November 19, 2020 at 11:00am ET

Virtual Postdoc Symposium

The symposium will feature six concurrent sessions highlighting research presented by postdoctoral scholars at the ACS Fall 2020 Meeting & Expo. You won't want to miss these cutting-edge talks!

Watch live as of November 19th at 11:00am ET.

The American Chemical Society is pleased to host its first virtual Postdoc Symposium. This free symposium will feature 49 postdoctoral scholars who represented their research at the ACS Fall 2020 Virtual Meeting & Expo.

Download a PDF of the abstracts, listed by author and session.

Each session has a Zoom link for all speakers.  There will be a separate Zoom link for the 3:30pm Workshop and 4:30 Networking Happy Hour.

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Schedule at a glance


  • 11:00 AM-3:15pm: Technical Presentations
  • 3:30pm-4:30pm: Professional Connections and Networking in the Virtual Space Workshop for Postdocs and Grad Students
  • 4:30pm-5:30pm: Networking Happy Hour 

Session 1: INOR/GEOC

 11:05am–11:25am ET
Division: INOR

Electrochemistry-enabled organometallic transformation: A Case Study of the electrosynthesis of cyclopentadienyl rhenium hydride complexes 

 Tao Huang

 11:25am–11:45am ET
Division: INOR

Simple rules for understanding and predicting the electronic structure of halide double perovskites

 Adam Slavney

 11:45am–12:05pm ET
Division: INOR

Advances in reticular chemistry: The design and synthesis of new 2D and 3D covalent organic framework topologies

Cornelius Gropp

 12:20pm–12:40pm ET
Division: GEOC

Understanding coexistence of montmorillonite swelling states through mixing energetics

Nithya Subramanian

 12:40pm–1:00pm ET
Division: INOR

Selective, high-temperature O2 adsorption in chemically reduced, redox-active iron-pyrazolate metal–organic frameworks

Adam Jaffe

 1:00pm–1:20pm ET
Division: INOR

Hydrogen atom abstraction by high-valent Fe(OH) and Mn(OH) corroles: Synthetic models for cytochrome P450 Cpd II

Jan Paulo Zaragoza

 1:35pm–1:55pm ET
Division: INOR

Mechanistic insights into metal-enhanced fluorescence by triangular silver nanoparticles at the single molecule level

Gregory Hodgson

 1:55pm–2:15pm ET
Division: INOR

Codoping Cu2ZnSnS4 with Cd, Ge, and Se: a recipe for suppressing deep traps

Robert Wexler

 2:15pm–2:35pm ET
Division: INOR

Kinetic activation of thermal networks in proteins: Thermal transfer from the surface loop to the active site in soybean lipoxygenase

Jan Paulo Zaragoza

Session 2: POLY/PMSE/ANYL

 11:05am–11:25am ET
Division: POLY

Fabrication of robust, superhydrophobic coatings from fluorine free, water-borne polymer silica formulation;

Tahira Pirzada

 11:25am–11:45am ET
Division: PMSE

Transparent mesoporous polymer aerogels via stable free radical polymerization

Stephen Meckler

 11:45am–12:05pm ET
Division: PMSE

Polymer-based chemical sensing platform for the identification of azo dye pollutants

Joshua Tropp

 12:20pm–12:40pm ET
Division: ANYL

From nanoelectrochemistry to real-time biosensors: In vivo analysis of neurochemicals using nanoporous electrode

Kaiyu Fu

 12:40pm–1:00pm ET
Division: ANYL

O-Pair searching with metamorpheus for o-glycopeptide characterization

Nicholas Riley

 1:00pm–1:20pm ET
Division: ANYL

Nanoflares for detection and diagnosis

Devleena Samanta

 1:35pm–1:55pm ET
Division: PMSE

Universal photo-crosslinking and room-temperature 3D printing of a super-soft and solvent-free elastomer

Renxuan Xie

 1:55pm–2:15pm ET
Division: PMSE

Carboxylated agarose: a versatile bioink for multi-material 3D bioprinting

Aurelien Forget

 2:15pm–2:35pm ET
Division: PMSE

Electrochemistry for polymers and vice versa: From electrocatalysis in polymerization to polymeric materials in batteries

Francesca Lorandi

 2:35pm–2:55pm ET
Division: POLY

Soft robots enabled by liquid crystal elastomers

Jennifer Boothby

Session 3: ORGN/COMP/AGRO/TOXI/CHAS

 11:05am–11:25am ET
Division: ORGN

Computational study of the torque, lock, and propagate approach to make configurationally stable twisted heli-thiopentacenes and heli-dithiopentacenes

Shambhavi Tannir

 11:25am–11:45am ET
Division: COMP

Machine learning and enhanced sampling to probe the solvation, acidity, and reactions in complex mixtures: The case of acid-catalysed phenol hydroxylation

Kevin Rossi

 11:45am–12:05pm ET
Division: ORGN

Electrosynthesis: A practical and versatile method for small molecule synthesis

Matthew Leech

 12:20pm–12:40pm ET
Division: ORGN

Deep mutational scanning reveals structure in intrinsically disordered proteins in living cells

Robert Newberry

 12:40pm–1:00pm ET
Division: ORGN

Alternative approach to fatty acid-based heterogemini surfactant intermediate: K2CO3-MeOH-catalysed synthesis of 3-chloro-2-hydroxypropylstearate

Nnanake-Abasi Offiong

 1:00pm–1:20pm ET
Division: ORGN

Probing noncovalent interactions in asymmetric catalysis using computational chemistry and data science

Jacquelyne Read

 1:35pm–1:55pm ET
Division: AGRO

Update into the ecotoxicology of glyphosate, its formulants, and environmental degradation products

Jose Luis Rodriguez Gil

 1:55pm–12:15pm ET
Division:TOXI

Development of the generic pregnancy physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model to support regulatory evaluations of the safety and efficacy of therapeutic agents

Miao Li

 2:15pm–2:35pm ET
Division: CHAS

Legalization of cannabinoid products and standardizing drug development: Pros, cons, and implications

Jahan Marcu

Session 4: COLL

 11:05am–11:25am ET
Division:COLL

nanoPRISM: Leveraging high throughput screening to understand targeted nanoparticle delivery

Natalie Boehnke

 11:25am–11:45am ET
Division:COLL

Strategies for enhancing the photoluminescence of CdSe magic-sized clusters Andrew Pun

Andrew Pun

 11:45am–12:05pm ET
Division: COLL

Impact of nanostructured surfaces on the aggregation of amyloidogenic peptides Torsten John

Torsten John

 12:20pm–12:40pm ET
Division: COLL

Treating cystic fibrosis lung infections with bacteria-inspired nanoscale drug delivery systems

Joel Finbloom

 12:40pm–1:00pm ET
Division: COLL

Ultrasmall hafnium oxide nanoparticles for the detection of bone microdamage using color spectral CT

Fatemeh Ostadhossein

 1:00pm–1:20pm ET
Division:COLL

Synthesis of gold nanorods with small thiolated molecules

Katherine Requejo Roque

Session 5: CATL/ENFL/PHYS/NUCL

 11:05am–11:25am ET
Division: CATL

Multiscale modelling of CO oxidation on copper nanoparticles in nanoreactors

Astrid Boje

 11:25am–11:45am ET
Division: CATL

Elucidating the evolution of Pd/TiO2 single-atom catalyst under CO2 hydrogenation and reducing atmosphere

Linxiao Chen

 11:45am–12:05pm ET
Division: ENFL

Bifunctional nickel and copper electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction and the oxygen evolution reaction

Hanqing Pan

 12:20pm–12:40pm ET
Division: CATL

Multiscale design of Pt-nanoparticles with enhanced catalytic activity for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Kevin Rossi

 12:40pm–1:00pm ET
Division: CATL

Atomic layer deposition for enhanced reactivity, stability, and sulfur tolerance of hydrogenation catalysts

Wilson McNeary

 1:00pm–1:20pm ET
Division: ENFL

Peculiar defects behavior in charge recombination of metal halide perovskites and conventional semiconductors

Weibin Chu

 1:35pm–1:55pm ET
Division: PHYS

Structural changes and charge transport in heterogenous and molecular cobalt catalysts for water splitting reactions

Emily Sprague-Klein

 1:55pm–2:15pm ET
Division: PHYS

Accurate simulation of photochemical processes: From plasmon-driven photocatalysis to dye-sensitized photovoltaics

John Mark Martirez

 2:15pm–2:35pm ET
Division: NUCL

Low LET gamma and high LET alpha degradation studies of the ALSEP process pre and post metal extraction

Christian Bustillos

 2:35pm–2:55pm ET
Division: PHYS

Electrochemically-driven structural phase transitions in conjugated polymers

Connor Bischak

 2:55pm–3:15pm ET
Division: PHYS

Quantitative determinants of pripheral membrane protein structure and dynamics from deep mutational scanning

Robert Newberry

Session 6: BIOL/BIOT/CARB/ENVR

 11:05am–11:25am ET
Division:BIOL

Structural basis of alpha-synuclein toxicity identified by deep mutational scanning

Robert Newberry

 11:25am–11:45am ET
Division:ENVR

Real-time monitoring of microbial storage and modeling of its turnover for nitrous oxide production

Zhiyue Wang

 11:45am–12:05pm ET
Division: ENVR

Simple and efficient defluorination of PFAS in wastewater by V2C nanosheets and H2O2

Yuemei Ye

 12:20pm–12:40pm ET
Division: BIOL

Reorganization of the diiron cluster active site of soluble methane monooxygenase by MMOB enforces specificity for methane as described by XFEL crystal structures of the sMMOH:MMOB complex

Rahul Banerjee

 12:40pm–1:00pm ET
Division: BIOL

Kinase chemical genetics in the closest living relatives of animals

Florentine Rutaganira

 1:00pm–1:20pm ET
Division:BIOL

Molecular mechanism of biased signaling in a prototypical G protein–coupled receptor

Carl-Mikael Suomivuori

 1:35pm–1:55pm ET
Division:BIOT

Extending BioSolve with multi-objective Bayesian optimization for automated tuning of upstream and downstream decisions in a mAb process

Folarin Oyebolu

 1:55pm–2:15pm ET
Division:BIOT

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 via Microbubbling Digital Immunoassay

Hui Chen

 2:15pm–2:35pm ET
Division: CARB

Effects of random versus residue-specific conjugation on the immunogenic and physical properties of glycoconjugates

Molly Congdon

Professional Connections and Networking in the Virtual Spaces

Time: Nov 19, 2020 03:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Postdoc Networking Happy Hour

Time: Nov 19, 2020 04:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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