Previous Seminars
SPRING 2003
Katherine J. Franz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Lanthanide-Binding Tags: Versatile Protein Coexpression Probes" [abstract]
Monday, January 6, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Roman Boulatov (Stanford University), "When Two Metals are Better Than One: Biomimetic Studies of O2 Reduction at the Bimetallic Site of Cytochrome Oxidase" [abstract]
Wednesday, January 8, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Alan G. Marshall (Florida State University), "Accurate Mass Measurement: Taking Full Analytical Advantage of Nature's Isotopic Complexity" [abstract]
Friday, January 10, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Amy M. Barrios (University of California, San Francisco), "Substrate Specificity of Proteolytic Enzymes: Combinatorial Peptide Libraries as Tools for Defining Function" [abstract]
Monday, January 13, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
John Gerlt (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Different Reactions Catalyzed by the 'Same' Active Site" [abstract]
Tuesday, January 14, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Mohammad Movassaghi (Harvard University), "New Methodologies for Organic Synthesis" [abstract]
Thursday, January 16, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Faqing Huang (University of Southern Mississippi), "Integration of Chemistry and Biology--Construction of Artificial Ribozyme-Based Metabolic Pathways" [abstract]
Friday, January 17, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Matthew D. Orr , "Approaches Toward the Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Pretazettine and The Development of [18F]-Fluorocholine as a Radiotracer for the Detection of Human Prostrate Cancer"
Monday, January 20, 2003, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Peter Pulay (University of Arkansas), "Predicting NMR Chemical Shifts for Protein Models: A Potential New Source of Information on Protein Conformation" [abstract]
Friday, January 24, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Christopher M. Snively (University of Delaware), "Exploiting the Multiplex Advantage of FTIR Imaging for High Throughput Spectral Analysis" [abstract]
Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Shouheng Sun (IBM-Thomas J. Watson Research Center), "Self-assembled Magnetic Nanostructures" [abstract]
Thursday, January 30, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Ulrich Weser (Eberhard Karls Universitat - Tuebingen), "Biochemically Active Metalloenzymes in 4000 Year Old Mummies from Pharaonic Egypt" [abstract]
Friday, January 31, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Abraham Nitzan (Tel Aviv University), "How Molecules Conduct" [abstract]
Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Anne M. Andrews (Pennsylvania State University), "Serotonin and the Misbehaving Brain" [abstract]
Friday, February 7, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Jean M. J. Frechet (NOTE TIME CHANGE) (University of California, Berkeley), "Dendritic Macromolecules: From Synthetic Design to Applications" [abstract]
Friday, February 14, 2003, 2:00pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Lawrence W. Dick, Jr. (Preliminary Examination), "Protein Separations Using G-Quartet-forming DNA Oligonucleotides as Stationary Phases in Open-Tubular Capillary Electrochromatography"
Monday, February 17, 2003, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Ilya Zharov (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), "Part I: Preparation and Study of Group 14 Cations in Non-Polar Media; Part II: Synthetic Hosts by Monomolecular ImprintingInside Dendrimers" [abstract]
Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Barbara Ramsay Shaw (CANCELLED) (Duke University), "Reading, Writing, and Coding Genetic Information with BoranophosphateMimics of Nucleotides, DNA, and RNA"
Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 4:30pm, Faculty Colloquia,
John D. Simon (Duke University), "A Tale of Two Molecules: Much Ado About Nothing"
Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 4:30pm, Faculty Colloquia, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Hua Qian (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Mechanism of the Palladium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Hydroalkylation of 7-Octene-2,4-dione"
Thursday, February 20, 2003, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Felice Frankel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Envisioning Science: Making Good Science Look Good" [abstract]
Friday, February 21, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Cong Liu (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Cyclization/Hydrosilylation of Functionalized Diynes and Enynes Catalyzed by Cationic Rhodium(I) Bis(phosphine) Complexes"
Monday, February 24, 2003, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Harry Gray (California Institute of Technology), "Electron Tunneling Through Proteins" [abstract]
