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Seminar Schedule

All Upcoming Chemistry Colloquia

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Title:

Asymmetric Catalysis with Chiral Lewis Bases: A New Frontier in Main Group Chemistry (Abstract)

Speaker:

Professor Scott E. Denmark (Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Location/Time:

Koffler 218 at 4:00 PM

Host:

Hamish Christie

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Title:

TBA

Speaker:

Dr. Robert Field (Department of Chemistry, MIT)

Location/Time:

Koffler 218 at 4:00 PM

Host:

Lucy Ziurys

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Title:

On the Nature of Electronically Excited and Ionized States of the Anionic Form of the Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophore

Speaker:

Professor Anna Krylov (Department of Chemistry, University of So. California)

Location/Time:

Koffler 218 at 4:00 PM

Host:

Andrei Sanov

Friday, January 29, 2010

Speaker:

Dr. Cynthia Stauffacher (Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University)

Location/Time:

Family and Consumer Sciences 202B at 12:00 PM

Host:

William Montfort

Friday, February 5, 2010

Title:

Electron CryoMicroscopy-A Versatile Tool for the Study of Membrane Biology

Speaker:

Dr. Vinzenz Unger (Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University)

Location/Time:

Family and Consumer Sciences 202B at 12:00 PM

Host:

Megan McEvoy

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Title:

Synthetic Mimics of Mammalian Cell Surface Receptors (Abstract)

Speaker:

Blake R. Peterson, Regents Distinguished Professor (Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas)

Location/Time:

Koffler 218 at 4:00 PM

Host:

Indraneel Ghosh

Friday, February 19, 2010

Speaker:

Dr. Nika N. Danial ( Pathology Department, Dana Farber Cancer Inst, Harvard University )

Location/Time:

Family and Consumer Sciences 202B at 12:00 PM

Host:

Carol Dieckmann

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Title:

Palladium- and Nickel-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions of Alkyl Electrophiles

Speaker:

Professor Greg C. Fu (Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Location/Time:

Koffler 218 at 4:00 PM

Host:

Hamish Christie

Friday, March 19, 2010

Speaker:

Dr. Sara Vaiana (Department of Physics, Arizona State University)

Location/Time:

Family and Consumer Sciences 202B at 12:00 PM

Host:

Andrew Hausrath

Friday, March 26, 2010

Title:

From Spitomes to the Sialoverse: Decoding the Salivary Potion of Blood Sucking Arthropods

Speaker:

Jose Ribeiro, MD (Lab of Malaria and Vector Research, NIAD/NIH)

Location/Time:

Family and Consumer Sciences 202B at 12:00 PM

Host:

Roger Miesfield

Friday, April 2, 2010

Title:

Intrinsic Disorder and Allostery in an Ensemble

Speaker:

Dr. Vincent Hilser (Sealy Ctr Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston)

Location/Time:

Family and Consumer Sciences 202B at 12:00 PM

Host:

Andrew Hausrath

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Speaker:

Dr. Mark Schoenfisch (Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina)

Location/Time:

Koffler 218 at 4:00 PM

Host:

Neal Armstrong

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Speaker:

Professor Sunney Xie (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University )

Location/Time:

Koffler 218 at 4:00 PM

Host:

Oliver Monti

Friday, April 23, 2010

Title:

TBA

Speaker:

Dr. Lily Huang (Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)

Location/Time:

4:00 PM

Host:

Tsu-Shuen Tsao

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Title:

pH of the Liquid Water Surface : Selective Adsorption of Hydronium and Hydroxide

Speaker:

Dr. Richard J. Saykally (Department of Chemistry, Univ Calif, Berkeley and Chem Sciences Div, LBNL)

Location/Time:

Koffler 218 at 4:00 PM

Host:

Oliver Monti

Friday, April 30, 2010

Speaker:

Dr. Stephen Harvey (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Location/Time:

Family and Consumer Sciences 202B at 12:00 PM

Host:

Florence Tama