Spring 2008 List of Events

Vinod Krishna (University of Utah), "Multiscale Studies of the HIV-1 Capsid: Stability, Shape and Implications for Capsid Self Assembly"   [abstract]
Thursday, January 10, 2008, 11:30am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231, French Family Science Center

Donald Hamelberg (Howard Hughes Medical Institute), "Sampling Slow Conformational Switches in Proteins Beyond the Microsecond Timescale"   [abstract]
Monday, January 14, 2008, 1:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237 - French Family Science Center

David Loveless (Duke University), "Supramolecular Control of Polymer Mechanical Properties"   [abstract]
Wednesday, January 23, 2008, 3:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Michael Shirts (Columbia University), "Towards Noncovalent Molecular Design: Making Ligand Binding Predictions Quantitative"   [abstract]
Friday, January 25, 2008, 2:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231

Tony Gonis (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), "Excited States in Ground-State Density Functional Theory"   [abstract]
Friday, January 25, 2008, 3:30pm, Theory Seminar, Room 5316 - French Family Science Center

Shachi Gosavi (University of California, San Diego), "Function Modulates the β-trefoil Folding Landscape"   [abstract]
Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 1:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231

Eva Sinner (Max Planck Institute), "In vitro Synthesis of Proteins - a Platform Development for Understanding Membrane Proteins"
Thursday, January 31, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231, French Family Science Center

Milan Mrksich (The University of Chicago), "Engineering Active Interfaces Between Cells and Materials"   [abstract]
Thursday, January 31, 2008, 3:15pm, CBIMMS/CBTE Seminar, 203 Teer Library

Watson Lees (Florida International University), "Folding of Disulfide Containing Proteins"   [abstract]
Friday, February 1, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231

Stephen B.H. Kent (CANCELED) (University of Chicago, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), "Through the Looking Glass – a New World of Proteins Enabled by Chemistry"   [abstract]
Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231

Demetri Moustakas (Harvard University), "Exploiting Hydrophobicity in Ligand Design"   [abstract]
Monday, February 11, 2008, 2:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237 - French Family Science Center

Y. Charles Cao (University of Florida), "Inorganic Nanocrystals: from Molecular Chemistry to Supramolecular Chemistry"   [abstract]
Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 1:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231, French Family Science Center

Oleg Prezhdo (University of Washington), "DYNAMICS ON THE NANOSCALE: Time-domain ab initio studies of carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, and molecule-semiconductor interfaces"   [abstract]
Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231

Derek Bush (Duke University), "Biophysical Studies of Melanins and Amyloid-Beta Peptides"   [abstract]
Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 3:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Nancy Makri, Prof. of Chemistry (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Simulating the Dynamics of Quantum Fluids"   [abstract]
Thursday, February 21, 2008, 4:05pm, Theory Seminar, Room 144, Biological Sciences Bldg.

Weslyn C. Ward (Duke University), "Molecular Analyses of Melanins and Neuromelanins"   [abstract]
Friday, February 22, 2008, 10:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Julia Brumaghim (Clemson University), "Antioxidant Mechanisms: Preventing DNA Damage through Metal Binding"   [abstract]
Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 11:40am, Chemistry Seminar, Room 2231, French Family Science Center

Karen Allen (Boston University, Department of Physiology and Biophysics), "Fitness through Simplicity: Dominance of the HAD Phosphotransferase Family"   [abstract]
Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231

Jianpeng Ma (Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University, Department of Bioengineering), "Simulating, Refining and Modeling Supramolecular Complexes at Multi-resolution and Multi-length Scales"   [abstract]
Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231

Julie A. Pollock (Duke University), "Efforts Towards the Total Chemical Synthesis of Antimicrobial Natural Products Pahayokolides A and B and Schizotrin A"   [abstract]
Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Amanda Hoertz (Duke University), "Elucidation of the Ramoplanin Biosynthetic Pathway"   [abstract]
Thursday, March 20, 2008, 11:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Paul R. Thompson (University of South Carolina), "Mechanism and Inhibition of Protein Arginine Deiminase 4: A Novel Target for the Development of a Rheumatoid Arthritis Therapeutic"   [abstract]
Thursday, March 20, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231

Louise K. Charkoudian (Duke University), "EXOGENOUS AND ENDOGENOUS CHELATING AGENTS FOR MITIGATING METAL-PROMOTED OXIDATIVE STRESS"   [abstract]
Thursday, March 20, 2008, 2:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center

