Seminar Schedule
FALL 2007 |
September 6
|
Dr. Matthew Becker
Research Chemist
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
“Combinatorial Methods for Tissue Engineering: New Approaches for Characterizing the Material Interface"
Host: Prof. Sankaran Thayumanavan
Dr. Becker's website |
September 13
|
Professor Vijay T. John
Department of Chemical Engineering
Tulane University
“From Squishy Gels to Nanostructured Materials, and Transcutaneous Vaccine Delivery”
Host: Prof. Sankaran Thayumanavan
Professor John's website |
September 20
|
Professor Heather Desaire
Department of Chemistry
University of Kansas
“Using Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Glycoproteins to Support HIV Vaccine Development ”
Host: Prof. Richard Vachet
Professor Desaire's website |
September 27
|
Professor Yi Lu
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Functional DNA Nanotechnology, from Directed Assembly in Response to Multiple Stimuli to Selective Sensing"
Host: Prof. Michael Knapp
Professor Lu's website |
October 4
|
Professor Lilian M. Hsu
Department of Biochemistry
Mt. Holyoke College
“Promoter Escapeby E. coli RNA Polymerase "
Host: Prof. Craig Martin
Professor Hsu's website |
October 11
|
PROCTER & GAMBLE SEMINAR
Professor Lewis Kay
Department of Biochemistry
University of Toronto
“Seeing the Invisible by Solution NMR Spectroscopy”
Host: Procter & Gamble
Professor Kay's website |
October 18
|
Professor Paul Fitzpatrick
Department of Chemistry
Texas A&M University
“The Mechanism of Aromatic Amino Acid Hydroxylation by the Nonheme Iron, Pterin-Dependent Family of Enzymes”
Host: Prof. Mike Knapp
Professor Fitzpatrick's website |
October 25
|
Professor Bart E. Kahr
Department of Chemistry
University of Washington
“Test of Cairns Smith’s Crystals-As-Genes Hypothesis”
Host: Prof. Michael Barnes
Professor Kahr's website |
November 1
|
STEIN-BAYER SEMINAR
Professor George Whitesides
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
“Reinventing Chemistry ”
Host: Prof. Richard Stein
Professor Whitesides' website |
November 8
|
Professor Noa Noy
Department of Pharmacology
Case Western Reserve University
“Controlling the Dual Transcriptional Activity of Retinoic Acid”
Host: Igor Kaltashov
Professor Noy's website |
November 15
(4:00 p.m.)
|
STUDENT UNION BALLROOM
MAHONEY SEMINAR
Professor Roald Hoffmann
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cornell University
“Chemistry's Essential Tensions: A Different Look at a Science”
Host: Prof. William Mahoney
Professor
Hoffmann's website |
