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Department Seminars 2011-2012
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Aug 11 3:00 pm	Artëm E. Masunov Nanoscience Technology Center, Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando	Svetlana Kilina	Prediction of Heisenberg Exchange Constants in Manganese Dinuclear Complexes (Magnet Wheel) Using Density Functional Theory and Hubbard Model (DFT+U)
Sept 8	Glenn Dorsam Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo		The Signaling Axis of Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide: The “Rosetta Stone” for Communication between the Nervous and Immune Systems
Sept 14	Gregory B. Dudley Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee	Greg Cook	Alkyne Chemistry: New Strategies and Tactics
Sept 15	Edwin F. (Ned) Ladd Department of Physics & Astronomy, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania	Greg Cook	Why Aren't There More Stars? The Battle Against Gravity in our Galaxy's Stellar Nurseries
Sept 22	Hong Shen Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ	Pinjing Zhao	Niacin Receptor Agonists as Potential Therapeutic Agents for Cardiovascular Diseases
Oct 13	Nathan Silvernail Pittsburg Paint and Glass, Inc.	Kent Rodgers	Science and Technology at PPG Industries
Oct 20	W. Robert Scheidt Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Indiana	Kent Rodgers	Nitric Oxide & Hemes from Toxic Gas to NRVS
Oct 27	Victor Batista Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT	Svetlana Kilina	Studies of Oxomanganese Complexes for Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis
Oct 28 1:00 pm MU-Hidatsa	Nadia Carlesso, MD, PhD Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis	Glenn Dorsam and Center for Protease Research	Notch in the Niche: Hematopoietic Stem Cells and their Bone Marrow Niche in Inflammation and Disease
Nov 10	Michael J. Serpe Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada	Guodong Liu	Color Tunable Photonic Materials from Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Microgels: Unique Opportunities for Biosensing
Nov 17	Dagmar Ringe Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts	Sangita Sinha and Center for Protease Research	Structural Biology of Unstable Proteins
Dec 1	Ekaterina Badaeva Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo	Svetlana Kilina and Center for Protease Research	Tuning Photophysics of Bipyridyl Platinum(II) Bisstilbenylacetylide Complexes by Auxiliary Substituents: A TD-DFT Study
Jan 6 3:00 pm	John H. Lee, MD-FACS Sanford Cancer Research Center, Sanford ENT-Head and Neck Surgery, Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls	Mukund Sibi	Determining the Mechanism of Immune-Related Clearance and Developing New Therapies for HPV-Related Cancers
Jan19	David A. Pearce Sanford Children’s Health Research Center, Sanford Research USD, Department of Pediatrics, Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls	Sangita Sinha	Yeast and Mouse Models for Childhood Diseases
Feb 2	Thomas Livinghouse Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman	Gregory Cook	New Cationic and Metal Mediated Cyclization Reactions for the Synthesis of Natural Products and Related Compounds
Feb 23	Nivaldo J. Tro Department of Chemistry, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California	Denley Jacobson	Science Literacy: A Source of Happiness
Mar 1	Olexandr Isayev Environmental Laboratory, US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS	Svetlana Kilina	Molecular Modeling at Frontiers of Environmental Science
Mar 6 3:00 pm Ladd 114	Vadim J. Gurvich, PhD, MBA Medicinal Chemistry Department, Institute for Therapeutics Discovery & Development, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota	Yonghua Yang and Center for Protease Research	ITDD: Drug Discovery and Development Engine of the University of Minnesota
Mar 8	Kirk S. Schanze Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville	M. Erkan Kose	Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: Fundamental Properties and Applications to Solar Energy Conversion
Mar 15	Russell Schmehl Department of Chemistry, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana	Wenfang Sun	Excited State Reactivity of Square Planar Pt(II) Complexes: Development of Multi-Electron Photoredox Systems
Mar 29	Robert McKenna Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville	Chris Colbert	Past, Present and Future Structure-function Studies of Carbonic Anhydrase
Apr 5	Michael S. Strano Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge	Svetlana Kilina	New Concepts in Molecular and Energy Transport within Carbon Nanotubes: Near Infrared Sensors, Resonant Ion Channels, and Thermopower Waves
Apr 12	Adam R. Urbach Department of Chemistry, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Targeting the Terminus to Achieve Site-Selective Molecular Recognition of Peptides and Proteins
Apr 19	Lei Zhu Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Florida State University, Tallahassee	Pinjing Zhao	Chelation-Assisted, Copper(II) Acetate-Accelerated Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition
Apr 26	Marvin J. Miller George and Winifred Clark Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Indiana	Greg Cook	Organic Syntheses and Utilization of Microbial Iron Assimilation Processes for the Development of New Antibiotics
May 3	Challa V. Kumar Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs	Sivaguru Jayaraman	DNA-Based Nanomaterials
May 10 Ladd 114	Dennis R. Dean Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blackburg, VA	Chris Colbert; Dean’s Office, College of Science and Mathematics and Cooperative Sponsorship Committee	Assembly of Complex and Simple Iron-Sulfur Clusters
May 17	Charles E. Dann III Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington	Sangita Sinha	Targeted Drug Delivery: Structural Basis for Folate and Antifolate Trafficking via the Human Folate Receptors
May 22	Joshua Telser Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois	Kent Rodgers	EPR Investigations of Cytochromes P450: The Search for the Elusive P450 Compound I
Aug 16 Ladd 114	Qilong Shen Key Laboratory of Organofluorine Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China	Pinjing Zhao	Copper-Mediated Fluoroalkylation of Aryl Boronic Acids

Department Seminars 2010-2011
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Aug 12 3:00 pm	C. Martin Lawrence Chemistry & Biochemistry Department, Montana State University, Bozeman	Sangita Sinha and Dean's Office, College of Science and Math	CRISPR/Cas, the Prokaryotic Adaptive Immune System
Aug 30	Seth C. Rasmussen Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo		Plastic Electronics: 10+ Years of New Conjugated Organic Materials
Aug 31	J. Sivaguru Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo		Fun With Photons in the Sivagroup@NDSU Selective Light Induced Reactions in Solution and in Water Soluble Nano-containers
Sep 1	Wenfang Sun Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo		Platinum terdentate/bidentate Complexes as Broadband Nonlinear Absorbing Materials and Optical Sensors
Sep 23	David R. McMillin Department of Chemistry, Purdue University	Wenfang Sun	The Binding of Sterically Friendly Di-Cationic Porphyrins to DNA Platforms
Oct 7	John D. Lipscomb Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis	Christopher Colbert	Natural Product Antibiotic Biosynthesis: Two New Roles for Diiron Monooxygenases
Nov 4	Alan S. Goldman Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	Pinjing Zhao	Activation of C-H Bonds and Catalysis by Pincer-Iridium Complexes
Nov 18	Mavis Agbandje-McKenna Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville	Sangita Sinha	Structural Virology: Building a 4D Toolkit for Annotating Essential Steps in a Viral Life Cycle
Jan 27	Sergei Y. Ponomarev Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts	Svetlana Kilina	Computational Prediction and Analysis of the DR6-NAPP Interaction: Implications for Alzheimer's Disease Research
Feb 10 VanEs 101	Jonathan D. Geiger Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Therapeutics, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences	Mukund Sibi and Center for Protease Research	Role of Adenosine in the Anti-Convulsant Effects of a Ketogenic Diet
Feb 17	Paul M. Barron Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska – Lincoln	Graduate Student Association	DIRECTING THE SELF-ASSEMBLY OF PORPHYRIN PADDLEWHEEL FRAMEWORKS
Feb 24	Christopher W. Cairo Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada	Christopher Colbert	Structure, specificity, and inhibition of the glycolipid-specific neuraminidase 3 (NEU3)
Mar 10	X. Peter Zhang Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, Tampa	Pinjing Zhao	Metalloradical Catalysis for Stereoselective Carbene and Nitrene Transfers
Mar 14 10:30 am	H. Surya Prakash Rao Department of Chemistry, Dean, School of Physical, Chemical and Applied Sciences, Pondicherry University, India	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Application of Ketene Acetals in Heterocyclic Synthesis
Mar 24	Tom G. Driver Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago	Pinjing Zhao	Transition Metal-Catalyzed Synthesis of N-Heterocycles from Azides Relationship between Mechanism and Metal
Mar 30 3:30 pm	Frank Millett Chemistry and Biochemistry Department; Director, NCRR Center for Protein Structure & Function, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville	Mukund Sibi and Center for Protease Research	Design of Photoactive Ruthenium Complexes to Study Biological Electron Transfer
Mar 31	John E. Johnson Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA	Sangita Sinha and Center for Protease Research	Biophysical Studies of Virus Particles and their Maturation: Insights into Elegantly Programmed Nano-machines
Apr 5	Junjun Shan Postdoctoral Researcher in the Burghaus group, North Dakota State University	Uwe Burghaus	The Interactions of Water and Hydrogen with Nickel Surface
Apr 7	Mark Thompson Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles	M. Erkan Kose	New Materials and Insights for Organic Solar Cells
Apr 14	Julia Xiaojun Zhao Department of Chemistry, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks	Guodong Liu	Silica-based Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Properties and Applications
Apr 19	Francisco Zaera Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside	Uwe Burghaus	Self-Assembly Synthesis of Heterogeneous Catalysts with Novel Nanoarchitectures and Improved Selectivities
Apr 21	F. Wayne Outten Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia	Christopher Colbert	The SufBCD complex: A cellular forge for Fe-S cluster assembly
Apr 26	Janice K. Huwe United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Biosciences Research Laboratory, Fargo, ND	Mukund Sibi	High resolution GC-high resolution MS analysis of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in U.S. foods: Levels, trends, and implications for human exposure
Apr 28	Andrei G. Kutateladze Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Denver	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Photoassisted Diversity-Oriented Synthesis
May 5	Malcolm D. E. Forbes Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Fun Facts about Triplet States: The Photochemistry of Nanocrystalline Ketones
May 6 3:00 pm Van Es 101	Malcolm Campbell Davidson College, North Carolina	Erika Offerdahl and co-hosts, Jenni Momsen and Lisa Montplaisir; Biological Sciences	Synthetic Biology in an Organic World Spawns Reengineered Teaching
May 19 3:00 pm	Kathryn A. Thomasson Chemistry Department, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks	Svetlana Kilina	Protein-Protein and Protein-Ligand Interactions: a Brownian Dynamics Approach
June 9 3:00 pm	Keith Henry Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, & Therapeutics; University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Grand Forks	Sangita Sinha	Defining Cocaine Binding at the Human Dopamine Transporter Using Irreversible Ligands: A Computational and Biochemical Study.
June16 3:00 pm Ladd 107	Andra R. Frost School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham	Mukund Sibi and Center for Protease Research	Targeting Gli1 and Gli-mediated Transcription in ERα Negative and Triple Negative Breast Cancer
June23 3:00 pm Ladd 107	Katharine J. Covert Division of Chemistry, National Science Foundations	Uwe Burghaus	Sustainable Chemistry and Sustaining Chemistry
July 15 3:00 pm Ladd 107	Takahiko Akiyama Department of Chemistry, Gakushuin University Tokya, Japan	Greg Cook	Recent Progress on the Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalysis


