Seminars for 2011

Levi Stanley, Ph.D.    
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Studies in Asymmetric Catalysis: From Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Diels-Alder and 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions to Iridium-Catalyzed Allylic Substitution

Qiu Wang, Ph.D.    
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University, Boston MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Leveraging Small Molecules for Biology and Therapy—Discovery of Novel Tetracycline Antibiotics and Inhibitors of Histone Lysine Methyltransferases

Jin Wang, Ph.D.    
Senior Research Fellow
University of North Carolina, Chapel View

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Translating the Precision of Microelectronics to the Production of Highly Uniform, Shape-Specific Nanomedicines

Matthew Liptak, Ph.D.    
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Rochester, Rochester N.Y.

Time:   9:45 AM

Diverse Functions of Metal Tetrapyrroles in Biological Systems: Investigating How the Protein Active Site Tunes the Electronic Structure

William Tisdale, Ph.D.    
Postdoctoral Scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Hot Electron Transfer from Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Implications for Quantum-Dot Photovoltaics

Kerri Pratt, Ph.D.    
Postdoctoral Fellow
Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Chemistry of Atmospheric Aerosols: Instrument Development, Aircraft Measurements, and Modeling

Mass Spectrometry Facility Director Joseph Dalluge, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   12:30 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

The Electrospray Kool-Aid Litmus Test: New Capabilities and Research in the Department of Chemistry Mass Spectrometry Facility

Darrel F. Untereker, Ph.D.    
Metronic, Inc., Minneapolis MN

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Critical Thinking

Associate Professor Brent Sumerlin     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

New Stimuli-Responsive Macromolecules: Polymer-Protein Bioconjugates and “Sweet Tooth” Micelles

Research Assistant Eric Olson    
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   12:30 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Hydrogen Activation and Proton Transport in the Fluorous Phase: Development of a Water-Free Fuel Cell

Professor Tomislav Rovis     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Ring Forming Strategies in Asymmetric Catalysis

Assistant Professor Jeremy Kodanko     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Wayne State University, Detroit MI

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Oxidation of Peptides and Proteins by Iron Complexes

Professor Peter Burns     (web page)
Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences & Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN

Time:   4:30 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

A Family of Uranium-Based Nano-Scale Cage Clusters

Assistant Professor Penny Beuning     (web page)
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Northeastern University, Boston MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Multiple Regulatory Modes That Control Translesion DNA Synthesis

Research Assistant Meng Jing    
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   12:30 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

One-Bead-One-Compound Technique Assisted uFFE-SELEX—an Improvement in Complex Separation

Professor Tadeusz F. Molinski     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego CA

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Marine Natural Products in extremis: Synthesis, Stereochemistry and Nanomole-Scale Structure Elucidation

Professor Joseph Hupp     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University, Evanston IL

3:45 p.m. Monday, Feb. 21, 100 Smith Hall, Materials Challenges for a Real Alternative Energy Scenario; 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, 331 Smith Hall, Metal-Organic Framework Materials for Energy Applications; 9:45 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, 331 Smith Hall, Artificial Leaf Solar Cells

Assistant Professor Sukwon Hong     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Florida, Gainesville FL

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Exploring New Ligand Designs for Asymmetric Catalysis

Assistant Professor Nicolai Lehnert     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

The Many Faces of the Coordination Chemistry of Nitric Oxide and its Significance for the Biosynthesis, Sensing and Detoxification of Nitric Oxide in Biological Systems

Dale Bjockman, J.D., from Kagan Binder, PLLC     (web page)
Graduate Student Workshop Committee
Department of Chemistry, Minneapolis MN

Time:   11:00 AM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Intellectual Property Workshop

Assistant Professor F. Wayne Outten     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of South Carolina, Columbia SC

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

The Suf Fe-S cluster assembly pathway: In vivo and in vitro characterization of a multi-protein factory for metal cofactor biosynthesis

Research Assistant Nicholas Frost    
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   12:30 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Monitoring in vivo Neuropeptide Dynamics by Microfluidic SPE-CE-MS

Assistant Professor John Berry     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison WI

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Coordination Complexes with Multiple Inorganic Functional Groups

