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, January 29, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Gary D. Patterson, Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Faraday as a Chemist
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Yisong Guo
Thursday, February 5, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Matthias Koeck, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
Marine Natural Products as a Challenge for Structure Elucidation by NMR SpectrosÂcopy and Mass Spectrometry
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Roberto R. Gil
Thursday, February 12, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Francine Palmer, Solvay
Sustainable Chemistry at Solvay: A New Model of Research & Innovation
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Newell R. Washburn
Thursday, February 19, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Feifei Li, New Mexico State University
Probing Reaction Mechanism: From Nonheme Iron Centers to a Photoreceptor Protein
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Yisong Guo
Thursday, February 26, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Soumitra Basu, Kent State University
Three Tales with One Protagonist: the Enigmatic G-quadruplex
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Bruce Armitage
Thursday, March 12, 2015
4:30 p.m.
John S. Wilkes, United States Air Force Academy
Chemistry Of and In Ionic Liquids
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Hunaid Nulwala
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Richard E. Olson, Bristol Myer Squibb
Lessons in the Search for Alzheimer's Therapies
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Danith Ly
Thursday, March 19, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Floyd E. Romesberg, The Scripps Research Institute
Expansion of the Genetic Alphabet
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Bruce Armitage
Friday, March 27, 2015
2:30 p.m.
Cristina Facchini, ISAC-CNR (Bologna), Italy
Organic Aerosol Research at a Global Air Pollution Hotspot—the Po Valley, Italy
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Ryan Sullivan
Thursday, April 2, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Graham Cooks, Purdue University
Chemical and Materials Synthesis with the Mass Spectrometer
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Mark E. Bier
Thursday, April 9, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Kalina Hristova, John Hopkins University
Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF) Receptors: Dimerization, Structure, and Function
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maria Kurnikova
Thursday, April 16, 2015
4:30 p.m.
John D. Protasiewicz, Case Western Reserve University
Carbon- and Photo-Copying Organic Conjugated Materials with Phosphorus
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Kevin Noonan
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Robert Y. Kim, Vision Medicines
Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Research and Development
Introduction to Drug Discovery and Development
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Danith Ly
Thursday, April 23, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Vincent Rotello, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Interfacing Nanomaterials with Biology: Applications in Therapeutics and Diagnostics
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Subha R. Das
Thursday, April 30, 2015
4:30 p.m.
YuYe Jay Tong, Georgetown University
Irrelevance of CO Poisoning in Methanol Oxidation Reaction on PtRu Electrocatalyst
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Rongchao Jin
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Raghavan B. Sunoj, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Transition State Modeling in Asymmetric Catalysis: From Rationalizations to Catalyst Design
Location: Mellon Institute Social Room
Host: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Thursday, May 28th, 2015
4:30 p.m.
Rinaldo Poli, Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, Toulouse, France
A New Approach to Biphasic Catalysis Using a Polymeric Nanoreactor Platform
Location: Mellon Institute Social Room
Host: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski