Fall 2026 WCC/Lilly Emerging Talent Award Winners Poster Session

WCC/Lilly Emerging Talent Award Winners Poster Session

Tuesday, August 25, 2026 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place Chicago | Regency Foyer

Hallee Boyd, Oregon State University
When Counterions Fall into Place: Counterion Effects on f-Element Phosphomolybdate Crystallization and Speciation (NUCL)

Y. Emily Du, Princeton University
Light-Driven Deracemization of Benzylic Nitriles (ORGN)

Karli Gaffrey, Colorado School of Mines
Electro-osmotic Drag for Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis (ENFL)

Golsa Gheibi, California Institute of Technology
Mechanistically guided, data-driven ligand design enables enantioselective electrochemical reductive cross-coupling of NHP esters (ORGN)

Pegah Honarmand, UC Irvine
Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) characterizes growing polymers (POLY)

Virginia Jiang, Princeton University
AI-driven enzyme engineering for accelerating reaction rates in biomolecular condensates (BIOL)

Joyce Laboy Figueroa, University of Puerto Rico-Humacao
Computational study using Hansen Solubility Parameters (HSP) on coffeecontaminated polystyrene cups for green solvent selection (ENVR)

Julianne Oshiro, UCLA
Enhancing Microwave Regeneration Efficiency of Hybrid CO2 Sorbents via Microwave-Active Additives (COLL)

Holly Weilbaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Inversion of tryptophan synthase chemoselectivity for synthesis of N-isotryptophans (BIOL)

Kerui Xu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Pharmacokinetic Studies of Amyloid-targeting Bis(styryl)Benzene Agents for Alzheimer’s Disease (BIOL)

Eli Lilly and Company is acknowledged for its support of the WCC/Eli Lilly Emerging Talent Award program.

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