1. Ellis Benjamin*, and Dr. Yousef Hijji. Eco-Friendly Synthesis Of Cyclic Imides And Related
Biologically Active Molecules Using Microwave Technology. 13th Annual Morgan State University
Undergraduate / Graduate Symposium. Baltimore, Maryland. (April 2006)
2. Earl Benjamin III*, Ellis Benjamin, Arthur Williams. A Novel Method For The Deactivation Of
Enterococcus Faecalis, Staphylococcus Aureus, And Escherichia Coli. 13th Annual Morgan State
University Undergraduate / Graduate Symposium. Baltimore, Maryland. (April 2006)
3. Earl Benjamin III *, Ellis Benjamin, and Arthur Williams , “A Novel Method For The
Deactivation of Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli” Presented
at the New England Science Symposium at Harvard Medical School (March 2006)
4. Ellis Benjamin*, Yousef Hijji. A Novel One-Pot Synthesis of Thalidomide and its Derivatives
Under Microwave Irradiation. Selected Poster Presented at the 230th ACS National Meeting.
Washington DC (Sci-Mix), (Aug-Sept 2005)
5. Ellis Benjamin*, Yousef Hijji. A Novel One-Pot Synthesis of Thalidomide and its Derivatives
Under Microwave Irradiation. Poster Presented at the 230th ACS National Meeting. Washington
DC (Medicinal Chemistry), (Aug-Sept 2005)
6. Yousef Hijji*, Ellis Benjamin, Melvin Bolden. “Efficient Synthesis of Enaminones and Cyclic
Imides Using Ammonium Acetate Under Microwave Conditions” Poster Presented at the 39th
Annual International Microwave Power Institute Microwave Symposium. Seattle, Washington.
(July 2005)
7. Ellis Benjamin*, Yousef Hijji. “The Microwave Synthesis of Thalidomide and its Derivatives”
Poster Presented at the 12th Annual Morgan State University Undergraduate / Graduate
Symposium. Baltimore, Maryland. (April 2005)
8. Tarrah N. Ezell*, Ellis Benjamin, Yousef Hijji, LaVentrice D. Taylor. “Do Cells Treated with
Thalidomide Analog H1 and H2 Exhibit Decreased Cytotoxicity as Compared to Cells Treated
with Thalidomide?” Poster Presented at the 12th Annual Morgan State University Undergraduate
/ Graduate Symposium. Baltimore, Maryland. (April 2005)
9. Ellis Benjamin*, Yousef Hijji. “A One-Pot Microwave Synthesis of Thalidomide and its
Derivatives” Poster Presented at the Annual RCMI Spring Symposium 20th Anniversary
Commemorative Symposium. Houston, Texas. (April 2005)
10. Ellis Benjamin*, Yousef Hijji. “Improved Synthesis of Imide Dervived Compounds by
Microwave Irradiation” Poster Presented at the 9th RCMI International Symposium on Health
Disparities. Baltimore, Maryland. (December 2004)
11. Ruel Michelin*, Lafayette Fredrick, Temilade Adelore, Laura Uradu, Ellis Benjamin, Fredrick
Oladeinde. “Comparative Antimicrobial Activity of Bacterial Derivied Extract and Amphotericin B
During Disk Diffusion and Agar Dilution Assays.” Presented at the 9th RCMI International
Symposium on Health Disparities. Baltimore, Maryland. (December 2004)
