Curriculum Vitae

Education

2022    Ph.D., Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (3.95/4.00) Certification in College Teaching

2016                     B.A., Biochemistry, University of Minnesota-Morris, Morris, MN (3.51/4.00) ACS Certified Degree, Varsity Coaching Certification

Teaching Experience

2022-Present Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Minnesota-Morris, Morris, MN Courses: General Chemistry II Lab (CHEM1102, 40 students), Organic Chemistry I (CHEM2301, 30 Students), Organic Chemistry II (CHEM2302, 30 Students), Organic Chemistry Lab (CHEM2311, 40 Students)

2021-2022 Instructor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Courses: Organic Chemistry I (CEM251, 35 students), Survey of Organic Chemistry (CEM143, 240 students)

2016-Present Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Courses: Chemistry Laboratory I (CEM161, 90 students), Chemistry Laboratory II (CEM162, 90 students), Organic Chemistry I (CEM251, 90 students), Organic Chemistry II (CEM252, 90 students), Organic Chemistry Laboratory (CEM255, 40 students)

2016 Peer Assisted Learning Tutor, Department of Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota-Morris, Morris, MN Courses: General Chemistry II (CHEM1102, 90 students)

2015 Laboratory Teaching Assistant, Department of Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota-Morris, Morris, MN Courses: Organic Chemistry Lab I (CHEM2311, 20 students)

Research Experience

2022-Present Independent Research Career. Projects: Vaccine development against tick borne pathogens, Antibody glycan remodeling, and discipline-based education research on on teaching organic and bio- chemistry

2020-2022 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Principal Investigator: Melanie M. Cooper, Ph.D. Project: Incorporation of green and sustainable chemistry into undergraduate organic chemistry lab curricula

2016-2022 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Principal Investigator: Xuefei Huang, Ph.D. Projects: Synthesis of tumor associated carbohydrate antigens, polymer synthesis, immunological evaluation of virus-like particle and polymer-based conjugate vaccines against cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and Cholera

2015 Research Intern, ATRA LLC, St. Anthony, MN Principal Investigator: Garret Lee, Ph.D. Project: Formulation and analytical testing of UV-curable inks for industrial inkjet printers

2015 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota-Morris, Morris, MN Principal Investigator: Nancy Carpenter, Ph.D. Project: Investigation of solvent effects on allyl indium-based reactions

2014 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota-Morris, Morris, MN Principal Investigator: Ted Pappenfus, Ph.D. Project: Synthesis of thermally curable electron donors for use in printable organic photovoltaic devices

2014 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota-Morris, Morris, MN Principal Investigator: Breeyawn N. Lybbert, Ph.D. Project: Development of an undergraduate organic lab activity using essential oils to teach separation techniques

Research Funding

2023 University of Minnesota-Morris, Faculty Research Enhancement Funds Title: On Capillary Enzymatic Remodeling of Antibody Glycans PI: Hunter McFall-Boegeman (02/01/2023-05/15/2023) Award Amount: $992.65 (Category II)

Honors and Distinctions

2022 Alumni Leadership Spartan Cornerstone Scholarship, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University

2022 Conference Grant, Council of Graduate Students, Michigan State University

2022 Travel Grant, American Chemical Society Michigan State University Local Section

2022 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Michigan State University

2021-2022 Future Academic Scholars in Teaching Fellow, Michigan State University

2021 Colleges Online Learning Academy Fellowship, Michigan State University

2021 Graduate Office Fellowship, Graduate School, Michigan State University

2020 Graduate Office Fellowship, Graduate School, Michigan State University

2018 Aitch Graduate Fellow, The Aitch Foundation

2016 Recruiting Fellowship, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University

2016 Poster Recognized for Contribution by an Undergraduate to Chemical Education Research by the American Chemical Society Committee on Education, 251st American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition

Professional Memberships

2015-Present American Chemistry Society, Member Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry (CARB), Division of Chemical Education (DivCHED)

Professional Activities

2022 American Chemistry Society Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry

  • Division Representative for Division Row at the 2022 ACS Spring National Meeting and Exposition

2021-2022 Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University

  • Undergraduate Affairs Committee 2021-2022

2016-2021 Michigan State University Council of Graduate Students

  • Parliamentarian 2022
    • Constitution and Bylaws Committee Chair 2022
    • Disciplinary Leadership Award Committee Member 2021-2022
  • Parliamentarian 2020-2021,
    • Constitution and Bylaws Committee Chair 2020-2021
  • Recording Secretary 2019-2020
    • Graduate Academic Conference Committee Chair 2019-2020
  • Department of Chemistry Representative 2016-2019
    • Graduate Academic Conference Committee Member 2016-2019

