Biology major Hasan Alsaymary won the award for Best Poster in the Natural Sciences division of the 2022 Undergraduate Research Conference on Friday, April 22. Although he is a biology major, Alsaymary opted to work on some organic chemistry with Dr. Kasey Clear during the summer of 2021 under a SMART grant. His poster titled "Studying the association of membrane permeable fluorescent probes with anionic lipids" described (i) the preparation of liposomes used to test two fluorescent probes that essentially differed only in what was the source of the cation on the probe (a zinc ion or a guanidinium group); and (ii) the binding affinity of the two probes to the liposome membrane based on fluorescent readings. Alsaymary also won the Freshman Chemistry Achievement award in 2020. Congratulations on a super performance at the Undergraduate Research Conference!
