Undergraduate Research Papers
Chemistry undergraduate students have many opportunities to contribute to cutting-edge chemistry research in our department. Many faculty members employ undergraduate students to work in their labs during the summers months. Additionally, students can register in CHEM 401/403, CHEM 399, and CHEM 299 where they can get credit for the research they perform! This work often leads to publications in some of the top peer-reviewed journals.
See the lists below for publications of research that involved undergrads (whose names are in bold).
- 2015
Hernandez Armada, D.; Santos, J.T.; Richards, M.R.; Cairo, C.W.*, "." Carbohydrate Research. 2015, 417, 109-116. DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2015.09.005 M.R. Momeni, L. Shulman, E. Rivard, and A. Brown, "." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 16525-16535. DOI: 10.1039/C5CP01993A G. He, B.D. Wiltshire, P. Choi, A. Savin, S. Sun, A. Mohammadpour, M.J. Ferguson, R. McDonald, A. Brown, K. Shankar and E. Rivard, "." Chemical Communications. 2015, 51, 5444-5447. DOI: 10.1039/C4CC06529H Hernandez Armada, D.; Santos, M.J.; Richards, M.R.; Cairo, C.W.* "." Carbohydrate Research. 2015, 417, 109-116. DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2015.09.005 T. Albrecht, Y. Zhao, T.H. Nguyen, R.E. Campbell, and J.D. Johnson*, "." Cell Calcium. 2015, 57, 263-274. DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2015.01.008 S. Ng, E. Y. Lin, PI Kitov, Katrina F. Tjhung, OO Gerlits, L Deng, B Kasper, A Sood, BM Paschal, P Zhang, CC Ling, JS Klassen, CJ Noren, LK Mahal, RJ Woods, L Coates, and R Derda* "." Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2015, 137, 5248-5251. DOI: 10.1021/ja511237n Katrina F. Tjhung, F. Deiss, Jessica Tran, Y. Chou, R. Derda*, "." Front. Microbiol. 2015, 6:340. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00340 S. Ng, Katrina F. Tjhung, B. M. Paschal, C. J. Noren, R. Derda*, "." Methods in Molecular Biology. 2015, 1248, 155-172. DOI: 10.1007%2F978-1-4939-2020-4_11 B.S. Alladin-Mustan,** Catherine J. Mitran,** J.M. Gibbs,* "." Chemical Communications. 2015, 51, 9101-9104. DOI: 10.1039/c5cc01548k (**joint first-authors) Elijah G. Schnitzler, Brandi L. M. Zenchyzen, and Wolfgang Jäger. "." The Astrophysical Journal, 2015, 805, 141. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/805/2/141 Lei Wang, Mengyao Dong, and Todd L. Lowary "." Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2015, 80, 2767-2780. DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.5b00064 Abishek K. Iyer, Brent W. Rudyk, Xinsong Lin, Harpreet Singh, Arzoo Z. Sharma, Christopher R. Wiebe, and Arthur Mar*, "." Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 2015, 229, 150-159. DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2015.05.016 Krishna K. Ramachandran, Stanislav S. Stoyko, C. Scott Mullen, and Arthur Mar*. "." Inorganic Chemistry. 2015, 54, 860-866. DOI: 10.1021/ic502075x M. R. Islam, Jessica Irvine and M.J. Serpe*, "." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2015, 7, 24370-24376. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b08532 M. R. Islam, S. Y. Xie, D. Q. Huang, Keady Smyth and M.J. Serpe*, "." Analytica Chimica Acta. 2015, 898, 101-108. DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2015.09.039 C. Diner, David E. Scott, R.R. Tykwinski, M.R. Gray, and J., M. Stryker*, "." Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2015, 80, 1719-1726. DOI: 10.1021/jo502650m Cochrane, S.A.; Surgenor, R.R.; Khey, K.M.W.; Vederas, J.C. "." Organic Letters. 2015, 17, 5428-5431. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b02779 Cochrane, S.A.; Lohans, C.T.; van Belkum, M.J.; Bels, M.A.; Vederas, J.C. "." Org. Biomol. Chem. 2015, 13, 6073-6081. DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00780A Zahra Dezhahang, Mohammad Reza Poopari, Joseph Cheramy, Yunjie Xu*, "." Inorganic Chemistry. 2015, 54, 4539-4549. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00386. Yonghoon Kwon, Devon J. Schatz, and Frederick G. West, "." Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2015, 54, 9940-9943. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201503696 - 2016
