About the Department
Seminars Spring 2009
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, February 26, 2009
Thomas Gray, Case Western Reserve University
Gilded Organometallics
Host: Catalina Achim
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Special time: 12:00 pm
Paula Diaconescu, University of California, Los Angeles
Reactions of heterocycles with electrophilic ferrocene diamide complexes
Mellon Institute Social Room
Pizza will be served 15 minutes before the start of the seminar.
Host: Catalina Achim
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Daniel Savin, University of Southern Mississippi
Organogels and Stimuli Responsive Micelles from Polypeptide-based Block Copolymers
Host: Bruce Armitage
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Rod Ruoff, University of Texas, Austin
Graphene Based Materials
Location: Mellon Institute Social Room
Host: Tomek Kowalewski
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Kurt Warncke, Emory University
Structure and Dynamics in B12 Enzyme Catalysis
Host: Michael Hendrich
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Paul L. Richardson, Abbot Lab
Protease Drug Discovery Tools — Rapid Determination of the Primary Specificity of Proteases; Longer Wavelength FRET Substrates for Protease Protease-Coupled Assays
Host: Bruce Armitage
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Joanne Yeh, University of Pittsburgh Medical School
Structural Mapping of Glycerol Metabolic Pathway
Host: Catalina Achim
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Special time: 12:00 pm
Henning Sirringhaus, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Organic Semiconductors for Flexible Electronics
Host: Tomek Kowalewski
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Alexander Deiters, North Carolina State University
Light and Small Molecules as Tools for the Regulation of Biological Processes
Host: Bruce Armitage
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Samuel Stupp, Northwestern University
Crafting Nanostructures for Regenerative Medicine and Soft Electronics
Host: Kris Matyjaszewski
Thursday, April 23, 2009
George Wheeler, Columbia University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Alkoxysilanes and the Consolidation of Stone
Host: Paul Withmore
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Alexey Ladokhin, University of Kansas Medical Center
pH-Triggered Membrane Protein Insertion: Thermodynamic and Kinetic Aspects
Host: Maria Kurnikova
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Brad Chaires, University of Louisville
Uncovering the Energetic Basis of G-quadruplex Stability
Host: Danith Ly