Graduate Student Seminar Program Fall 2008

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All seminars at 12:45-1:45 PM, Room 151 Shelby Hall

Aug 26		Graduate Student Information Meeting
Sept 2	Samantha Bokatzian-Johnson	Surface Plasmon Resonance Principles and Applications
Sept 9	Heather Watson	Sensors for the Early Detection of Cancers
Sept 12 1:00 Friday, 150 SHLB	Jesse Carrick (PhD Research)	Progress towards the Formal Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (-)-Clavosolide A
Sept 16	Naval Bajwa (PhD Research)	(a) Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of the Biologically Active Natural Product Aigialomycin D and (b) Development of Two Novel Methodologies
Sept 23	Lensey Hill (PhD Research)	Investigations of Cross-Coupling Reactions: Synthesis and Scope of New Phosphine Ligands and Pre-Formed Palladium Catalysts
Sept 30	Clifton Watkins	Portable Power: Lithium Ion Batteries
Oct 7
Oct 14
Oct 21	Amanda Stott	Cancelled
Oct 28	Monica Khural (PhD Research)	(A) Synthesis of Pentafluorosulfanyl Compounds (B) Spectroscopic Trends in Halo(trifluoromethyl)pyridines
Nov 4	Yuan Chen (PhD Research)	Isolation of Low-Molecular-Weight Chromium Binding Substance from Human Urine and Examination on Chromodulins from Other Animal Sources
Nov 11	Chris Redden	Nanowire Formation in Anodic Alumina Templates
Nov 18	Franchessa Maddox	Muon Spin Rotation
Nov 20 Thursday	Ashok Ganta (PhD Research)	New Synthetic Applications Involving Arynes and Asymmetric Oxetanones
Nov 25	Yinghua Chen (PhD Research)	The Metal Binding Site of Zoocin A from Streptococcus zooepidemiccus Strain 4881 and Solution Structure of the Ttarget Recognition Domain of Zoocin A
Dec 2	Lester Gray	Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions