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About ACS-SA Symposium
During spring quarter, UCSD ACS-SA partners with the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry to host our annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, celebrating the research contribution of our student chemistry community!
This event provides our student researchers with a great opportunity to practice scientific communication through a poster presentation! Presenters are eligible for department honors, and the best presenters within each division will receive a symposium poster presentation award. More information on department honors and undergraduate student awards can be found below!
Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Komives
Elizabeth (Betsy) Komives grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. She did her undergraduate degree in Chemistry at MIT, her PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at UC San Francisco, and after postdoctoral work at Harvard, she took a faculty position at UC San Diego in 1990. Her research involves protein-protein interactions and dynamics. Throughout her career, Komives invented new methods for integrating biophysical tools to discover new principles, which have profoundly advanced our fundamental understanding of macromolecular recognition. She has trained over 30 PhDs who are now leaders in academia and the biotech industry. Throughout her career she has tried to integrate outreach activities, especially focusing on underprivileged high school student for whom she provides research opportunities and the confidence that they, too, can become scientific leaders. Her students learn to build a “family” based culture of honesty, trust, and mutual aid in a competitive environment. Learn more about the Komives lab here!
Abstracts
Khoa Tran - McHugh Research Group
Bobby Kong - McHugh Research Group
Raul Johnson - McHugh Research Group
Annika So - Komor Research Group
Dina Chehada - Toor Research Group
Maximilian Neeley - Tezcan Research Group
Bridget Boyle - Ferguson Research Group
Zoey Litt - Zid Research Group
Xuan Jiang - Donoghue Research Group
Cynthia Rong - Zid Research Group
Aakash Davasam - Amaro Research Group
Jilly Hirano - Zid Research Group
Zoe Ten - Ghosh Research Group
Vicky Chen - Zid and Yeo Research Group
Breanna Ford - Bode Research Group
Andrew Doudna - Yeo Research Group
Harshada Sapre - Komives Research Group
Erica Dang - Komives Research Group
Clarisa Bautista - Mishanina Research Group
Zhe Han - Komives Research Group
Eden Davison - Komor Research Group
Yuting Shen - Ghosh Research Group
Alexander Parmele - Godula Research Group
