Carnegie Mellon University Department of Chemistry

Other seminars in the Mellon College of Science

Past Chemistry Seminars

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Seminars Spring 2013

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.

Departmental Seminar

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.

Departmental Seminar

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.

Departmental Seminar

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.

Departmental Seminar

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.

Departmental Seminar

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.

Departmental Seminar

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.

Departmental Seminar

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.

Departmental Seminar

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.

Departmental Seminar

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.

Departmental Seminar

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.

Departmental Seminar

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.

Departmental Seminar

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)

Departmental Seminar

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.

Departmental Seminar

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.

Departmental Seminar

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.

Departmental Seminar

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

Departmental Seminar

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.

Departmental Seminar

Laurence Hurley, The University of Arizona

DNA Secondary Structures Functioning as Molecular Switches in Transcriptional Control

Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room

Host: Bruce Armitage