Riley has been named the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher of 2018 for the Department of Chemistry at CSM! We are proud to have this fantastic student working in our lab. Riley first set out to investigate the effects of the various salts and surfactants found in FL-70 (a commonly used detergent used for particle stability and dispersion within solution). His work was incorporated into the presentation talk that our very own Billy Smith presented on at the 19th International Symposium on Field- and Flow-Based Separations (FFF 2018). Billy’s talk received the Student Poster Presentation Award. Riley has since moved to a new project that seeks to separate and characterize two distinct outer membrane vesicle populations (OMVs) found to be excreted by gram-negative bacteria when grown on lignin enriched media (as compared to glucose enriched). These OMV populations may lead to a whole new world in aromatic catabolism.
