WCC/Eli Lilly Travel Award Poster Session Fall 2025

WCC/Eli Lilly Travel Award Poster Session 

Tuesday, August 19, 2025 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MARRIOTT MARQUIS, INDEPENDENCE/ 

LIBERTY BALLROOM FOYER 

In-Person

Alyson Ackerman (University of Kentucky) 

Green Pharmaceuticals: Synthesis and Evaluation of Lignan Derivatives from Machilin C/D as Antiproliferative Agents against Triple Negative Breast Cance 

MEDI 

Anika Jena (University of California, Santa Barbara) 

Controlling DNA nanotube outgrowth for tunable molecular architectures 

CHED 

Audrey Carson (University of Delaware) 

Investigating how microplastics impact alpha-synuclein aggregation in Parkinson’s Disease 

ANYL 

Fahidat Gbadamosi (University of South Carolina) 

Supramolecular Polymerization of phenylethynylene bis-urea macrocycles 

ORGN 

Juliana Antonio (Southern Methodist University) 

Noncovalent Interactions in Mutated Schiff Base Myoglobin Proteins Revealed Through Local Vibrational Mode Theory 

COMP 

Kate Gaiser (Colorado School of Mines) 

Nitrile hydratases: Catalytic mechanism to active site maturation 

CHED 

Kelsey Holdaway (University of Minnesota) 

Design and Development of Allosteric Covalent Inhibitors of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 

MEDI 

Lauren Tran (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 

Potent and biased peptide agonists of the PTHR1, a Class B GPCR, from a heterochiral design Strategy 

BIOL 

Michelle Gross (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) 

Ultrasound-driven bond exchange of allyl sulfides for sustainable polymer design 

PMSE 

Zurwa Latif (University of Texas at Dallas) 

Two-phase strategy for the enantioselective total syntheses of the Vallesamidine and Schizozygane Alkaloids 

ORGN 

Eli Lilly and Company is acknowledged for its support of the WCC/Eli Lilly Travel Awards program 

For more information, please send an email to wcc@acs.org.