12. R. Michelin*, L. Fredrick, F. Weichold, E. Benjamin, E. Batta, W. W. Leitner, M. Jenkins, E.
Bergmann-Leitner, J. Howard, A. Williams. “In Vitro Cytotoxic and Anti-Poliferative Activity of
Microbial Derived Extract on Human and Mouse Cancer Cell Lines.”Poster Presented at the 9th
RCMI International Symposium on Health Disparities. Baltimore, Maryland. (December 2004)
13. Tarrah N. Ezell*, Ellis Benjamin, Gregory Shield, Yousef Hijji, LaVentrice D. Taylor. “Do
Cells Treated with Thalidomide Analog H1 and H2 Exhibit Decreased Cytotoxicity as Compared
to Cells Treated with Thalidomide?” Speech at the 9th RCMI International Symposium on Health
Disparities. Baltimore, Maryland. (December 2004)
14. Ellis Benjamin*, Yousef Hijji. “A Novel Microwave Assisted Synthesis of N-Hydroxy and NMethoxy Imides as Potential Anticancer and Antidepressant Agents.” Poster presentation at the
228th ACS National Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (August 2004)
15. Ellis Benjamin*, Yousef Hijji “A Novel Microwave Synthesis of Unsubstituted, Hydroxy, and
Methoxy Imides towards the Creation of Antidepressant Functionalities” Poster presentation at
the Morgan State University Undergraduate / Graduate Symposium. Baltimore, Maryland. (April
2004)
16. Yousef Hijji*, Ellis Benjamin. “Microwave Assisted Synthesis Of Cyclic Imides, NMethoxyimides and Thalidomide Analogues” 2nd International Microwaves in Chemistry
Conference. Orlando, Florida (March 4-7, 2003)
17. Ruel Michelin*, Ellis Benjamin .“Partial Characterization of an Antifungal Metabolite from an
Unidentified Bacillus Species” Poster Presented at International Conference on Emerging
Infectious Diseases. Atlanta, Georgia (March 2004)
18. Ruel Michelin*, Ellis Benjamin. “Isolation and Partial Characterization of an Antifungal
Metabolite from an Unidentified Bacillus Species” Poster Presented at 52nd Annual Meeting of
the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (December
2003)
19. Ellis Benjamin *, Yousef Hijji. “A Microwave Assisted Efficient Conversion of Anhydrides to
Cyclic Imides and N- Methoxy Imides” The Seventh International Electronic Conference on
Synthetic Organic Chemistry (ECSOC-7), http://www.mdpi.org/ecsoc-7.htm (November 1-30,
2003)
20. Ellis Benjamin *, Yousef Hijji. “A Simple One-Pot Synthesis of Thalidomide.” Poster
presented at Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting (MARM) –American Chemical Society. Princeton,
New Jersey (June 2003)
21. Ellis Benjamin*, Yousef Hijji “Novel Pathways to Thalidomide Synthesis” Poster
presentation at the Morgan State University Undergraduate / Graduate Symposium. Baltimore,
Maryland. (April 2003)
22. Yousef Hijji*, Ellis Benjamin, Joseph Wanene, Soe Mon. “Microwave Assisted Diels-Alder
Reactions and the Synthesis of Cyclic Imides. Poster presented at the Advanced Library Design
and Organic Synthesis. La Jolla, California (April 2003)
23. Yousef Hijji*, Ellis Benjamin, Joseph Wanene, Soe Mon. “Microwave Assisted Diels-Alder
Reactions and the Synthesis of Cyclic Imides. Poster presented at the Microwave-Assisted
Organic Synthesis. La Jolla, California (April 2003)
24. Yousef Hijji*, Ellis Benjamin. “Microwave Assisted-Synthesis of Cyclic Imides and
Thalidomide Analogues”” Poster presentation at RCMI International Symposium on Health
Disparities 2002. Hawaii. (December 2002)
25. Ellis Benjamin*, Yousef Hijji. “Microwave Assisted Cyclic Imide Synthesis” Poster
presentation at the Morgan State University Undergraduate / Graduate Symposium. Baltimore,
Maryland. (April 2002)
26. Yousef Hijji*, Ellis Menjamin (Misspelled). Synthesis of Unsubstituted Cyclic Imides Assisted
by Microwave Heating. Abstracts of Papers, 223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, (April
2002)
27. Ellis Benjamin*, Kraig Wheeler. “The Creation of Novel Non-linear Optical Materials.” Oral
presentation at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Pomona, New Jersey (April 1999)
28. Ellis Benjamin*, Mukta Hendi, Kraig Wheeler. “Crystal Engineering: An Approximate
Centrosymmetric Approach.” Oral Presentation at Midwest Solid State Chemistry Symposium X.”
Indianapolis, Indiana (July 1999)
29. Mukta Hendi*, Shella Fomulu, Ellis Benjamin, Kraig Wheeler, Raymond E. Davis.
“Approximate Centrosymmetry as a Tool for Crystal Engineering.” Poster Presented at the
Northeast Solid State Symposium. Buffalo, New York (August 1998)
30. Peter Straub*, Ellis Benjamin, Paul Kaplan, Georgia Shearer and Daniel Kohl. “Isolation of a
Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PDH) gene probe from Soybean (Glycine max) by a
Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction.” Poster Presented at the 47th Annual
Meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Seattle, Washington. (July 1995)
31. Peter Straub*, Ellis Benjamin, Paul Kaplan, Georgia Shearer and Daniel Kohl. “Isolation of a
Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PDH) gene probe from Soybean (Glycine max) by a
Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction.” Presented Published Abstract: American
Journal of the Botany (1995)