Chemistry Seminar Program
Spring 2013 | Fall 2013
January | February | March | April | May | June
All seminars begin at 3:40 pm in Dabney 124 unless otherwise noted.
Refreshments will be served outside Dabney 124 at 3:30 pm.
January
Tuesday, January 8
Special Interest Seminar, Host: Christian Melander
Dr. Herman Sintim, University of Maryland
“Nucleotide signaling in bacteria—important second messengers in bacteria, which biologists ignored for almost three decades.”
Please Note: Seminar will be held in Dabney 220 at 3:40 pm
Friday, January 11
Host: Alex Deiters
Stephen C. Miller, University of Massachusetts Medical School
“Building better luciferins and fluorophores for live cell imaging” [ View Abstract (PDF) ]
Wednesday, January 16
Host: Alex Deiters
Wenshe Liu, Texas A&M University, Department of Chemistry
“Pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase: a mediocre enzyme could be a gift from nature”
Please Note: Seminar will be held in Dabney 220 at 3:40 pm
Friday, January 18
Host: David Shultz
Vince Rotello, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Gold Nanoparticles in Biomedicine: Delivery and Sensing” [ View Abstract (PDF) ]
Wednesday, January 23
Special Interest Seminar: Inorganic Series, Host: Elon Ison
Timothy Clark, University of San Diego
“Substrate-Directed ortho C-H Borylation Reactions of Arenes”
Please Note: Seminar will be held in Dabney 220 at 3:40 pm
Friday, January 25
Host: Elena Jakubikova
Mu-Hyun Baik, Indiana University
“Searching for Mechanistic Keys to Unlock Small Molecule Activation Catalysis: The Two Faces of Redox Non-Innocence in Water Oxidation and C-H Activation” [ View Abstract (PDF) ]
February
Friday, February 1
Host: Elon Ison
Liviu M. Mirica, Washington University St. Louis
“Oxidation Reactivity of Pd(III) and Pd(IV) Complexes Supported by Flexible Multidentate Ligands” [ View Abstract (PDF) ]
Friday, February 8
Host: Leslie Sombers
Robert Kennedy, University of Michigan
“The Nanoliter Lab: Using Droplets for Screening and In Vivo Neurochemical Sensing” [ View Abstract (PDF) ]
Friday, February 15
Host: Walter Weare
Patrick Holland, University of Rochester
“Understanding the Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation using Low-Coordinate Iron Complexes” [ View Abstract (PDF) ]
Friday, February 22
Host: Mike Whangbo
Don Seo, Arizona State University
“Synthetic Design of Nanoporous Materials for Sustainability Applications” [ View Abstract (PDF) ]
March
Friday, March 1
Host: Christian Melander
Joseph Fox, University of Delaware
“Strained molecules for synthesis and bioconjugation” [ View Abstract (PDF) ]
Friday, March 8
Spring Break
Friday, March 15
Host: Stefan Franzen
Syun-Ru Yeh, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Tryptophan Dioxygenation by Heme-containing Dioxygenases: From Structure to Function” [ View Abstract (PDF) ]
Wednesday, March 20
Special Seminar, Host: Stefan Franzen
Dr. Matthew Thompson, Postdoctoral Associate at Vanderbilt University
“Structure and Chemical Biology of Fosfomycin Resistance Enzymes from Bacillus cereus & Staph. aureus”
Please Note: Seminar will be held in Dabney 220 at 4:00 pm
Friday, March 22
Host: Elena Jakubikova
Luis G. C. Rego, Santa Catarina University, Brasil
“Quantum dynamics simulations of electron-hole pair separation in molecular heterostructures” [ View Abstract (PDF) ]
Please Note: Seminar will be held in Dabney 124 at 3:00 pm
Thursday, March 28
Organic Seminar, Host: Dan Comins
Dr. Atul Kotnis, Consultant and former chemist at Bristol Myers Squibb
“Practical Process Solutions for Highly Telescoped Asymmetric Reactions”
Please Note: Seminar will be held in Dabney 220 at 3:30 pm
Friday, March 29
No Seminar: Spring break
April
Friday, April 5
Host: David Shultz
Daniel R. Gamelin, University of Washington
“Dopants and Charge Carriers in Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals” [ View Abstract (PDF) ]
Friday, April 12
Host: Christian Melander
Hubert Yin, University of Colorado at Boulder
“Drugging the Undruggable” [ View Abstract (PDF) ]
Tuesday, April 16
Organic Seminar, Host: Christian Melander
Dr. Nathaniel Finney, Department of Chemistry at NCSU
“Sulfur functional groups as reporting elements for the development of fluorescent probes (and electronic materials)”
Please Note: Seminar will be held in Dabney 220 at 3:30 pm
Friday, April 19
Host: Reza Ghiladi
Ekaterina Pletneva, Dartmouth College
“Interplay Between Redox Chemistry and Protein Conformational Dynamics: Stories of Heme Proteins” [ View Abstract (PDF) ]
Wednesday, April 24
Special Interest Seminar, Host: Joshua Pierce
Seth Herzon, Yale University
“Target Driven Total Synthesis” [ View Abstract (PDF) ]
Please Note: Seminar will be held in Dabney 220 at 3:40 pm
Tuesday, April 30
Special Seminar, Host: Alex Deiters
Dr. Cheemeng Tan, Carnegie Mellon University
“Creating synthetic biological systems with coupled genetic and non-genetic control elements”
Please Note: Seminar will be held in Dabney 124 at 3:45 pm
June
Wednesday, June 12
Host: Elon Ison
Thomas Puckette, Eastman Chemical
“Hydroformylation Catalysis at Eastman Chemical: Generations of Catalysts”
Please Note: Seminar will be held in Dabney 220 at 2:00 pm
January | February | March | April | May | June