Ph.D. Program in Chemistry Dissertation Defense Mr. Brendon E. Cook “The Development of Novel Platforms for the Imaging of Cancer by Positron Emission Tomography” Mentor: Dr. Brian M. Zeglis Hunter College, CUNY Monday, June 4th, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m Hunter College, CUNY Belfer Research Building 2nd Floor, Conference Room

Ph.D. Program in Chemistry Dissertation Defense Mr. Kishore K. Gangangari “Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Iodine-124 Labeled Nucleoside Analogs as PET Imaging Agents to Predict Response to Gemcitabine Therapy” Mentor: Prof. Shengping Zheng, Hunter, CUNY Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 @ 1:00 p.m Hunter College, CUNY North Building, Room HN 1403

Ph.D. Program in Chemistry Dissertation Defense Mr. Shen Lai “Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids and Garnet-Type Li7La3Zr2012” Mentor: Prof. Steve G. Greenbaum Hunter College, CUNY Thursday, August 16th, 2018 @ 11:00 a.m Hunter College, CUNY North Building, Room  NH 1246

Ph.D. Program in Chemistry Dissertation Defense Ms. Jasmine Latoya Hatcher “The Fundamental Chemistry Related to the Separations and Coordination of Actinium-225, Thorium-227, and Technetium-99” Mentor: Prof. Lynn Francesconi Hunter College, CUNY Wednesday, August 29th, 2018 @ 10:00 a.m Hunter College, CUNY North Building, Room 612

Ph.D. Program in Chemistry Dissertation Defense Ms. Danielle Ruth Hirsch “Synthesis and Evaluation of Densely-Functionalized Troponoids” Mentor: Prof. Ryan P. Murelli Brooklyn College, CUNY Wednesday, September 12th, 2018 @ 2:20 p.m Brooklyn College, CUNY New Ingersoll Building, Room 133

Ph.D. Program in Chemistry Dissertation Defense Mr. Justin Walsh “A Pretargeted Spect Imaging Strategy Employing Technetium-99M Based on Bioorthogonal Diels-Alder Click Chemistry” Mentor: Prof. Lynn C. Francesconi Hunter College, CUNY Monday, October 22th, 2018 @ 10:00 a.m Hunter College, CUNY North Building, Room 612

Ph.D. Program in Chemistry Dissertation Defense Ms. Rosemery Membreno “Pretargeted Radioimmunotherapy Utilizing the Inverse Electron Demand Diels-Alder Reaction” Mentor: Prof. Brian M. Zeglis Hunter College, CUNY Thursday, November 29th, 2018 @ 3:15 p.m Hunter College, CUNY North Building, Room 1403 + GOOGLE CALENDAR

Ph.D. Program in Chemistry Dissertation Defense Ms. Xionmiao Zhang “Potential Degradation of Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD) in Sediments: Stereoisomer Specific Reaction of HBCDD with Reduced Sulfur Species of Fe(ll) Bound to Iron Oxides” Mentor: Prof. Urs Jans The City College of New York, CUNY Friday, December 7th, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m The City College of New York, CUNY …

Ph.D. Program in Chemistry Dissertation Defense Mr. Gan Zhang “Bisthioether Stapled Peptides Targeting Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Gene Repression” Mentor: Prof. Guillermo Gerona-Navarro Brooklyn College, CUNY Thursday, December 18th, 2018 @ 12:30 p.m Brooklyn College, CUNY Ingersoll Hall Extension, Room 432

Ph.D. Program in Chemistry Dissertation Defense Mr. Yan Sun “Study of Reaction Dynamics of Protonated/Deprotonated and Radical Cations of Guanine in Nucleobases and Nucleosides: Single O2 Oxidation, C8-Water Addition, Cross-Linking with Lysine and Base-Pair Dissociation” Mentor: Prof. Jianbo Liu Queens College, CUNY Wednesday, September 25th, 2019 @ 3:00 p.m Queens College, CUNY Remsen Hall, Room 209