Previous Seminars
Spring 09
Tania Baker, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Remodelings of Proteins and the Proteome by the AAA+ unfolding ATPases" [abstract]
Thursday, January 8, 2009, 4:00pm, Biochemistry Seminar, 147 Nanaline H. Duke Building
Elizabeth M. Nolan (Harvard Medical School), "Biosynthetic Investigations of the Antibacterial Siderophore-Peptide Conjugate Microcin E492m" [abstract]
Friday, January 9, 2009, 11:40pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Wesley Sundquist (University of Utah School of Medicine), "The Biochemistry of HIV Budding" [abstract]
Monday, January 12, 2009, 1:45pm, Biochemistry Seminar, 147 Nanaline H. Duke Building
John Porco (Boston University), "New Synthetic Methods Inspired by Complex Natural Products" [abstract]
Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
Xiao-an Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "New Tools for Probing and Manipulating Biological Zinc"
Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room A158, Levine Science Research Center
Jerry L. Workman (Stowers Institute for Medical Research), "Protein Complexes that Modify Chromatin for Transcription" [abstract]
Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 12:00pm, Biochemistry Seminar, 147 Nanaline H. Duke Building
Justin Du Bois (Stanford University), "Chemical Approaches to Sodium Ion Channel Study: Guanidinium Toxins as Tools" [abstract]
Thursday, January 22, 2009, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
J. Evan Sadler (Washington University at St. Louis), "von Willebrand factor, ADAMTS13, and TTP" [abstract]
Friday, January 23, 2009, 2:00pm, Biochemistry Seminar, 147 Nanaline H. Duke Building
Kendall N. Houk (University of California, Los Angeles), "Theory and Design of Organic and Enzyme Catalysts" [abstract]
Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Alex Deiters (North Carolina State University), "Light and Small Molecules as Tools for the Regulation of Biological Processes" [abstract]
Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
William L. Jorgensen (Yale University), "Efficient Drug Discovery Guided by Free-Energy Calculations" [abstract]
Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
Jón T. Njarðarson (Cornell University), "Natural Products and New Synthetic Methods" [abstract]
Thursday, February 19, 2009, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237 - French Family Science Center
Chris Orvig (University of British Columbia), "Carbohydrate Conjugates in Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry" [abstract]
Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
Marc Greenberg (Johns Hopkins University), "Formation, Repair, and Mutagenicity of DNA Tandem Lesions" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
Ashley Stokes (Duke University), "Multiple Quantum Imaging of Vesicles for Use as Contrast and Carrier Agents" [abstract]
Friday, March 6, 2009, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 2219 - French Family Science Center
Nathanael S. Gray (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School), "ATP-Competitive and Allosteric Inhibitors of Bcr-Abl Kinase" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
Anjou Keller, Chromatography Specialist (Agilent Technologies), "The Advantages of Using Sub Two Micron Particle In HPLC" [abstract]
Thursday, March 12, 2009, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
John D. Knight (Duke University), "The Asymmetric Aldol Reaction of Acyclic Ketones via Chiral N-Amino Cyclic Carbamate (ACC) Hydrazones" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 11:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Jason R. Whitehead (Duke University), "AFM-based Study of Reversible Polymer Systems, Mechanocatalysis, and Mechanophores" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Kathleen W. Clancy (Duke University), "Inhibition and Specificity Studies on Sortase A, a Transpeptidase from Staphylococcus aureus" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3225, French Family Science Center
Jeremy M. Lenhardt (Duke University), "Mechanical Activation in Polymeric Materials: Applications Towards Mechanochemistry and Catalysis" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 3:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Michelle R. Garnsey (Duke University), "A study of Lewis acid and hydrogen bond mediated soft enolization in the context of the Mannich reaction." [abstract]
Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Seong Du Lee (Duke University), "Gold(I)-Catalyzed Intermolecular Enantioselective Hydroamination of 1-Alkenes with Cyclic Ureas" [abstract]
Monday, March 23, 2009, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Carleen J. Morris (Duke University), "Probing Multivalency in Ligand Binding Using Atomic Force Microscopy" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 10:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Erin D. Hopper (Duke University), "Development and Application of a Mass Spectrometry-Based Assay for the High Throughput Analysis of Protein-Ligand Binding" [abstract]
