Robert Jackson, Duke University
Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change: Some Science and Solutions
All the seminars are at 4:45 pm in the Mellon Institute Conference Room, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the seminar begins.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Robert Crabtree, Yale University
Organometallic Ir Precatalysts for Heteroarene Hydrogenation, Water Oxidation & CH Activation
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Kevin Noonan
Thursday, January 26, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Samie R. Jaffrey, Cornell University
RNA mimics of GFP: Fluorescent imaging of small molecule using sensors composed of RNA
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Marcel Bruchez
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Sergei Tretiak, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dynamics of excitons and phonons at the nanoscale
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Linda Peteanu
Thursday, February 9, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Virginia Cornish, Columbia University
TMP-Tag: A Chemical Surrogate to the Fluorescent Proteins for Live Cell Imaging
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Marcel Bruchez
Thursday, February 16, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Yaroslava Yingling, North Carolina State University
Nucleic acid materials: insights from molecular dynamics simulations
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Dave Yaron
Cancelled
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Art Ragauskas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Newell Washburn
time change
Friday, March 2, 2012
11:45 a.m.
François Gabbaï, Texas A&M University
Lewis acidic properties of heavy onium ions
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Kevin Noonan
time change
Thursday, March 8, 2012
2:45 p.m.
LaShanda Korley, Case Western Reserve University
Tunable Mechanics via Strategies from Nature
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Richard McCullough
Thursday, March 15, 2012
4:45 p.m.
De-en Jiang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Molecular Metallurgy of Gold from First Principles
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Rongchao Jin
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Christine Chow, Wayne State University
The Role of Modified Nucleotides in rRNA Structural Rearrangements
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Subha Das
Thursday, March 29, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Matt Hartman, Virginia Commonwealth University
New chemical biology approaches applied to drug delivery and inhibition of protein-protein interactions
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Subha Das
Thursday, April 12, 2012
12:00 p.m.
Marc Greenberg, Johns Hopkins University
Nucleic Acid Damage Chemistry in Naked DNA and Nucleosomes
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Bruce Armitage
Thursday, April 12, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Dave Thirumalai, University of Maryland
Gene Regulation by Riboswitches: From Folding Landscape to System Level Description
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
time and date change
Friday, April 13, 2012
3:00 p.m.
Lei Zhai, University of Central Florida
Conjugated Polymers on Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
Location: Mellon Institute Social Room
Host: Richard McCullough
Lei Zhai graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2002 with a Ph.D. in chemistry.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Robert Jackson, Duke University
Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change: Some Science and Solutions
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Mark Bier
Friday, April 20, 2012
3:00 p.m.
Michael A. Hickner
Ion and Water Motion in Self-Assembled Polymers
Location: Mellon Institute Room 448
Host: Kevin Noonan
Thursday, April 26, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Curtis Berlinguette, University of Calgary
Extending the Warranty of the Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Hosts: Catalina Achim and Stefan Bernhard
Thursday, May 3, 2012
2:30 p.m.
Flavio Maran, University of Padova
Superefficient Electron Transfer through 310-Helical Peptides
Host: Catalina Achim
Location: University of Pittsburgh, Chevron Science Center Ashe Auditorium
Joint Seminar with University of Pittsburgh
Thursday, May 3, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Anthony Chianese, Colgate University
Alkane Dehydrogenation and Alkene Isomerization Catalyzed by Iridium-CCC-Pincer Complexes
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Hyung Kim
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Jeffrey Pyun, University of Arizona
Polymerizing Goblins and Brimstone for Energy Applications
Location: Mellon Institute Room 448
Host: Tomek Kowalewski
Thursday, May 10, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Peter Glazer, Yale University
Targeted gene editing in human cells via triplex formation
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Danith Ly