Chemistry Department Seminars

Spring 2007

All seminars are Thursdays from 12:45 - 1:45 PM in Room 151 Shelby, unless noted otherwise. 

Seminar Home

January 10 4:00 PM	Prof. Herbert Roesky Georg-August-University	Aluminum(I) and Aluminum(III) Compounds in Catalysis	Thrasher
January 16 2:00 PM, 101 Bevill	Dr. Peter Khalifah Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst		MINT
January 18
January 22 2:00 PM	Dr. Tiffany Matthews Wake Forest University	Electrochemical Detection of Dopamine in an ENU-Mutated Mouse	Cassady
January 25	Prof. Scott Rychnovsky Univ of California-Irvine	New Methods for Natural Product Synthesis	Jennings
January 25 4:00 PM	Dr. Gangli Wang University of Utah	Glass Nanopores and Sub-2-nm Au Nanoparticles - Fundamentals & Electrochemical Sensing	Cassady
January 29 2:00 PM	Dr. Laura Busenlehner Vanderbilt University	Protein Dynamics Linked to Catalytic Intermediates of the Redox-Driven Proton Pump Cytochrome c Oxidase	Dixon
February 8	Prof. Brian Frost University of Nevada-Reno	Coordination Chemistry and Catalytic Activity of Transition Metal Complexes of Water-Soluble Phosphines	Shaughnessy
February 15	Prof. Dale Ensor Tennesee Tech University	Production of Plutonium During the Manhattan Project	Rogers
February 15 4:00 PM	Dr. Marcy Hernick University of Michigan	Insights Into the Catalytic Mechanism and Molecular Recognition of the Metal-Dependent Deacetylase LpxC	Dixon
February 19 Monday, 4:00 PM	Dr. Robert Igarashi	Biosynthesis of the Iron-Molybdenum Cofactor of Nitrogenase	Dixon
February 22	Prof. Yousif Shamoo Rice University	Evolution writ small: In vivo molecular evolution reveals biophysical origins of organismal fitness	Redding
March 1	Prof. Paul Carlier Virginia Tech		Snowden
March 8
March 15		Spring Break
March 22	Prof. Evert Duin Auburn University	Iron-Sulfur Proteins in the Alternative Pathway of Isoprene Synthesis as Novel Targets for Anti-Infective Drug Development	Redding
March 29	Prof. John Hall Morehouse College	Stratospheric Ozone Chemistry: The Past, Present and Future	Dixon
April 5	Prof. Arnold Guloy University of Houston	From Clusters to Cages: New Insights into the Soft Chemistry of Germanides and Silicides	Gupta
April 11 Wed., 2:00 PM	Dr. Ilwhan Oh University of Illinois	Microfabricated electrochemical Sensor for Chemical Warfare Agents	Cassady
April 12	Prof. Hans Schanz University of Southern Mississippi	Olefin Metathesis: New Approaches to Reactivity Control and Reactions in Aqueous Media	Jennings
April 19	Prof. Daniel Romo Texas A&M University	Total Synthesis of Oroidin Alkaloids and Salinosporamide	Snowden
April 26	Dr. Xianhai Huang Schering Plough		Jennings
May 3	Prof. William Lester UC-Berkeley	Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Chemical Systems	Dixon
July 13 Fri., 1:30 PM	Prof. C. N. R. Rao JNC Center and Indian Institute of Science	Seminar cancelled