Graduate programs in Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminars 2004-2005
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.
Date |
Speaker |
Host |
Title |
| Fall 2004 | |||
| Aug 19 | Seth Rasmussen North Dakota State University |
Nitrogen-Functionalized Polythiophenes: The Rasmussen Group Corner of the Conjugated Polymer Universe | |
| Sep 9 | T. Keith Hollis University of California, Riverside |
Novel Ligand Architectures for Catalysis: Phosphametallocenes & More | |
| Sep 16 | Andrei Kutateladze University of Denver |
Molecular Assembly and Disassemble: Dithiane, Trithiane and Dithiazane Based Photolabile Scaffolds for Molecular Recognition | |
| Sep 21 | Jeff Seeman Saddlepoint Frontiers and Virginia Tech |
Seth Rasmussen and Greg Cook | The Human Side of Organic Chemistry: A Photographic and Video Portrait of Our Motivations, Our Aspirations and Our Heroes |
| Sep 30 | George S. Sheppard Abbott Pharmaceutical |
Mukund Sibi | 3-Amino-2-hydroxyamides and Related Compounds as Inhibitors of Methionine Aminopeptidase-2 |
| Oct 1 | Yunfeng Lu |
Building Nanostructured Devices and Intelligent Artificial Systems from Nanoscale Building Blocks | |
| Oct 7 | Vincent Rotello University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
Nanoparticles: Scaffolds and Building Blocks | |
| Oct 21 | Lushi Tan Merck & Company Pharmacuetical |
Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation Through SN2 Displacement | |
| Oct 28 | Charles B. Mullins The University of Texas, Austin |
Reactive Surface Scattering Studies of Supported Gold Nanoclusters | |
| Nov 4 | Carl Schiesser University of Melbourne, Australia |
The Wizard and the Chiral Tin Man -- Free Radical Adventures in Oz | |
| Nov 17 | Kazunori Koide University of Pittsburgh |
The Chemistry and Biology of Antitumor Agent FR901464 | |
| Dec 6 | Vinga Szabo Institute for Materials Research III |
Think Small – Fascinating World of Nanomaterials | |
| Dec 9 | Cathleen Crudden Queen's University |
Asymmetric Synthesis with Transition Metals and Mesoporous Materials | |
| Dec 15 | Frank Vogt Arizona State University |
Optical Measurement Techniques for Environmental Analytical Chemistry | |
| Spring 2005 | |||
| Jan 13 | Cynthia Zoski Georgia State University |
Probing Addressable Ultramicroelectrode Arrays with Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy | |
| Jan 20 | Michael Johnson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Unraveling Disease Mechanisms Using Electrochemical Methods: Application to Huntington’s Disease | |
| Jan 27 | Yves St. Pierre INRS Institute, Quebec |
New Strategies for the Development of Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Cancer and Arthritis | |
| Feb 17 | Daniel Cervantes Laurean South Dakota State University |
The 20S Proteasome Role in Coping with Oxidative Stress in Skin Cells | |
| Feb 24 | Theodore Goodson, III University of Michigan |
Investigations of Light Harvesting and Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Properties in Organic Dendrimers and Branched Macromolecules | |
| Mar 1 | Richard Holz Utah State University |
Co-Catalytic Metallopeptidases as Pharmaceutical Targets | |
| Mar 3 | Alvin L. Crumbliss Duke Universit |
Iron Transport in Man and Microbes: The BioInorganic Chemistry of Mammalian and Bacterial Transferrins | |
| Mar 7 | John Bagu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
Magnetic Resonance Studies of Proteins, Tissues, and Mice | |
| Mar 10 | Doina Ganea Rutgers University |
Immunosuppressive Neuropeptides: The Dendritic Cell → Treg Axis | |
| Mar 21 | Vitaliy Gorbatyuk University of Connecticut Health Center |
Enyne Metathesis: Scope, Selectivity and Application | |
| Mar 24 | Daesung Lee University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Mukund Sibi | Pairing Little Electrons in Big Molecules. Applications Transition Metal and Biological Chemistry |
| Mar 29 | Ekkehard Sinn University of Missouri-Rolla |
Pairing Little Electrons in Big Molecules. Applications Transition Metal and Biological Chemistry | |
| Mar 31 | Xini Zhang Johnson & Johnson |
Mukund Sibi | Process Research in Early Drug Development |
| Apr 7 | Georg Schreckenbach University of Manitob |
Theoretical Actinide Molecular Science | |
| Apr 18 | Royce W. Murray University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Broberg Lecture | Publishing Chemistry: Process, Ethics, Libraries, and the Web |
| Apr 19 | Royce W. Murray University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Broberg Lecture | Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Metal Quantum Dots |
| Apr 21 | Guille Bozzolo NASA Glenn Research Center |
Applied Computational Materials Modeling: Theory, Experiment, and Simulations | |
| Apr 25 | Helena Malinakova University of Kansas |
New Palladium-Mediated Reactions for Asymmetric Organic Synthesis | |
| Mar 3 | Michael Kerr University of Western Ontario |
The Development of a HOMO-3+2-dipolar Cycloaddition: Application to the Synthesis of nakadomarin A | |
| May 5 | Doug Linder North Dakota State University |
Fe-N-O Bonding in {FeNO}6 Heme-Thiolate Model Complexes: Implications Toward Reactivity of Coordinated NO | |
| May 12 | Troy Wymore Pittsburgh Supercomuting Center |
Simulations of Enzyme Reactions using Hybrid Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Potentials | |
| Summer 2005 | |||
| May 26 | Ted M. Pappenfus University of Minnesota, Morris |
Synthesis and Characterization of Organic Materials for Electronic Devices | |
| Jun 9 | Jonathan Geiger University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences |
Adenosine Receptor Activation Regulates Matrix Metalloproteinase Activity | |
| Jun 13 | Gaylen Bradley Penn State College of Medicine |
The Biologic Role(s) of the Metalloprotease Meprin b in Mice and Man | |
| July 11 | Sunggak Kim Korea Advanced Inst. of Science & Technology |
Radical Chemistry | |