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 28, 2016
4:30 p.m.
B. Reeja Jayan, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Molecular Scale Engineering of Hybrid Thin Film Materials for Energy Storage
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Newell R. Washburn
Postponed
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Jay Schneekloth, National Cancer Institute
Targeting Functionally and Structurally Diverse RNAs with Druglike Small Molecules
Host: Bruce Armitage
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
4:30 p.m.
James D. Burrington, The Lubrizol Corporation
Cationic Polymerization Using Heteropolyacid Salt Catalysts
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Newell R. Washburn
Thursday, February 25, 2016
4:30 p.m.
Tara Meyer, University of Pittsburgh
Sequence Matters: The Connection between Sequence and Properties in Copolymers
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Kevin Noonan
Thursday, March 3, 2016
4:30 p.m.
Venkat Viswanathan, Carnegie Mellon University
Towards electrolyte design principles for batteries and electrocatalysis
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Tomek Kowalewski
Thursday, March 10, 2016
4:30 p.m.
Charles A. Thornton, University of Rochester Medical Center
RNA Toxicity and its Treatment in Myotonic Dystrophy
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Danith Ly
Thursday, March 31, 2016
4:30 p.m.
Mindy Levine, University of Rhode Island
Macrocycle-Promoted Energy Transfer: From Fundamental Science to Applied Toxicant Detection
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Stefanie A. Sydlik
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
4:30 p.m.
Wenyu Huang, Iowa State University
Control Heterogeneous Catalysts for Superior Catalytic Properties
Location: Mellon Institute Social Room
Host: Rongchao Jin
Thursday, April 7, 2016
4:30 p.m.
Christina M. Thiele, Technical Institute of Darmstadt
Using NMR-spectroscopy to Investigate Structure and Dynamics of Organic and Organometallic Compounds
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Roberto Gil
Postponed
Friday, April 8, 2016
3:30 p.m.
Yimon Aye, Cornell University
Switching Gears: Ribonucletoide Reductase Antagonizes Cell Proliferation
Location: Mellon Institute Social Room
Host: Bruce Armitage
Monday, April 11, 2016
4:30 p.m.
E. W. (Bert) Meijer, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Netherlands)
Non-covalent Synthesis of Functional Superamolecular Systems
Location: Mellon Institute Social Room
Host: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Thursday, April 14, 2016
4:30 p.m.
Chris Meier, Universität Hamburg (Germany)
Developing Prodrugs of Antivirally Active Nucleoside Triphosphates — Against All Odds, It Works!
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Subha R. Das
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
4:30 p.m.
Kevin Noonan, Carnegie Mellon University
Exploring Sequence and Functionality in Controlled Polycondensation of Semiconducting Polymers
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Yisong Guo
Thursday, April 21, 2016
4:30 p.m.
Anne J. McNeil, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Catalyst-Transfer Polycondensation (CTP): Challenges and Opportunities
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Kevin Noonan
Friday, April 22, 2016
1:00 p.m.
Ryan Sullivan, Carnegie Mellon University
Probing the Evolution of Atmospheric Particles and Their Ice Nucleation Properties Using Single-Particle Techniques
Location: 100 Porter Hall
Host: Steinbrenner Institute
Thursday, April 28, 2016
4:30 p.m.
Wenbin Lin, University of Chicago
Molecular Materials for Sustainability and Human Health
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Stefan Bernhard
New Date
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
4:30 p.m.
Dean E. Wilcox, Dartmouth College
Thermodynamics of Metalloprotein Reduction from Calorimetric Measurements of Metal Binding
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Catalina Achim
Thursday, May 5, 2016
4:30 p.m.
Jonathan Owen, Columbia University
The Synthesis and Coordination Chemistry of Metal Chalcogenide Nanocrystals
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Rongchao Jin
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
4:30 p.m.
Bernard Crimmins, Clarkson University
Proactive Screening for Toxins in Great Lakes Fish by Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Methods
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Catalina Achim
Friday, May 13, 2016
4:30 p.m.
Lixin Zhang, CAS Institute of Microbiology (China)
Overcome Drug Resistance from Natural Products
Location: Mellon Institute Social Room
Host: Alex Guo