Monday, February 24, 2003, 8:00pm, Chemistry Seminar, Auditorium (Room 107)
Peijun Cong (Symyx Technologies, Inc.), "Combinatorial Heterogeneous Catalysis" [abstract]
Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Jun Xu (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "DNA-Based Modules for Reversibly Assembled Materials"
Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 3:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Hongyan Liu (CANCELLED) (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Synthesis of Acyclic Nucleoside and Oligonucleotide Boranophosphates"
Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Yan Tong (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Development and Application of MALDI-TOF MS Analysis for Biopolymers"
Friday, February 28, 2003, 9:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Seiichi Matsuda (Rice University), "Tinkering with Terpene Biosynthesis" [abstract]
Friday, February 28, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Sonya J. Franklin (University of Iowa), "Chimeric Metalloprotein Nucleases: The HTH as a Scaffold for De Novo Design" [abstract]
Monday, March 3, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Hongyan Liu (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Synthesis of Acyclic Nucleoside and Oligonucleotide Boranophosphates"
Tuesday, March 4, 2003, 2:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Lawrence W. Dick, Jr. (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Protein Separations Using G-Quarter-Forming DNA Oligonucleotides as Stationary Phases in Open-Tubular Capillary Electrochromatography"
Thursday, March 6, 2003, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, 228 (Beratan Group Conference Room)
Sophia Yaliraki (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine - London), "Theory of Self-assembling Networks: Mechanisms and Control" [abstract]
Friday, March 7, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Tatiana Prytkova (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Ab Initio Description of Electron Transfer in Ru Modified Azurin"
Monday, March 10, 2003, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, 228 (Beratan Group Conference Room)
Robert Grubbs (California Institute of Technology), "The Rapid Synthesis of Olefins Using Olefin Metathesis" [abstract]
Thursday, March 13, 2003, 2:00pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Jieru Zheng (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions Mediated by *-Stacked Units"
Monday, March 17, 2003, 10:00am, Student Exams Seminar, 228 (Beratan Group Conference Room)
Min Wang (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "The Energetic Contribution of Backbone-Backbone Hydrogen Bonds to the Thermodynamic Stability of CopG"
Monday, March 17, 2003, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Xin Huang (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Design of Interfacial Biomaterials for Engineering Human Blood Vessels"
Monday, March 17, 2003, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Hang Qi (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Preparation of Tungsten Bronze Nanowires"
Monday, March 17, 2003, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Eric Simanek (Texas A&M University), "Dendrimers Based on Melamine: From Materials to Medicine" [abstract]
Monday, March 17, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Xiaoye Yang (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "total Chemical Synthesis and Biophysical Characterization of Protein L and its Analogue"
Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 205A
Susie Y. Dai (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "The Application of SUPREX: Multi-component Mixtures and Large Proteins"
Wednesday, March 19, 2003, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
A.L. Crumbliss (Duke University), "Coordination Chemistry and Biological Iron Transport"
Wednesday, March 19, 2003, 4:30pm, Faculty Colloquia, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Lovorka Degoricija (POSTPONED) (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Synthesis of Hybrid Dendritic-Linear Copolymers as Hydrogel Scaffolds"
Thursday, March 20, 2003, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, 228 (Beratan Group Conference Room)
Xiaoqing Han (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Palladium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Hydroalkylation of Alkenyl a-Aryl Ketones"
Friday, March 21, 2003, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Matt Challacombe (Los Alamos National Laboratory), "Order-N Ab Initio Molecular Simulation" [abstract]
Friday, March 21, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Xueyu Song (Iowa State University), "Protein Crystallization and Freezing of Anisotropic Fluids" [abstract]
