Seminars for 2013

Corinna Schindler, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Harvard University, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Natural Product Synthesis: Design and Discovery of New Avenues to Molecular Complexity

Renee Frontiera, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University, Evanston Ill

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Obtaining Structural Snapshots of Reacting Molecules in Real Time with Ultrafast Vibrational and Surface-Enhanced Spectroscopies

Shane Ardo, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Demonstration of Artificial Photosynthesis with Peeled Silicon Microwire Arrays

Professor Hugh Hillhouse     (web page)
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Washington, Seattle WA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Earth Abundant Element Solar Cells from Nanocrystal-Inks and Molecular-Inks

Professor Randall Snurr     (web page)
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Northwestern University, Evanston ILL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Molecular Modeling of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Energy and Environmental Applications

Associate Professor Alena Kubatova     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks ND

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Chemical Characterization and Mechanism of Crop Oil Pyrolysis to Produce Fuel and Chemical By-Products

Professor Mary Wirth     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

Time:   3:45 PM
Room: 100 Smith Hall

Protein Separations Using Colloidal Silica: Nanoscale Phenomena

Professor Mary Wirth     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Protein Separations Using Colloidal Silica: Ultrahigh Performance Chromatography

Professor Mary Wirth     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Protein Separations Using Colloidal Silica: Miniaturized Electrophoresis and Isoelectric Focusing

Associate Professor B. Jill Venton     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Developing Rapid Tools for In Vivo Neurotransmitter Measurements

Professor Qiang Cui     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin, Madison WI

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Development and Application of Approximate Models for Processes in Membrane Proteins and Biomembranes

Professor Erno Lindner     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Memphis, Memphis Tennessee

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Optical and Electrochemical Sensors for the Analysis and Monitoring of Small Sample Volumes

Assistant Professor Matthew Allen     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Wayne State University, Detroit MI

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Lanthanide Chemistry in Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Catalysis

Assistant Professor Geoffrey Hutchison     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Rational Design of Molecular Materials: Molecular Springs, Solar Cells & More

Senior Research Investigator Amin Kamel, Ph.D.     (web page)
Department of Metabolism & Pharmacokinetics
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Using Structural Alerts to Mitigate Formation of Reactive Metabolites in Drug Discovery

Professor Paula T. Hammond     (web page)
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Polymer Nano-Assemblies for Targeted Bioresponsive Cancer Delivery

Assistant Professor Erin Carlson     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Indiana University, Bloomington IN

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Chemical Strategies to Promote Discovery of Antibacterial Agents

Principal Research Scientist Eric Voight, Ph.D.    
Neuroscience Research, Global Pharmaceutical R&D
AbbVie, North Chicago IL

Time:   4:30 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Heterocycle Synthesis in Process and Medicinal Chemistry

Professor Andrew Myers     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Harvard University, Harvard MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Bringing the Full Power of Chemical Synthesis to Bear on the Discovery of New Antibiotics

Professor Lingjun Li     (web page)
School of Pharmacy
University of Wisconsin, Madison WI

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Probing Neurochemical Signaling with a Multi-Faceted MS-Based Platform

Professor John T. Yates Jr.     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

A New Kind of Active Site in Heterogeneous Catalysis on Au Nanoparticles

Professor Geoffrey Coates     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Cornell University, Ithaca NY

Time:   7 PM
Room: 100 Smith Hall

In Pursuit of the Perfect Plastic

Professor Anthony "AC" Legon     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Bristol, Bristol UK

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Systematics of Non-Covalent Interactions: The Hydrogen Bond B...HX, the Halogen Bond B...XY, and the Silver Bond B...AgX

Professor Donna Blackmond     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Reaction Progress Kinetic Analysis: A Powerful Methodology for Streamlining Mechanistic Analysis of Organic Catalytic Reactions

Professor Donna Blackmond     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

A New Paradigm for Stereocontrol in Organocatalysis

Professor Donna Blackmond     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Physical and Chemical Models or the Origin of Biological Homochirality

Professor Jeffrey Zink     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Multifunctional Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Controlled by Nanomachines for In Vitro and In Vivo Drug Delivery

Professor Raoul Kopelman     (web page)
Department of Chemistry, Physics, and Applied Physics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Targeted and Cloaked Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Bioanalysis, Biomedical Imaging,Therapy and Surgery

Professor Stephen Benkovic     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

A Perspective on Biological Catalysis

Arthur J. Coury, Ph.D.    
Biomaterials Executive
Coury Consulting Services, Boston MA

