Graduate programs in Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminars 2005-2006
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 2005 | |||
| Sep 8 | Kenton Rodgers North Dakota State University |
Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry | |
| Sep 23 | Richard D. McCullough Carnegie Mellon University |
Nanostructured Conductive Polymers: From Sensors to FETs | |
| Oct 6 | Carmen Giiunta Le Moyne College, Syracuse |
TBA | |
| Oct 24 | Michael Roper University of Virginia |
Microfluidic Chips as Integrated Platforms for Biological Measurements | |
| Nov 1 | Jeffrey Johnston Indiana University |
Mukund Sibi | The Development of New Reactions and Reagents for Chemical Synthesis: The Advent of Chiral Proton Catalysis |
| Nov 14 | Janis Louie |
Mukund Sibi | The Versatility of Nickel Cycloaddition Catalysts |
| Nov 15 | Eric Brown University of Minnesota - Twin Cities |
The Development of Copper-Sulfur Chemistry Relevant to Modeling the Active Site of Nitrous Oxide Reductase | |
| Nov 17 | Eric Hegg University of Utah |
Unraveling the Mystery of Heme A Biosynthesis and Transport | |
| Nov 21 | Gregory Kalyuzhny University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Ligand Effects on Optical Properties of CdSe and Gold Nanocrystals | |
| Dec 1 | Kara E. Huff Hartz Carnegie Mellon University |
Atmospheric Particulate Matter Formation from the Reactions of Ozone with Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds | |
| Dec 8 | James McEvoy Yale University |
Coupled Electron Transfer in Metalloproteins | |
| Spring 2006 | |||
| Jan 5 | Xial Li University of Texas |
Electrochemical Reduction of Dioxygen on Modified Electrode Surfaces | |
| Jan 9 | Wes Steiner Geo-Centers, Inc |
A Novel Analytical Technology: Atmospheric Pressure Ion Mobility Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (IM (tof) MS | |
| Jan 12 | Hamish Christie University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Total Synthesis of Halichlorine, Pinnaic Acid, and Apoptolidin | |
| Jan 17 | Kenichi Kuroda University of Pennsylvania Medical Center |
Design and Synthesis of Amphiphilic Polymers as Antimicrobials | |
| Jan 19 | Jayaraman Sivaguru Columbia University |
Controlling Chirality Through Nano-confinement and Non-bonding Interactions In Light Induced Asymmetric Transformations | |
| Jan 26 | Brad Nilsson University of California, Irvine |
Organic Synthesis Applied to Problems in Chemical Biology | |
| Feb 16 | Philip G. Hultin University of Manitoba |
Fluorous Chiral Supports for Synthesis — Preparation and Applications of Fluorous Oxazolidinines | |
| Mar 10 | William Mattson Randolph-Macon Woman's College |
Red River Valley ACS | Creative Problem Solving for Chemists, Other Scientists and Everyone |
| Mar 13 | Ken Sakai | TBA | |
| Mar 30 | Doug Stickle University of Nebraska Medical Center |
An Overview of Clinical Chemistry | |
| Mar 31 | Greg Reinhart Texas A&M |
Disentangling the Web of Allosteric Interactions in a Tetrameric Enzyme | |
| Apr 20 | Weihong Tan University of Florida |
Evolving Molecular Probes from Diseased Cells for Molecular Imaging of Cancer | |
| Apr 20 | William F. Carroll, Jr. OxyChem and past ACS President |
Red River Valley ACS | From Garbage to Stuff: How We Recycle Plastics |
| Apr 27 | Jeffry D. Madura Duquesne University |
Emilio Esposito | Interfacial Simulations |
| May 4 | J. Alexander Liddle Moleculare Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Nanofabrication and Directed Self-Assembly | |
| Mar 16 | Graeme R. A. Wyllie North Dakota State University |
Kenton Rodgers | Transient Absorbance Spectroscopy Studies of XO Ligand Rebinding for the Heme Based Oxygen Sensor SmFixL |