March 2023
College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Research Seminar
Presented by Shelby Coates, PhD Candidate
Title: Potential Drug-Drug Interactions Between Cannabinoids and Select Opioids
A great opportunity to learn about fascinating & important research! A short list of PhD students in the arts & sciences will compete to explain their doctoral research and its significance in just three minutes and in terms just about anybody can understand.
Speaker: Peter Jensen, chemistry graduate student
Group: Guo/Moreau
Title: Structure and Thermal Properties of Lanthanide Doped UO2
Abstract: Fission reactions in UO2 generate rich chemistry and complex structures within its fluorite matrix. Lanthanides (Ln), as one of the dominating fission products, are able to be incorporated into the UO2 structure,…
Title: Intersections of Digital Humanities and English Studies
Speakers: Dr. Richard Snyder, Blackburn Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, WSU Vancouver Dr. Lacy Hope, Assistant Professor of English, Utah Tech University Matthew Kollmer, PhD Student, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Presenter: Ryan Wessendorf, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University
Title: Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase’s affinity for bicarbonate and phosphoenolpyruvate: implications for C4 photosynthesis
Adjuvant additives significantly increase vaccine efficacy. However, adjuvants also cause inflammatory side-effects, such as pyrexia, which currently limits their use. To address this, we created a thermophobic vaccine adjuvant engineered to attenuate potency at temperatures correlating to pyrexia. Thermophobic adjuvants were synthesized by combining a rationally designed trehalose glycolipid CLR agonist with thermoresponsive poly-N-isoporpylacrylamide (NIPAM) via Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain-Transfer polymerization.
Presenter: Tony Carnahan, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University
Title: The Development and Calibration of Techniques to Measure Energy Expenditure and Activity in Grizzly Bears
This poster session celebrates the achievements of faculty, staff, and graduate students engaged in WSU’s central mission: the advancement of scholarship, research, and the arts.
Presented by Megan Goddard , PhD Student
Title: Lanthionine Ketenamine Phosphonate Analogues as Small Molecule Treatments for Neurological Disorders