Department Seminars 2009-2010
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Aug 25	Katsunori Tanaka Department of Chemistry Osaka University, Japan	Greg Cook	A New Strategy in Synthetic Biology: From Enzyme Inhibition, Natural Products Synthesis to PET Imaging by 6-pi-Azaelectrocyclizations
Sep 15	Angie Rizzino Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha	Glenn Dorsam, Center for Protease Research	Transcription Factors that Orchestrate the Self-Renewal and Pluripotency of Embryonic Stem Cells Function as Molecular Rheostats
Sep 17	Tarek Sammakia University of Colorado, Boulder	Mukund Sibi	Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Diazonamide A
Oct 1	Adam Hoppe Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, South Dakota State University, Brookings	Kent Rodgers	Imaging Signaling Biochemistry in Living Cells by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer
Oct 8	Alexei Novikov Department of Chemistry, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks	Mukund Sibi	Studies in Organic Synthesis: Plakortethers and C-H Insertion on Sulfonates
Oct 15	Malika Jeffries-EL Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University	Seth Rasmussen	Synthesis of Novel Conjugated Polymers Based on Benzobisazoles
Nov 5	Larry R. Pederson Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), North Dakota State University	Seth Rasmussen	Energy Materials - Past, Present and Future
Nov 19	D. Tyler McQuade Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee	Pinjing Zhao	New Catalytic Methods: A Systems Approach
Nov 24	David B. Rusterholz Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin-River Falls	Kent Rodgers	Design and Synthesis of TRPV1 Antagonists: Potential Analgesic Agents
Dec 7	Conrado Aparicio Dept of Restorative Sciences, MN Dental Research Center for Biomaterials and Biomechanics, School of Dentistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis	John Bagu David L. Wells, Manufacturing Engineering	Multi-Functional Surfaces for Biomedical Implants. Immobilizing Synthetic Biomolecules on Biometals
Jan 11	Ilya A. Balabin Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC	John Hershberger	How do protein structure and fluctuations control biological electron transfer? Pathway Dynamics and Reaction Rates.
Jan 14	Svetlana V. Kilina Lost Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM	John Hershberger	Simulations of Self-assembled Soft Materials: DNA Adsorbents on Metallic and Carbon Nanotube Surfaces
Jan 19	Erin R. Johnson Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC	John Hershberger	Dispersion Interactions in Density-Functional Theory
Jan 21	Jingzhi Pu Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA	John Hershberger	Coupling Mechanisms in F1-ATPase
Jan 28	Debashis Dutta Department of Chemistry, University of Wyoming, Laramie	Guodong Liu	Sub-micrometer Scale as Supports for Membrane Structures in Microfluidic Devices
Feb 11	Michael Rubin Department of Chemistry, Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, University of Kansas, Lawrence	Pinjing Zhao	Diastereoconvergent Route toward Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes via Formal Substitution Reaction
Feb 18	Alex Brown Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada	Uwe Burghaus	Designing Biofluorophores: Can Computational Chemistry Help?
Mar 4	Youngjae You Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, South Dakota State University	Rajesh Murthy, Center for Protease Research	Photodynamic Therapy: The Unique Approach for Cancer Treatments using Low Energy Light, Non-toxic Photosensitizer, and Oxygen
Mar 11	Emmanuel Lacote Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moleculaire, Paris, France	Mukund Sibi	HYBRID ARCHITECTURES: DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS
Apr 8	Mihaela C. Stefan Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas	Seth Rasmussen	Semiconducting Polymers for Organic Photovoltaics
Apr 15	Angel Kaifer Department of Chemistry, University of Miami, Florida	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Can Supramolecular Chemistry Rival Biology?
Apr 22	Leonard R. MacGillivray Department of Chemistry, The University of Iowa	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Crystal Engineering Covalent Bonds
Apr 27	Peter C. Ford Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Santa Barbara	Wenfang Sun	Polychromophoric Complexes for the Photochemical Delivery of Physiologically Active Agents
Apr 29	Patricia A. Thiel Iowa State University, Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory	Uwe Burghaus	Shape-shifting Surfaces, and their Abettors: Coinage Metals Plus Chalcogens
May 6	Leif Abrell Departments of Chemistry and Soil, Water & Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson	Erika Offerdahl	Measurement of Emerging Contaminants in Regional US Waters in the Presence of Organic Matter-produced Mass Spectrometry Interferences
May 10	Thomas O. Baldwin College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences, University of California, Riverside	Erika Offerdahl and Dean's Office, College of Science and Math	Bacterial Bioluminescence—Structure and Mechanism of the Luciferase and Overview of the Biological Role of Bioluminescence
May 18	Zhong-Ming Sun Postdoctoral Researcher in the Zhao Group, North Dakota State University	Pinjing Zhao	Development of New Synthetic Methods Based on Rh-catalyzed Decarboxylation and C-H Activation
May 27	Joseph Provost & Mark Wallert Departments of Chemistry & Biosciences, Minnesota State University Moorhead	Sangita Sinha	NHE1 Signaling in Cell Motility and its Role in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Metastasis
Jun 17	Igor Ovchinnikov Department of Biology, Forensic Science and Human Genetics, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks	NDSU Forensic DNA Facility	170 Years of the Discovery: From the Engis Child to Neanderthal Genomics
Jun 29	David L. Officer University of Wollongong, Australia	Chemistry and Biochemistry, Coatings and Polymeric Materials, and Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE)	Developing Multifunctional Electromaterials for Energy-related Applications
Jul 20	Giulietta Smulevich University of Florence, Italy	Kenton Rodgers	The heme cavity properties of truncated hemoglobins from unicellular organisms

Department Seminars 2008-2009
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
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	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
Oct 2	Arthur L. Utz Department of Chemistry Tufts University	Uwe Burghaus	Bond-Selective Control of a Heterogeneously Catalyzed Reaction
Oct 6	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
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
Dec 1	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	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)?
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	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
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
Mar 5	Pinjing Zhao Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, North Dakota State University		Experimental Synthetic Chemistry: A Personal Perspective
Mar 26	Kim Ogden Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department University of Arizona	John Hershberger	Biofuel Production in Arid Climates, Is it Feasible?
Mar 27	Manabu Abe Hiroshima University, Japan	Mukund Sibi Center for Protease Research	Generation of Long-lived Singlet 1,3-biradicals and their Related Chemistry
Apr 2	Malika Jeffries-EL Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University	Seth Rasmussen	Synthesis of Novel Conjugated Polymers Based on Benzobisazoles
Apr 7	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	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	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 7	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