M. Alaraby Salem, Isaac Twelves, and Alex Brown, "." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2016, 18, 24408-24416. DOI: 10.1039/C6CP03865D Sam L. Anderson, Erik J. Luber, Brian C. Olsen, and Jillian M. Buriak, "." Chemistry of Materials 2016, 28, 5973-5975. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b03430 Frédérique Deiss, Yvette Yang, and Ratmir Derda, "." Methods in Molecular Biology 2016, 1368, 249-271. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3136-1_18 Edith Lin, Adhirath Sikand, Jessica Wickware, Yubin Hao and Ratmir Derda, "." Acta Biomaterialia 2016, 34, 53.59. 10.1016/j.actbio.2016.01.028 Katrina F. Tjhung, Pavel I. Kitov, Simon Ng, Elena N. Kitova, Lu Deng, John S. Klassen, and Ratmir Derda, "", Journal of the American Chemical Society 2016, 138, 32-35. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b10390 Michael K. Lam, Tendai Gadzikwa, Trang Nguyen, Abu Kausar, B. Safeenaz Alladin-Mustan, Md. Delwar Sikder, and Julianne M. Gibbs-Davis, "." Langmuir 2016, 32, 1585-1590. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b03777 Sergey Vshyvenko, Marissa L. Clapson, Itaru Suzuki, and Dennis G. Hall, "." ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2016, 7, 1097−1101. DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.6b00300 Elijah G. Schnitzler, Brandi L. M. Zenchyzen, and Wolfgang Jäger, "." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2016, 18, 448. DOI: 10.1039/C5CP06073G Elijah G. Schnitzler, Courtenay Badran, and Wolfgang Jäger, "." Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2016, 7, 1143-1147. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00278 Jeffrey Tao, Lily X. J. Sun, and X. Chris Le, "." Journal of Environmental Sciences 2016, 48, 6-10. DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2016.09.001 Chad D. Iverson, Xinyun Gu, and Charles A. Lucy, "." Journal of Chromatography A 2016, 1458, 82-89. DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2016.06.061 Patrick J. Moon, Heather M. Halperin, and Rylan J. Lundgren, "." Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 2016, 55, 1894-1898. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201510558 Adam J. Bergren, Lucas Zeer-Wanklyn, Mitchell Semple, Nikola Pekas, Bryan Szeto, and Richard L McCreery, "." Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 2016, 28, 094011. DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/9/094011 Melanie W. Lui, Nathan R. Paisley, Robert McDonald, Michael J. Ferguson, and Eric Rivard, "." Chemistry-A European Journal 2016, 22, 2134-2145. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503528 Qiang Matthew Zhang, Darren Berg, Jiaqi Duan, Samuel M. Mugo, and Michael J. Serpe, "." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2016, 8, 27264-27269. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b11462 Yongfeng Gao, Ka Yee Wong, Andrews Ahiabua, and Michael J. Serpe, "." Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2016, 4, 5144-5150. DOI: 10.1039/C6TB00864J Qiang Matthew Zhang, Wenda Wang, Ya-Qiong Su, Emiel J. M. Hensen, and Michael J. Serpe, " Shaun M. K. McKinnie, Conrad Fischer, Kelvin M. H. Tran, Wang Wang, Fabricio Mosquera, Gavin Y. Oudit, and John C. Vederas, "." ChemBioChem 2016, 17, 1495-1498. DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201600244 Wang Wang, Shaun M.K. McKinnie, Maikel Farhan, Manish Paul, Tyler McDonald, Brent McLean, Catherine Llorens-Cortes, Saugata Hazra, Allan G. Murray, John C. Vederas, and Gavin Y. Oudit, "." Hypertension 2016, 68, 365-377. DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.06892 Devon J. Schatz, Yonghoon Kwon, Thomas W. Scully, and F. G. West, "." Journal of Organic Chemistry 2016, 81, 12494-12498. DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.6b02350 - 2017
