Chemistry Seminar Program

Spring 2008

All seminars begin at 3:40pm in Dabney 124 unless otherwise noted.
Refreshments will be served outside Dabney 124 at 3:30

January

Friday, January 4

Friday, January 11

Friday, January 18

Tuesday, January 22

Host: Paul Maggard

Ric Kaner, UCLA

“Synthesis and Applications of Conducting Polymer Nanofibers”

Note: Seminar will be at 2 pm in Dabney 220.

Friday, January 25

Host: Reza Ghiladi

Richard Magliozzo, Brooklyn College of The City University of New York

“The catalase-peroxidase enzyme and antibiotic resistance in M. tuberculosis”

February

Friday, February 1

Friday, February 8

Monday, February 11

Host: Brent Gunnoe

Gregory S. Girolami, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“TBA”

Friday, February 15

Host: Brent Gunnoe

Alan Goldman, Rutgers University

“Transition-Metal-Catalyzed C-H Bond Activation, Alkane Dehydrogenation, and Formation of C-C Bonds”

Friday, February 22

Host: David Muddiman

Robert Murphy, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

“Analysis of Lipids by Mass Spectrometry: From Biochemical Studies to Imaging of Tissues”

Monday, February 25

Host: Reza Ghiladi

Julia Brumaghim, Clemson University

“Antioxidant Mechanisms: Preventing DNA Damage Through Metal Binding”

Note: Seminar will be in Dabney 220 at 3:40 pm.

Friday, February 29

Host: Alex Nevzorov

Tatyana Polenova, University of Delaware

“High and Low Resolution Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy for Studies of Structure and Metal Environments in Microtubule-Associated Proteins and Vanadium-Dependent Haloperoxidases”

March

Monday, March 10

Host: Alex Deiters

Ivan Dmochowski, University of Pennsylvania

“Xenon's Paradoxes, Xenoparticles, and Zebrafish Tales”

Friday, March 14

Host: Elon Ison

Dan Mindiola, Indiana University

“Breaking Tough Bonds with Transient Ti-C Multiply Bonded Linkages.  Implications to the Hydrodenitrogenation and Dehydrofluorination Processes”

Monday, March 17

Taufika Islam Williams, N.C. State University

“Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Detection by Glycan Profiling in Blood”

Note: Seminar will be in Dabney 220 at 4 pm

Friday, March 21

Friday, March 28

Host: Lin He

Weihong Tan, University of Florida

“TBA”

CANCELLED

Monday, March 31

Host: Alex Deiters

Simon Friedman, University of Missouri, Kansas City

“Shining a Light on RNA Interference: Photo-control of Gene Expression”

April

Wednesday, April 2

Host: Jerry L. Whitten

Amy Walker, Washington University, St. Louis

“New Methods for Making Metallic and Semiconducting Contacts to Molecules: Towards Molecular Electronic Circuitry”

Note: Seminar will be in Dabney 220 at 4 pm

Friday, April 4

Monday, April 7

Host: Dan Comins

Mitch deLong, Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Research Triangle Park

“From the Test Tube to Human Clinical Trials, the Discovery and SAR of a Clinical Candidate for the Treatment of Glaucoma”

Tuesday, April 8

Host: Alex Smirnov

Robyn Hannigan, Arkansas State University

“Of Proteins and Polymorphs: The Role of Metalloproteins in Biological Brocesses”

Note: Seminar will be in Dabney 220 at 3:45 pm

Wednesday, April 9

Jehane Ragai, American University in Cairo

“Color: its significance and production in Ancient Egypt”

Note: Joint seminar with chemical engineering in room 1007 of EB1 at 4 pm

Refreshments will be in room 2000 of EB1 at 3:30 pm

Friday, April 11

Host: Mike Whangbo

Arndt Simon, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany

“Superconductivity and Chemistry ”

Friday, April 18

Host: Stefan Franzen

Ellen S. Gawalt, Duquesne University McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine

“Controlling Implant-Tissue Interfaces Through Chemistry”

Monday, April 21

Host: Dan Comins

Charles Zercher, University of New Hampshire

“Zinc Carbenoid-mediated Chain Extension: Applications to Peptide Isosteres and Natural Products”

Note: Organic Division Seminar in Dabney 220 at 3:30 pm

Friday, April 25

Host: Alex Smirnov

Candice S. Klug, Medical College of Wisconsin

“Functional Dynamics of the Nucleotide Binding Domain of the Bacterial Lipid Flippase MsbA”

Monday, April 28

Host: Alex Deiters

Grace Vanier, CEM

“Exploring New Avenues in Microwave Chemistry and Biology”

May