Seminars for April 2014

Professor Hung-Wen "Ben" Liu     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Texas, Austin TX

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Studies of SpnF-catalyzed [4+2]-cycloaddition in the biosynthesis of spinosyn A

Professor Jacqueline K. "JK" Barton     (web page)
Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

DNA-Mediated Signaling

Professor Ramesh Jasti     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Boston University, Boston MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

The Bottom-Up Organic Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes

Professor Katarzyna Błażewska    
Technical University of Lodz, Lodz Poland

Time:   3:30 PM
Room: 101J Smith Hall

Synthesis & Biological Characterization of Novel Phosphonocarboxylate RabGGTase Inhibitors

Jared Piper, Ph.D.     (web page)
Principal Research Scientist
Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis Indiana

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Process Research and Development of 2-Aryl Substituted Pyrrolidines

Professor Squire J. Booker     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Penn State, University Park PA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

A Radical Strategy for Antibiotic Resistance: Mechanistic Dissection of a Novel Post-Transcriptional Modification of 23S rRNA

Eric Dane, Ph.D.    
Departments of Chemistry & Biomedical Engineering
Boston University, Boston MA

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Novel Bioinspired Carbohydrate Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization, and Bioactivity Studies

Professor George Huber     (web page)
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI

Time:   7 PM
Room: 100 Bell Museum

Renewable Plastics: Step One in Breaking Our Oil Addiction

Professor Shana Kelley     (web page)
Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Toronto, Ontario Canada

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Ultrasensitive Biomolecular Detection Using Nanostructured Metals

Professor Frank Neese     (web page)
Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Insights into Biological Energy Conversion in Photosystem II from a Combination of Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy