Congratulations To Our Student Travel Award Winners!
The Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology is pleased to announce the winners of our Student Travel Award for the Fall ACS 2024 Meeting! Keep scrolling to read more about our outstanding recipients as they share about their experience at the recent meeting in Denver.
The Division offers travel awards on a competitive basis for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to attend each national meeting and present a poster or oral presentation on their research.
Wish it was you up here? Student Travel Award applications for the Spring 2025 meeting are due by December 13, 2024. Abstracts for divisional programming are due by September 30, 2024. Poster and oral sessions exclusively for undergraduate and graduate research projects are open for contributed talks. Students from all backgrounds and universities are urged to apply!
Raphael Oladokun (he/him/his)
Graduate Student, West Virginia University
Microfluidics & Electrokinetics Bioseparation & Analysis Laboratory
Hometown: Iseyin, Nigeria
Undergraduate Institution: Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Talk at ACS Fall 2024: Dielectrophoretic characterization and COMSOL computational analysis of late carcinoma using peripheral blood mononuclear cells from mammary carcinoma models
Favorite thing about ACS Fall 2024: My favorite part of ACS Fall 2024 was meeting new people, learning about their projects, and exchanging ideas that could lead to future collaborations.
Humera Gull (she/her)
Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Dallas
Gabriele Meloni Lab
Hometown: Dallas, Texas, USA
Undergraduate Institution: University of Sargodha, Pakistan
Talk at ACS Fall 2024: Metal selectivity and transport mechanism of the transmembrane ZIP Iron-Transporter LIT1 from Leishmania major
Favorite thing about ACS Fall 2024: ACS DBC Mixer and ACS career pathway workshops
Simran Gambhir (she/her)
Graduate Student, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology
Dr. Anshu Bhardwaj, AB-Datascience Lab
Hometown: Chandigarh, India
Undergraduate Institution: Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India
Talk at ACS Fall 2024: Genomic signatures of antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium abscessus
Favorite thing about ACS Fall 2024: I really enjoyed the lineup of the talks and would love to join in-person next time.
Shilla Owusus Ansah (she)
Graduate Student, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Catherine Eichhorn Lab
Hometown: Wenchi, Ghana
Undergraduate Institution: University of Cape Coast, Ghana, West Africa
Talk at ACS Fall 2024: Conserved evolutionary structural dynamics of 7SK RNA stem-loop 3 (SL3)
Favorite thing about ACS Fall 2024: How dynamic it was. This conference made me appreciate how dynamic chemistry is.
Sagarika Taneja (she/her/hers)
Graduate Student, The Ohio State University
Jon Parquette Lab
Hometown: Ghaziabad, India
Undergraduate Institution: University of Delhi, India
Previous Graduate (Master’s) Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India
Talk at ACS Fall 2024: Exploring the potential of pH-sensitive nanostructures for cellular tracking of the assembly state
Favorite thing about ACS Fall 2024: I met several other graduate students working in the same area as me.
You can find Sagarika on LinkedIn!
Swapnil Joshi (he/him/his)
Graduate Student, University of Florida
Michael E. Harris Lab
Hometown: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Undergraduate Institution: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, India
Talk at ACS Fall 2024: High Throughput Screening reveals small molecule inhibitors of Staphylococcus aureus RNase P that trap enzyme-substrate conplex
Favorite thing about ACS Fall 2024: Expo, Medicinal Chemistry Division talks, and Chemical Biology Division talks.
You can find Swapnil on on LinkedIn!
Halley Lin-Jones (she/her)
Graduate Student, University of California, Irvine
Jennifer Prescher Lab
Hometown: Castro Valley, California, USA
Undergraduate Institution: Smith College
Talk at ACS Fall 2024: Bioorthogonal fluorogenic cyclopropenones for biomolecule labeling
Favorite thing about ACS Fall 2024: Opportunities to meet other scientists from diverse research areas
You can find Halley on LinkedIn!
Andrea Sprague-Getsy
Graduate Student, Syracuse University
James Hougland Lab
Talk at ACS Fall 2024: Exploring the environmental impacts on membrane protein structure and activity: Solubilization of ghrelin O-acyltransferase reveals unexpected protein-detergent compatibility
Shan Hu
Graduate Student, University of South Carolina
Qian Wang Lab
Talk at ACS Fall 2024: Strained-ring systems as electroaffinity probes for bioconjugation and cellular labeling