Yang, Esther Hyun Joo; Howlader, Md A; Eckerman, M; Santos, Jobette T; Hernandez Armada, D; Zheng, R; Zou, C; Cairo, CW*, "." PLoS ONE 2017, 12(10), e0184378. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184378 Javix Thomas, Eric Mariona, Yunjie Xu*, "." J. Chem. Phys. 2017, 146, 104303/1-8. DOI: 10.1063/1.4977895 Elijah G. Schnitzler, Nathan Seifert, Ignes Kusuma, and Wolfgang Jäger, "." J. Phys. Chem. A 2017, 121, 8625-8631 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b08984 Jason T. A. Gall, Javix Thomas, Fan Xie, Zhibo Wang, Wolfgang Jäger, and Yunjie Xu, "." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2017, 19, 29508-29515 DOI: 10.1039/C7CP05464E Javix Thomas, Michael J. Carillo, Agapito Serrato III, Wei Lin, Wolfgang Jäger, and Yunjie Xu, "." J. Mol. Spectrosc. 2017, 335, 88-92 DOI: 10.1016/j.jms.2017.03.015 Amira El-Yazbi, Alysha Wong, and Glen R. Loppnow, "." Anal. Chim. Acta 2017, 994, 92-99, DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2017.09.036 Islam, M. R., Azimi, S., Teimoory, F., Loppnow*, G. R., and Serpe*, M. J. "." Can. J. Chem. 2018, 96(12), 1079-1086, DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2018-0199 Sasidharanpillai, S., Friedman, A. A., and Loppnow*, G. R. "." Can. J. Chem. DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2018-0409 Duanyang Kong, Patrick J. Moon, Wenyu Qian, Rylan J. Lundgren, "." Chem. Commun. 2018 54, 6835. DOI: 10.1039/C8CC02380H Patrick J. Moon, Anis Fahandej-Sadi, Wenyu Qian, Rylan J. Lundgren,"." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018 57, 4612. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201800829 Raphael Dada, Zhongyu Wei, Ruohua Gui, Rylan J. Lundgren, "." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018 57, 3981. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201800361 Oliynyk, A. O.; Adutwum, L. A.; Rudyk, B. W.; Pisavadia, H.; Lotfi, S.; Hlukhyy, V.; Harynuk, J. J.; Mar, A.; Brgoch, J. "." Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139, 17870-17881. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b08460 Iyer, A. K.; Yin, W.; Lee, E. J.; Bernard, G. M.; Michaelis, V. K.; Mar, A. "." Zeitschrift fuer anorganische und allgemeine Chemie 2017, 643, 1867-1873. DOI: 10.1002/zaac.201700200 Iyer, A. K.; Yin, W.; Lee, E. J.; Lin, X.; Mar, A. "" Journal of Solid State Chemistry 2017, 250, 14-23. DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2017.03.009 Sarah M. Parke, Emanuel Hupf, Gunwant Matharu, Inara de Aguiar, Letian Xu, Haoyang Yu, Michael P. Boone, Gabriel L. C. de Souza, Robert McDonald, Michael Ferguson, Gang He, Alex Brown, and Eric Rivard, "." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2018, 57, 14841-14846 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201809357 C. A. Braun, Derek Zomerman, I. de Aguiar, Y. Qi, W. Torres Delgado, M. J. Ferguson, R. McDonald, G. L. C. de Souza, G. He*, A. Brown*, and E. Rivard*, "." Faraday Discussions 2017, 196, 255-268 DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00172F C. Hering-Junghans, Patricia Andreiuk, M. J. Ferguson, R. McDonald, and E. Rivard*, "." Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 2017, 56, 6272-6275 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201609100 Wei Zhang, Alexander W. Lohman, Yevgeniya Zhuravlova, Xiaocen Lu, Matthew D. Wiens, Hiofan Hoi, Sine Yaganoglu, Manuel A. Mohr, Elena N. Kitova, John S. Klassen, Periklis Pantazis, Roger J. Thompson, and Robert E. Campbell, "", Nature Methods 2017, 14, 391-394. DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4222 Lisa Shulman, Lei Pei, Mahmoud F. Bahnasy, and Charles A. Lucy, "." Analyst 2017, 142, 2145-2151. RSC web collection CSC100: Celebrating Canadian Chemistry (Invited). DOI: 10.1039/c7an00330g Tristan Verdelet, Robert M. Ward, and Dennis G. Hall, "." European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2017, in press. DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201700621 Guy Bernard, Atul Goyal, Mark Miskolzie, Ryan McKay, Qichao (Jennifer) Wu, Roderick Wasylishen, and Vladimir K. Michaelis, "." Journal of Magnetic Resonance 2017, 283, 14-21. