Chemistry Seminar Program
Fall 2012 | Spring 2013
August | September | October | November | December
All seminars begin at 3:40 pm in Dabney 124 unless otherwise noted.
Refreshments will be served outside Dabney 124 at 3:30 pm.
August
Friday, August 17
Host: Chris Gorman
Keith Watson, Global Director, Strategic Marketing, Dow Chemical
“The Changing Landscape of Careers in the Chemical Industry”
Friday, August 24
Host: Chris Gorman
Elon Ison, North Carolina State University
“Departmental Tenure Talk”
Friday, August 31
Host: Elena Jakubikova
Ping Yang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
“Computational modeling of actinide species in the natural environment”
September
Organic Seminar, Tuesday, September 4
Host: Alex Deiters
Qisheng Zhang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Chemical Tools to Monitor and Regulate the Phosphatidylinositide Signaling Network”
Friday, September 7
Host: Chris Gorman
Reza Ghiladi, North Carolina State University
“The Role of Porphyrins in Biology: From Protein Biochemistry to Antimicrobial Therapies”
Special interest seminar
Thursday, September 13
Host: Chris Gorman
Lorraine Santy, Pennsylvania State University
“Scaffold proteins coordinate small GTPase activation during epithelial motility”
Friday, September 14
Host: Walter Weare
Jake D. Soper, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Almost Alchemy: Radical Ligands Facilitate Palladium-Like C–C Coupling Catalysis at Iron, Manganese and Cobalt”
Friday, September 21
Host: Chris Gorman
Alex Nevzorov, North Carolina State University
“Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins in their Native Lipid Environment by Solid-State NMR”
Friday, September 28
Host: Elena Jakubikova
Yosuke Kanai, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Materials Challenges in Energy Conversion: Insights and Predictions from First Principles Dynamics Simulations”
October
Friday, October 5
No Seminar
Fall Break
Friday, October 12
Host: Gufeng Wang
Daniel Higgins, Kansas State University
“A Random Walk in the Dark: Following Single Molecules to a Better Understanding of Nanostructured Materials”
Friday, October 19
Host: Reza Ghiladi
Mi Hee Lim, University of Michigan
“Chemical Tools and Tactics to Study the Role of Metal-Associated Misfolded Proteins in Human Neurodegenerative Diseases”
Friday, October 26
Host: Lin He
Yinan Wei, University of Kentucky at Lexington
“Assembly of protein oligomers in the cell membrane”
November
Friday, November 2
Host: Alex Deiters
James Chen, Stanford University
“Chemical probes of embryonic signaling and patterning”
Thursday, November 8
Special Interest Seminar (Dabney 220)
Codrina Popescu, Ursinus College
“Mössbauer Spectroscopy and the Exploration of Novel Iron-Containing Catalytic Systems”
Friday, November 9
Host: David Muddiman
Jenny Brodbelt, University of Texas, Austin
“Development and Applications of Photodissociation for Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry”
Friday, November 16
Host: Lin He
Gangli Wang, Georgia State University
“Metal Nanoclusters Tailored by Interfacial Bond Structures and Their Bioimaging and Energy Applications”
Friday, November 23
No Seminar
Friday, November 30
Joshua Pierce
Corey Stephenson, Boston University
“Photoredox catalysis: Enabling chemical synthesis with visible light”
December
Monday, December 10
Host: Christopher Gorman
Kateri H. DuBay, Columbia University
“The Twists and Turns of Conjugated Polymer Morphology”
August | September | October | November | December