Previous Seminars
SPRING 2004
Boris Mizaikoff (Georgia Institute of Technology), "From Mid-Infrared Chemical Sensors to Multifunctional Scanning Probes"
Thursday, January 22, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
F. Sherwood Rowland (Univ. of California, Irvine - Dept. of Chemistry), "The Changing Atmosphere in 2004"
Friday, January 30, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Hemraj Juwarker (Duke University), "Synthesis and Study of Reversible, Aromatic Polyamides"
Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 10:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Robert E. Kinder (Duke University), "Enantioselective Cyclization/Hydrosilylation of 1,6-Enynes Catalyzed by a Cationic Rhodium Bis(phosphine) Complex"
Friday, February 13, 2004, 12:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
FACULTY COLLOQUIA - Eric J. Toone (Duke University - Dept. of Chemistry), "More or Less? Valency Effects in Ligand Binding"
Friday, February 13, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Katherine D. Weaver (Duke University), "Structural and Spectroelectrochemical Investigations of Ferric Binding Protein and Engineered Hemoglobins"
Thursday, February 19, 2004, 12:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Dan Lim (Duke University), "Synthesis of a CF3 Substituted DAQ-B1, and the Study of its Binding to the Insulin Receptor by Fluorine-NMR"
Thursday, February 19, 2004, 2:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Alexander Balaeff (IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center), "Multi-Scale Structural Model of the Lac Repressor Complex with DNA"
Thursday, February 19, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Mark H. Schoenfisch (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Dept. of Chemistry), "Nitric Oxide-Releasing Sol-Gels: Towards More Biocompatible In Vivo"
Friday, February 20, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Jonathan S. Lindsey (North Carolina State Univ. - Dept. of Chemistry), "Synthetic Porphyrin-Based Light-Harvesting Arrays"
Friday, February 27, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Feng Gai (University of Pennsylvania), "Primary Processes in Protein Folding and Polymerization"
Thursday, March 4, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
FACULTY COLLOQUIA - Richard A. Palmer (Duke University - Dept. of Chemistry), "Nano-Scale Spectroscopy: Broadband Infrared Spectroscopy of Time-Dependent Processes and Transient States"
Friday, March 5, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
(CANCELLED) Carol Haney (Agilent Technologies), "Systems Biology, Technology Advancements in Proteomics"
Friday, March 12, 2004, 10:00am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Ronald T. Raines (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison - Depts. of Chemistry and Biochemistry), "Stereoelectronic Effects on Protein Stability"
Friday, March 12, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Jianmei Wang (Duke University), "Library-Based Synthesis of Antitumor Drug Nogalamycin Congeners"
Wednesday, March 17, 2004, 3:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
M. Tyler Caudle (Arizona State University, Department of Chemistry amd Biochemistry), "What is CO2 Good for Anyway? Application of Heterocumulene Condensation Reactions in Inorganic Chemistry"
Wednesday, March 17, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Chad Ray (Duke University), "Protein Interaction Energies Studied with Atomic Force Microscopy: Novel Studies of Amyloid Fibrillogenesis"
Thursday, March 18, 2004, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
H. Holden Thorp (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Department of Chemistry), "Electron Transfer Reactions of Nucleic Acids on Engineered Surgaces and in Thin Films"
Friday, March 19, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Petra L. Roulhac (Duke University), "Applications of an H/D Exchange and MALDI Mass Spectrometry-Based Technique for the Determination of Protein Stability"
Thursday, March 25, 2004, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Virginia W. Cornish (Columbia University - Dept. of Chemistry), "Chemical Complementation: A Genetic Assay for Protein Evolution and Proteomics"
Friday, March 26, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
2004 Fritz London Memorial Lecture - Myriam Sarachik (City College of New York), "Metal-Insulator Transitions"
Tuesday, March 30, 2004, 8:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium (Room 107)
Richard Eisenberg (Univ. of Rochester - Department of Chemistry), "New Developments in Iridium Chemistry for Catalysis"
Friday, April 2, 2004, 1:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Yan Liu (Duke University), "Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Non-covalent Amphiphiles"
Wednesday, April 7, 2004, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Vince Rotello (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst - Department of Chemistry), "Nanoparticles: Scaffolds for Biomolecular Recognition and Delivery" [abstract]
Thursday, April 8, 2004, 2:00pm, Departmental Seminar, 130A North Building
Rui Liu (Duke University), "Intermolecular Effect in Molecular Electronics"
Thursday, April 8, 2004, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Benjamin W. Maynor (Duke University), "Rational Fabrication of Nanostructures on Surfaces Using Dip-Pen Nanolithography"
Friday, April 9, 2004, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
FACULTY COLLOQUIA - David N. Beratan (Duke University - Dept. of Chemistry), "Those Pesky Blue Devils: Chasing Electrons Through Proteins and Molecular Machines"
Friday, April 9, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
2004 Douglas G. Hill Memorial Lecture - Ralph F. Hirschmann (RESCHEDULED FOR 05/21/04) (University of Pennsylvania - Dept. of Chemistry), "TBA"
Friday, April 16, 2004, 4:00pm, Chemistry Seminar, Auditorium (Room 107)
Farrell R. Kersey (Duke University), "Probing the Structural and Mechanical Properties of Reversible Polymer Systems Using Atomic Force Microscopy"
Monday, April 19, 2004, 2:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Lian Hong (Duke University), "Binding of Metal Ions to Melanin and its Effects on the Aerobic Reactivity of Melanin"
Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Kassy A. Mies (Duke University), "A Detailed Analysis of the Iron(III) Coordination Properties of the Siderophore Desferrioxamine B"
Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Cindy L. Berrie (Univ. of Kansas - Department of Chemistry), "Nanoscale Investigations of Protein Conformation Using Atomic Force Microscopy"
Friday, April 23, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Michael Woodson (Duke University), "Two New AFM Nanolithographic Techniques"
Monday, April 26, 2004, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
G. Andres Cisneros (Duke University), "QM/MM Computational Studies and Theoretical Development: The Reaction Mechanism of 4-Oxalocrotonate Tautomerase"
Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 9:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Suraj Dhungana (Duke University), "A Physical-Chemical Study of Biological Iron Transport Mediated by Proteins and Low Molecular Weight Chelators"
Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Joan Broderick (Michigan State University - Department of Chemistry), "Iron-Sulfur Clusters as Nature's Radical Catalysts"
Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 5:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Liang Du (Duke University), "Hydrolysis of Adenosine 3', 5 '-Cyclic Boranomonophosphate: Basis for Incorporation of Borane into 8-Cl-cAMP as an Antitumor Drug"
Thursday, April 29, 2004, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, 228 (Beratan Group Conference Room)
Jeff Saven (Univ. of Pennsylvania - Department of Chemistry), "Statistical Design of Globular Proteins and Water-Soluble Membrane Proteins"
Friday, April 30, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 104
Carmichael Roberts (Surface Logix, Inc., Boston), "Designing Assays and Drugs Using Organic Chemistry on Surfaces"
Wednesday, May 5, 2004, 10:00am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
2004 Douglas G. Hill Memorial Lecture - Ralph F. Hirschmann (University of Pennsylvania - Dept. of Chemistry), "Somatostatin: Its Peptidomimetics and Their Interplay"
Friday, May 21, 2004, 4:00pm, Chemistry Seminar, Auditorium (Room 107)
Laurel A. Goj (Duke University), "QM/MM Computational Studies and Theoretical Development: The Reaction Mechanism of 4-Oxalocrotonate Tautomerase"
Friday, May 28, 2004, 8:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)