Thursday, January 19, 2006

Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier, Northwestern University

Discovering New, Effective Oxide Catalysts

Host: Colin Horwitz

Monday, February 13, 2006

3:00 p.m.

Subha Das, University of Chicago

Chemical Dissection of Nucleobase Mediated Catalysis in the Hepatitis Delta Virus Ribozyme

Host: Bruce Armitage

Time change

Friday, February 24, 2006

10:30 a.m.

Anvar Zakhidov, University of Texas at Dallas

Transparent carbon nanotube sheets: preparation, properties and applications to solar cells and OLEDs

Host: Rick McCullough

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Gregory N. Tew, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Designing Synthetic Macromolecules with Strong Similarities to Biology

Host: Rick McCullough

Friday, March 10, 2006

10:00 a.m.

Hugh W. Hillhouse, Purdue University

A New Class of Electrodes: Controlling Structure at the 5 nm Length Scale

Host: Tomasz Kowalewski

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Daniel Appella, National Institute of Health

Highly Substituted Peptide Nucleic Acids that Improve DNA Detection

Host: Danith Ly

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Elias Towe, Carnegie Mellon, Electrical and Computer Engineering

From Atomic and Molecular Beams to Quantum Structures: A Route to Novel Materials for Infrared Detection and Imaging

Host: Catalina Achim

Tuesday, April 4, 2006

Janet R. Morrow, The State University of New York, Buffalo

Challenges in the design of synthetic nucleases: positioning the metal ion complex at the catalytic site for RNA cleavage

Host: Catalina Achim

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Akira Kawamura, CUNY-Hunter College

Rediscovery of natural products using genomic and proteomic tools

Host: Danith Ly

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Anne Baranger, Wesleyan University

Recognition of single-stranded RNA by proteins and small molecules

Host: Danith Ly

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

Andrew Brodie, Massey University, New Zealand

Towards Metal-Rich Molecular Scaffolds

Host: Terry Collins