Professor Joanna Aizenberg     (web page)
School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Harvard University, Boston MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Actuated spiny surfaces à la echinoderms: En route for adaptive materials

Associate Professor Justin Du Bois     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University, Stanford CA

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Turning Toxins into Tools Through De Novo Chemical Synthesis

Associate Professor Xi Chen     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of California at Davis, Davis CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Chemoenzymatic Approaches for Chemical Glycobiology

Research Assistant Melissa Maurer-Jones    
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   12:30 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Research Proposal Presentation: Influence of Dissolved Organic Matter on Microbial Function

Assistant Professor Donghui Zhang     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Peptidomimetic Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization and Materials Properties

Assistant Professor Dennis Hore     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Victoria, Victoria British Columbia, Canada

Time:   4:30 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Amino acids, polymers, and water: a bottom-up approach to understanding protein adsorption at surfaces

Assistant Professor Brian Miller     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Florida State University, Tallahassee FL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Kinetic Cooperativity in a Monomeric Enzyme

Research Assistant Li Chen    
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   12:30 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Enzyme Studies with Ion-Selective Membranes

Assistant Professor Malika Jeffries-EL     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Iowa State University, Ames IA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Teaching Old Polymers New Tricks: Novel Conjugated Materials Based on Benzobisazoles

Professor So Hirata     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Computational Quantum Chemistry: Two Extremes

Associate Professor Charles Sykes     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Tufts University, Medford MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Turning a Single Molecule into an Electric Motor

Research Assistant Gregory Wolken    
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   12:30 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Bioanalytical Tools to Investigate Rapamycin and the Aging Brain

Professor Hisashi Yamamoto     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Chicago, Chicago IL

Gassman Lecture #1: Rapid Synthesis of Polyketides

Professor Hisashi Yamamoto     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Chicago, Chicago IL

Time:   9:45
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Lecture #2: Designer Lewis and Brønsted Acid Catalysts

Professor Hisashi Yamamoto     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Chicago, Chicago IL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Gassman Lecture #3: Asymmetric Oxidation

Professor Allen Bard     (web page)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Chemically Imaging Living Cells by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy

Associate Professor Tobias Ritter     (web page)
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Late-Stage Fluorination

Research Assistant Yu-Shen Lin    
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   12:30 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Critical Considerations in Design of Graphene/Silica Nanotheranostics

Professor David Sherman     (web page)
Medicinal Chemistry, Chemistry, Microbiology & Immunology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Novel Drug Leads from Natural Products and Their Derivation from Microbial and Biosynthetic Diversity

Dayong Jin, Ph.D.     (web page)
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Macquarie University, Sydney Australia

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Advanced Cytometry by Lanthanides

Professor Emeritus Jerry Mohrig     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Carleton College, Northfield MN

Time:   9:00 AM
Room: 231 Smith Hall

Teaching Inquiry-­Driven Organic Chemistry Labs

Senior Lecturer/Organic Chemistry Laboratory Program Director Tammy Davidson, Ph.D.     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Florida, Gainesville FL

Time:   4:30 PM
Room: 231 Smith Hall

Rewards and Challenges of Teaching Guided-Inquiry Labs with Graduate Student Teaching Assistants

Associate Professor Alison Frontier     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Rochester, Rochester NY

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

New Twists in Nazarov Cyclization Chemistry

Professor Tadashi Sugawara    
Department of Pure and Applied Sciences
University of Tokyo, Tokyo Japan

Time:   10 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Chemical Approach Towards a Protocell Model

Professor Andreas Stein     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

What's the Point of Nanostructures in Energy Storage Materials?

