Allison Wong
Biography
Originally from Concord, MA, Allison graduated from Williams College in 2018 with a B.A. in Chemistry and conducted honors thesis research with Prof. Anthony Carrasquillo in atmospheric chemistry. She also conducted summer research through REU programs with Dr. Cynthia Gilmour in environmental chemistry (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, 2016) and Prof. Brett Fors in polymer chemistry (Cornell University, NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers, 2017). After graduating from Williams, she worked for two years at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the nuclear magnetic resonance user facility before joining the Lamb group in the Fall of 2020. Her graduate research focuses on characterizing structure-property relationships of non-isocyanate polyoxazolidinones and developing new synthetic strategies to facilitate these studies. Allison has also been involved in Queer Science (a STEM outreach group serving local LGBTQIA+ high school students) as president and treasurer and is a member of the Analysis and Compliance Committee of the Joint Safety Team. Outside of science, she enjoys rock climbing, hiking, crocheting, and playing with her cat.
Awards/Fellowships
Council of Graduate Students Travel Award (2024)
Future Leader, Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division of ACS (2024)
Wayland E. Noland Excellence Fellowship in Organic Chemistry (2023)
Richard Amelar & Arthur Lodge Fellowship for Outstanding Collaborative Research in Materials (2023)
Department of Chemistry Graduate Student Travel Award (2023)
Outstanding TA Award – Honorable Mention (2022)
Publications in the Lamb Group
Chemically Recyclable, High Molar Mass Polyoxazolidinones via Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization
Pal, A.; Wong, A. R.; Lamb, J. R.* ACS Macro Lett. 2024, 13, 5, 502–507
Improved Characterization of Polyoxazolidinones by Incorporating Solubilizing Side Chains
Wong, A. R.; Barrera, M.; Pal, A.; Lamb, J. R.* Macromolecules 2022, 55, 11006–11012.
Publications Outside the Group
8. Borton, M. A.; Shaffer, M.; Hoyt, D. W.; Jiang, R.; Ellenbogen, J. B.; Purvine, S.; Nicora, C. D.; Eder, E. K.; Wong, A. R.; Smulian, A. G.; Lipton, M. S.; Krzycki, J. A.; Wrighton, K. C. Targeted curation of the gut microbial gene content modulating human cardiovascular disease. mBio 2023, 14, e01511-23. DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01511-23
7. Amundson, K. K.; Borton, M. A.; Daly, R. A.; Hoyt, D. W.; Wong, A. R.; Eder, E.; Moore, J.; Wunch, K.; Wrighton, K. C.; Wilkins, M. J. Microbial colonization and persistence in deep fractured shales is guided by metabolic exchanges and viral predation. Microbiome 2022, 10, 5. DOI: 10.1186/s40168-021-01194-8
6. Bazak, J. D.; Wong, A. R.; Duanmu, K.; Han, K. S.; Reed, D.; Murugesan, V. Concentration-Dependent Solvation Structure and Dynamics of Aqueous Sulfuric Acid Using Multinuclear NMR and DFT. J. Phys. Chem. B 2021, 125, 5089–5099. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c01177
5. McGivern, B. B.; Tfaily, M. M.; Borton, M. A.; Kosina, S. M.; Daly, R. A.; Nicora, C. D.; Purvine, S. O.; Wong, A. R.; Lipton, M. S.; Hoyt, D. W.; Northen, T. R.; Hagerman, A. E.; Wrighton, K. C. Decrypting Bacterial Polyphenol Metabolism in an Anoxic Wetland Soil. Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 2466. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22765-1
4. del Cerro, C.; Erickson, E.; Dong, T.; Wong, A. R.; Eder, E. K.; Purvine, S. O.; Mitchell, H. D.; Weitz, K. K.; Markillie, L. M.; Burnet, M. C.; Hoyt, D. W.; Chu, R. K.; Cheng, J.; Ramirez, K. J.; Katahira, R.; Xiong, W.; Himmel, M. E.; Subramanian, V.; Linger, J. G.; Salvachúa, D. Intracellular Pathways for Lignin Catabolism in White-Rot Fungi. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2021, 118, e2017381118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2017381118
3. Khare, S.; DeLoid, G. M.; Molina, R. M.; Gokulan, K.; Couvillion, S. P.; Bloodsworth, K. J.; Eder, E. K.; Wong, A. R.; Hoyt, D. W.; Bramer, L. M.; Metz, T. O.; Thrall, B. D.; Brain, J. D.; Demokritou, P. Effects of Ingested Nanocellulose on Intestinal Microbiota and Homeostasis in Wistar Han Rats. NanoImpact 2020, 18, 100216. DOI: 10.1016/j.impact.2020.100216
2. Narrowe, A. B.; Borton, M. A.; Hoyt, D. W.; Smith, G. J.; Daly, R. A.; Angle, J. C.; Eder, E. K.; Wong, A. R.; Wolfe, R. A.; Pappas, A.; Bohrer, G.; Miller, C. S.; Wrighton, K. C. Uncovering the Diversity and Activity of Methylotrophic Methanogens in Freshwater Wetland Soils. mSystems 2019, 4, e00320-19. DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00320-19
1. Trotta, J. T.ǂ; Watts, A.ǂ; Wong, A. R.; LaPointe, A. M.; Hillmyer, M. A.; Fors, B. P. Renewable Thermosets and Thermoplastics from Itaconic Acid. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2019, 7, 2691–2701. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05766