Seminar Schedule, Spring Semester, 2010

Jan 11

Monday

Part I. Understanding the Construction of the A-Cluster of Acetyl CoA Synthase: Investigating the Proximal Nickel site through resin-bound complexes.

Part II. Utilizing computational chemistry to rationalize water exchange rates of PARACEST complexes.

Dr. Kayla Green, Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Jan 14

Thursday

Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers via Ring-Expansion Metathesis Polymerization.

Dr. AJ Boydston

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Jan 21

Thursday

Heterogeneous chemistry of atmospheric aerosols.

Dr. Alexei Khalizov, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Jan 26

Tuesday

Fragmentation Pathways of Protonated Peptides.

Dr. Bela Paizs

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Jan 27

Wednesday

Developing Protein Models from Known Structures.

Dr. William Noid, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Feb 10

Wednesday

Functional Conducting Metallopolymer Materials.

Dr. Bradley Holliday, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Texas, Austin

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Feb 11

Thursday

LiCB₁₁(CH₃)₁₂ Catalyzed radical polymerization and grafting of isobutylene.

Dr. Victoria Volkis

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Feb 17

Wednesday

To Bond or Not to Bond? Questions in the Bonding of Main Group Elements, Transition Elements, and Combinations of the Two.

Dr. John Berry, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Feb 19

Friday

Structures and Binding Energies of Ionic Complexes from Guided Ion Beam Tandem Mass Spectrometry and IRMPD Action Spectroscopy.

Dr. Mary Rodgers, Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University

Room 107, 4:00 pm

 

Feb 24

Wednesday

Robinson Lectures Series

What is the Hype about Nanotechnology.

Dr. Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Tech

Room 107, 7:30 pm

 

Feb 25

Thursday

Robinson Lectures Series

Confining Photons in Metallic Gold on the Nanoscale; Properties and Applications in Nanobiology and Cancer Therapy.

Dr. Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Tech

Room 107, 3:30 pm

 

Mar 3

Wednesday

Aerosol Synthesis of Shape- and Architecturally-Controlled Particles.

Dr. Sara Skrabalak, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Mar 4

Thursday

Glycomics and Glycoproteomics in Disease Biomarker Discovery.

Dr. Yehia Mechref

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Mar 10

Wednesday

Development of Novel Polymeric Dielectric Materials.

Dr. Shawn Dirk, Sandia National Labs

Room 113, 1:00 pm

 

Mar 10

Wednesday

Direct Imaging of Atmospheric Radical Photochemistry: From Energetics to Detailed Dynamics.

Dr. Simon North, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Mar 24

Wednesday

Lipid Signaling: the Molecular Glue to Physiological Function.

Dr. Sam Wang, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Mar 31

Wednesday

Interpreting ion adsorption at the mineral-water interface of nano- and micro-crystalline TiO2 phases: Application of surface complexation models.

Dr. Moira Ridley, Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Apr 7

Wednesday

Molecular Recognition and Sensing of Peptides by Self-Assembled Synthetic Receptors.

Dr. Adam Urbach, Department of Chemistry, Trinity University

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Apr 14

Wednesday

Hierarchical Self-organization of Molecular Materials.

Dr. Juan Noveron, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, El Paso

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Apr 19

Monday

Supramolecular Chirality is the Result of Conformational Memory.

Dr. Hicham Fenniri, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Apr 21

Wednesday

New stimuli-responsive macromolecules: polymer-protein bioconjugates and ‘sweet tooth' micelles.

Dr. Brent S. Sumerlin, Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

Apr 28

Wednesday

Screening and Characterization of High Affinity ssDNA Aptamers against Anthrax Protective Antigen.

Dr. Sung-Kun Kim, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University

Room 113, 4:00 pm

 

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