Department Seminars 2007-2008
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Aug 23	Dr. Wei Chen Department of Physics, University of Texas - Arlington	Wenfang Sun	Nanoparticle Fluorescence Based Technology for Biological Applications
Sep 4	Armido Studer Organic Chemistry Institute, Muenster University	Mukund Sibi	Cyclohexadienes as Building Blocks and Reagents in Synthesis
Sep 4	Angel Ugrinov Pennsylvania State University	Sivaguru	Germanium and Arsenic Zintl Anions: Functionalization and Application in Multidimensional Cluster Based Materials
Sep 7	Steffen Jockusch Department of Chemistry, Columbia University	Jayaraman Sivaguru	Fluorescent Hybridization Probes for Sensitive and Selective DNA and RNA Detection
Sep 19	Alexey Koposov Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota-Duluth	Jayaraman Sivaguru	Chemistry of Hypervalent Iodine: Heterocycles and Pseudoheterocycles
Sep 20	Timothy K. Minton Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University	Uwe Burghaus	Reaction Dynamics Relevant to Spacecraft in Low-Earth Orbit: Atomic-Oxygen Reactions with Gases and Surfaces
Oct 4	Darin Ulness Department of Chemistry, Concordia College	Uwe Burghaus	Effects of hydrogen bonding on the ring breathing modes of pyridine and pyridinium
Oct 5	Jodie Haring, Ph.D. Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa	Sheri Dorsam	The Role of Interferon-g and Interleukin-18 in Regulating Antigen-Specific T Cell Homeostasis after Infection
Oct 11	Konstantin Pokhodnya Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, North Dakota State University	Seth Rasmussen	Molecule-based Magnets: synthesis, properties and applications
Oct 25	Peter Budzelaar Department of Chemistry, University of Manitoba	Pinjing Zhao	Electron Donating and Accepting Properties of the Diiminepyridine Ligand and Some Variations
Nov 8	V. Ramamurthy Department of Chemistry, University of Miami	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Controlling Photochemistry with Weak Non-Covalent Forces and Confined Spaces
Dec 3	Warwick Belcher School of Environmental & Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia	Seth Rasmussen	FETs and Photovoltaics: Recent musings on conducting polymer devices at the University of Newcastle
Dec 13	Dr. Tamara Hendrickson Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University	Mukund Sibi	New Approaches to Study GPI Membrane Anchoring of Proteins
Dec 18	Ana Gupta Department of Haematology and Oncology, Case Western Reserve University	Sheri Dorsam	Positive feedback regulation of MYCN by CRABP-II In Neuroblastoma
Dec 18	Zhuo Zhang epartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Alabama at Birmingham	Derek Killilea	Tumorigenicity of the MDM2 Oncogene: Beyond p53
Dec 20	Mary Lynn Johnson Department of Animal Range and Sciences, Cell Biology Center, North Dakota State University	Sheri Dorsam	Expression of cellular prion protein (PrPC) in sheep uteroplacental tissues: Implications for scrapie transmission
Jan 8	Stuart Haring Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa	Derek Killilea	A complex essential for DNA metabolism and cell cycle regulation: Replication Protein A
Jan 10	Michael Morgan Cell and Cancer Biology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute	Derek Killilea	TNF-induced activation of a novel Nox1 NADPH Oxidase complex and its role in the induction of necrotic cell death
Jan 15	Sukesh Bhaumik Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine	Derek Killilea	Dissecting the regulatory mechanisms of eukaryotic transcriptional activation in vivo
Jan 17	Mary Kay Pflum Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University	Greg Cook Center for Protease Research	Chemical Approaches to Monitoring Protein Phosphorylation
Jan 22	Cezary Marcinkiewicz Department of Neuroscience, Temple University	Mukund Sibi	Regulation of Tumor Progression by the Ligands of alpha9beta1 Integrin
Jan 25	Danny R. Welch Leonard H. Robinson Professor of Pathology, Professor of Cell Biology and Pharmacology/Toxicology, University of Alabama at Birmingham	Mukund Sibi Center for Protease Research	Metastasis suppressors provide new options for anti-metastatic therapies
Jan 28	Ericka G. Offerdahl Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona	John Hershberger	Growth in Science Faculty Teaching: The Relationship Between Thoughts and Action
Feb 11	Carl Schiesser Director - ARC Centre of Excellence for Free Radical and Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, University of Melbourne	Mukund Sibi	Radicals, Selenium, Drugs and Vampires
Feb 28	Jennifer Wilcox Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University	Uwe Burghaus	Minimizing Environmental Impacts of Coal-based Energy Generation
Mar 4	Dana Reed Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota		Introduction to Mass Spectrometry: Ionization Methods and Mass Analyzers
Mar 27	Barry Milavetz Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences	Glenn Dorsam Center for Protease Research	Role of HATs and HDACs in the control of SV40 Gene Expression
Apr 3	Donald Branch Division of Cellular & Molecular Biology, Toronto General Research Institute	Glenn Dorsam Center for Protease Research	The Role of VPAC1 and VPAC2 Neuroendocrine Receptors in HIV-1 Infection
Apr 15	Allan L. Bieber Instrinsic Bioprobes Inc, Adjunct Professor/Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University		Tools for Population Proteomic Studies: Mass Spectrometry, Affinty Capture and Bioreactive Probes
Apr 17	Susan Winandy Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University	Glenn Dorsam Center for Protease Research	Regulation of T Cell Development and Leukemogenesis by Ikaros: Mechanism of Action through Notch
Apr 22	Linda Shimizu Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Macrocyclic ureas: A simple building block for supramolecular structures
May 1	Alexander Greer The City University of New York, Brooklyn College	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Singlet Oxygen Chemistry and Biology in Brooklyn, New York
May 15	Joseph (Kuo-Hsiang) Tang Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University	Derek Killilea	Structure-Function Studies of DNA Polymerases Responsible for Base Excision Repair
May 22	Sinisa Dovat Department of Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology, University of Wisconsin, Madison	Glenn Dorsam	The Role of Zinc Finger Genes in Leukemogenesis
Jun 13	Richard Niles Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Marshall University, School of Medicine	Mukund Sibi Center for Protease Research	Vitamin A and Melanoma

Department Seminars 2006-2007
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Aug 24	Gregory R. Cook Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, North Dakota State University		A Serendipitous Journey on the Allyl Metal Path: The Cook Group: Past, Present and Future
Aug 30	Wenfang Sun Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, North Dakota State University		Development of novel photonic materials: Synthesis, photophysics and applications
Sep 5	Paul C. Dastoor School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences,University of Newcastle	Seth Rasmussen	Structure and Function: Probing the Role of Morphology in Organic Electronic Devices
Sep 29	Gary A. Lorigan Miami University	Research I	Solid-state NMR and EPR Studies of Integral Membrane Proteins
Dec 18	Jai-Pil Choi Department of Chemsitry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Seth Rasmussen	Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence and Gold Nanoparticles for Analytical Chemistry
Jan 8	Paula Hudson Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa	Seth Rasmussen	The Atmosphere in a Test Tube: Laboratory Studies of Mineral Dust Aerosol
Jan 11	Guodong Liu Senior Scientiest, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratyr, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Seth Rasmussen	Nanomaterial-Based Electrochemical Biosensors and Bioassays for Health, Environment and Security Monitoring
Jan 18	Muruganathan Ramanathan Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University	Seth Rasmussen	Novel Means of Generating Microscopic Patterns at Air/Liquid and Liquid/Liquid Interfaces
Jan 25	Pinjing Zhao Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Seth Rasmussen	Insertion and Deinsertion Reactivities Involving Rhodium-Heteroatom Bonds: Structures, Mechanisms and Catalysis
Jan 29	Jia Li Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials	Seth Rasmussen	Polymerization Catalysis and Soft Lithography
Feb 1	Mario Bieringer Department of Chemistry, University of Manitoba	Seth Rasmussen	Peeking at Solid State reactions: In Situ Diffraction Studies of Transition Metal Oxides
Feb 1	Timothy Jackson Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities	Kenton Rodgers	Modeling Iron-Oxygen Intermediates Using Nonheme Iron Enzymes and Inorganic Complexes
Mar 9	Luke Hanley Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Chicago	Wenfang Sun	Preparation and Analysis of Lead Sulfide Nanocrystal-Polymer Nanocomposite Films for Optoelectronic Applications
Mar 20	Nikolay Gerasimchuk Department of Chemistry, Missouri State University	Kent Rodgers	Chemistry and Applications of Cyanoximes and Their Metal Complexes
Apr 12	Dr. John J. Stezowski Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska - Lincoln	Sivaguru	ß-Cyclodextrin Supramolecular Complexes - Self Assembled Entities with a Broad Range of Applications
May 3	Dr. Biaoru Li Department of Biochemistry Case Western Reserve University	Derek Killilea	Single cell genetic/genomic analysis--application in molecular pathology and forensic medicine
May 24	Dr. Akio Kamimura Department of Applied Molecular Bioscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Japan	Mukund Sibi	Use of Conjugate Addition Chemistry for Asymmetric Heterocyclic Syntheses
May 25	Nicholas Lentz Iowa State University, Ames, IA		ESI-MS Studies of Toxic Metal Binding to Histidine Containing Peptides and Measuring Histidine/Metal Ion Binding Energies

