Seminars for 2012

Joseph Moran, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Reversing the Cope Elimination and Transfer Hydrogenation for Intermolecular C-N and C-C Bond Construction

David Harris, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Harvard University, Cambridge MA

Time:   3:45 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Molecular and Electronic Structure Considerations in Magnetic Relaxation and Multi-Electron Reactivity

William Pomerantz, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Profiling Transcription Complexes via Small Molecules and Protein Observed 19F NMR

Professor Timothy Swager     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Molecular Shape in Materials Design: Triptycene Based Materials

John Matson, Ph.D.    
Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine
Northwestern University, Chicago IL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Catalyst-Economical Syntheses of End-Functionalized Polymers by Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization & Dynamic Peptide-Based Biomaterials for Drug Delivery and Signaling

Joaquin Rodriguez Lopez, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cornell University, Ithaca NY

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 402 Walter Library

A Versatile Toolbox for the Interrogation and Imaging of Electrodes

Associate Professor Edward Gillan     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Iowa, Iowa City Iowa

Time:   11 AM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Thermochemical and Biomorphous Precursor Routes to Inorganic Phosphides and Oxides

Associate Professor Matthew Disney     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter FL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Progress Toward the Rational Design of Small Molecules Targeting RNA from Genomic Sequence

Professor Michael Graetzel     (web page)
Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , Lausanne Switzerland

Time:   3:45 PM
Room: 100 Smith Hall

Lecture #1: The Advent of Mesoscopic Solar Cells

Professor Michael Graetzel     (web page)
Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne Switzerland

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Lecture #2: Optimizing Photon Harvesting and Charge Carrier Collection in Mesoscopic Solar Energy Conversion Systems

Professor Michael Graetzel     (web page)
Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne Switzerland

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Lecture #3: Photo Meets Electrocatalysis: United we Split (. . .Water)

Professor & Research Fellow Garry Rumbles     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder
Research Fellow at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden CO

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Comparing the Primary Electron Transfer Process in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers with Organic Photovoltaic Heterojunctions

Associate Professor Yadong Yin     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of California-Riverside, Riverside CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Magnetic Assembly of Responsive Photonic Nanostructures

Associate Professor Daniel Mindiola     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Indiana University, Bloomington IN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Taming Methane and Other Alkanes with Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonds

Professor Martin Gruebele     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Fast Folding Proteins Meet the Anton Supercomputer

Professor Michael Heaven     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Emory University, Atlanta GA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Spectroscopic Studies of Prototype Actinide Compounds (and closely related species)

Professor Clark Landis     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin, Madison WI

Time:   9:45
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Enantioselective Hydroformylation: Complex Molecules and Complex Mechanism

Assistant Professor Parisa Mehrkhodavandi     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Chiral Indium Catalysts for Highly Controlled Ring Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Esters

Professor Steven Burke     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin, Madison WI

Time:   4 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Natural Products

Professor Carrie Haskell-Luevano     (web page)
Medicinal Chemistry
College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

The Melanocortin Obesity Syndrome: The Perspective of a Medicinal Chemist

Associate Professor Michael Best     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Chemical Approaches to the Investigation of Protein-Membrane Binding Interactions Using Synthetic Lipid Probes

Professor Jonathan Sweedler     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Metabolomics and Chemical Imaging for Probing the Cellular Heterogeneity in the Brain

Professor Kathryn Uhrich     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, Piscataway NJ

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Polymer Therapeutics: Polymers from Bioactives and for Biodelivery

Associate Professor Kevin Naidoo     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Cape Town, Cape Town South Africa

Time:   4 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Resolving the Historical Competition between Sampling and Levels of QM Theory in QM/MM Simulations of Reactions

Professor Susan Lunte     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of Kansas, Lawrence KS

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Neurochemical Applications of Microchip Electrophoresis

Professor Suzie Pun     (web page)
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington, Seattle WA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Synthesis and Application of Peptides and Peptide-Based Copolymers for Targeted Drug Delivery

Associate Professor Melissa Grunlan     (web page)
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Texas A&M University, College Station TX

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Self-Cleaning Membranes for Implanted Glucose Biosensors

Mark Pederson, Ph.D.     (web page)
Computational & Theoretical Chemistry
Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C.

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

DFT-Based Simulation of Molecular Magnets

Professor Cathleen Crudden     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Queen's University, Kingston Ontario

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Chirality and Control in Catalysis and Materials: Asymmetry in the Suzuki-Miyaura Reaction and Chiral Mesoporous Materials

Professor Joseph Lauher     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Topochemical Polymerizations by Design

Professor Barry Trost     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University, Stanford CA

Time:   10 AM
Room: 220 STSS

The Alkyne Strategy for the Synthesis of Bioactive Targets

Associate Professor Tehshik Yoon     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin, Madison WI

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Photocatalysis with Visible Light

Professor David E. Nichols     (web page)
Department of Medicinal Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of the 5-HT2A Receptor

Associate Professor Junko Ohkanda     (web page)
Division of Biological and Molecular Sciences
Osaka University, Osaka Japan

