Spring 2008 Student Seminars
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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