Graduate Student Seminars

Seminars are held Fridays at 1:00 pm in Room 451 Benton Hall, unless otherwise indicated.
Fall 2011/Winter 2012
August 26		Binghe Wang , Georgia State University "Boronic acid-based carbohydrate sensors and their applications"
September 2		Christopher Spilling, University of Missouri-St. Louis "Approaches to Cyclic Ether Containing Natural Products" Keith Stine, University of Missouri-St. Louis "Nanoporous Gold as a Support for Biomolecular Recognition Studies and Assay Development"
September 9		Wesley Harris, University of Missouri-St. Louis "Designing Chelating Agents for Medical Applications" Alexei Demchenko, University of Missouri-St. Louis "Glycoworld: synthetic chemistry tools for solving biomedical challenges of the 21st century"
September 16		James Bashkin, University of Missouri-St. Louis "Chemistry, Biology and Drug Design: New Antiviral Candidates for HPV"
September 23		Harold Harris, University of Missouri-St. Louis "Why Should You Care About Chemical Education?" Stephen Holmes, University of Missouri-St. Louis "Holmes Group Research: Present and Future Projects"
September 30		George Gokel, University of Missouri-St. Louis Michael Nichols, University of Missouri-St. Louis "Amyloid-Beta and Alzheimer’s Disease"
October 7		Alicia Beatty, University of Missouri-St. Louis "Crystal Engineering and Materials Synthesis" Chung Wong, University of Missouri-St. Louis "Overview of Current Research in the Wong Lab"
October 14		James Chickos, University of Missouri-St. Louis "Application of Correlation-Gas Chromatography to Problems in Thermochemistry" Zhi Xu, University of Missouri-St. Louis “Development of Cutting-Edge Technology”
October 21		46th Midwest/39th Great Lakes Joint Regional ACS Meeting Saint Louis, MO
October 28		Saeedeh Negin (diss. proposal) "Study of Membrane Active Pyrogallol(4)arene Amphiphiles"
November 4		Geeta Paranjape (exit seminar) "Microglial Activation by Abeta 42 Protofibrils"
November 11		Hemali Premathilake (exit seminar) "Superarmed glycosyl donors in chemical glycosylation"
November 18		Joseph J. Papes, Strategic Partnership Coordinator, Federal Bureau of Investigation "Safety and Security for US Students Traveling Abroad, Safety and Security for US Business Professionals Traveling Abroad and Intellectual Property Protection"
November 25		Thanksgiving
December 2		Prithika Yasomanee (diss. proposal) "Exploring non-traditional approaches to stereocontrolled glycosylation"
December 9		Shana Terrill (diss. propsal) "Properties and Inflammatory Activity of Mixed Amyloid-B (1-40)/(1-42) Protofibrils"
2012
January 20		Abeera Sharma (diss. proposal) "Study of Nanoporous Gold Monoliths for Protein and Lectin Immobilization, Recognition and Separation"
January 27
February 3		Mercy Kiiru (diss. proposal)
February 10		Jay Bhattarai (diss. proposal) "Study of the Relation of Nanoporous Gold Structure to Optical and Electrochemical Responses to Protein Binding"
February 17
February 24
March 2		Elena Vasilieva (diss. proposal)
March 9		Andria Widamann (diss. proposal) (tentative)
March 16		tentative-guest of Chris Spilling
March 23		Mahesh Paudyal (exit seminar)
March 30		Spring Break
April 6		Sudeshna Roy (exit seminar)
April 13		Sitaram Acharya (exit seminar)
April 20		Swati Nigudkar (diss. proposal)
April 27		Nichole Curvey (diss. proposal)
May 4		Jullie Stambek (diss. proposal)