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2017.08.002 Qiang Zhang, Juan Colazo, Darren Berg, Samuel M. Mugo, and Michael J. Serpe, "." Molecular Pharmaceutics 2017, 14, 2624-2628. DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b00325 Yongfeng Gao,Menglian Wei, Xue Li, Wenwen Xu, Andrews Ahiabu, Juliana Perdiz, Zining Liu, and Michael J. Serpe, "." Macromolecular Research 2017, 25, 513-527. DOI: 10.1007/s13233-017-5088-7 (Invited Review) Shaun M. K. McKinnie, Wang Wang, Conrad Fischer, Tyler McDonald, Kevin R. Kalin, Xavier Iturrioz, Catherine Llorens-Cortes, Gavin Y. Oudit, and John C. Vederas, "." J. Med. Chem. 2017, 60, 6408-6427. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b00723 Jeella Z. Acedo, Kaitlyn M. Towle, Christopher T. Lohans, Mark Miskolzie, Ryan T. McKay, Thomas A. Doerksen, John C. Vederas, and Leah A. Martin-Visscher, "." FEBS Letters 2017, 591, 1349-1359. DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.12648 Olivier-Mohamad Soueidan, Thomas W. Scully, Jatinder Kaur, Rashmi Panigrahi, Alexandr Belovodskiy, Victor Do, Carson D. Matier, M. Joanne Lemieux, Frank Wuest, Chris Cheeseman, and F. G. West, "." ACS Chemical Biology 2017, 12, 1087-1094. DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.6b01101 - 2018
Guo T; Datwyler P; Demina E; Richards MR; Ge, Peng; Zou C; Zheng R; Fougerat A; Pshezhetsky AV; Ernst B; Cairo CW*, "." Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2018, 61(5), 1990. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b01574 A. Aggarwal*, L. Zarowny, and R.E. Campbell, "." Spectrum 2018. J. Wu, A.S. Abdelfattah, H. Zhou, A. Ruangkittisakul, Y. Qian, K. Ballanyi and R.E. Campbell*, "." ACS Chem. Biol. 2018, 13, 1832-1837 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b01085 Y. Shen, H. Dana, A.S. Abdelfattah, R. Patel, J. Shea, R.S. Molina, B. Rawal, V. Rancic, Y.-F. Chang, L. Wu, Y. Chen, Y. Qian, M.D. Wiens, N. Hambleton, K. Ballanyi, T.E. Hughes, M. Drobizhev, D.S. Kim, M. Koyama, E.R. Schreiter, and R.E. Campbell*, "." BMC Biol. 2018, 16, 9. Preprint posted to bioRxiv. DOI: doi.org/10.1101/213082. Mohammad R. Jafari, Hongtao Yu,Jessica M. Wickware, Yu-Shan Lin and Ratmir Derda*, "" Org. Biomol. Chem., 2018,16, 7588-7594. DOI: 10.1039/C7OB03178E Highlighted on RSC blog: "". S. Ng, N. J. Bennett, J. Schulze, Nan Gao, C. Rademacher, R. Derda* "" Bioorg. & Med. Chem., 2018, 26, 5368-5377 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2018.08.036 B. He, Katrina F. Tjhung, N. J. Bennett, Y. Chou, A. Rau, J. Huang, R. Derda* "." Nat. Sci. Rep., 2018, 8, 1214. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-19439-2 Qingqing Liu, Xiufen Lu, Hanyong Peng, Aleksandra Popowich, Jeffrey Tao, Jagdeesh S. Uppal, Xiaowen Yan, Dana Boe, and X. Chris Le*, "." Trends in Analytical Chemistry 2018, 104, 171-182. DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2017.10.006 Feng Li, Yanwen Lin, Alyssa Lau, Yanan Tang, Junbo Chen, and X. Chris Le. "." Analytical Chemistry 2018, 90, 8651-8657. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b01985 Swaroop Sasidharanpillai, Steven P. Dempster, and Glen R. Loppnow, "" J. Raman Spectrosc. 2018, 49, 1487-1496 DOI: 10.1002/jrs.5409 Zhang, D.; Oliynyk, A. O.; Duarte, G. M.; Iyer, A. K.; Ghadbeigi, L.; Kauwe, S. K.; Sparks, T. D.; Mar, A. "" Inorganic Chemistry 2018, 57, 14249-14259. