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.
Thursday, August 27, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Frank Stiemke, Iolitec Inc.
Ionic Liquids — From Lab Curiosities to Industrial Demands and Applications
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Hunaid Nulwala
Thursday, September 3, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Brent S. Sumerlin, University of Florida
Synthesis of Stimuli-Responsive Polymers Capable of Structurally Dynamic Assembly
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Thursday, September 10, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Ilya Zharov, University of Utah
Functional Membranes Materials Based on Polymer Brush Nanoparticles
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Thursday, September 17, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Veronica Vaida, University of Colorado Boulder
Sunlight and Water — Agents of Chemical Complexity in the Environment
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Hosts: Catalina Achim and Neil Donahue
Thursday, September 24, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Wei You, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Conjugated Polymers for Highly Efficient Solar Cells: Novel Design Facilitated by Fundamental Understanding of PBnDT-FTAZ
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Kevin Noonan
Thursday, October 8, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Anton A. Komar, Cleveland State University
Unlocking the Secrets of the Genetic Code: Choice of Synonymous Codons Governs Co-Translational Folding and Affects Protein Structure
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Marcel Bruchez
Thursday, October 15, 2015
4:30 p.m.
A. Douglas Kinghorn, The Ohio State University
Anticancer Lead Compound Discovery from Tropical Plants
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Gloria Silva
Thursday, October 22, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Yiying Wu, The Ohio State University
Dye Sensitization for Solar Fuels and Solar Batteries
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Rongchao Jin
Thursday, October 29, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Junko Yano, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Taking Snapshots of Photosynthetic Water Oxidation using Femtosecond Pulses from an X-ray Free Electron Laser
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Mike Hendrich
Thursday, November 5, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Paul King, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Coupling Photoexcited Electron-Transfer to Redox Enzymes for Structure-Function Analysis of Chemical Reactions
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Alex Guo
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
4:30 p.m.
James Smith, University of California, Irvine
Understanding the Chemical Processes That Affect Growth Rates of Atmospheric Nanoparticles
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Ryan Sullivan
Thursday, November 12, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Mark Bier, Carnegie Mellon University
Non-native Based Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Virus and other Nanoparticles
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Alex Guo
Cancelled
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Scott Blanchard, Cornell University
Imaging Functional Dynamics of Individual Membrane Proteins Using Single-Molecule Fluorescence
Host: Marcel Bruchez
Thursday, December 3, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Martin J. Schnermann, National Cancer Institute
Heptamethine Cyanine Near-IR Uncaging Chemistry: Discovery and Applications
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Bruce Armitage