Presentations–Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry Elahson Swanson, Illinois State University “Small Molecule Iron Chelation for Parkinson’s Disease Therapy” Guo-Hsuen Lo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Engineering a photosynthetic yeast through endosymbiosis” Huguette Clemente, Saint Xavier University “Effects of Terpenoids (Thymoquinone and D-Carvone) on Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1β (PTP1β)” Kailey Komnick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Structural-Activity Relationship Campaign Leads to a Novel Chain of Fusidic Acid with an Improved Resistance Profile” Mercedes DeMoss, Purdue University “In Vivo Screening of Indenoisoquinoline compounds” Niya Mitchell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Design and Modeling of Macrocyclic RNA Targeting Agents for DM1” Peng-Jui (Ruby) Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Lipophilic Tunings of Small-Molecule Mediated Metal Mobilization” Philip Kocheril, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Progress Toward an Intracellular Neutralization Mimic for Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Nucleic Acid-Targeting Ligands for Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1” Royal Shrestha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Oxidative stress and spindle abnormalities impedes oocyte development due to IAA exposure”