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02279 Maria Matlinska, Roderick Wasylishen, Guy Bernard, Victor V. Terskikh, Andreas Brinkmann and Vladimir K. Michaelis, "." Crystal Growth & Design, 2018, 18(9), 5556-5563 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.8b00859 Jin, T., Bernard, G.M., Miskolzie, M., Terskikh, V.V. and Michaelis, V.K., "." Physics and Chemistry of Glasses: European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part B, 2018, 59 (4), 174-180. DOI: 10.13036/17533562.59.4.048 Karmakar, A., Dodd, M.S., Agnihotri, S., Ravera, E. and Michaelis, V.K., "." Chemistry of Materials 2018, 30 (22), 8280-8290. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b03755 M. M. D. Roy, Linkun Miao, M. J. Ferguson, R. McDonald, and E. Rivard*, "." Canadian Journal of Chemistry 2018, 96, 543-548 DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2017-0607 Shu, T.; Shen, Q.; Wan, Y.; Zhang, W; Su, L.; Zhang, X.; Serpe, M.J. "." RSC Advances 2018, 8, 15567-15574. DOI: 10.1039/C8RA02215A Shu, T.; Shen, Q.; Su, L.; Zhang, X.; Serpe, M.J. "." ACS Applied Nano Materials 2018, 1, 1776-1783. DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.8b00216 Islam, M.R.; Azimi, S.; Teimoory, F.; Loppnow, G.; Serpe, M.J. "." Canadian Journal of Chemistry 2018, 96, 1079-1086 DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2018-0199 Chelsea D. Cote*, Stephanie R. Schneider*, Ming Lyu, Sherry Gao, Lin Gan, Adam J. Holod, Thomas H. H. Chou, and Sarah A. Styler, "." Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2018, 5, 92-97. DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.7b00533. (* = co-first-authors) Gao, S.; Hilts, R. W.; Ross, M. S.; Styler, S. A. "." in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 2018, 410, 3223-3229 (invited article). DOI: 10.1007/s00216-018-0972-3 Sanichar, R.; Carroll, C.; Kimmis, R.; Reiz, B.; Vederas, J.C. "." Org. Biomol. Chem. 2018, 16, 593-597. DOI: 10.1039/C7OB02959D Fan Xie, Xiaoqian Ng, Nathan A. Seifert, Javix Thomas, Wolfgang Jäger, Yunjie Xu*, "." J. Chem. Phys. 2018, 149, 224306/1-10. (Editor's Pick) DOI: 10.1063/1.5063683 Matthias Heger, Joseph Cheramy, Fan Xie, Zhihao Chen, Yunjie Xu*, "." J. Mol. Spectrosc. 2018, 352, 36-44. DOI: 10.1016/j.jms.2018.08.002 Colton D. Carlson, Nathan A. Seifert, Matthias Heger, Fan Xie, Javix Thomas, Yunjie Xu*, "." J. Mol. Spec. 2018, 351, 62-67. DOI: 10.1016/j.jms.2018.07.006 - 2019
Y. Shen, S-Y. Wu, V. Rancic, A. Aggarwal, Y. Qian, S.-I. Miyashita, K. Ballanyi, R.E. Campbell*, and M. Dong*, "." Commun. Biol. 2019, 2, 18. Preprint posted to bioRxiv. DOI: doi.org/10.1101/254383. Caley B. Craven, Cole W. Joyce and Charles A. Lucy, "." Journal of Chromatography A 2019, 1584, 80-86. DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2018.11.020 Thiessen, A., Ha, M., Hooper, R., Yu, H., Oliynyk, A., Veinot, J.C.G. and Michaelis, V.K., "" Chemistry of Materials 2019, 31 (3), 678-688. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b03074 Karmakar, A., Dodd, M.S., Zhang, X., Oakley, M., Klobukowski, M. and Michaelis, V.K., "." ChemComm 2019, 55, 5079-5082 DOI: 10.1039/C8CC09622H Zhang, Y.; Carvalho, W.S.P.; Fang, C.; Serpe, M.J., "." Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 2019, 290, 520-526. DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2019.03.147 Schmidt, M.; Jansen van Beek, S.; Abou-Ghanem, M.; Oliynyk, A. O.; Locock, A. J.; Styler, S. A. "." ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 2019 3 (3), pp 424-431 DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.8b00178 B. S. Basel, C. Hetzer, J. Zirzlmeier, D. Thiel, R. Guldi, F. Hampel, T. Clark, D. M. Guldi, R. R. Tykwinski, "." Chem. Sci. 2019,10, 3854-3863 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc00384c Fischer, C.; Lamer, T.; Wang, W.; McKinnie, S.M.K.; Iturrioz, X.; Llorens-Cortes, C.; Oudit, G.Y.; Vederas, J.C. "." Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2019, 166, 119-124 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2019.01.040