2021 Rose Mercadante Seminar Series
Department of Chemistry and Biology 26th Departmental Symposium in Conjunction with the Petersheim Academic Exposition
Tuesday April 27, 2021
Departmental Symposium Book of Abstracts 2021
2021 Keynote Lecture
Targetting Nf-kB in Cell Malignancies
Johannes Zakrzewski, M.D.
Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery and Innovation
Poster Session: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
7:00 – 8:00 Poster Authors 1-21 Present
8:00 – 9:00 Poster Authors 22-45 Present
Advisors and Presenters
Dr. Cosimo Antonacci
1. Lachelle S. Dufresne
Testing the Glucose Levels of Foods and the Relevance of High Sugar Levels to Public Health
2. Brennan Isaac
Porphyrin Synthesis and Quadruplex Binding
Dr. Joseph Badillo
3. Milan Patel
In Silico Drug Design: Docking of the COX2 Enzyme
4. Vanessa Colmenares
Photoredox-Catalyzed Meerwein Arylation of Benzofuran and Benzothiophene
5. Andrea Serrano Trujillo
Organo-Lewis Photoacid Catalyzed Synthesis of Amines
6. Jason Saway
Synthesis of Triazole Containing Bis(indolyl)methanes and 3,3′-Di(indolyl)oxindoles and Evaluation of their Biological Activity
7. Abigail Pierre
Photoacid-Catalyzed Acetalization of Carbonyls
Fr. Gerald Buonopane
Dr. Jacob Goldsmith
Dr. Sergiu Gorun
11. Mary Chiọma Okorie
Anchorable Fluorinated Phthalocyanines for Photodynamic Inactivation and Detection
12. Mufeda Zhort [Withdrawn]
13. Anthony Nesturi
Liposomes from Fluorinated Metal-Centered Phthalocyanine Phospholipid
Dr. James Hanson
14. Daniel Goldman
Synthesis of Star Polymer Structures of Sulbactam Acid, a b-Lactamase Enzyme Inhibitor
15. Usha Kalra
Cationic Porphyrins via Click Chemistry
16. Miguel Medico
Formulation and Evaluation of Antibiotic Microspheres against Gramnegative Escherichia coli and Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus
17. Edrice Sediq
Evaluation of Self-Cleaning Surfaces
Dr. Yuri Kazakevich
18. Timothy Nowak [Withdrawn]
Dr. Stephen Kelty
Dr. David Laviska
20. Kyle G. Otto
Progress in the Development of a New Thematic Sequence of Laboratory Experiments for an Organic Chemistry Course based on the Tenets of Green Chemistry, Stewardship, and Sustainability
21. Anthony Rodriguez
Progress on the Development of Greener Protocols for Synthesizing Substituted Quinoxalines for use as Cyclometallating Ligands in Late Transition Metal Complexes
22. Andi-Kaye M. Walters
A Greener Approach to the Synthesis of a Family of Benzoquinoxalines for use as Ligands in Transition Metal Complexes
23. William Kohman
Greener Synthesis of Polyaromatic Ligands based on a 1,2-Diimine Framework
Dr. Wyatt Murphy
24. Thomas Staes
Synthesis and Characterization of Biodiesel using Microalgae as Sustainable Triglycerides Source
25. Josephine McCartney
Microwave Assisted Synthesis and Photophysical Analysis of ROS Generating Iridium(III) Complexes
26. Nataly Areosa Suarez
Optimization of Microwave Synthetic Conditions for [Ir(ppy)2(2,2’-bipyimidine)](PF6) and [Ir(ppy)2(2,2’-bipyridine)](PF6)
27. Allyson D. Dixon
Microwave Synthesis and Photophysical Characterization of Novel Heteroleptic Iridium Complexes Containing Polyaromatic C^N and N^N ligands
28. Nada Khan
Green Chemistry, Stewardship, and Sustainability Program at Seton Hall University
29. Raygan Murray
Novel Heteroleptic Iridium Complex for PDT
Dr. David Sabatino
Dr. Nicholas Snow
32. Bitha Beji
Analysis of Sweet Basil and Its Essential Oils by Gas Chromatography
33. Genevieve M. Cox
Development of Various Gas Chromatography Methods to Detect Analogs of Fentanyl
34. Cassandra Mirarchi
Qualitative Analysis of Clove Oil Using Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry
35. Shipra Patel
Polyol-induced Extraction of Glucocorticoids from Water and Determination using UHPLC-MS/MS
36. Ria Sandeep
Qualitative Analysis of Spearmint Essential Oil Using Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry
37. Lauren Treanor
QuEChERS Extraction of Glucocorticoids from Water and Determination using UHPLCMS/MS