Recent Chemistry/Biochemistry Senior Projects

Year 2000

Year 2001

Elliot Anders. A Chemical Study of Mill Creek: Biological Oxygen Demand, Septic Tanks, and Forest Fires. Advisor: Professor Dunnivant. Elliot graduated from Whitman College and works in the computer software industry. He is also the upcoming co-author of a environmental chemistry text with Professor Dunnivant.

Heather Elizabeth Barr. Phthlates and Cosmetics: A Literature Review and Proposal for Study. Advisor: Professor Dunnivant. Heather graduated from Whitman College, completed a tour of duty with the Peace Corps, and enrolled in graduate school at the University of Washington.

Year 2002

Eric Abby. Determination of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Concentration by High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Fluorescence Detection. Advisor: Professor Dunnivant. Eric graduated from Whitman College and works for Hewlet-Packard as a chemist.

Celest Bolin. Optimization of the Quantitative Detection of Anions using Ion Chromatography. Advisor: Professor Dunnivant. Celest graduated from Whitman College, worked in a research lab at the University of Montana, and later enrolled in graduate school in the same program.

Year 2003

Elizabeth Cox. The Presence and Effects of Estrogenic Compounds in Wastewater Effluent. Advisor: Professor Dunnivant. Elizabeth graduated from Whitman College and enrolled in graduate school at The University of California (Davis).

Samantha L. Saalfield. Two Applications of Lake Sediment Geochemistry to Environmental Processes. Advisor: Professor Dunnivant. Samantha graduated from Whitman College and enrolled in graduate school at the Univeristy of New Hampshire.

Joshua Danial Wnuk, Desorption Kinetics of Hydrophobic Compounds from Lake Sediment Suspensions. Advisor: Professor Dunnivant. Josh graduated from Whitman College and enrolled in graduate school at Johns Hopkins University.

Brandon Bagley, Synthesis and Modelling/Docking of 4-(N,N-dipropylamino)benzaldehye (DPAB) in Three Classes of Aldehyde Dehydrogenases.

Year 2004

Viet Van Phan. Characterization of Cadmium and Chromium Concentrations in Hazardous Waste using Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure. Advisor: Professor Dunnivant.

Cody J. Reynolds. A Chemical Transformation Experiment for an Environmental Laboratory: The Reduction of Nitrobenzenes in Anaerobic Solutions of Humic Acid. Advisor: Professor Dunnivant.

Tyler Chisholm. Molecular Modeling and Ligand Docking of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase (ALDH) 1a1 and 1a2.

Kim Clayton. Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome: The International SARS Outbreak of 2003. Kim is currently enrolled at the Boston University School of Public Health (Master's student in Epidemiology)

Nathan Thomsen. Characterizing the C-terminal/4-Helix Bundle Interface of the BRCA1 Ring Domain and its Role in BARD1/BRCA1 Ubiquitin Ligase Activity. Nathan is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program, UC Berkeley, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Megan Bruemmer Phosphoprotein Isotope-coded Solid-Phase Tag Approach for Enrichment Analysis of Glycoproteins from Complex Mixtures. Megan is enrolled in the Ph.D. program at UC Boulder (Biochemistry).

Julia Gilden. Exposure of Human Dendritic Cells and Macrophages to Brugia Malayi Microfilariae Elicits Differential Effects on Cell Viability and Subsequent cytokine expression By Autologous CD$+ Cells. Julia is enrolled in the Ph.D. program, UC SanFrancisco (Immunology).

Denise Kirstein. Investigation of the effects of cytochrome P450 inhibitors alpha-naphthoflavone and ketoconazole, and ALDH1A1 inhibitor DPAB on the oxidation of all-trans retinal to retinoic acid in human HL-60 leukemia cells. Denise is enrolled as a M.D. student at St. Louis University School of Medicine.