All the seminars are at 4:30 pm in the Mellon Institute Conference Room, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the seminar begins.
Wednesday August 14, 2013
3:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Fritzsche, Institute for Photonics Technologies, Jena, Germany
Bioanalytics using single plasmonic nanostructures
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Catalina Achim
Thursday, August 29, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Yue Wu, Purdue University
Advanced Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials for Waste Heat Recovery
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Rongchao Jin
Thursday September 5, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Mitchell Winnik, University of Toronto
Metal-chelating Polymers Designed for Biomedical Applications
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Kris Matyjaszewski
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Alan S. Waggoner, Carnegie Mellon University
Maxwell H. and Gloria C. Connan Professor of Life Sciences and Director of Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center
Fluorescent Biosensors for Cell Regulation Pathways
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Thursday, September 19, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Dmitri Ermolenko, University of Rochester
Mechanics of Ribosome Translocation
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Friday, September 27, 2013
2:30 p.m.
Alumni Achievement Award
Kathryn L. Beers, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Improving Measurement Methods for Copolymerizations and Polymer Brushes
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Reception to Follow
Kathryn Beers will receive an Alumni Achievement Award on Friday, September 27, 2013 at Céilidh Weekend. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2000 with a Ph.D. in chemistry.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Barry Gold, University of Pittsburgh
The Effect of DNA Damage on DNA Structure, Stability and Repair
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Malcolm D. E. Forbes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Photodynamic Therapy, Toils and Troubles: Problems Solved With Tiny Bubbles
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
4:30 p.m.
The Third Biennial John A. Pople Lectures in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
James T. Hynes, University of Colorado Boulder
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Jumps and Hydrogen Bonds: From Pure Water to DNA
Location: Mellon Institute Auditorium
Reception following lecture, Mellon Institute Lobby
Thursday, October 24, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Matthew Sfeir, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Quantifying Donor-Acceptor Interactions in Low Bandgap Polymer Heterostructures
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Linda Peteanu
Thursday, October 31, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Yuri L. Lyubchenko, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Director of Nanoimaging Core Facility
AFM Cinematography: Dynamics of Protein-DNA Complexes
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Thursday, November 7, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Yu Huang Wang, University of Maryland
Defect Rules: Chemical Strategies Toward Functional Carbon Nanomaterials
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Rongchao Jin
Thursday, November 14, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Hedi Mattoussi, Florida State University
Functional Nanocrystals and Clusters as Tunable Platforms for Chemical Reactions, Sensing and Imaging
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Marcel Bruchez
Thursday, November 21, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Jennifer Heemstra, University of Utah
Harnessing Nucleic Acid Molecular Recognition and Self-Assembly for Biosensing and Bioimaging
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Bruce Armitage
Thursday, December 5, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Marc Hillmyer, University of Minnesota
Sustainable block polymers: Tomorrow's advanced materials
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Newell Washburn