Time:   3 PM
Room: 231 Smith Hall

Organic Chemistry: Passport to a “Hybrid” Career

Professor Richard O'Hair     (web page)
School of Chemistry
University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia

Time:   4 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Gas Phase Models for Radical Damage to Biomolecules

Professor S. Ramakrishnan     (web page)
Department of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time:   10 AM
Room: 231 Smith Hall

Ordering of Polymers—From the Molecular to the Macroscopic Scale

Regents Professor Timothy P. Lodge     (web page)
Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Ion Gels and Hydrogels: Designer Soft Materials from Triblock Polymers

Associate Professor Patanjali Kambhampati     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
McGill University, Montreal Quebec

Time:   4 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Excitons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Design Principles for Lasers, Optical Switches, and LEDs

Assistant Professor Valerie Pierre     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Imaging Metal-Induced Oxidative Stress: Inorganic Chemistry to the Rescue

Associate Professor David Blank     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Excitons Dancing in Conjugated Polymers

Professor Laurent Maron     (web page)
Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry of Nano-Objects
National Institute of Applied Sciences, Toulouse France

Time:   1 PM
Room: 402 Walter Library

Can Redox Chemistry of Divalent Lanthanide and Trivalent Uranium Complexes be Catalytic? Some Insights from Theory.

Joe Allison, Ph.D., & Kristi Fjare, Ph.D.    
Phillips 66
Phillips 66 Research Center, Bartlesville OK

Time:   1 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane: the Phillips 66 COPox Synthesis Gas Process

Associate Professor Christy Haynes     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Nanoparticle Toxicity and Therapeutics

Professor Edward Clennan     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Wyoming, Laramie WY

Time:   4 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Type I and Type II Photooxygenations of Organic Sulfides

Assistant Professor Andrew Harned     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Cyclohexadienones as a Challenging Platform for Reaction Discovery and Development

Assistant Professor Christopher Douglas     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Synthesis and Crystal Engineering of Small Molecules for Organic Electronics: Catalytic Reactions Based on the Insertion of Transition Metals Adjacent to Carbonyls

Associate Professor Michael Bowser     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Micro Free Flow Electrophoresis: A Simple Device for Microscale Purification and High-Speed Monitoring

Cathy Tway, Ph.D., R & D Director     (web page)
Inorganic Materials and Heterogeneous Catalysis
Dow Chemical Company, Midland MI

Time:   4 PM
Room: 402 Walter Library

Innovation in Industry

Professor Craig Hawker     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, Santa Barbara

Time:   4 PM
Room: 100 Smith Hall

Materials Inspired by Marine Organisms

Professor Craig Hawker     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, Santa Barbara

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

New Approaches to Molecular Building Blocks and Macromolecular Architectures

Professor Craig Hawker     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, Santa Barbara

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

The Power of Organic Chemistry in Polymer Synthesis

Professor Weston Borden     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of North Texas, Denton TX

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Why Does Cyclobutane-1,2,3,4-Tetraone Have a Triplet Ground State?

Professor Oleg Ozerov     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Texas A&M University, College Station TX

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Reaction Discovery With Pincer Complexes

Professor Andrei Tokmakoff     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Chicago, Chicago IL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

The Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy of Aqueous Proton Transfer

Associate Professor Elon Ison     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC

Time:   3:45 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Oxyfunctionalization with Re and Ir Complexes

Professor Anne Andrews     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Serotonin: From Chemical Neurotransmission to Behavior

Thomas Guggenheim, Ph.D.     (web page)
Chief Scientist
SABIC, Mt. Vernon IN

Time:   5 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

An Overview of SABIC Followed by Two Technical Presentations

Professor Frances Ligler     (web page)
Department of Biomedical Engineering
North Carolina State University & School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Hydrodynamic Focusing for Sensing and Micro/Nano-Fabrication

Professor Per-Ola Norrby     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology
University of Gothenburg, Göteborg Sweden

Time:   3:30 PM
Room: 402 Walter Library

Selectivity Modeling in Asymmetric Catalysis

Professor James Leighton     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Columbia University, New York NY

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

In Pursuit of the Ideal in Natural Product Synthesis–How and Why

Professor Paul Floreancig     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Oxidative Carbon–Hydrogen Bond Functionalization in Complex Molecule Synthesis

Professor Andrew Ewing     (web page)
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Electrochemistry and Mass Spectrometry Imaging in Flies, Cells, and Vesicles

Professor Michael Morse     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Electronic Spectra and Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Molecules