Department Seminars 2005-2006
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Sep 8	Kenton Rodgers North Dakota State University		Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry
Sep 23	Richard D. McCullough Carnegie Mellon University		Nanostructured Conductive Polymers: From Sensors to FETs
Oct 6	Carmen Giiunta Le Moyne College, Syracuse		TBA
Oct 24	Michael Roper University of Virginia		Microfluidic Chips as Integrated Platforms for Biological Measurements
Nov 1	Jeffrey Johnston Indiana University	Mukund Sibi	The Development of New Reactions and Reagents for Chemical Synthesis: The Advent of Chiral Proton Catalysis
Nov 14	Janis Louie University of Utah	Mukund Sibi	The Versatility of Nickel Cycloaddition Catalysts
Nov 15	Eric Brown University of Minnesota - Twin Cities		The Development of Copper-Sulfur Chemistry Relevant to Modeling the Active Site of Nitrous Oxide Reductase
Nov 17	Eric Hegg University of Utah		Unraveling the Mystery of Heme A Biosynthesis and Transport
Nov 21	Gregory Kalyuzhny University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill		Ligand Effects on Optical Properties of CdSe and Gold Nanocrystals
Dec 1	Kara E. Huff Hartz Carnegie Mellon University		Atmospheric Particulate Matter Formation from the Reactions of Ozone with Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds
Dec 8	James McEvoy Yale University		Coupled Electron Transfer in Metalloproteins
Jan 5	Xial Li University of Texas		Electrochemical Reduction of Dioxygen on Modified Electrode Surfaces
Jan 9	Wes Steiner Geo-Centers, Inc		A Novel Analytical Technology: Atmospheric Pressure Ion Mobility Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (IM (tof) MS
Jan 12	Hamish Christie University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill		Total Synthesis of Halichlorine, Pinnaic Acid, and Apoptolidin
Jan 17	Kenichi Kuroda University of Pennsylvania Medical Center		Design and Synthesis of Amphiphilic Polymers as Antimicrobials
Jan 19	Jayaraman Sivaguru Columbia University		Controlling Chirality Through Nano-confinement and Non-bonding Interactions In Light Induced Asymmetric Transformations
Jan 26	Brad Nilsson University of California, Irvine		Organic Synthesis Applied to Problems in Chemical Biology
Feb 16	Philip G. Hultin University of Manitoba		Fluorous Chiral Supports for Synthesis — Preparation and Applications of Fluorous Oxazolidinines
Mar 10	William Mattson Randolph-Macon Woman's College	Red River Valley ACS	Creative Problem Solving for Chemists, Other Scientists and Everyone
Mar 13	Ken Sakai		TBA
Mar 30	Doug Stickle University of Nebraska Medical Center		An Overview of Clinical Chemistry
Mar 31	Greg Reinhart Texas A&M		Disentangling the Web of Allosteric Interactions in a Tetrameric Enzyme
Apr 20	Weihong Tan University of Florida		Evolving Molecular Probes from Diseased Cells for Molecular Imaging of Cancer
Apr 20	William F. Carroll, Jr. OxyChem and past ACS President	Red River Valley ACS	From Garbage to Stuff: How We Recycle Plastics
Apr 27	Jeffry D. Madura Duquesne University	Emilio Esposito	Interfacial Simulations
May 4	J. Alexander Liddle Moleculare Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory		Nanofabrication and Directed Self-Assembly
Mar 16	Graeme R. A. Wyllie North Dakota State University	Kenton Rodgers	Transient Absorbance Spectroscopy Studies of XO Ligand Rebinding for the Heme Based Oxygen Sensor SmFixL

Department Seminars 2004-2005
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Aug 19	Seth Rasmussen North Dakota State University		Nitrogen-Functionalized Polythiophenes: The Rasmussen Group Corner of the Conjugated Polymer Universe
Sep 9	T. Keith Hollis University of California, Riverside		Novel Ligand Architectures for Catalysis: Phosphametallocenes & More
Sep 16	Andrei Kutateladze University of Denver		Molecular Assembly and Disassemble: Dithiane, Trithiane and Dithiazane Based Photolabile Scaffolds for Molecular Recognition
Sep 21	Jeff Seeman Saddlepoint Frontiers and Virginia Tech	Seth Rasmussen and Greg Cook	The Human Side of Organic Chemistry: A Photographic and Video Portrait of Our Motivations, Our Aspirations and Our Heroes
Sep 30	George S. Sheppard Abbott Pharmaceutical	Mukund Sibi	3-Amino-2-hydroxyamides and Related Compounds as Inhibitors of Methionine Aminopeptidase-2
Oct 1	Yunfeng Lu Tulane University		Building Nanostructured Devices and Intelligent Artificial Systems from Nanoscale Building Blocks
Oct 7	Vincent Rotello University of Massachusetts, Amherst		Nanoparticles: Scaffolds and Building Blocks
Oct 21	Lushi Tan Merck & Company Pharmacuetical		Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation Through SN2 Displacement
Oct 28	Charles B. Mullins The University of Texas, Austin		Reactive Surface Scattering Studies of Supported Gold Nanoclusters
Nov 4	Carl Schiesser University of Melbourne, Australia		The Wizard and the Chiral Tin Man -- Free Radical Adventures in Oz
Nov 17	Kazunori Koide University of Pittsburgh		The Chemistry and Biology of Antitumor Agent FR901464
Dec 6	Vinga Szabo Institute for Materials Research III		Think Small – Fascinating World of Nanomaterials
Dec 9	Cathleen Crudden Queen's University		Asymmetric Synthesis with Transition Metals and Mesoporous Materials
Dec 15	Frank Vogt Arizona State University		Optical Measurement Techniques for Environmental Analytical Chemistry
Jan 13	Cynthia Zoski Georgia State University		Probing Addressable Ultramicroelectrode Arrays with Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy
Jan 20	Michael Johnson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill		Unraveling Disease Mechanisms Using Electrochemical Methods: Application to Huntington’s Disease
Jan 27	Yves St. Pierre INRS Institute, Quebec		New Strategies for the Development of Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Cancer and Arthritis
Feb 17	Daniel Cervantes Laurean South Dakota State University		The 20S Proteasome Role in Coping with Oxidative Stress in Skin Cells
Feb 24	Theodore Goodson, III University of Michigan		Investigations of Light Harvesting and Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Properties in Organic Dendrimers and Branched Macromolecules
Mar 1	Richard Holz Utah State University		Co-Catalytic Metallopeptidases as Pharmaceutical Targets
Mar 3	Alvin L. Crumbliss Duke Universit		Iron Transport in Man and Microbes: The BioInorganic Chemistry of Mammalian and Bacterial Transferrins
Mar 7	John Bagu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory		Magnetic Resonance Studies of Proteins, Tissues, and Mice
Mar 10	Doina Ganea Rutgers University		Immunosuppressive Neuropeptides: The Dendritic Cell → Treg Axis
Mar 21	Vitaliy Gorbatyuk University of Connecticut Health Center		Enyne Metathesis: Scope, Selectivity and Application
Mar 24	Daesung Lee University of Wisconsin - Madison	Mukund Sibi	Pairing Little Electrons in Big Molecules. Applications Transition Metal and Biological Chemistry
Mar 29	Ekkehard Sinn University of Missouri-Rolla		Pairing Little Electrons in Big Molecules. Applications Transition Metal and Biological Chemistry
Mar 31	Xini Zhang Johnson & Johnson	Mukund Sibi	Process Research in Early Drug Development
Apr 7	Georg Schreckenbach University of Manitob		Theoretical Actinide Molecular Science
Apr 18	Royce W. Murray University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Broberg Lecture	Publishing Chemistry: Process, Ethics, Libraries, and the Web
Apr 19	Royce W. Murray University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Broberg Lecture	Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Metal Quantum Dots
Apr 21	Guille Bozzolo NASA Glenn Research Center		Applied Computational Materials Modeling: Theory, Experiment, and Simulations
Apr 25	Helena Malinakova University of Kansas		New Palladium-Mediated Reactions for Asymmetric Organic Synthesis
Mar 3	Michael Kerr University of Western Ontario		The Development of a HOMO-3+2-dipolar Cycloaddition: Application to the Synthesis of nakadomarin A
May 5	Doug Linder North Dakota State University		Fe-N-O Bonding in {FeNO}6 Heme-Thiolate Model Complexes: Implications Toward Reactivity of Coordinated NO
May 12	Troy Wymore Pittsburgh Supercomuting Center		Simulations of Enzyme Reactions using Hybrid Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Potentials
May 26	Ted M. Pappenfus University of Minnesota, Morris		Synthesis and Characterization of Organic Materials for Electronic Devices
Jun 9	Jonathan Geiger University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences		Adenosine Receptor Activation Regulates Matrix Metalloproteinase Activity
Jun 13	Gaylen Bradley Penn State College of Medicine		The Biologic Role(s) of the Metalloprotease Meprin b in Mice and Man
July 11	Sunggak Kim Korea Advanced Inst. of Science & Technology		Radical Chemistry