Publications

  1. Zhang, M.; Day, E. L.; McFall-Boegeman, H.; Petritis, S.; Cooper, M. M. Incorporation of Green Chemistry Into an Undergraduate Organic Laboratory Using Cooperative Project-Based Experiments and Case Studies, 2022 (Submitted)
  2. Day, E. L.; Zhang, M.; McFall-Boegeman, H.; Petritis, S.; Cooper, M. M. Integration of Green and Sustainable Chemistry into the Curriculum: What’s Missing for an Evidence-Based Approach 2022 (In Preparation)
  3. Shaw, V.; Sungsuwan, S.; McFall-Boegeman, H.; Huang, Jin, X. Alternative Assembly of Qβ Virus-Like Particles BioRxiv 2022  DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.23.477406 (In Preparation)
  4. McFall-Boegeman, H. Investigations into the Virus-Like Particle Bacteriophage Qβ as a Carrier Platform in Conjugate Vaccines Against Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease Michigan State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2022.
  5. Sungsuwan, S., Wu, X., Shaw, V., Kavunja, H., McFall-Boegeman, H., Rashidijahanabad, Z., Tan, Z., Lang, S., Nick, S., Lin P.-H.., Yin, Z., Ramadan, S., Jin, X., Huang, X. Structure Guided Design of Bacteriophage Qβ Mutants as Next Generation Carriers for Conjugate Vaccines ACS Chem. Biol. 2022, 17, 3047-3058 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.1c00906 *Part of a Special Issue “Chemical Glycobiology” **Author profile in Hughes, K. Introducing Our Authors ACS. Chem. Biol. 2022, 17, 493-494
  6. Rashidijahanabad, Z., Kelly, M., Kamruzzaman, M., Qadri, F., Bhuiyan, T., McFall-Boegeman, H., Wu, D., Piszczek, G., Xu, P., Ryan, E. T., Huang, X. Virus Like Particle Display of Vibrio Cholerae O-Specific Polysaccharide as a Potential Vaccine Against Cholera ACS Infect. Dis. 2022, 8, 574-583 DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00585 *Part of a Special Issue “Glycoscience in Infectious Disease” **This work has been highlighted by multiple news websites: ChemistryViews GEN Science Daily ScienMag UK Today News Newswise EurekAlert!  Mirage News MedicalXpress The Medical News Technology Networks Scitech Daily
  7. McFall-Boegeman, H., Huang, X. Mechanisms of Cellular and Humoral Immunity Through the Lens of VLP-Based Vaccines. Expert Rev. Vaccines 2022, 21, 453-469 DOI: 10.1080/14760584.2022.2029415
  8. Wu, X., McFall-Boegeman, H., Rashidijahanabad, Z., Liu, K., Pett, C., Yu, J., Schorlemer, M., Ramadan, S., Behren, S., Westerlind, U., Huang, X. Synthesis and Immunological Evaluation of the Unnatural β-linked Mucin-1 Thomsen-Friedenreich Conjugate Org. Biomol. Chem. 2021, 19, 2448-2455. DOI: 10.1039/D1OB00007A *Part of the themed collection “Glycosylation: New Methodologies and Applications”

