Nirbhay Jain
B.S., Chemistry
Minor in French and French Studies
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Nominee (2014)
Astronaut Scholarship Awardee (2014)
LSA Honors Program Member
6-term Angell Scholar
6-term University Honors
3 time recipient of SURP Undergraduate Research Grants
Huron Valley ACS Student Leadership Award (2014)
Second Year Outstanding Student Award in Chemistry (2013)
Shipman Society Member
Class of 2015
Research Project
Studying the effects of metabolomics and its implication in the early detection of cancer cells.
Publications and Presentations
1. Gung, Benjamin W., Bright U. Emenike, Celeste N. Alverez, John Rakovan, Kristin Kirschbaum, Nirbhay Jain. “Relative Substituent Position on the Strength of p-p Stacking Interactions.” Tetrahedron Letters 51 (2009): 1648-1650.
2. Poster Presentation. Jain, N, DeVanna, K.M., Mayer, C.M., and Schloesser, D.W. “Mapping the spatial relationship of burrowing mayflies and dreissenid mussels in western Lake Erie.” Presented at International Association of Great Lakes Research Conference. University of Toledo, May, 2009.
3. Patil, Sachin, Lilly M. Saleena, Nirbhay Jain, and Hermann von Grafenstein. “Variable Networks of Mobile Water Molecules in the Peptide-MHC Binding Interface Revealed by Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange.” Publication Pending.
4. Poster Presentation. Sachin Patil, Yining Jin, Sylie Onkar, Yitong Lin, Nirbhay Jain, Benjamin Friedman, and H. von Grafenstein. “Orientation- and Distance-Dependent Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange: Detection of Mobile Water Molecules in the Peptide MHC Binding Interface.” Presented for a PhD dissertation.
5. Poster Presentation. Nirbhay S. Jain, Bagganahalli S. Somashekar, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy. “A Simple Esterification Procedure to Streamline NMR-Based Metabolomics.” Presented at the REU-NSF Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, IN 46556. August 3, 2012.
6. Poster Presentation. Nirbhay S. Jain, Bagganahalli S. Somashekar, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy. “A Simple Esterification Procedure to Streamline NMR-Based Metabolomics.” Presented at an International Symposium on the Atomic View of Biomolecular Function at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. July 12, 2013.
7. Poster Presentation. Nirbhay S. Jain, Bagganahalli S. Somashekar, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy. “A Simple Method of Minimizing Ionic Strength to Reduce Chemical Shift Variance in NMR-based Metabolomics of Urine Specimen.” Presented at the REU-NSF Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, IN 46556. August 2, 2013.
8. Poster Presentation. Nirbhay S. Jain, Bagganahalli S. Somashekar, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy. “A Simple Esterification Procedure to Streamline NMR-Based Metabolomics.” Presented at the ACS Undergraduate Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. October 26, 2013.
9. Poster Presentation. Nirbhay S. Jain, Bagganahalli S. Somashekar, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy. “A Simple Method of Minimizing Ionic Strength to Reduce Chemical Shift Variance in NMR-based Metabolomics of Urine Specimen.” Presented at the ACS Undergraduate Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. October 26, 2013.
10. Poster Presentation. Nirbhay S. Jain, Kelsey Kerr, Christie Mueller, Courtney Talicska. “Where no Scientist has Gone Before: Raman Spectrometry and Mars.” Invited to present at the ACS National Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 46201. September 8, 2013.