Department Seminars 2003-2004
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Sep 5	Jim Green University of Windsor		Cobalt Stablized Propargyl Dication Equivalents and Cycloheptyne Complexes in Organic Synthesis
Sep 11	Qizhuang Ye University of Kansas		Discovery of Inhibitors for Metal-Substituted Methionine Aminopeptidases by High Throughput Screening
Sep 18	Martin Pomerantz University of Texas-Arlington		Studies of Polythiophenes and Model Systems
Sep 26	Mark S. Gordon Iowa State University		A Cluster-Based Approach to Solvation
Oct 2	Franklin A. Davis Temple University		Asymmetric Synthesis of Amine Derivatives Using Sulfinimines (N-Sulfinyl Imines)
Oct 9	Rich Kjonaas Indiana State University		Triorganozincates and Dilithio Acetoacetate: Novel Carbanion-Type Reagents in an Undergraduate Research Program
Oct 16	Kirk S. Schanze University of Florida		Exciton Transport in Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: Fundamentals and Applications to Biosensors
Oct 28	Qun Treen Huo NDSU, Polymers and Coatings		Monolayer Thin Film Materials and Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Study, and Application
Oct 30	Tom Rauchfuss University of Illinois		Molecular Boxes and their Host-Guest Chemistry
Nov 5	Tris Chivers University of Calgary, Canada		The Imido Ligand in Main Group Element Chemistry: Rings, Radicals and Metal Complexes
Nov 13	David Lewis University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire		Russian Contributions to the Early Development of Organic Chemistry
Dec 4	Brian Gibney Columbia University		Lessons in Cytochrome Engineering from De Novo Heme Proteins
Dec 8	Dev Arya Clemson University		A Panacea for Targeting Nucleic Acids: The Case for Neomycin
Jan 5	Glenn Dorsam University of California, San Francisco		The Transcriptional Regulation of Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide Receptor - 1 (VPACR-1) by Ikaros
Jan 7	Tiebang Kang Florida State University		The Molecular Mechanism for Intracellular Activation of Human Adamlysin 19/ADAM19
Jan 12	Jayne Garno National Institute of Standards and Technology		A Nanoengineering Approach for Structural Characterization, Nanofabrication, and Properties Measurements at Surfaces
Jan 14	Rui-An Wang University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center		Cell Signaling-- from Cytoplasm to Nucleus
Jan 15	Daochun Kong National Institute of Health		Initiation of Chromosomal DNA Replication in Yeast Schizosacchromyces pombe and Metazoa
Jan 16	Stephen Miller Princeton University		Small Talk: The Chemical Basis of Interspecies Bacterial Communication
Jan 29	David Berkowitz Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln		Recent Developments at the Interface of Synthetic Organic and Enzymatic Chemistry
Feb 2	Adam Weinglass University of California, Los Angles		Exploring the Structure, Function and Mechanism of Membrane Transport Proteins
Feb 23	Paula Croonquist University of Minnesota		Gene Expression Profiling and Candidate Gene Approach for the Study of Multiple Myeloma
Feb 26	Greg Gillispie Dakota Technologies, Inc.		SNP Genotyping and DNA Hybridization Assays Based on DTI’s Fluorescence Lifetime Technology
Mar 22	Nita J. Maihle Obstetrics & Gynecology Department of Yale School of Medicine		Soluble EGF/Erb B Receptor Isoforms: Form, Function and Potential Utility as Serum Biomarkers in Cancer Patients
May 12	Christopher J. Petzold University of California, Berkeley		Mass Spectrometric Identification of Phosphorylated and Sulfated Carbohydrates
May 18	Jinhai Wang North Dakota State University		Determination of Surface Active Sites with Vibrational Spectroscopy
May 26	D. Wayne Goodman Texas A &M University		Catalysis by Supported Metal Nanoclusters: What’s New?
Jun 30	Tarasankar Pal Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India		Photochemical Approach to Synthesize Mono- and Bimetallic Nanomaterials for Spectroscopic and Catalytic Application

Department Seminars 2002-2003
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Sep 16	Michael Harmata University of Missouri - Columbia		From Benzothiazines to 4+3 Cycloaddition Reactions and Beyond
Oct 4	Takeshi Kitahara University of Tokyo		Stereoselective Synthesis of Heterocycles with Remarkable Bioactivities
Oct 11	Rigoberto Advincula University of Houston		Nanostructural Organic and Polymer Materials: From Ultrathin Film to Nanoparticles
Oct 17	Chris Schmid Eli Lilly and Company		A Convergent Kilogram Scale Preparation of PPAR alpha Agonist LY518674. Discovery of a Novel Trazolone Synthesis
Nov 7	Gene Homandberg University of North Dakota		A Model of Osteoarthritis Based on Amplification of Catabolism by the Damaged Cartilage Matrix
Nov 14	Kenneth Nicholas University of Oklahoma		Transition Metal-Catalyzed Nitrogenation of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons- Adventures and Advances
Nov 18	Huw Davies University of Buffalo		Discovery of New Catalytic Asymmetric Reactions for Organic Synthesis
Nov 21	Piotr Piecuch Michigan State University		New Ideas in Electronic Structure Theory: Method of Moments of Coupled-Cluster Equations
Ded 5	Steven Zimmerman University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign		Supramolecular Polymer Chemistry
Dec 12	Ann Smith University of Missouri - Kansas City		The hemopexin heme transport system: cellular defense against heme-mediated oxidative stress
Feb 20	Bill Pennington Clemson University		Crystal Engineering through Halogen Bonding
Mar 7	Nabuo Kato Kyushu University		Clarification of Terpenoid Biosynthesis to Provide Derivatives of Parent Natural Products: Fusiccocin Case Study
Mar 13	Judith Burstyn University of Wisconsin		Copper(II) Macrocycles as Synthetic Hydrolases
Mar 20	Tom Hoye University of Minnesota		Powerful Yet Practical 1H NMR Methods for Interrogating Reactions and Deducing Structure
Mar 21	Tom Hoye University of Minnesota		Strategies for Natural Product Synthesis
Mar 21	Roger Anderson University of California - Santa Cruz		Achromatic lenses for polar molecules: mass spectroscopy without ionization”
Apr 3	Richard Larock Iowa State University		Synthesis of Carbocycles and Heterocycles via Palladium Catalysis
Arp 7	Greg Friestad University of Vermont		Radical Addition to Hydrazones: Versatile Carbon-Carbon Bond Constructions for Asymmetric Amine Synthesis
Apr 10	Vladimir Gevorgyan University of Illinois at Chicago		Development of Novel Transition Metal-Catalyzed Synthetic Methodologies
Apr 14	T.V. RajanBabu The Ohio State University		Stereoselective synthesis with olefins and acetylenes. Ligands,Counterions and other Control Elements
Apr 15	Tom Bitterwolf University of Idaho		Photochemistry of Iron Tetrahedranes
Apr 17	Sourav Bhunia Biomed		An Artificial Heart

Department Seminars 2001-2002
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Aug 30	Joseph Eaton North Dakota State University		Mass Spectrometry and Ionization Spectroscopy of Clusters
Sep 4	Gregory Cook North Dakota State University		Why Allyl? Selective Synthesis with Allyl Organometallics
Sep 6	Andres Campiglia North Dakota State University		Can we find the needle in the haystack?
Sep 11	Sanku Mallik North Dakota State University		Towards Molecular Recognition of Proteins
Sep 13	Eric Anslyn Univeristy of Texas-Austin		Organic Chemistry Approaches to Single and Multi Analyte Sensing
Sep 18	Norman Barisci Univeristy of Texas-Austin		Electrochemical Properties and Applications of Carbon Nanotube Electrodes.
Sep 27	William Buhro Washington University		Monodisperse Main-group Metallic Nanoparticles as Catalysts for Semiconductor Quantum-Wire Growth
Oct 24	Shuji Kanemasa Kyushu University		TBA
Oct 25	John Endicott Wayne State University		The Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Electron Transfer
Oct 26	Prof. Roger Anderson UC Santa Cruz		TBA
Nov 1	Richard Franck Hunter College CUNY		C-Glycosides via the Ramberg-Backlund Reaction
Nov 13	David C. Johnson University of Oregon		TBA

Department Seminars 2000-2001
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Sep 12	Dr. Jin Cha Dept. of Chem., University of Alabama		Small Ring-Mediated Organic Synthesis
Sep 14	Ioannis Houpis Boehringer Ingelheim		Diastereoselective Michael Reaction, Gem-difluorination and Cu-Catalyzed Amination in the Synthesis of Important Pharmaceuticals
Sep 21	Dr. Sohrab Zarabian OCLI		A Novel-Design for Micro-Spectrometers (Enabling Mass Application of Spectroscopy.)
Sep 26	Dr. George Sheppard Abbott Laboratories		Traditional and Non-traditional Approaches to MMP Inhibitors.
Sep 28	Dr. Darryl Sasaki Sandia National Laboratory		Fictionalized Lipid Membranes: Self Assembled Systems and Optical Sensing.
Oct 2	Dr. Mario J. Molina Institute Professor Massachusetts Institute of Tech. 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry		Borberg Lecture
Oct 3	Dr. James Jackson Michigan State University		Hydrogen-Hydrogen Hydrogen Bonding: Structures, Reactivity, and Implications
Oct 5	Dr. Richard Lyons General Electric Energy & Environmental Research Co.		Unmixed Combustion: An Alternative to Fire
Oct 9	Dr. Gordon Gribble Dartmouth College		Chemistry of Wine Making Seminar will be held at the Alumni Center
Oct 10	Dr. Gordon Gribble Dartmouth College		Novel Indole Chemistry in the Synthesis of Natural Products
Oct 12	*Mary Ann Tucker, Esq.** VP & Assoc. General Counsil B.F. Goodrich *2000 NDSU Alumni Achievment Awardee		Technology, Patents and Prozac: The Thrill of Victory, the Depression of Defeat
Oct. 17	Dr. Robert Tucker The Tucker Group, LLC Brownsburg, Indiana		An Overview of Metallic and Ceramic Coatings
Oct 19	Dr. George O'Doherty University of Minnesota		TBA
Nov 2	Yuan-Ping Pang Mayo Clinic Cancer Center Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics		Structure-Based Approach to Farnesyltransferase Inhibitors
Nov 9	Dr. Lisa Rosenberg University of Manitoba		What can you and your transition metal catalyst do for each other? Synthetic targets in organophosphorus and organosilicon chemistry
Nov 14	Dr. Alok Singh Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC		Supramolecular Assemblies: Formation, Stabilization, and Applications.
Dec 5	Dr. Robert Hausinger Dept. of Biochemistry Michigan State University		Metallocenter Biosynthesis in Urease: More than a Nickel's Worth
Dec 7	Dr. Peter Beale University of Utah		The Chemistry of Enzymes That Bind Double Helical RNA
Dec 12	Jon Rainier Dept. of Chem, University of Arizona		Efficient Approaches to Bioactive Heterocycles
Dec 14	Prof. Philip Garner Dept. of Chemistry Case Western Reserve University		Alpha-Helical Peptide Nucleic Acids. A New Paradigm for Nucleic Acid Binding Molecules