Friday, March 28, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Pooja Arora (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Protein Folding Studies of B-domain of Protein A (BdpA) and Regulator of G-protein Signaling (RGS), RGSZ1"
Monday, March 31, 2003, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Michael Palucki (Merck Research Laboratories), "Molybdenum pi-Allyl Chemistry: Developmental Studies and Use in Preparation of Pharmaceutically Important Structures" [abstract]
Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Marisa Kozlowski (University of Pennsylvania), "Part I. QSAR Methods for Predicting Catalyst Selectivity; Part II. Novel Catalysts for Asymmetric Oxidative Biaryl Coupling and Ketoester Alkylation" [abstract]
Friday, April 4, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Lisa M. Miller (Brookhaven National Laboratory), "Chemical Imaging of Biological Cells and Tissues Using Synchrotron Infrared Micro-Spectroscopy" [abstract]
Wednesday, April 9, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Jennifer L. Perry (Ph.D. Examination Seminar), "Transport and Toxicity of Ochratoxin A"
Friday, April 11, 2003, 9:00am, Student Exams Seminar, 228 (Beratan Group Conference Room)
Edward Solomon (Stanford University), "Structure/Function Correlations over Non-Heme Iron Enzymes" [abstract]
Friday, April 11, 2003, 4:00pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall (HILL LECTURE)
Chao Gu (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Tube in Tube: Progress Towards Size-Selective Noncovalent Functionalization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes"
Wednesday, April 16, 2003, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Joanna Kociecki (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Progress Towards Physical Biochemistry of Backbone Boronated Nucleotides: An Analysis of Behavior Towards Phosphatases and Kinases"
Thursday, April 17, 2003, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Jerry M. Parks (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "QM/MM Investigation of the Reaction Mechanism of Cdc25B Phosphatase"
Thursday, April 17, 2003, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, 228 (Beratan Group Conference Room)
Patrick Harran (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center), "Synthetic Means to Achieve Natural Ends" [abstract]
Friday, April 18, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Valerie R. Kempf (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Defining the Structure of Melanin: A Multi-Component System"
Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 9:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Xinyu Cai (Master Defense Examination Seminar), "Growth of Ultra-long, Well-aligned Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes and Fabrication of Nanotube-based Crossed Network"
Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
T. G. Oas (Duke University), "The Chemical Biology of Protein Folding"
Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 4:30pm, Faculty Colloquia, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Peter Silinski (Ph.D. Defense Examination Seminar), "Understanding the Role of Backbone-Backbone Hydrogen Bonding in the Folding and Stability of the Hexameric Enzyme 4-Oxalocrotonate Tautomerase (4OT)"
Friday, April 25, 2003, 9:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Adam C. Connor (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Investigation of Affinity Interactions Between Insulin and G-Quartet-Forming Oligonucleotides Using Capillary Electrochromatography"
Monday, April 28, 2003, 11:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Cheng Qian (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Synthesis of Iron Phosphide Nanorods"
Monday, April 28, 2003, 2:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Michelle Viglietta Joyce (Ph.D. Defense Examination Seminar), "Characterization of a G-Quartet-Forming Aptamer Stationary Phase for Enantiomeric Separations in Capillary Electrochromatography"
Tuesday, April 29, 2003, 9:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Melanie A. Rehder Silinski (Ph.D. Defense Examination Seminar), "G-quartet DNA Stationary Phases for Capillary Electrochromatographic Separation of Proteins"
Wednesday, April 30, 2003, 10:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Corey P. Causey (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Expanding the Synthetic Utility of KDPG Aldolase"
Wednesday, April 30, 2003, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Ron Naaman (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel), "Surprising Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Organized Organic Thin Films" [abstract]
Friday, May 2, 2003, 3:30pm, Chemistry Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Zhihong Xu (Preliminary Examination Seminar), "Pro-Nucleotides: Synthetic Approaches to CycloSal-Pronucleotides of (apP-borano)ddNDPs and Steroid Boranophosphodiesters"
Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)