NDSU Chemistry and Molecular Biology

Seminars 2000-2001

Department Seminars

Seminars are usually held on Thursday afternoons in 152 Dunbar Hall unless otherwise noted. Seminars begin promptly at 3:45 pm with refereshments served 15 minutes before the seminar time.

Sept. 12 Tues.	Dr. Jin Cha Dept. of Chem., University of Alabama	"Small Ring-Mediated Organic Synthesis"
Sept. 14	Ioannis Houpis Boehringer Ingelheim	"Diastereoselective Michael Reaction, Gem-difluorination and Cu-Catalyzed Amination in the Synthesis of Important Pharmaceuticals"
Sept. 21	Dr. Sohrab Zarabian OCLI	"A Novel-Design for Micro-Spectrometers (Enabling Mass Application of Spectroscopy.)"
Sept. 26 Tues.	Dr. George Sheppard Abbott Laboratories	"Traditional and Non-traditional Approaches to MMP Inhibitors."
Sept. 28	Dr. Darryl Sasaki Sandia National Laboratory	"Fictionalized Lipid Membranes: Self Assembled Systems and Optical Sensing."
Oct 2	Dr. Mario J. Molina Institute Professor Massachusetts Institute of Tech. 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry	Borberg Lecture
Oct 3 Tues.	Dr. James Jackson Michigan State University	"Hydrogen-Hydrogen Hydrogen Bonding: Structures, Reactivity, and Implications"
Oct 5	Dr. Richard Lyons General Electric Energy & Environmental Research Co.	"Unmixed Combustion: An Alternative to Fire"
Oct 9 Monday 7:30 pm	Dr. Gordon Gribble Dartmouth College	"Chemistry of Wine Making" Seminar will be held at the Alumni Center
Oct 10 Tues.	Dr. Gordon Gribble Dartmouth College	"Novel Indole Chemistry in the Synthesis of Natural Products"
Oct 12	Mary Ann Tucker, Esq*. VP & Assoc. General Counsil B.F. Goodrich	"Technology, Patents and Prozac: The Thrill of Victory, the Depression of Defeat" *2000 NDSU Alumni Achievment Awardee
Oct. 17	Dr. Robert Tucker The Tucker Group, LLC Brownsburg, Indiana	"An Overview of Metallic and Ceramic Coatings"
Oct 19	Dr. George O'Doherty University of Minnesota	"TBA"
Nov 2	Yuan-Ping Pang Mayo Clinic Cancer Center Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics	"Structure-Based Approach to Farnesyltransferase Inhibitors"
Nov 9	Dr. Lisa Rosenberg University of Manitoba	" What can you and your transition metal catalyst do for each other? Synthetic targets in organophosphorus and organosilicon chemistry"
Nov 14	Dr. Alok Singh Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC	"Supramolecular Assemblies: Formation, Stabilization, and Applications."
Dec 5 Tues.	Dr. Robert Hausinger Dept. of Biochemistry Michigan State University	"Metallocenter Biosynthesis in Urease: More than a Nickel's Worth"
Dec 7	Dr. Peter Beale University of Utah	"The Chemistry of Enzymes That Bind Double Helical RNA"
Dec 12 Tues.	Jon Rainier Dept. of Chem, University of Arizona	"Efficient Approaches to Bioactive Heterocycles"
Dec 14	Prof. Philip Garner Dept. of Chemistry Case Western Reserve University	"Alpha-Helical Peptide Nucleic Acids. A New Paradigm for Nucleic Acid Binding Molecules"

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