Department Seminars 1999-2000
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Sep 9	Dave Tierney Northwestern		EPR-Detected NMR and the Biosynthesis of Nitric Oxide
Sep 16	Michael Vaksman University of Wisconsin-Superior		Studying Gas-Surface Interactions by Surface Light-Induced Drift
Sep 22-23	Daryle H. Busch University of Kansas Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor of Chemistry President of the American Chemical Society, 2000		Broberg Lecture
Sep 29	Dieter Schinzer University of Magdeburg, Germany		The Chemistry and Biology of Epothilones
Sep 30	Patrick Dussault University of Nebraska		Peroxide Natural Products: Biomedical Importance and Recent Synthetic Advances
Oct 4	Shuji Kanemasa Kyushu University		Enantioselective Diazoalkane Cycloadditions Catalyzed by Chiral Lewis Acids
Oct 14	Paul Herrinton Pharmacia & Upjohn		Preparation of Taxol Analogs
Oct 21	Andrew Sykes University of South Dakota		Chemical Sensing Using Electrochemistry and Luminescence
Oct 27	Nancy Totah University of Iowa		The Dihydropyrone Diels-Alder Reaction: Development and Applications
Oct 28	Robert Paine University of New Mexico		Expressions through Synthesis: From Molecules to Polymers to the Solid State
Nov 11	Richard Taylor University of Notre Dame		Synthetic Methods for Diversity Generation: From Structural to Conformational Libraries
Nov 18	Rita Majerle South Dakota State University		Dendrimers: Novel materials - their interfaces and interactions
Nov 29	Sheila David University of Utah		Recognition and Repair of Damaged and Mismatched DNA by the Fe-S Protein MutY
Dec 2	Cecelia Giuliv University of Minnesota - Duluth		Nitric Oxide in Mitochondria
Dec 9	Monique Cosman Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory		Structural and dynamic studies of modified DNA/repair protein complexes and an autoantigen implicated in multiple sclerosis

Department Seminars 1998-1999
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Sep 10-11	Janet Osteryoung Division of Chemistry National Science Foundation		Broberg Lecture
Sep 17	Kenton Rodgers North Dakota State University		Biological heme-based O₂ sensing and metalloporphyrin assemblies
Sep 24	Nicholas Geacintov New York University		Stereochemistry in Action: Structure-Biochemical Function Relationships in Environmental Aromatic Carcinogen-DNA Adducts.
Oct 1	Frank Rusnak Mayo Clinic		Redox regulation of signal transduction: Mechanistic and spectroscopic studies on the protein serine/threonine phosphatase calcineurin and the role of the active site dinuclear metal center.
Oct 22	Alaa Abd-El-Aziz University of Winnipeg		Organoiron Chemistry in the Production of Engineering Thermoplastics
Oct 27	Jeffery Wood SmithKline Beechem		Syntheses of Topotecan and SB 217242: Two Facets of Process Research and Development.
Nov 3	MariJean Eggen Dept. of Medicinal Chem. University of Kansas		Synthetic Approaches to the Cryptophycins and Their Analogues
Nov 4	Shinzo Seko Sumitomo Chemical Co.		Novel Aminations with Methoxyamine
Nov 12	Peter Wuts Pharmacia & Upjohn		Semisynthesis of Taxol. Sulfonamides as Protecting Groups
Dec 3	Andrew Mokhir North Dakota State University		Nature of pi-pi interactions in tetrapyrrolic aggregates.
Dec 8	Jeff Schultz University of Nebraska		Studies towards the synthesis of hydroperoxyeicosatetaenoic acids (HPETES)
Dec 10	Anthony Borgerding University of North Dakota		Practical Considerations for Applying High Speed GC to Environmental Studies
Jan 7	Seth Rasmussen University of Oregon		New Approaches to Functionalized Polythiophenes and Their Use in Ordered Solid-State Materials
Jan 11	Kelley Donaghy American University		Metal Interactions with Boranes, Carboranes and Thiaboranes
Jan 14	Will Rees Georgia Institute of Technology		Main Group Elements in Electronic Materials Chemistry: Some Recent Examples
Feb 1	Ulrich Bierbach University of Minnesota		Chemistry and target binding properties of nonclassical platinum antitumor compounds
Feb 4	John Montgomery Wayne State University		New Cyclizations and Multicomponent Couplings
Feb 8	John Belot Northwestern University		Chemistry for Advanced Materials. From Organic Synthesis to Inorganic Thin Films
Feb 12	Kay Brummond West Virginia University		Allenes, Alkynes and [2+2+1] Cycloadditions
Feb 25	Paul Kiprof University of Minnesota Duluth		High Oxidation State Transition Metal Arene Complexes
Mar 4	Donald Boerth University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth		Structure - Activity Studies of Mutagenicity and DNA Adduct Formation
Mar 29	Marek Majewski University of Saskatchewan, Canada		Enantioselective Deprotonation: A New Tool for Synthesis of Natural Products
Apr 8	Mark Hoffmann University of North Dakota		Theoretical Studies of Molecules with Unusual Chemical Bonds
Apr 15	Robert Malecza Michigan State University		Invention and Application of New Organostannane and Organosilane Mediated Reactions
Apr 29	Michael Patane Merck & Co., Inc.		Drug Discovery...Where to Begin?
Apr 30	Herbert Pöllmann Institute for Minerology and Geochemistry University of Halle, Germany		Metal-Metal Hydroxy-Salts: Natural Occurence, Synthesis and Applications
May 13	Randy Halcomb University of Colorado at Boulder		Developments in the Synthesis of Natural Products and Oligosaccharides

Department Seminars 1997-1998
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Aug 28	Dr. Bhanu P. S. Chauhan North Dakota State University		Transition Metal Catalyzed Activation of Si-C and/or Si-H Bonds: Variant Synthetic Strategies to Silicon Containing Synthons and Polymers
Sep 18	Dr. John Protasiewicz Case Western Reserve		Diphosphenes and Phosphinidene Complexes: Low Coordinate Phosphorus Centers Stabilized By Sterically Encumbered meta-Terphenyls
Sep 25	Dr. David Gosztola Argonne National Labs		Probing Photogenerated Electric Field Effects with Ultrafast Spectroscopy.
Oct 2	Dr. James A. Kaduk Amoco Corporation		Rietveld XRD Analysis for Crystal Structure Refinement and Analytical Chemistry
Oct 7	Dr. Mukund P. Sibi North Dakota State University		Tales of the Unexpected. Adventures in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Oct 16	Dr. Nikolay Gerasimchuk North Dakota State University		Chemistry of Cyanoximes and of their Complexes
Oct 23	Dr. Jim Burt Dakota Technologies, Inc.		Imaging of Surface Pressures with Luminescent Paints
Oct 30	Dr. Sithamalli Chandramouli North Dakota State University		Part 1: Approaches to the Synthesis of Tetronasin and Taxol Part 2: Intermolecular Free Radical Reactions in Solution and Solid Support
Nov 6	Dr. Irina P. Smoliakova University of North Dakota		The Use of ArSCl Adducts of Alkenes in Organic Synthesis
Nov 12	Risto Laitinen The University of Oulu - Finland		Chalcogen Ring Interconversion: Symbiosis of Theory and Experiment
Nov 13	Andrew Grant University of Winnipeg		Computational Evidence for Sulphur Participation in Biotin Chemistry
Nov 18	Dr. Dave Berkowitz U. Nebraska Lincoln		Synthetically Retuning Nature's Amino Acids and Lignans for Bioorganic Purposes
Nov 20	Mark Distefano University of Minnesota		Protein Chemistry: From Catalysis to Cancer and Beyond
Dec 4	Dr. Ronald Brisbois Hamline University		CpCo-Cyclobutadienyl-Bridged Cyclophanes, Ketene Cycloadditions, and Curriculum Development. Overview of an Undergraduate Research Program.
Dec 5	Dr. K. Paulvannan Affymax		Solid Phase Synthesis - a Tool for Drug Discovery

Department Seminars 1996-1997
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Sep 19	Richard Schwenz University of Northern Colorado
Sep 26	John Shay North Dakota State University
Oct 17	Jim Takacs University of Nebraska
Oct 31	John Bender University of Utah
Nov 27	Dale Ward University of Saskatchewan - Saskatoon
Dec 3	Geraldine Richmond University of Oregon
Jan 9	Dave Hawkinson University of South Dakota
Feb 6	Vern Feil North Dakota State University
Feb 13	Dan Falvey University of Maryland
Feb 27	Evguenii Kozliak University of North Dakota
Mar 6	Bruce Hamper Monsanto
Mar 10	Teizo Kitagawa Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji Okazaki, Japan
Mar 13	Samir Zard CNRS, Paris
Mar 20-21	Broberg Lecture: Bassam Shakhashiri University of Wisconsin-Madison
Apr 3	Craig Forsyth University of Minnesota
Apr 4	John Stille Eli Lilly
Apr 25	Thomas Loehr Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology
May 2	Leo Ochrymowycz University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
May 15	O.T. Beachley State University of New York-Buffalo
May 29	Leonard Interrante Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


