{"id":10347,"date":"2021-08-10T08:51:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T12:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=10347"},"modified":"2021-08-19T16:53:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T20:53:48","slug":"elizabethtown-college-professor-of-chemistry-presenting-at-acs-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2021\/08\/10\/elizabethtown-college-professor-of-chemistry-presenting-at-acs-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Professor of Chemistry Presenting at ACS Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabethtown College Professor of Chemistry James MacKay is presenting at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2021 Resilience of Chemistry meeting. The annual meeting is taking place on August 22-26 and is both virtual, as well as in-person at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MacKay\u2019s talk will take place virtually on Sunday, August 22 at 5 p.m. He will be presenting his paper,<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/acs.digitellinc.com\/acs\/live\/21\/page\/411\/1?eventSearchInput=mackay#sessionCollapse87919\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cDesign, synthesis, and binding of extended nucleobases in modified peptide nucleic acids for sequence selective recognition of dsRNA.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Etown\u2019s Professor of Chemistry collaborated with Eriks Rozners of SUNY Binghamton to study new methods for molecular recognition of biologically significant non-coding ribonucleic acid (RNA) and uses chemistry to better understand the role of non-coding RNA in biological processes, through a grant that was recommended for funding by the National Science Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The work is timely given the current interest around RNA related to emerging pathogens such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus and biotechnological tools such as CRISPR gene editing. The now six-year collaboration has established a bridge between Etown students who are transitioning from undergraduate studies to graduate studies at a research university while also offering unique training for a post-doctoral student who wishes to work for a primarily undergraduate institution.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College Professor of Chemistry James MacKay is presenting at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2021 Resilience of Chemistry meeting. The annual meeting is taking place on August 22-26 and is both virtual, as well as in-person at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. MacKay\u2019s talk will take place virtually on Sunday, August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":10348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[1438,1439,1123,642,197,1350],"class_list":["post-10347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","tag-acs","tag-american-chemical-society","tag-chemistry","tag-department-of-chemistry","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10349,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions\/10349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}