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.
Tuesday January 8, 2013
4:45 p.m.
Alan G. Marshall, Florida State University
Mass Spectrometry of Intact Proteins: H/D Exchange Footprinting of Protein Complexes and Top-Down MS/MS for Residue-Specific Redox Potential Determination
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Mark Bier
Thursday, January 17, 2013
4:45 p.m.
Nicolay V. Tsarevsky, Southern Methodist University
Employing Transfer and Exchange Reactions in Polymer Synthesis
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Nicolay Tsarevsky graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2005 with a Ph.D. in chemistry.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
4:45 p.m.
Thomas R. Williamson, Merck
Stereochemical Challenges in a Fast-Paced World
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Roberto Gil
Thursday, January 31, 2013
4:45 p.m.
Luis A. Marky, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Biophysical Chemistry of Nucleic Acids: Romancing DNA Molecules
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Thursday, February 7, 2013
4:45 p.m.
Scott A. Showalter, Penn State
Folding-Upon-Binding Events Involving Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Roberto Gil
Thursday, February 14, 2013
4:45 p.m.
Benjamin G. Janesko, Texas Christian University
Nonlocal Density Functional Theory for Chemical Reactions
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Dave Yaron
Benjamin Janesko graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2005 with a Ph.D. in chemistry.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
4:45 p.m.
Gregory D. Scholes, University of Toronto
Design Principles for Light Harvesting
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Marcel Bruchez
Thursday, February 28, 2013
4:45 p.m.
Brad S. Pierce, University of Texas at Arlington
Mammalian Cysteine Dioxygenase (CDO): A Biophysical Perspective on a New Subclass of Mononuclear Non-Heme Iron Enzymes.
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Michael Hendrich
Brad Pierce graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2003 with a Ph.D. in chemistry.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
4:45 p.m.
Geoffrey Hutchison, University of Pittsburgh
Rational Design of Molecular Materials: Molecular Springs, Solar Cells & More
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Stefan Bernhard
Thursday, March 21, 2013
4:45 p.m.
Terry Collins, Carnegie Mellon University
Designing, Studying and Deploying TAML® Activators: Functional Small Molecule Replicas of Oxidizing Enzymes
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Thursday, April 4, 2013
4:45 p.m.
Sarah A. Woodson, Johns Hopkins University
RNA Folding and Ribosome Assembly
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Thursday, April 11, 2013
4:45 p.m.
Peter Glazer, Yale University School of Medicine
Targeted Genome Modification via Triple Helix Formation
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Danith Ly
Friday, April 12, 2013
1:45 p.m. (Refreshments at 1:30)
Binghe Wang, Georgia State University
Targeting Carbohydrate-based Biomarkers Using Synthetic Lectin Mimics
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Bruce Armitage
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:45 p.m.
Masad J. Damha, McGill University
Chemical Synthesis & Applications of DNA & RNA Analogues: Mimicking Nature's Strategy for Turning Genes "Off and ON"
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Subha R. Das
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
3:30 p.m.
Chuanbing Tang, Georgia State University
Advancing Metallocene Polymers: from Controlled Polymerization to Macromolecular Templates and Medicinal Chemistry
Location: Mellon Institute Social Room
Host: Tomek Kowalewski
Chuanbing Tang graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2006 with a Ph.D. in chemistry.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
4:45 p.m.
Ken L. Knappenberger, Jr., Florida State University
Optical Plasmonic Nanoparticle Transducers Studied by Single-particle Spectroscopy
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Rongchao Jin
Cancelled
Monday, April 29, 2013
Hedi Mattoussi, Florida State University
Functional Nanocrystals and Clusters as Tunable Platforms for Chemical Reactions, Sensing and Imaging
Host: Marcel Bruchez
Thursday, May 2, 2013
4:45 p.m.
Laurence Hurley, The University of Arizona
DNA Secondary Structures Functioning as Molecular Switches in Transcriptional Control
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Bruce Armitage