Graduate Student Seminars 2011-2012
Date	Speaker	Advisor	Title
Sept 19	Sarah Freeman	Seth Rasmussen	Non-metal Magnets: The History of Ferromagnetism and Recent Work in Organic Magnets
Sept 20 9:30 am Ladd 114	Sean Evenson	Seth Rasmussen	ORGANIC MATERIALS UTILIZING FIRST AND SECOND GENERATION N-FUNCTIONALIZED DITHIENO[3,2-b:2’,3’-d]PYRROLES: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND APPLICATION TO ELECTRONIC DEVICES
Sept 26	Gunjan Piya	Stuart Haring	Homologous Recombination as a Mechanism to Repair Broken DNA in Eukaryotes
Oct 3	Junru Yu	D.K. Srivastava	P53 as a Tumor Suppressor Protein: Pathway and the Molecular Basis for its Regulatio
Oct 10	Shannon Anderson	Erika Offerdahl	Visual Cognition in Chemistry
Oct 17	Gaoyuan Ma	Mukund Sibi	Selective Aliphatic Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Oxidation
Oct 18	Steve Wanjara	Glenn Dorsam	MicroRNAs Orchestrate Polycomb Group Complexes that Represses Tumor Suppressor Genes in Cancer
Oct 24	Sejaa Al-Badrani	Glenn Dorsam	Directed Conversion of Alzheimer's Disease Patient Skin Fibroblasts into Functional Neurons
Oct 25	Akila Iyer	M. Erkan Köse	SYNTHESIS, PHOTOPHYSICS, AND APPLICATIONS OF C₆₀
Oct 31	Jeff Backous	Mukund Sibi	Cascade Reactions: Bridging the Gap between Lab and Nature
Nov 1	Josiah Bjorgaard	M. Erkan Köse	Excitation Energy Transfer in Molecular Systems and the Intermediate Coupling Regime
Nov 7	Elango Kumarasamy	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Molecular Sensors
Nov 8	Baris Yilmaz	M. Erkan Köse	Organic Field Effect Transistors (OFETs)
Nov 14	Nandini Vallavoju	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Click Chemistry and its Applications
Nov 15	Minfei Su	Sangita Sinha	Survival or Death: Crosstalk between Autophagy and Apoptosis
Nov 21	Ramkumar Moorthy	Mukund Sibi	Asymmetric Organocatalytic Cyclization and Cycloaddition Reactions
Nov 22	Casey McCausland	Seth Rasmussen	Nitrogen Fixation
Nov 28	David Hogle	Svetlana Kilina	Ab Initio Methods in Computational Chemistry and the Role of DFT
Nov 29	Kristin Wojciechowski	Mukund Sibi	Liquid Biofuels: A Generation of Sustainable Chemistry
Dec 2 1:30 pm SUDRO 27	Michael Mulholland	Seth Rasmussen	Toward Improved Detection of Organophosphate-Based Chemical Warfare Agents
Dec 5	Travis Leedahl	D.K. Srivastava	Histone Acetyltransferases: Function, Mechanism, and Medical Significance
Dec 8 1:00 pm Morrill 109	Mallikharjuna Rao Komarneni	Uwe Burghaus	Photocatalytic Oxidation of Methyl Chloride on Hematite Modified Titania Nanotube Arra
Jan 20 3:15 pm Ladd 114	Zhongjing Li	Wenfang Sun	Design, Synthesis, and Photophysical Study of Cu(I) Complexes for Potential Application in OLEDs
Mar 20 9:30 am Van Es 101	Travis Vander Steen	Glenn Dorsam	Biological Effects of VPAC 1 and 2 on Chemotaxis and its Regulation of the Tumor Suppressor Ikaros in Leukemic T Cells
Apr 13 8:00 am Ladd 114	Elango Kumarasamy	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Metal Functionalized (MCDs) Cyclodextrin as Supramolecular Vessels for Asymmetric Transformations
May 14 9:00 am Sudo 27	Anthony J. Ostlund	Greg Cook	Synthesis of Chiral Amines from Racemic Alcohols via Ni(II)-catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation
May 15 1:00 pm Ladd 114	Ryan Schwiderski	Seth Rasmussen	A New Class of N-Heteroacenes: Highly Electron Deficient Materials for use in Organic Electronic Devices
June 5 9:00 am Ladd 114	Mallikharjuna Rao Komarneni	Uwe Burghaus	Surface Chemistry Characterization of Hydrodesulfurization and Methanol Synthesis Model Nanocatalysts
July 16 10:00 am Ladd 114	Nandini Vallavoju	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Controlled Photo Release of Chemicals through Light Responsive Organogels
Aug 8 10:00 am Ladd 107	Narayanaganesh Balasubramanian	Greg Cook	Stereoselective Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions Using Indium and Bismuth: New Methods in Green Chemistry

Graduate Student Seminars 2010-2011
Date	Speaker	Advisor	Title
Aug 27 1:45 pm Sudro 22	Sumathra Manokaran	DK Srivastava	Influence of Active Site Ligands and Nanoparticle Surfaces on Human Carbonic Anhydrase Isozymes
Sep 21 2:15 pm Sudro 26	Bratati Ganguly	Killilea / Mallik	Differential Modulation of the Structural and Functional Characteristics of Human Matrix Metalloproteinase Isozymes upon Binding to Different Ligands.
Oct 4	Zhongjing Li	Wenfang Sun	Organometallic DNA Intercalator: Potential Gene-Regulation Modulator
Oct 11	Ruchi Khanna	Sangita Sinha	TOLL-Like RECEPTORS ( TLRs) AND RIG-I-Like RECEPTORS (RLRs) PATHWAYS: POTENTIAL IN MEDICINE AND THERAPEUTICS
Oct 18	Anthony J. Ostlund	Greg Cook	Ring-Closing Metathesis: A Perspective on RCM's Impact on Total Synthesis
Oct 25	Anant S. Gurung	Guodong Liu	Nanoparticle Based Drug Delivery Systems
Oct 29 2:00 pm Sudro 22	Keith Benton	Glenn Dorsam	The Epigenetic Regulation of Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide/Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating polypeptide (VPAC1) in CD4+ T Lymphocytes
Nov 1	Hui Xu	Guodong Liu	Nanomaterial-based Electrochemical Immunosensors and Immunoassays for the Detection of Proteins
Nov 8	Jing Zhang	Pinjing Zhao	Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carboxylation Using CO₂ as C₁ Source
Nov 15	Meenu Baloda	Guodong Liu	Microfluidic Devices (Lab-on-a-chip) Principle and Diagnostic Applications
Nov 22	Rajith Singh Manan	Pinjing Zhao	Transition-Metal-Mediated Reactions for Aromatic Carbon-Fluorine Bond Construction
Nov 23 2:30 pm Sudro 26	Kelsey Dunkle	Mukunk Sibi	Regio- and Enantioselective Nitrone Cycloadditions to Alkynones
Nov 29	Ashish Chakradhar	Uwe Burghaus	Surface Characterization by Electron Microscopy Techniques and Development of Helium Ion Microscopy
Dec 10 2:00 pm Sudro 22	Rebecca Hermann	Glenn Dorsam	Investigation of Ikaros-dependent Transcription of Novel VPAC1 Splice Variants during Epigenetic Transformation
Jan 26 2:00 pm Sudro 22	Digamber Rane	Mukund Sibi	Acyl Imidazole: A Promising Template for Asymmetric Lewis and Brønsted Acid Mediated 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions
Mar 18 8:15 am Sudro 22	Jacinta C. Uzoigwe	Derek Killilea	Biochemical and Molecular Analysis of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and Investigation of its Relationship to Crohn’s Disease in Humans
Mar 25 2:30 pm Sudro 22	Megan F. Palmer	Stuart Haring and Forensic DNA Facility	The Optimization of Whole Genome Amplification and Molecular Crowding for use in Forensic Low Copy Number Samples
May 17 9:30 am	Anoklase Jean-Luc Ayitou	Sivaguru Jayaraman	[2,2] Paracyclophanes as Templates for Photocatalysis
Jun 20 2:00 pm Ladd 114	Padmaja Ghospurkar	Stuart Haring	Nef as a Molecular Switch between HIV Latency and Infection

