Previous Seminars
SPRING 2005
Carthene Bazemore-Walker (University of Virginia), "Proteomic Analyses Using Multidimensional Chromatography-tandem Mass Spectrometry"
Monday, January 10, 2005, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Jiyong Hong (The Scripps Research Institute), "Part 1. Application of Inverse Electron Demand Diels–Alder Reactions in Natural Product Synthesis; Part 2. Chemical Genomic Approach to Cell Differentiation"
Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Rebecca Jockusch (University of Oxford), "Can Gas-Phase Studies Provide Fundamental Information about Biological Problems?"
Monday, January 17, 2005, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Jin Kim Montclare (California Institute of Technology), "Engineering Fluorinated Proteins: From Biosynthesis to Evolution"
Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
J. D. Tovar (Northwestern University), "Electroactive Macromolecular Assemblies"
Thursday, January 20, 2005, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Markus Oberthur (Harvard Medical School), "Glycosyltransferases: Efficient Tools for the Synthesis of Novel Glycopeptide Antibiotics?"
Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 11:45am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Professor Colin Nuckolls (Columbia University), "Using Self-assembly to Create Electronic Materials" [abstract]
Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 2:30pm, Departmental Seminar, CIEMAS B
Liyuan Ma (Duke University), "Development and Application of H/D Exchange and Mass Spectrometry to the Thermodynamic Analysis of DNA Binding Proteins and Their Complexes"
Wednesday, January 26, 2005, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Pat Hatcher (Ohio State University), "Fate of Peptides in Marine and Terrestrial Systems as Determined by 2-D NMR and Electrospray Ionization with Ultrahigh Resolution Mass Spectrometry" [abstract]
Tuesday, February 1, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Chad A. Mirkin (Northwestern University), "Synthetic Supramolecular Allosteric Catalysts" [abstract]
Friday, February 11, 2005, 2:15pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Nicola Pohl (Iowa State University), "Chemical Proteomics and Synthetic Strategies to Decipher the Glycocode" [abstract]
Tuesday, February 15, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
FACULTY COLLOQUIA - Boris Akhremitchev (Duke University), "Application of Scanning Probe Techniques to Study Amyloid Aggregation and Related Phenomena"
Friday, February 25, 2005, 4:00pm, Faculty Colloquia, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Tom Wandless (Stanford University), "A Chemical Approach for Regulating Protein Function" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Jan Linderberg (Aarhus University, Denmark), "Fathers of Quantum Chemistry – some stories" [abstract]
Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
John Klassen (University of Alberta), "Structure and Stability of Gaseous Non-Covalent Protein Complexes Characterized by NanoES-FT-ICR/MS" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Julianne Yost (Duke University), "Studies on the Preparation of ( ) Unsaturated Ketones via Modified Carroll Rearrangements" [abstract]
Monday, March 21, 2005, 10:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Brian Stoltz (CANCELLED) (California Institute of Technology), "TBA" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Yunhui (Wendy) Zhang (Duke University), "Synthesis of Adenoisine 3',5'-Cyclic Monophosphate Borane Analogues as Potential Anticancer Agents" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Emie Breyer (Georgia State University), "Biomedical and Drug Design Application of Capillary Electrophoresis" [abstract]
Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 3:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Liangjie Tang (Duke University), "Characterizing the Thermodynamic Stability of Multi-Domain Proteins by Using an H/D Exchange- and Mass Spectrometry-Based Technique" [abstract]
Thursday, March 24, 2005, 2:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Derek Bush (Duke University), "Binding Interactions of Ca(2+) with Sepia Melanin" [abstract]
Friday, March 25, 2005, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Jessica Chapman (Duke University), "Evaluation of Infrared Techniques for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Atherosclerosis" [abstract]
Monday, March 28, 2005, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Mark J. Adler (Duke University), "Efforts Towards Establishing a Versatile Route Accessing the Amaryllidaceae Alkaloids, and Application to the Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+) Pretazettine" [abstract]