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 9:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3225 - French Family Science Center
Mark C. Kohler (Duke University), "Proximity Accelerated Organocatalytic Soft Enolization of Carboxylate Derivatives: Development of a Biomimetic Asymmetric Addition Reaction" [abstract]
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Lissette Perez (Duke University), "Synthesis and Characterization of Second- Generation Iron Pro-Chelators" [abstract]
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 10:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Sunhee Hwang (Duke University), "Efforts to Elucidate the Molecular Basis of the Interaction between LSD1 and CoREST: The Expression and Purification of CoREST" [abstract]
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Julianne M. Yost (Duke University), "Leveraging the Reactivity of Thioesters in the Development of New Methods For Carbon–Carbon Bond Formation" [abstract]
Monday, March 30, 2009, 2:00pm, Chemistry Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Dr. Bernhardt L. Trout (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Investigating Complex Molecular Processes via Likelihood Maximization and the Finite Temperature String Method"
Monday, March 30, 2009, 4:05pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Guoqiang Zhou (Duke University), "Method for Direct Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation and Their Application to Natural Product Synthesis" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 10:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Kristina L. Toups (Duke University), "Au(I)- and Pt(II)-Catalyzed Hydrofunctionalization of C-C Multiple Bonds" [abstract]
Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Sarah E. Wengryniuk (Duke University), "Asymmetric a,a,a’,a’-Tetra-alkylation of Ketones via an Amino Cyclic Carbamate Chiral Auxiliary" [abstract]
Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Jovica Badjic (Ohio State University), "Gated Molecular Baskets" [abstract]
Thursday, April 2, 2009, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
Allison A. Schmitt (Duke University), "Thermodynamic Additivity: Part 1: Galectin 3; Part 2: Intramolecular Systems (SH2 Domain)" [abstract]
Thursday, April 2, 2009, 3:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Laura Moussa (Duke University), "Biophysical Investigations of Boranophosphate siRNA for use in RNA Interference" [abstract]
Monday, April 6, 2009, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Seth Cohen (University of California, San Diego), "A Bioinorganic Approach to Fragment-Based Lead Discovery" [abstract]
Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Fritz London Memorial Lecture
William H. Miller (University of California, Berkeley), "Quantum Effects in the Dynamics of Complex Molecular Systems" [abstract]
Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 8:00pm, Fritz London Memorial Lecture, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
Prathyush Samineni (Duke University), "Functional neuronal imaging using nonlinear optical contrast" [abstract]
Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Timothy J. Brown (Duke University), "Mechanistic Studies of Pt(II)- and Au(I)-Catalyzed Hydrofunctionalization Reactions" [abstract]
Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3225 - French Family Science Center
Heekwang Park (Duke University), "Synthetic studies toward biologically active natural products" [abstract]
Thursday, April 9, 2009, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Catalina Achim (Carnegie Mellon University), "Hybrid Inorganic-Nucleic Acid Structures for Nanotechnology Applications" [abstract]
Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
Kiyoun Lee (Duke University), "Progress toward the total synthesis of pleurotin and tandem CM / Oxy-SN2Πfor the construction of 2,5-trans-disubstituted tetrahydrofurans and 2,6-cis-disubstituted tetrahydropyransh" [abstract]
Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Scott Miller (Yale University), "Asymmetric Catalysis with Minimal Peptides: Some Structures and Some Functions" [abstract]
Thursday, April 16, 2009, 1:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237 - French Family Science Center
Alexei Stuchebrukhov (University of California, Davis), "Cytochrome c Oxidase: Redox-coupled Proton Pump With Kinetic Gating" [abstract]
Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
Douglas G. Hill Memorial Lecture
Professor Kenneth N. Raymond (University of California, Berkeley), "Siderophore Stealth" [abstract]
Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 11:00am, 2009 Douglas G. Hill Memorial Lecture, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231
Erick M. Carreira (ETH Zurich), "Discovery and Surprises with Small Molecules" [abstract]
Friday, May 1, 2009, 11:00am, Departmental Seminar, Bryan Neuro Research Auditorium 103
John Stanko (Duke University), "The Design and Synthesis of Novel Chiral Z-Nitrones with Applications towards the Syntheses of Enantiomerically Pure 4-Hydroxy Amino Acids" [abstract]
Friday, May 1, 2009, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center