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Student Seminar schedule for Spring 2012

All seminars are held in the Cox Science Center room 318, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m

April 4
Subramani Swaminathan
:  “Introduction, Importance & Synthesis of C-F bond”

April 11
Nicholas Crawford
:  “Gel Electrophoresis: Structure Elucidation of Glycopeptides”

April 18
Ravi Patel
:  “Nanoemulsion as an alternative to drug delivery”

April 25
Alex Burum
:  “Optimization and Evaluation of Paramagnetic contrast agents”

May 2
Beijun Cheng
:  “Molecular Electronic Devices based on Carbon Nanotubes”

May 9
Christopher Lopez
:  “Hadamard NMR Spectroscopy and Applications for Fast Assignment of Amino Acids in Proteins”

 

 

 

 

Seminar Schedule (CHM679)

SPRING 2012 Seminar Series

Updated 10 January 2012

Seminars are held in Cox 318 at 2:30 PM on the following dates (unless noted otherwise):



JANUARY

20

J. Wilson (Uni. Miami)
Small molecule fluorescent probes: antibody alternatives?


JANUARY

27

S. Reece (Sun Catalytix Company, Cambridge, MA)
Artificial Photosynthesis
Students Choice Lecture


FEBRUARY

  3

G. Meyer (Johns Hopkins University)
Electron Transfer in Efficient Molecular Solar Cells


FEBRUARY

9-10

T. Ines (Kaifer) (Department of Energy, US Govt)
The Environmental Legacy of the Cold War
Science and Technology to Address the Environmental Legacy of the Cold War
The Nelson Lectures


FEBRUARY

17

W. Jorgensen (Yale University, New Haven)
Drug Discovery Accelerated by Computational Methods


FEBRUARY

24

P. Kamat (University of Notre Dame)
Tapping Semiconductor Quantum Dots for Next Generation Solar Cells


MARCH

  2

J. Walls (Uni. Miami)
Relaxation and Pathway Selective Pulses in NMR


MARCH

  9

L. Johnston (Steacie Inst. for Molecular Sciences, N. R. C. of Canada, Ottawa)
Multimodal Approaches for Nanoscale Imaging of Membrane Organization


MARCH

16

N. Chaniotakis (University of Crete and Tufts University)
Nanomaterial-Based Sensors for Direct Analysis in Remote and Martian Environments: Possibilities and Challenges


MARCH

23
M.l Klein (Temple University, Philadelphia)V
Computation and the Nano-Bio-Med Frontier

MARCH

30

R. Breslow (Columbia University, New York)
The invention of an approved anticancer compound with a novel mode of action
Students Choice Lecture


APRIL

  6

T. B. Gunnoe (University of Virginia, Charlottesville)
Development of Transition Metal Catalysts for the Hydroarylation of Olefins


APRIL

13

D. Bhattacharrya (University of Kentucky, Louisville)
Functionalized Nanocomposite Membranes for Tunable Separations and Reactions


APRIL

20

S. E. Schaus (Boston University, Boston)
Molecular Discovery: New Chemical Methodologies as a Source of Novel Disease Probes


APRIL

27

N. Takenaka (Uni. Miami)
Asymmetric Catalysis with Helical-Chiral Pyridines


MAY

  4

R. Prabhakar (Uni. Miami)
Computational insights into functioning of proteases and design of their synthetic analogues