Chemistry and Biochemistry

Graduate Student Seminars

 

Seminars are held Fridays at 1:00 pm in Room 451 Benton Hall, unless otherwise indicated.
Fall 2012/Winter 2013

August 24
American Chemical Society Meeting (no seminars)
August 31 

James Bashkin
"Bio-organic and Organic Chemistry, combined with Biochemistry, for Drug Discovery and Development, and Other Research Topics"
George Gokel
"Overview of Research in the Gokel Lab"
September 7

Joel Liebman
Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
University of Maryland-Baltimore County
"Understanding the Understanding of Chemistry:  Considerations of Convenience, Anthropocentrism and Folksonomy"
September 14

Stephen Holmes
"Designed Magnetic, Photoactive, and Catalytic Materials"
Michael Nichols
"Research in the Nichols Lab"
September 21 Alicia Beatty
"From Molecules to Materials:  A Supramolecular Approach to Materials Design"
Wesley Harris
"Inorganic Biochemistry of Iron and Aluminum"

September 28
Biochemistry Biotechnology Symposium
October 5 Eike Bauer
"Better Catalysts for Better Pharmaceuticals - Novel Organometallic Architectures for Catalytic Applications in Organic Synthesis"
Alexei Demchenko
"Glycoworld: Synthetic Chemistry Tools for Solving Biomedical Challenges of the 21st Century" 
October 12 Cynthia Dupureur
"Drug Discovery Biochemistry in the Dupureur Lab"
October 19 Christopher Spilling
"Applications of Phosphono Allylic Carbonates in the Asymmetric Synthesis of Heterocycles"
Keith Stine
"Surface Modification of Gold Nanostructures for Biochemical Applications"
October 26 Janet Wilking
"Synthesis and Characterization of Luminescent Cyclic Group 14 Compounds"
Chung Wong
"Current Projects in Genomics and Computer-Aided Drug Design"
November 2 Binod Pandey (exit seminar)
"Nanoporous gold as a support for immobilization of biomolecules for the development of immunoassay, and for biomolecular interaction studies"
November 9 Sneha Ranade (exit seminar)
"Glycosyl Thiocarbamates As New Building Blocks for Chemical Glycosylation"

November 16

 Saeedeh Negin (exit seminar)
"Analytical Evaluation of Synthetic Amphiphiles: Aggregation, Transport, and Supramolecular Interactions"
November 23 Fall Break
November 30
December 7 Doug Hammerstroem (dissertation proposal)
"Luminescent Square-Planar Platinum(II) Complexes Containing Silole Units"
2013
January 25 Elena Vasilieva
"Cyclophostin derivatives as inhibitors of serine hydrolases and Polyamide viral DNA binding properties"
February 1 Joe Wilson (dissertation proposal)
"The Measurement of the Vaporization Enthalpies and the Evaluation of the Vapor Pressures of Several Fatty Acids and the Synthesis of 3-Hydroxydodecanedioic Acid"
February 8 Sanjib Karki (dissertation proposal)
"The Role of Integrins and Amyloid-beta aggregation in Microglial activation"
February 15
February 22 Surendra Dawadi (exit seminar)
"Design and Synthesis of chelating compounds and solid-supported chelators for metal depleted solutions"
March 1 Teresa Bandrowsky (exit seminar)
"Synthesis & Characterization of Luminescent Cyclic Germanium Compounds"
March 8 Jeremy Ridenour (dissertation proposal)
"Development of Stereocontrol Methods for the Mori-Tamaru Reaction"
March 15
*104 Stadler Hall		 16th Annual Robert W. Murray Lecture
David W. C. MacMillan, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry,Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Director of the Merck Center for Catalysis at Princeton University
 
March 22

Pushkar Shejwalker (exit seminar)
"Applications of Iron Complexes as Catalysts in C-O and C-C Bond Forming Reactions"
March 29 Spring Break
April 5 Matt Lenze (exit seminar) 
"The Investigation of New Iron(II) Complexes and Their Catalytic Applications"
April 12

 Paul Gontarz (dissertation proposal)
"Genome-Hashing Alignment Software for Next Generation Sequencing and Its Application as a Diagnostic Tool for Bacterial Infections"
April 19 Scott Hasty (exit seminar)
"S-Benzimidazolyl (SBIZ) Glycosides as a Platform for Oligosaccharide Synthesis"
April 26 James Carroll (exit seminar)
"Siloles Bearing Coordination-Active 2,5-Substituents: Synthesis, Reactivity, Structural and Spectral Properties"
May 3 Andria Widaman (dissertation proposal)
"Investigation of Chiral Ruthenium Allenylidene Complexes as Intermediates of Enantioselective Propargylic Substitution Reactions"
May 10 Joseph Meisel (dissertation proposal)
"Mechanistic Studies of Tris-Arene Mediated Genetic Transformation"