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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 2008

   

Monday,
August 18

ACS National Meeting

Host:

Monday,
August 25
Robert Hanson, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota "Green Chemistry" or "Computer simulations in chemical education" 

Host: H. Harris

Monday,
September 1
Holiday

 

 

Monday,

September 8

Amy S. Mullin, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland"Dynamics of high energy molecules: collisions, energy transfer and chemical reactions"

Host: J. O'Brien

Monday,
September 15

Xuefei Huang, Michigan State University

Host: A. Demchenko

Monday,
September 22

Ekaterina Kadnikova, University of Missouri-Kansas City "Adventures in Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Esters"

Host:  K. Stine

Monday,

September 29

Joseph Lambert, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

 

Host:  J. Braddock-Wilking

Monday,

October 6

Rob Coalson, University of Pittsburgh Host:  C. Wong
Monday,
October 13

SonBinh T. Nguyen, Director of the Integrated Science Program
Dept. of Chemistry, Northwestern University

Host: E. Bauer
Monday,
October 20
joint seminar with CNS

Host: J. Liu  
 

Monday,
October 27

Byron Caughey, Biochemistry Section, Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, NIH/NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories Host:  M. Nichols
Monday,
November 3

Michael D. Morse, The University of Utah

Host:  J. O'Brien


Monday,
November 10

Carol Fierke, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor "Catalytic Mechanism and Metal Switching in Deacetylases (LpxC and HDAC)"

Host: C. Dupureur
Monday,
November 17

Lai-Xi Wang, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD  

Host:  A. Demchenko

Monday,
November 24
Holiday Host: 
Monday,
December 1

Tammy Kielian, Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

Host: M. Nichols