Previous Seminars
SPRING 2008
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