Graduate Student Seminars 2009-2010
Date	Speaker	Advisor	Title
Sep 28	Megan Palmer	Berch Henry Stuart Haring	Microfluidics: Big Questions Today, Small Answers Tomorrow
Sep 29	Sean Evenson	Seth Rasmussen	A New Class of Conjugated Polymer-Based Copolymers Incorporating a Zn(Salophen) complex for Enhanced Detection of Nitro-Aromatics and DMNB
Oct 5	Sreehari K. Seerla	Mukund Sibi	A New Concept for Catalysis: Combining Transition Metal Catalysis and Organocatalysis
Oct 8	Shakila Tobwala	D.K. Srivastava	Conformational Changes and Catalysis in Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 and 10
Oct 12	Kelsey Dunkle	Mukund Sibi	Allenes in Organic Synthesis
Oct 19	Tamer Alwaffai	Guodong Liu	Capillary Electrophoresis: A Powerful Analytical Tool
Oct 26	Anoklase Ayitou	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Synthetic Molecular Machines - Motors
Nov 2	Jing Yi	Wenfang Sun	Platinum Complexes as OLED Materials
Nov 9	Amber Moberg	Kent Rodgers	Acquisition of Iron by Gram Negative Bacteria
Nov 16	Michael Mulholland	Seth Rasmussen	A Comprehensive Overview of Organic Light Emitting Diode Devices Using Conjugated Organic Materials
Nov 23	Ryan Schwiderski	Seth Rasmussen	A Survey of Artificial, Non-nutritive, Sweeteners
Nov 30	Padmaja Ghospurkar	Stuart Haring	Cell Cycle Regulation: A system of Cellular Checks and Balances
Apr 7	Emilie E. Vomhof-DeKrey	Glenn Dorsam	Expression and Regulation of Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide Receptors in Murine T Lymphocytes
Apr 20	Yoko Takahashi	Greg Cook	Preparation of Chiral Amines via Catalytic Enantioselective In-mediated Allylation & Synthesis of HDAC Inhibitors
Apr 28	Narayanaganesh Balasubramanian	Greg Cook	Mechanistic Investigation of Iron-Catalyzed Olefin Hydroarylation
May 6	Barry C. Pemberton	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Photoswitchable Dual Catalyst: An Exploratory Study
May 11	Jing Yi	Wenfang Sun	Synthesis and Photophysics of Platinum(II) Tridentate and Bidentate Complexes
May 11	Naveen Dandu	Mukund Sibi	Enantioselective Enolate Protonations: Friedel-Crafts Alkylations with alpha-Methylacrylates
May 13	Raushan K. Singh	D.K. Srivastava	Structural-Functional and Mechanistic Studies of Human Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor-gamma (PPAR-gamma)
Jun 11	Travis Van der Steen	Glenn Dorsam	DD3^PCA3 a Novel Prostate Cancer Gene and its Potential for Therapy
Jun 29	Jarrett Failing	Glenn Dorsam	The Tumor Suppressor VPAC1 is Differentially Regulated by Apoptosis and Proliferation in HuT 78 Lymphoblastic Human T Cells
Jul 14	Christopher L. Heth	Seth Rasmussen	Experimental and Theoretical Insights into the Oxidative Polymerization Mechanism of N-alkylaminothiophenes

Graduate Student Seminars 2008-2009
Date	Speaker	Advisor	Title
Aug 26	Landon Bladow	Mike Page	Theoretical Kinetics of Arsenic and Selenium Reactions Occurring Following Coal Combustion
Oct 10	Li Wen	Seth Rasmussen	Synthesis and Characterization of Thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine-based Low Band Gap Materials: Monomers, Oligomers, and Polymers
Oct 20	Richard Wienhold	John Hershberger	TBA
Nov 3	Narayanaganesh Balasubramanian	Greg Cook	Palladium(IV) Species in Organic Synthesis: Claims and Investigations
Nov 13	Chad Amb	Seth Rasmussen	Synthesis and Design of pi-Conjugated Ligands for Macromolecular Applications
Nov 17	Don Anton	Greg Cook	Sirtuins: New Targets for Anti-cancer Research
Nov 24	Barry Pemberton	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Photochromism - Molecules that Dance at Molecular Level
Nov 26	Brandon Gustafson	Mukund Sibi	3-Isoxazolidinome: A New Template for Enantioselective Diels-Alder Reactions
Jan 5	Digamber Rane	Mukund Sibi	Episulfides as Precursors for Tandem Radical Cyclization
Jan 16	Keith D. Benton	Glenn Dorsam	miR-491-3P Regulation of Cell Cycle Components Epidermal Growth Factor (EGFR) and Cyclin D1 (CCND1) in Gallbladder Carcinoma
Feb 25	Rebecca Hermann	Glenn Dorsam	BRCA1 Silencing of KLF8—New Implications for Breast Cancer
Mar 2	Naveen Dandu	Mukund Sibi	Milestones in Asymmetric Aminocatalysis
Mar 9	Christopher L. Heth	Seth Rasmussen	Ionic Liquids for Use in Lunar Liquid Mirror Telescopes
Apr 2	Yoko Takahashi	Greg Cook	A Strategy for Synthesis of Polycyclic Indoles
Apr 13	Mallikharjuna Rao Komarneni	Uwe Burghaus	Hydrogen Production Technologies
Apr 14	Zhiqiang Ji	Wenfang Sun	Synthesis and Photophysics of Platinum(II) Terpyridyl Complexes
May 4	Darci Block	Kent Rodgers	Biophysical Studies of Heme Assimilation Proteins from Pathogenic Bacteria
May 5	Iswarya Mathew	Wenfang Sun	Mononuclear and Dinuclear Platinum(II) Terdentate Complexes in Solution and in LB Film: Synthesis, Photophysics and Sensing Applications
May 7	Jon Nietfeld	Seth Rasmussen	Synthesis and Design of Extended Fused Ring Thieno[3,4-b]pyrazines: A Powerful Approach to Produce Low Band Gap Conjugated Materials
May 27	Erich Wilkerson	Glenn Dorsam	The 5TM VPAC1 Isoform Blocks cAMP Signaling Evoked from the Full-Length 7TM Receptor
Jun 22	Nitesh Sule	D.K. Srivastava	Catalysis and activation of Insulin Degrading Enzyme
Jun 23	Emilie E. Vomhof-DeKrey	Glenn Dorsam	MYCN Amplification Causes a Differential Regulation of miR-141 and miR-181b to Promote Neuroblastoma
Jun 25	Landon Bladow	Mike Page	Mixed Quantum-Classical Studies of Energy Partitioning in Unimolecular Chemical Reactions

Graduate Student Seminars 2007-2008
Date	Speaker	Advisor	Title
Aug 17	Jonathon Stack	Mike Page	Computational Studies in Chirality
Aug 28	Christopher Stopera	Mike Page	Simple Quantum-classical Reaction Path Dynamics: Energy disposal during HF elimination from Fluoroethane
Aug 30	Shamus Funk	Uwe Burghaus	Photo-oxidation of Organic Substrates on Anatase TiO2
Sep 17	John Goering	Uwe Burghaus	Developments in Methanol Fuel Cells
Oct 3	Levi Stanley	Mukund Sibi	Chiral Relay: A Promising Strategy in Enantioselective Catalysis
Oct 22	Travis VanderSteen	Glenn Dorsam	Identification of Cellular Characteristics by the Use of FACS
Oct 29	Jin-A Park	Greg Cook	Lewis Base Catalyzed Aldol Reaction Via Phosphoamide/SiCl4 Catalyst System
Nov 26	Jon Nietfeld	Seth Rasmussen	Organic Field Effect Transistors
Nov 27	Jacinta Uzoigwe	Derek Killilea	New Therapy for Colon Cancer Using Genetically Engineered Bifidobacterium Lactis Expressing Endostatin and Eubacterium Hallii Expressing HDAC Inhibitor
Dec 3	Sean Evenson	Seth Rasmussen	Solvent, Ligand, and Additive Effects on Transmetalation
Dec 4	Sumathra Manokaran	DK Srivastava	Peptide Deformylase - A Potential Antibacterial and Antimalarial Target
Dec 5	Bratati Ganguly	DK Srivastava	Structure, Function and Catalytic Mechanism of Sirtuins
Dec 7	Iswarya Matthew	Wenfang Sun
Feb 29	Shamus Funk	Uwe Burghause	Molecular Beam Scattering on Nano-Structurued Catalysts
Mar 13	Tian Lu	Wenfang Sun	Texaphyrin Derivatives: Synthesis and Photophysics
Mar 14	Robert Kargbo	Greg Cook	Asymmetric Addition of Organoindium Reagent to Hydrazones
Mar 20	Ryuji Hayashi	Greg Cook	Reactions Driven by Activation of Allylic Halides
April 4	Joel Lischefski	Denley Jacobson	The Volatility of PCBs in Paint
April 15	Wilfredo Cruz, JR	Mukund Sibi	Enantioselective Diels Alder Reaction with an Acetylenic Appended to a Pyrazoldinone
May 5	XiXi Song	Greg Cook	Bismuth-Mediated Barbier-Type Asymmetric Allylation Methodologies
May 7	Zhiqiang Ji	Wenfang Sun	Electron Transfer in Supramolecular Ensembles Mediated by Hydrogen Bonding
Jul 16	John Goering	Uwe Burghause	Surface Chemistry of Small Organic Molecules on Graphitic Systems

Graduate Student Seminars 2006-2007
Date	Speaker	Advisor	Title
Apr 23	Shakila Tobwala	DK Srivastava	Structure and Mechanism of Imidazole Glycerol Phosphate Synthase
May 9	Li Wen	Seth Rasmussen	Comb-Shaped Conjugated Copolymer Used for White Light Emitting Diode
May 10	Chad Amb	Seth Rasmussen	Synthesis of Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes for Photoboltaic Applications