Monday, March 28, 2005, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Srini Mukundan and James Provenzale (Duke University, Department of Radiology), "Molecules and Medical Imaging" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 29, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Charlotta Wennefors (Duke University), "Phosphorylation of a-P-borano Nucleoside Diphosphates by Rabbit Muscle Creatine Kinase" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 29, 2005, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
John A. Stanko (Duke University), "New Glycine-Derived Nitrones for the Synthesis of Novel a-Amino Acids: Application towards the Synthesis of (-) Monatin" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 29, 2005, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Dequan Xiao (Duke University), "Search for Molecules with Optimal Nonlinear Optical Response Properties using Huckel Theory" [abstract]
Thursday, March 31, 2005, 9:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Tim Heaton-Burgess (Duke University), "An Action Potential Functional for Time-Periodic Hamiltonians" [abstract]
Thursday, March 31, 2005, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Liu Deng (Duke University), "Synthesis of Analogues of DAQ B1 as Potential Anti-diabetic Drugs" [abstract]
Thursday, March 31, 2005, 2:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Alessandro Troisi (Università di Bologna), "Interaction Between Nuclear Motions and Charge Transport in Molecular Wires and Organic Semiconductors" [abstract]
Friday, April 1, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Laura Moussa (Duke University), "Enzymatic Synthesis of Boranophosphate si RNA for use Against Human Papillomavirus" [abstract]
Friday, April 1, 2005, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Pennsylvania State University), "Hydrogen Tunneling and Protein Motion in Enzyme Reactions" [abstract]
Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Louise K. Charkoudian (Duke University), "Iron Binding and Oxidation Studies of Iron Neuromelanin Model Complexes" [abstract]
Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 2:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Nan Jiang (Duke University), "Design of Chromophoric Materials with Large Nonlinear Optical Properties: A Theoretical Investigation" [abstract]
Thursday, April 7, 2005, 2:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Professor Charles M. Lieber (Harvard University)
(FRITZ LONDON MEMORIAL LECTURE), "Nanotechnology: Emerging Opportunities in Electronics, Biology and Much More!" [abstract]
Thursday, April 7, 2005, 8:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Zhenyu Lu (Duke University), "Computational Studies on Complex Systems: Theoretical Development and Applications" [abstract]
Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 10:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Tom Muir (Rockefeller University), "Chemical Probes and Triggers of Protein Function" [abstract]
Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
David Loveless (Duke University), "Dynamics are Paramount to Thermodynamics: In Material Properties of Supramolecular Networks" [abstract]
Thursday, April 14, 2005, 3:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Michael Gait (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology), "TBA" [abstract]
Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Valerie R. Kempf (Duke University), "Structural and Functional Studies of Sepia and Human Melanins" [abstract]
Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 10:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Beratan Conference Room, Suite 228
Wayne C. Yount (Duke University), "The Role of Kinetics in Main-Chain Reversible Polymers and Transient Polymer Networks" [abstract]
Thursday, April 28, 2005, 9:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall (Room 103)
Angela M. Gillikin (Duke University), "A Novel Probe Design for FTIR Spectroscopy: Photothermal Beam Deflection in a Solid Deflection Medium" [abstract]
Friday, April 29, 2005, 9:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Jing Wan (Duke University), "Enzymatic Synthesis, Properties, and Functions of Boranophosphate RNA" [abstract]
Friday, April 29, 2005, 2:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
FACULTY COLLOQUIA - Johannes Rudolph (Duke University), "Cdc25: Enzymology of a Protein Phosphatase"
Friday, April 29, 2005, 4:00pm, Faculty Colloquia, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Victoria A. Dowling (Ph.D. Defense Examination Seminar), "A Guanosine Biogel: Chiral Separations in Capillary Electrophoresis and Spectroscopic Studies" [abstract]
Friday, May 27, 2005, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room