Seminars 2009-2010
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 2009 | |||
| August | |||
| 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 |
| September | |||
| Sept 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 |
| Sept 17 | Tarek Sammakia University of Colorado, Boulder |
Mukund Sibi | Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Diazonamide A |
| October | |||
| 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 |
| November | |||
| 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 Rusterholz Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin-River Falls |
Kent Rodgers | Design and Synthesis of TRPV1 Antagonists - Potential Analgesic Agents |
| Spring 2010 | |||
| January | |||
| Jan 28 | Debashis Dutta Department of Chemistry, University of Wyoming, Laramie |
Guodong Liu | TBA |
| February | |||
| Feb 11 | Michael Rubin Department of Chemistry, Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, University of Kansas, Lawrence |
Pinjing Zhao | TBA |
| Feb 18 | Alex Brown Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada |
Uwe Burghaus | TBA |
| April | |||
| Apr 8 | Angel Kaifer Department of Chemistry, University of Miami, Florida |
Sivaguru Jayaraman | TBA |








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