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Chemistry & Biochemistry Department

After Southwestern: Recent Alumni

Class of 2008

 

 

Capstone title

Ian Bothwell

NIH research position

 

Jason Burnham

University of Texas, Galveston medical school

Amide Modification of the Potential Antimicrobial Peptide L-AlaGly

Jessica Hoch

University of California, Davis graduate school

An Approach to the Synthesis of a Selenium Analogue of Dapsone

Amber Hoerauf 

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Characterizing the DNA damage profile resulting from photoactivated daunomycin

Troy Hutchens

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Characterization of Hydrolysis Products from Novel Cyclonucleosides:
3,5′-cyclo-2′-deoxyguanosine and 2,5′-cyclo-2′-deoxythymidine

Radhika Kainthla

University of Texas Southwestern medical school

Photoexcitation of daunomycin leads to oxidative DNA damage that is dependent on molecular oxygen

Christopher Kaufmann

University of San Antonio, graduate school

Radical promoted iododeamination reactions of primary amines via N-Substituted-N-Mesylhydrazines

Kim Le

Texas Tech medical school

The Reductive Route towards the Preparation of Seleno-Dapsone

Robert Lockwood

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Kyle Marshall

University of Texas San Antonio medical school

Preparations of New Anthrapyrazoles and a New Bis-Anthrapyrazole

Kimberly Negoescu

University of California, San Diego graduate school

Toward Metal-embedded Cyclopentadiene

 

Class of 2007

Paul Barber

University of Oregon – graduate school

Improper Trafficking of Procathepsin-L in              Transformed Murine Fibroblasts

Christan (Christy) Bell

University of Arizona – graduate school

New Methods of Quinone Synthesis

James (Mark) Bradley

University of Texas at Austin – graduate school

Synthesis, Characterization, and DNA-Binding Studies of a Peptide Nucleic Acid complementary to a 12-Base Region of the Viral T7 Promoter

Jessica Freeman

Celanese Corporation

Analysis of common black tea theaflavins using normal-phase high performance liquid chromatography

Sandra (Alheli) Garza

Southwestern Medical School – Dallas

The Role of the MAPK/ERK Signal Transduction Pathway and Chromatin Remodeling in the Over-expression of Cathepsin L in Kirsten ras-Transformed Murine Fibroblasts

Lindsay Jones

Baylor University graduate school

Theoretical Evaluation of Several Benzoquinone Mustards

Priyanka Kainthla

UTSA, graduate school

Detection of abasic site formation in photoactivated DNA-daunomycin complexes using an ARP assay

Michelle Martinez

UT Health Science Center, Houston, medical school

The sequence context of tamoxifen-DNA adduct formation and adduct impact on polymerase bypass

Ramsey Smith

Rice University, graduate school

Single wall carbon nanotube functionalization and its application in elastomer composites

 

Class of 2006

Kristen Armstrong

 

 

Bhavik Kumar

Texas Tech, medical school

Synthesis, Characterization, and Interaction of Ruthenium-Based Complexes with DNA: A focused study on K[Ru(sal-phen)Cl2

Yasmin Mehta

UNT Health Science Center

 

Lauren Shepard

UNT Health Science Center

Two-fold extrusion approaches to the synthesis of tamoxifen and related molecules

Brent Wilson

University of North Texas, graduate school