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Graduate Seminar Schedule- Fall 2009

All seminars will be held in the Cox Science Center room 318 at 4:30 p.m.

Sep 30  Stefania Impellizzeri

Oct  7  Johny Orbulescu

Oct 14  Revathy Kulasekharan

Oct 21  Mintu Porel

Oct 28  Shipra Gupta

Nov  4  Arghya Barman

Nov 11  Shampa Samanta

Seminar Schedule (CHM679)

FALL 2009 Seminar Series

Updated 28 August 2009

Seminars are held in Cox 318 at 2:30 PM on the following dates:


SEPTEMBER

18 Malcolm Leissring (R. Prabhakar)
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Proteolytic degradation of the amyloid ß-protein:  the
forgotten side of Alzheimer's disease

 

25 T. K. Harris
UM Department of Biochemistry
Mechanisms of Action and Regulation of the Oncogenic   PDK1 and S6K1 Protein Kinases
OCTOBER 2 Glenn C. Micalizio (N. Takenaka)
The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida
Cross-Coupling Reactions via Directed Carbometalation:  
Reaction Development and Application
  9 ChristinE Neipert
UM, Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property and Your Research: What You Need
to Know
  16 Amjad Farooq
UM-Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Assembly of the Sos1-Grb2-Gab1 Ternary Signaling
Complex — It is the allostery, Stupid!

 

23 Stephan Schurer
UM- Center of Computational Science
Surveying Receptor Site- and Ligand-based Target Similarities: Opportunities in Computer-aided Drug Design
  30 Challa Vijay Kumar (V. Ramamurthy)
University of Connecticut
Artificial Light Harvesting Complexes: Supramolecular
Assemblies of  Small Molecules, Proteins and DNA
NOVEMBER 6 Gangadhar J. Sanjayan (A. Kaifer)
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Novel Conformationally Ordered Synthetic Oligomers
(Foldamers) with Hetero Backbones
  13 Robert Gawley (A. Kaifer)
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Catalytic Dynamic Thermodynamic Resolution: Is it
Possible?

 

20 Anatoly Khitrin (J. Walls)
Kent State University
High-precision measurement of inter-nuclear distances using solid-state NMR
DECEMBER 4 Alan Goldman (B. Captain)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Iridium Catalyzed Chemistry of C-H Bonds