Chemistry and Biochemistry

Visiting Speaker Seminar Programs

 

Seminars are held on Mondays at 4:00 pm in Room 451 Benton Hall, unless otherwise specified. Refreshments 15 minutes prior to seminar time. Seminars are typically attended by faculty, postdocs, and graduate students from all divisions, as well as undergraduate chemistry majors in their senior year.
Fall 2013
Monday,
Aug 19		 No Seminar, class will meet briefly Host:
Monday,
Aug 26		 Tomasz Heyduk, Saint Louis University
"Biophysical and Bioanalytical Applications of Next Generation Sequencing"		 Host:
Dupureur
Monday,
Sept 2		 Holiday
 
Monday,
Sept 9		 American Chemical Society National Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana
NO SEMINAR
Monday,
Sept 16		 Xi Chen, University of California-Davis
"Chemoenzymatic Synthesis and Applications of Carbohydrates"		 Host:
Demchenko
Monday,
Sept 23		 Gary Baker, University of Missouri–Columbia
“Exfoliating Nanosheets: Lessons from the Kitchen Pantry"		 Host:
Gokel
Monday,
Sept 30		 Michael Haley, University of Oregon
"Phenyl-Acetylene Scaffolding as Receptors for Anions: Synthesis, Supramolecular Chemistry, and Emerging Applications in Cellular Imaging"		 Host:
Graduate Students
Monday,
Oct 7

Dr. Dawn L. Shiang, retired Associate Director for Sustainable Technologies at Dow Chemical Co.
"The Principles of Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering:  An Industrial Approach for Innovation”

 Host:
Barton
Monday,
Oct 14

Robin Hicks, University of Victoria-Canada
"The renaissance and redesign of non-innocent ligands:  REDOX REDUX"

 Host:
Holmes
Monday,
Oct 21		 Jeff Gildersleeve, National Cancer Institute-Frederick
"Glycan Array Based Approaches for Improving Cancer Vaccine Efficacy" 		 Host:
Demchenko
Monday,
Oct 28		 Carl Frieden, Washington University
"ApoE3 vs. apoE4 and Alzheimer’s Disease
An enigma wrapped in mystery wrapped in a riddle"		 Host:
Nichols
Monday,
Nov 4		 Matthieu Sollogoub, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris, Sorbonne Université Host:
Demchenko
Monday,
Nov 11		 Jeffrey Johnston, Vanderbilt University Host:
Spilling
Monday,
Nov 18

Daniel Quinn, The University of Iowa

Host:
Spilling
Monday,
Nov 25		 Fall Break

 
Monday,
Dec 2		 Kathleen Crudden

Host:
Holmes/Spilling
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