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Assembling Small Molecules for Disrupting and Detecting Protein-Protein Interactions

Professor Jay Siegel     (web page)
Organic Chemistry Institute
University of Zurich, Zurich Switzerland

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Aromatic Architectures: Design and Synthesis (chalk talk)

Darrel F. Untereker, Ph.D.    
Vice President of Corporate Research and Technology, and a Senior Technical Fellow
Medtronic

Time:   4:30 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall (reception following 117/119 Smith Hall)

Critical Thinking

Maarten Smulders, Ph.D.     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Cambridge University, Cambridget MA

Time:   3:30 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Designing Structures and Functions for Metal-Organic Capsules

James L. Kirkland, M.D., Ph.D.     (web page)
Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging
Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN

Time:   3 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Aging, Obesity, and Fat Tissue Cellular Senescence

Professor Thomas Hoye     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of MInnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

The Hexadehydro-Diels-Alder Reaction

Associate Professor Philippe Buhlmann     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Polymeric Fluorous Phases: From the Ultimate Limits of Low Polarity to Biocompatibility

Assistant Professor Neil Garg     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
UCLA, Los Angeles CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Complex Molecule Synthesis as a Fuel for Discovery

Assistant Professor Aaron Massari     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Organic Electronic Interfaces

Professor Alexandra Navrotsky     (web page)
Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
University of California, Davis CA

Time:   11:30 AM
Room: 401/402 Walter Library

Size Driven Changes in Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale - Effects on Phase Transformations and Redox Equilibria

Professor X. Peter Zhang     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of South Florida, Tampa FL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Stereoselective C–H Amination with Azides via Co(II)-Based Metalloradical Catalysis

Professor Robert Cava     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Princeton University, Princeton NJ

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Stories about the Discoveries of Eight New Superconductors

Assistant Professor Theodore Betley     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Harvard University, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Correlation of Electronic Structure to Reactivity in Organometallic Catalysis and Polynuclear Small Molecule Activation

Associate Professor Jeffrey Pyun     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Arizona, Tucson AZ

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Polymerizing Goblins and Brimstone for Energy Applications

Associate Professor Akif Tezcan     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego CA

Time:   4:30 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

New Inorganic Paths in the Biological Jungle

Assistant Professor Corey Stephenson     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Boston University, Boston MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Photoredox Catalysis: Enabling Chemical Synthesis with Visible Light

Associate Professor Mohammad Movassaghi     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Complex Alkaloid Total Synthesis

Associate Professor Lane Baker     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Indiana University, Bloomington IN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Electroanalytical Applications of Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy

Professor Mischa Bonn     (web page)
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz Germany

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water Studied Using Femtosecond 2-Dimensional Surface Vibrational Spectroscopy

Professor William Jorgensen     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Yale University, New Haven CT

Time:   3:45 PM
Room: 100 Smith Hall

Modeling Organic and Biomolecular Systems in Solution

Professor William Jorgensen     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Yale University, New Haven CT

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Drug Discovery Accelerated by Computational Methods

Professor William Jorgensen     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Yale University, New Haven CT

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

New Challenges for Modeling Chemistry in Solution

Thomas Jozefiak, Ph.D.     (web page)
Vice President of Biomaterials
Genzyme Corporation, a Sanofi Company, Boston MA

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Biomaterials for the Prevention of Postsurgical Adhesions

Associate Professor Jane Wissinger     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   4 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Green Chemistry is for Everyone

Assistant Professor Catharine Larsen     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Riverside CA

Time:   4:30 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Copper Catalysis for Direct Formation of Heteroaromatics and Tetrasubstituted Carbons Bearing Amines

Professor Joachim Sauer     (web page)
Institute of Chemistry
Humboldt University, Berlin Germany

Time:   2 PM
Room: 401/402 Walter Library

Storage and Activation of Methane–ab initio approach

Professor Jeffrey Long     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Russell D. Cink, Ph.D.    
Principle Research Scientist, GPRD Process R&D
Abbott Laboratories, Grayslake IL

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Process Development for an HCV Polymerase Inhibitor

Ian Tonks, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Catalyst and Reaction Design Toward Improved α-Olefin Polymerization, Hydroformylation and Other Catalytic Methodologies

Jared Delcamp, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Development of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Organic Dyes and the Oxidative Heck Reaction

Lei Fang, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemical Engineering
Stanford University, Stanford CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Molecular Engineering on Mechanically Interlocked Molecules and Conductive Polymers

Amanda Hargrove, Ph.D.    
Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Targeting Prostate Cancer with DNA-Binding Polyamides through the AR-ERG Signaling Axis

Jeffrey Rinehart, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry
University of Washington, Seattle WA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Employing Lanthanides and Actinides in the Construction of Single-Molecule Magnets

James Johns, Ph.D.    
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Northwestern University, Evanston Ill

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 231 Smith Hall

Probing and Chemically Manipulating 2D Carbon Based Electronic Materials in Time and Space