Seminar Schedule-Events & Seminars-Department of Chemistry-University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Unless otherwise stated (*), seminars are at 11:15 AM in Lederle GRT Room 1634.
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Spring 2013
January 31	JOINT CBI SEMINAR Professor Chaitan Khosla Stanford University Departments of Chemical Engineering; Chemistry; and Biochemistry "Assembly line antibiotic biosynthesis" Host: Prof. Tsung-Yi Lin Professor Khosla's Website
February 14	Professor Julian McClements UMass Amherst Department of Food Science "Structural design principles for creating food-based delivery systems for bioactive compounds" Professor McClements' Website
February 19* 4:00 p.m, ISB 329	SPECIAL SEMINAR Professor Trevor Douglas Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Center for Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials Montana State University "Redesigning protein cage architechtures for catalytic and biomedical applications" Host: Prof. Vincent Rotello Professor Douglas' Website
February 21	Professor Nathan Gianneschi UCSD Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry "Programming nanoparticle morphology with peptides, enzymes and DNA" Host: Prof. Thai Thayumanavan Professor Gianneschi's Website
February 28	Professor Tim Stemmler Wayne State University Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology "Characteristics of the mitochondrial iron-sulfur cluster assembly pathway" Host: Prof. Michael Knapp Professor Stemmler 's Website
March 7	Professor Gavin Williams North Carolina State University Department of Chemistry "Chemical and synthetic biology approaches for polyketide diversification" Host: Prof. Nathan Schnarr Professor William's Website
March 14	Professor Rachel Klevit University of Washington Department of Biochemistry "Beauty of a beast: Structure & recognition of the small heat shock protein, αB-crystallin" Hosts: Profs. Lila Gierasch and Elizabeth Vierling Professor Klevit's Website
March 28	MARVIN D. RAUSCH SEMINAR Professor Jerry L. Atwood University of Missouri at Columbia Department of Chemistry "Metal-Organic Nanocapsules for Targeted Drug Delivery" Professor Atwood's Website
April 4	Professor Lizbeth Hedstrom Brandeis University Departments of Biology and Chemistry "IMP dehydrogenase and the dynamics of reaction specificity" Host: Prof. Jeanne Hardy Professor Hedstrom's Website
April 11	Professor C. Russell Middaugh University of Kansas Pharmaceutical Chemistry "The polyanion world hypothesis" Host: Prof. Paul Dubin Professor Middaugh's Website
April 18	Professor David D. Weis University of Kansas Department of Chemistry "Exploring the role of flexibility in protein function and dysfunction with H/D exchange" Host: Prof. Richard Vachet Professor Weis' Website
April 25	FIVE COLLEGE SEMINAR Professor Geoffrey Coates Cornell University Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology "New polymers from old monomers: Advances enabled through catalyst design and discovery" Professor Coate's Website