Jennifer Hawk (Duke University), "Metallo-supramolecular hybrid organogels: Towards self-repair in polymeric materials"   [abstract]
Friday, March 21, 2008, 10:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Fritz London Memorial Lecture
Jerry Gollub (University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College), "Novel Ways of Studying Fluid Flows"   [abstract]
Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 8:00pm, Fritz London Memorial Lecture, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231

Matt Walters (Duke University), "EXPANDED VERSATILITY AND STEREOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE KDPG AND KDPGAL ALDOLASES"   [abstract]
Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 9:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Dana Peles (Duke University), "Efforts Towards Establishing Long-Range Molecular Alignment on the Surface of Melanosomes"   [abstract]
Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Dan Lim (Duke University), "Direct Synthesis of 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds via Soft Enolization and the Asymmetric α-Alkylation of Acyclic Ketones"   [abstract]
Thursday, March 27, 2008, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Jerry M. Parks (Duke University), "Mechanism of Cdc25B with the small-molecule substrate p-nitrophenyl phosphate from Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Minimum Free Energy Path calculations"   [abstract]
Monday, March 31, 2008, 3:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 5316 - French Family Science Center

Amy Walker (Washington University), "New Methods for Making Metallic and Semiconducting Contacts to Molecules Towards Molecular Electronic Circuitry"   [abstract]
Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231

Patrick DeArmond (Duke University), "Thermodynamic Analysis of Membrane Bound Receptor-Ligand Interactions"   [abstract]
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 10:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

John Hatcher (Duke University), "Ketone α-functionalization via sulfonyl hydrazone and oxime mediated carbon–carbon bond formation"   [abstract]
Thursday, April 3, 2008, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3225 - French Family Science Center

Marc J. Adler (Duke University), "rottlerin, i hate you: a love story (and tales of microwave adventures)"   [abstract]
Monday, April 7, 2008, 2:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 2237 - French Family Science Center

Bo Zhao (Duke University), "Kinetic-energy functional using the potential as the basic variable"   [abstract]
Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 12:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 5316 - French Family Science Center

Ying Xu (Duke University), "New Methods for the Thermodynamic Analysis of Protein Folding and Ligand Binding using Phosphorylase b as a Model System"   [abstract]
Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 3:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Anne Lazarides (Duke University, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department), "Controlling Plasmon Coupling in Self-assembling Nanostructures"   [abstract]
Thursday, April 10, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231

Yi Li (Duke University), "Modification of Charmm/CSFF"   [abstract]
Thursday, April 10, 2008, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3225 - French Family Science Center

Catherine Leigh Allen (Duke University), "Isolation, Expression and Partial Purification of Anhydromuramic Acid Kinase (AnmK) and Efforts Toward Carbohydrate Substrate Synthesis"   [abstract]
Thursday, April 10, 2008, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Hemraj Juwarker (Duke University), "Functional Oligomers from Aryl 1,2,3 Triazoles"   [abstract]
Friday, April 11, 2008, 8:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 5316 - French Family Science Center

Rachel Alfie (Duke University), "A Direct Wittig Reaction via a-Bromo Thioesters and The Development of A General Approach to Catalytic Asymmetric a-Functionalization of Ketones via Primary Activated Sulfonyl Hydrazones"   [abstract]
Friday, April 11, 2008, 12:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Jared J. Heymann (Duke University), "Thermodynamic and kinetic analysis of substrate binding in a bacterial transferrin,"   [abstract]
Friday, April 11, 2008, 2:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Chao Gu (Duke University), "Solid Surface Modification for Force Spectroscopy Measurements of Interactions at Single-Molecule Level"   [abstract]
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 3:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Joseph Benjamin Baker (Duke University), "The Total Syntheses of Subglutinols A and B: Assignment of Absolute Stereochemistry"   [abstract]
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3225 - French Family Science Center

Matt Bogyo (Stanford Medical School, Department of Pathology), "Using Small Molecule to Globally Map Protease Function"   [abstract]
Thursday, April 17, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center

Douglas G. Hill Memorial Lecture
Professor Steven Chu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), "The World's Energy Problem and What We Can Do About It"   [abstract]
Friday, April 18, 2008, 4:00pm, Douglas G. Hill Memorial Lecture, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231

Maria Gilleece (Duke University), "Characterization of Ramo15, a Type II Thioesterase, From the Ramoplanin Biosynthetic Cluster"   [abstract]
Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Meghan Blackledge (Duke University), "TOWARDS THE SYNTHESIS, ISOLATION, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL CYCLIC DEPSIPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC, WAP-8294A2"   [abstract]
Friday, April 25, 2008, 10:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 2237 - French Family Science Center

Sungwoo Yang (Duke University), "Carbon nanotubes; synthesis and control their properties"   [abstract]
Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 9:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center