NDSU Chemistry and Molecular Biology

Seminars 2008-2009

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 2008
September
Sep 4	D. P. Sarkar Biochemistry Department, Delhi University, India	D.K. Srivastava	Role of Engineered Sendai Virus in Gene Transfer to Liver Cells: From Basic Science to a Pre-Clinical Experience
Sep 9	Uwe Burghaus Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, North Dakota State University		From Traditional Surface Chemistry to Nano-Surface-Chemistry
Sep 16 3:30 pm Hidatsa Room - MU	James B. McCarthy Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Campus	Mukund Sibi Center for Protease Research	Epigenetic Regulation of Melanoma Growth and Motility by Melanoma Proteoglycan
Sep 18	Alec M. Wodtke Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara	Uwe Burghaus	Excited Electrons in Interfacial Chemistry
October
Oct 2	Arthur L. Utz Department of Chemistry Tufts University	Uwe Burghaus	Bond-Selective Control of a Heterogeneously Catalyzed Reaction
Oct 6 4:00 pm	Louis Fensterbank Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France	Mukund Sibi	New Radical and Organometallic Reactivities for Organic Synthesis
Oct 22	Kiyoshi Tomioka Department of Synthetic Medicinal Chemistry, Kyoto University, Japan	Mukund Sibi	Hydroamination of Carbon-Carbon Double Bond with Lithium Amide
Oct 30	Reginald Parker Department of Chemical Engineering, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND	Uwe Burghaus	Interactions in an Organic Photovoltaic Device: Materials, Scale Effects, and E-fields
November
Nov 6	Dr. James Harynuk Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada	Guodon Liu	Multidimensional Separations - How can we turn data into information?
Nov 20	Jodie Haring - Manager, Core Biology Facility Rajesh Murthy - Manager, Core Synthesis Facility Center for Protease Research, North Dakota State	Center for Protease Research	Introducing the Center for Protease Research Core Facilities: Capabilities and Services
December
Dec 1 4:00 pm	Michael T. Klem Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Montana State University, Bozeman	Seth Rasmussen	Biomimetic Synthesis - Going from Proteins to Materials
Dec 4	Xueji Zhang Science World Precision Instruments, Inc and Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida	Guodon Liu	Nitric oxide Electrochemical Sensors-Research, Development and Commercialization
Dec 8 4:00 pm	Peter Boul NASA Johnson Space Center/ERC Inc. Houston, TX	Seth Rasmussen	Dynamic Materials through Diels-Alder Chemistry
Dec 11	David L. Tierney Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque	Kent Rodgers	Metallo-beta-Lactamases: Does Co(II) Do the Same Chemistry as Zn(II)?

Spring 2009
January
Jan 7	Kevin R. Kittilstved Department of Chimie Physique, Universite of Geneve, Switzerland	Seth Rasmussen	Magnetostructural Correlations of Inorganic Compounds Probed by High-Resolution Spectroscopies
Jan 12	Sangita C. Sinha Department of Internal Medicine - Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas	Mukund Sibi Center for Protease Research	Evasion of Host Autophagy by gamma-Herpesviruses
Jan 13	Banglin Chen Department of Chemistry, University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, TX	Seth Rasmussen	Metal-Organic Frameworks with Functional Pores for Recognition of Small Molecules
Jan 20	Heather A. Hostetler Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology, Texas A&M University	Mukund Sibi	Metabolic Implications of PPARα Ligand Interactions
Jan 22	Andrzej Kloczkowski Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Sciences, Iowa State University and Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University	Mukund Sibi	Modeling Structure and Dynamics of Biomolecules
Jan 26	Nina Kovtyukhova Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University	Seth Rasmussen	Molecular Design and Shaping of Ultrathin Film Systems for Nanoscale Electronics Applications
Jan 27 4:00 pm Arikara Room - MU	Douglas R. Hurst Department of Pathology University of Alabama at Birmingham	Mukund Sibi Center for Protease Research	Multiple Mechanisms of BRMS1-mediated Metastasis Suppression
Jan 29	Kausiki Datta Department of Chemistry, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene	Mukund Sibi	Near-UV Spectroscopic Study Reveals the Role of the Nucleic Acid Framework in Regulation of Transcription
February
Feb 5	Muhammet Erkan Kose National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO	Seth Rasmussen	Conjugated Dendrimers for Organic Photovoltaics
Feb 17	Christopher L. Colbert Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas		*Mechanism of Substrate Specificity in Bacillus subtilis* ResA, a Thioredoxin-like Protein Involved in Cytochrome C Maturation**
March
March 5	Pinjing Zhao Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, North Dakota State University		Experimental Synthetic Chemistry: A Personal Perspective
March 26	Kim Ogden Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department University of Arizona	John Hershberger	Biofuel Production in Arid Climates, Is it Feasible?
March 27 3:45 pm Dunbar 152	Manabu Abe Hiroshima University, Japan	Mukund Sibi Center for Protease Research	Generation of Long-lived Singlet 1,3-biradicals and their Related Chemistry
April
Apr 2	Malika Jeffries-EL Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University	Seth Rasmussen	Synthesis of Novel Conjugated Polymers Based on Benzobisazoles
Apr 7 3:30 pm Arikara Room - MU	Gunda I. Georg Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Institute forTherapeutics Discovery and Development, University of Minnesota -Minneapolis	Mukund Sibi Center for Protease Research	The Pill for the Male: Where are we?
Apr 9	Rajendra Rathore Department of Chemistry, Marquette University	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Cofacially-Arrayed Polybenzenoid Nano Structures for Molecular Wires
Apr 16	Miguel Garcia-Garibay Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Challenges and Opportunities for Chemical Reactivity in the Solid State: From Solvent Free Total Synthesis to Materials Science
Apr 21 3:30 pm Prairie Rose Room - MU	Donald J. Klocke Director of Biomanufacturing, Aldevron, Fargo, ND	Glenn Dorsam Center for Protease Research	Aldevron Seminar
Apr 23	Lyle Isaacs Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland	Sivaguru Jayaraman	NOR-SECO-CUCURBITURILS
Apr 24 2:00 pm Sudro 26	Marilyne Stains Center of Science and Mathematics in Context (COSMIC), University of Massachusetts, Boston	Erika Offerdahl and Biological Sciences	Classification of Chemical Substances and Reactions: The Effect of Expertise
Apr 30	D. Michael Heinekey Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle	Pinjing Zhao	Coordination Chemistry of Hydrogen: Activation and Storage
May
May 7 12:30 pm Hidatsa Room - MU	Joseph D. Fontes Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas, School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS	Glenn Dorsam Center for Protease Research	The Zinc Finger X-linked Duplicated (ZXD) Family of Transcriptional Regulators

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