alison Campbell | 15:00-15:15 | Diaz | Effects of metal ions on the conformational equilibria of the Na+/K+– and H+/K+– ATPases |
| 15:15-15:30 | Amy Bowyer | Fluorescent sensing arrays for metal ions and how we can simplify them | |
| 15:30-15:45 | Alex Brown | Stabilisation of an unusual “γ-phase”: Selective site doping, crystal structures and hydration of the γ-Ba4VxTa2-xO9 and γ- Ba4VxNb2-xO9 (x = 0-2/3) solid solutions | |
| 15:45-16:00 | Chris Vega | Drag reduction and boundary slip at silicone oil-water interfaces | |
| 16:00-16:15 | Paris Jeffcoat | Regulation in the face of uncertainty: how nanoparticles in the food chain challenge the status quo of risk assessment, risk management and regulatory frameworks | |
| 16:15-16:30 | Closing and Awards | ||