Presentations

Oral Presentations
  1. McFall-Boegeman, H., Conjugate Vaccine Design Against Non-Infectious Diseases, University of Minnesota-Morris Chemistry Seminar Series, Morris, MN 2023 (Invited)
  2. McFall-Boegeman, H., Introduction to the Sweeter Side of Life (a.k.a. Carbohydrates), Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO 2022 (Invited)
  3. McFall-Boegeman, H., Day, E. L., Zhang, M., Petritis, S., Cooper, M. M. Incorporating Green and Sustainable Chemistry Case Studies into an Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Course, Future Academic Scholars in Teaching Fellowship Program, 16th Annual Symposium, East Lansing, MI 2022
  4. McFall-Boegeman, H., Day, E. L., Cooper, M. M. Case-Studies as a Method of Incorporating Green and Sustainable Chemistry into Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Courses, 262nd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, San Diego, CA, 2022
  5. McFall-Boegeman, H., Day, E. L., Cooper, M. M., Employing Case-Studies to Incorporate Green Chemistry Principles in Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Courses, 25th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, Virtual, 2021
  6. McFall-Boegeman, H., Rashidijahanabad, Z., Wu, X., Liu, K, Pett, C., Yu, J., Schorlemer, M., Ramadan S., Behren, S., Westerlind, U., Huang, X., An Unnatural β-Linked Mucin-1 Glycopeptide Vaccine Can Elicit Protective Antibodies Towards the Native Antigen, 16th Midwest Carbohydrate and Glycobiology Symposium, Ann Arbor, MI, Virtual, 2020
  7. McFall-Boegeman, H., Huang, X. Fun in Candyland, Department of Chemistry Graduate Recruitment Seminar, East Lansing, MI 2019
  8. McFall-Boegeman, H., Engineering of Bacteriophage Qβ to Elicit Anti-Tumor Cytotoxic T Cells, Cancer Biology Symposium, East Lansing, MI, 2018 (Invited)
Poster Presentations
  1. McFall-Boegeman, H.  Kayed, R. Huang, X. Virus-Like Particle Based Conjugate Vaccine Targeting Tau Aggregation 262nd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, San Diego, CA, 2022
  2. McFall-Boegeman, H., Rashidijahanabad, Z., Wu, Xuanjun, Liu, K., Pett, C., Yu, J., Schorlemer, M., Ramadan, S., Behren, S., Westerlind, U., Huang, X. Synthesis and Immunological evaluation of βTf-MUC1 conjugate vaccines 262nd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, San Diego, CA, 2022 (Abstract selected for Sci-Mix from CARB Division)
  3. McFall-Boegeman, H., Tan, Z., Huang, X. Engineering of Bacteriophage Qβ for Use as a Conjugate Vaccine Platform 15th Midwest Carbohydrate and Glycobiology Symposium, Notre Dame, IN, 2019
  4. McFall-Boegeman, H., Tan, Z. Huang, X. Chemically and Genetically Engineered Bacteriophage Qβ as Carbohydrate-Based Anti-Tumor Vaccine Carriers, 14th Midwest Carbohydrate and Glycobiology Symposium, East Lansing, MI, 2018
  5. Wu, X., McFall-Boegeman, H., Yin, Z., McKay, C., Finn, M. G., Huang, X. Bioconjugation of Bacteriophage Qβ with Tumor Associated MUC1 Antigen or Cytotoxic T Cell Epitopes for Anti-Cancer Vaccine Development, 13th Midwest Carbohydrate and Glycobiology Symposium, Madison, WI, 2017
  6. McFall-Boegeman, H., Zhu, M., Lybbert, B. N. Using Essential Oils to Teach Chromatography and Separation Techniques in Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Labs (Abstract Selected for Recognition by ACS Committee on Education), 251st American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, San Diego, CA, 2016
  7. McFall-Boegeman, H., Strenge, S., Pappenfus, T. Synthesis of Organic Materials for Use in Printable Organic Photovoltaics, Undergraduate Research Symposium, Morris, MN, 2015
Contributed Presentations

*Denotes Undergraduate Mentee

  1. Petritis, S. J.; Day, E. L.; Cooper, M. M.; Zhang, M.; McFall-Boegeman, H. Investigating Student Reasoning in Green and Sustainable Chemistry through the Design-Based Research of Decision Memos. 2022 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, West Lafayette, IN, 2022 (Oral Presentation)
  2. Zhang, M.; Day, E. L.; McFall-Boegeman, H.; Cooper. M. M. Integrating Green Chemistry into the Organic Laboratory using Project-based Experiments and Case Studies. 2022 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, West Lafayette, IN, 2022 (Oral Presentation)
  3. Petritis, S. J.; Day, E. L.; Cooper, M. M.; Zhang, M.; McFall-Boegeman, H. “Exploring Students’ Green Decision-Making through a Design-Based Research Cycle.” 26th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, Reston, VA, 2022. (Oral Presentation)
  4. Zhang, M.; Day, E. L.; McFall-Boegeman, H.; Cooper, M. M.; Maleczka, R. E. “Transformation of MSU’s Large Enrollment Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory Course: Beta-testing of New Green Chemistry Project-based Labs”. 26th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, Reston, VA, 2022. (Oral Presentation)
  5. Zhang, M.; Day, E. L.; Alay, H.; Nakisa, A.; McFall-Boegeman, H.; Cooper, M. M.; Maleczka, R. E. Project-Based Undergraduate Instructional Laboratory Highlighting Green Chemistry, The Chemistry Laboratory: Evaluation, Assessment, & Research Symposium, Australia, 2022 (Online Poster)
  6. Zhang, M.; Day, E. L.; Cooper, M. M.; McFall-Boegeman, H. Assessment of Catalyst Efficiency and Evaluation of Different Synthetic Routes from Green Chemistry Perspectives; A Project-Based Undergraduate Experiment, 262nd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, San Diego, CA, 2022 (Poster)
  7. Day, E. L., McFall-Boegeman, H., Cooper, M. M. Engaging Students’ Chemistry Knowledge to Explain and Evaluate Sustainability Issues, AAAS Annual Meeting, Virtual, 2021 (Poster)
  8. Day, E. L., McFall-Boegeman, H., Cooper, M. M. Evidence-Centered Design of Green Organic Chemistry Case Studies: Elucidating Scientific and Engineering Practices for Green Chemistry Phenomena, X-DBER, Lincoln, NE, Virtual, 2021 (Poster)
  9. Ward, D.*, McFall-Boegeman, H., Huang, X. Stereoselective Synthesis of MUC1-βTf Glycopeptides for use in Anti-Cancer Vaccines, Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences, East Lansing, MI, 2019 (Poster)