Week 9

Ninth week’s seminar was held on March 15, 2012 with two guest speaker Alaina S. DeToma and Joseph J. Braymer. Alaina S. DeToma and Joseph J. Braymer are chemistry graduate students in the Labs of Mi Hee Lim, University of Michigan. In this seminar, Alaina S. DeToma received her BS in chemistry from Elizabethtown College. She shared her research about flavanoids and Alzheimer’s disease. Joseph J. Braymer received his BS in chemistry from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. He presented findings from his research about detoxifying hydrogen peroxides.

On March 15, two PhD candidates from the University of Michigan, Alaina S. DeToma and Joseph J. Braymer, came to speak about their research. DeToma’s research involves flavanoids and Alzheimer’s disease while Braymer’s research dealt with detoxifying hydrogen peroxides.

     Alaina DeToma and Joseph Braymer presented their seminars, “Flavonoids and Alzheimer’s” and “Detoxifying Hydrogen Peroxide” on Thursday, March 15, 2012.  Alaina has a Chemistry BS from Elizabethtown College PA, and Joseph graduated from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Chemistry. Currently, both are recipients of graduate awards, honors and fellowships, having also published and presented their research findings in high-impact journals and at National American Chemical Society Meetings.

This week we had the honor of having 2 persenter, both Ph.D. candidates from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Our first presenter was Alaina S. DeToma  and she presented on the topic of Flavonoids & Alzheimer’s Disease. Currently Alzheimer’s Disease is the 6^th leading cause of death in the United States, unfortunately there is no cure for the diseases, providing lots of motivation for research.