Associate Professor Gregory Dudley     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Florida State University, Tallahassee FL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Alkyne Chemistry: New Strategies and Tactics

Assistant Professor Xile Hu     (web page)
Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanna Switzerland

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Catalysts Made of Earth-Abundant Elements for Making C-C and H-H bonds

Professor David MacMillan     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Princeton University, Princeton NJ

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Enantioselective Photoredox Organocatalysis: A New Catalysis Concept of Broad Utility to Chemical Synthesis

Assistant Professor Wenwan Zhong     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of California—Riverside, Riverside CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Analytical Tools for Studying Nanoparticle-Protein Interaction

Professor Ben Hsiao     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
State University of New York, Stony Brook NY

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Highly Efficient Nanofibrous Membranes for Water Purification

Patrick Gruber, Ph.D.     (web page)
Chief Executive Officer
Gevo, Inc., Englewood CO

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

The Optimal Approach to Renewable Chemicals and Fuels: Combining Chemistry and Synthetic Biology

Professor Eric Anslyn     (web page)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Time:   3:45 PM
Room: 100 Smith Hall

Lecture #1: Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry

Professor Eric Anslyn     (web page)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Lecture #2: Supramolecular Approaches to High-Throughput Screening of Enantiomeric Excess

Professor Eric Anslyn     (web page)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Time:   1 PM
Room: 114 STSS

Chalk Talk #1: Solvation, Molecular Recognition

Professor Eric Anslyn     (web page)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Time:   1 PM
Room: 230 STSS

Chalk Talk #2: Chirality and Stereochemical Principles

Professor Eric Anslyn    
Departmentof Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Time:   9:30 AM
Room: 118 STSS

Chalk Talk #3: Bonding: Hybridization versus Qualitative MOT

Professor Marsha Lester     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Dynamical Outcomes of Quenching: Reflections on a Conical Intersection

Professor Douglas Stephan     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Toronto, Toronto ON

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Frustrated Lewis Pairs: A New Paradigm for Metal-Free Hydrogenation Catalysis and Small Molecule Activation

Professor Ka Yee Lee     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Chicago, Chicago IL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Beyond Wrinkling: Stress Relaxation in Lung Surfactant Monolayers and Other Thin Films

Professor Daniel Chiu     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Washington, Seattle WA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

What can we do with and learn from a single cell?

Assistant Professor Christine Aikens     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Kansas State University, Manhattan KS

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Unraveling Nanoparticle Properties Using Density Functional Theory

Professor John Yates III     (web page)
Department of Chemistry Physiology
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA

Time:   3:45 PM
Room: 100 Smith Hall

Lecture #1: Using Mass Spectrometry to Understand Protein Misfolding Diseases

Professor John Yates III     (web page)
Department of Chemical Physiology
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Lecture #2: Interpreting Mass Spectrometry Bar Codes—The Horse That Pulls The Cart

Professor John Yates III     (web page)
Department of Chemical Physiology
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Lecture #3: Going Big Time—Large Scale in vivo Proteomics to Study Disease

Professor Christine Luscomb     (web page)
Materials Science and Engineering Department
University of Washington, Seattle WA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Creating Ordered Structures for Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Professor/Nobel laureate Richard Schrock     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

The Unique Reactivity of Mo or W MonoAlkoxidePyrrolide (MAP) Olefin Metathesis Catalysts

Assistant Professor Andrew Moran     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill North Carolina

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Probing Ultrafast Dynamics in Photosynthesis and DNA Photoprotection With Nonlinear Spectroscopy

Associate Professor Sergey Kozmin     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Chicago, Chicago Ill

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Natural Product Synthesis and Beyond: Getting Energy Metabolism under Small-Molecule Control

Professor Jillian Buriak     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Self-Assembled Block Copolymer Templates for Nanolithography: Enabling Density Doubling and Fine Structure Control

Gerardo Gamez, Ph.D.    
Department for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Thun Switzerland

Time:   8:30 AM
Room: 220 STSS

Glow Discharge Plasmas in Analytical Spectrochemistry: Not Just for Elemental Depth Profiling Anymore!

Assistant Professor Jennifer Schuttlefield    
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh WI

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

What does Economics have to do with Chemistry?

Elizabeth "Beth" Landis, Ph.D.     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Harvard University, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Molecular Monolayers as Functional Interfaces for Hybrid Nanoscale Systems

Professor Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt     (web page)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 402 Walter Library

The Strange Structures and Unusual Properties of Actinide Borates  

Alison Ondrus, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University, Stanford CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

[Re]activity of Natural Products: Chemistry of Myrmicarin Alkaloids and Neurobiology of Modified Saxitoxins

Danna Freedman, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Unusual Low Dimensional Magnetism: Molecular Magnets and Spin Frustration