Graduate programs in Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminars 2009-2010
Department Seminars
Seminars are usually held on Thursday afternoons in 152 Dunbar Hall unless otherwise noted. Seminars begin promptly at 4:00 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 B. Rusterholz Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin-River Falls |
Kent Rodgers | Design and Synthesis of TRPV1 Antagonists: Potential Analgesic Agents |
| December | |||
| Dec 7 4:00 pm |
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 |
| Spring 2010 | |||
| January | |||
| 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 |
| February | |||
| 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? |
| March | |||
| Mar 4 | Youngjae You Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, South Dakota State University |
Rajesh Murthy, Center for Protease Research | TBA |
| Mar 11 | Emmanuel Lacote Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moleculaire, Paris, France |
Mukund Sibi | HYBRID ARCHITECTURES: DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS |
| April | |||
| Apr 8 | Mihaela C. Stefan Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas |
Seth Rasmussen | TBA |
| Apr 15 | Angel Kaifer Department of Chemistry, University of Miami, Florida |
Sivaguru Jayaraman | TBA |
| 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 | TBA |
| May | |||
| May 6 | Leif Abrell Departments of Chemistry and Soil, Water & Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson |
Erika Offerdahl | TBA |
