Previous Seminars
FALL 2008
Melanie S. Sanford - CANCELED (University of Michigan), "TBA" [abstract]
Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231, French Family Science Center
Taeghwan Hyeon (Seoul National University), "Large-scale Synthesis of Uniform-sized Nanoparticles and their Designed Assembly and Multifunctional Biomedical Applications" [abstract]
Monday, October 13, 2008, 3:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231, French Family Science Center
FACULTY COLLOQUIA - Boris A. Akhremitchev (Duke University), "Multifunctional Scanning Probe Approaches to Study Aggregation" [abstract]
Friday, October 17, 2008, 4:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231, French Family Science Center
Younan Xia (Washington University in St. Louis), "Putting Chemistry to Work for Nano and Biomedical Research" [abstract]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
Michael Knapp (The University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Redox Chemistry Across Protein Surfaces: Hypoxia Sensing and Electron Transfers" [abstract]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
Parag Mukhopadhyay (Duke University), "Theoretical Simulations of Optical Rotation and Raman Optical Activity of Molecules in Solution" [abstract]
Monday, November 10, 2008, 9:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Erin Wilfong (Duke University), "Thermodynamic Basis of Additivity in Ligand Binding: Matrix Metalloproteinase-3" [abstract]
Thursday, November 13, 2008, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 2237 - French Family Science Center
Robert M. Hazen (Carnegie Institution of Washington), "Right and Left: Mineral Surfaces, Molecular Selection, and the Origin of Life's Homochirality" [abstract]
Thursday, November 13, 2008, 4:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Love Auditorium, LSRC B101
Sungwoo Yang (Duke University), "Carbon nanotubes; synthesis and control their properties" [abstract]
Monday, November 17, 2008, 12:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 5316 - French Family Science Center
Scynexis Lecture in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Lawrence J. Williams (Rutgers University), "The Spirodiepoxide: A New Functional Group for Organic Synthesis" [abstract]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
Cassandra Fraser (University of Virginia), "Light Emitting Boron Biomaterials for Imaging and Oxygen Sensing" [abstract]
Thursday, November 20, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
Jing Song (Duke University), "Enhancing Intermolecular Zero Quantum Magnetic Resonance Signals by Spin Locking" [abstract]
Monday, November 24, 2008, 3:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232, French Family Science Center
Martin Fischer (Duke University), "Novel Contrast in Tissue Microscopy - How Ultrafast Laser Pulses take on New Shapes" [abstract]
Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Zhibin Zhang (Duke University), "Gold(I) and Platinum(II)-Catalyzed Hydrofunctionalization of Allenes and Alkenes with Carbon, Oxygen, and Nitrogen nucleophiles" [abstract]
Monday, December 1, 2008, 8:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Charlotta K. Wennefors (Duke University), "α-P‒Borano ddNTP Analogs: Substrate/Inhibitory Properties for Kinases and Polymerases and Inhibition of Wild Type and Drug Resistant HIV Replication" [abstract]
Monday, December 1, 2008, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 139, Biological Sciences
Deborah Wuttke (University of Colorado), "Tying up the Ends: The Recognition of Telomeric DNA" [abstract]
Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
Eric Streiter (Harvard Medical School), "Non-canonical Assembly-line Biosynthesis: The Story of Coronatine Biogenesis" [abstract]
Friday, December 5, 2008, 9:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237 - French Family Science Center
Senli Guo (Duke University), "Force Spectroscopy Measurements of Non-Covalent Interactions on the Supramolecular and Single Molecule Levels" [abstract]
Friday, December 5, 2008, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232, French Family Science Center
Sister Mary Virginia Orna (College of New Rochelle), "One Woman’s Odyssey in Chemical Education" [abstract]
Friday, December 5, 2008, 4:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237, French Family Science Center
Dongning Yuan (Duke University), "Property Control of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Their Devices" [abstract]
Monday, December 8, 2008, 12:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 2237 - French Family Science Center
Benjamin J. Wiley (Harvard University), "Controlling the Assembly of Atoms into Nanostructures that Guide Light at the Nanoscale" [abstract]
Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 9:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Liang Du (Duke University), "From α-P-borano dNTPs to Boranophosphate DNA: Enzymatic synthesis, Biophysical properties, and Efforts to Target 3’ Polypurine Tract of Human Immunodeficiency Virus" [abstract]
Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 12:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Mark G. Raizen (The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Department of Physics), "Maxwell's Demon near Maximal Efficiency" [abstract]
Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 2:30pm, CNCS Seminar, 299 Physics
Mark G. Raizen (The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Department of Physics), "Controlling the Motion of Matter with Light" [abstract]
Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 3:30pm, CNCS Seminar, 128 Physics
Peter Wolynes (University of California, San Diego), "Recent Successes of the Energy Landscape Theory of Protein Folding" [abstract]
Thursday, December 11, 2008, 9:30am, Departmental Seminar, Bryan Research 103
Dequan Xiao (Duke University), "Molecular Design for Nonlinear Optical Materials and Molecular Interferometers Using Quantum Chemical Computations" [abstract]
Friday, December 12, 2008, 9:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Jennifer A. Prescher (Stanford University Medical Center), "Lighting up Life: Imaging Biomolecules and Cells With Chemical Tools in Living Animals" [abstract]
Friday, December 12, 2008, 9:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237 - French Family Science Center
Michael Hecht (Princeton University), "1. Towards Synthetic Biology: Functional De Novo Proteins From a Designed Artificial Proteome;
2. Alzheimer's Disease: Molecular Underpinnings and the Search for New Therapeutics" [abstract]
Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 2:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Eli Chapman (Scripps Research Institute), "Using Chemistry and Genetics to Study GroEL" [abstract]
Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Rebecca A. Butcher (Harvard Medical School), "Small Molecule-mediated Signaling Between Organisms" [abstract]
Friday, December 19, 2008, 9:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center