Washington University Department of Chemistry
Seminars - Fall 2007
Thursday, Aug 23rd
4:00 pm
Laboratory Sciences Bldg., Rm 300
Host: K. Wooley
Bayer Lecture:
A Multi-dimensional Approach to Molecular Recognition in Chemistry and Biology: Towards New Therapies against Infectious Diseases
ETH Zurich
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
Friday, Aug 24th
11:00 am
Louderman 458
Host: K. Wooley
Bayer Lecture:
Acetylene and Fullerene Scaffolding: Carbon-rich Advanced Materials
ETH Zurich
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
Thursday, Sep 6th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: A. Walker
Drinking Water Disinfection By-Products: Practical Chemistry and New Approaches to On-Line Monitoring
University of Memphis
Department of Chemistry
Tuesday, Sep 11th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: V. Birman
Building a Better Cross Coupling Catalyst by Rational Design
York University
Department of Chemistry
Thursday, Sep 13th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: B. Blankenship
Nanoscale Lipid Bilayers for Elucidating the Structure and Function of Integral Membrane Proteins
Departments of Biochemistry, Chemistry, and School of Medicine
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thursday, Sep 20th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: B. Blankenship
Achieving environmentally and economically viable biofuel feedstock crops. Why improvement of photosynthetic efficiency is critical and attainable.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Crop Sciences
Wednesday, Sep 26th
4:00 pm
300 Laboratory Sciences Bldg.
Host: M. van Duzor
Marcus Lecture:
Adventures in Liquid Stream Chemical Analysis and Nanoparticle Chemical Synthesis
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University
Thursday, Oct 11th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: K. Wooley
Functional Dendrimers and Organic Inorganic Hybrids
Department of Chemistry
University of Missouri, Kansas City
Tuesday, Oct 16th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: D. Holten
Relationship between Aromaticity and Two-Photon Absorption Phenomena in Various Expanded Porphyrins
Dongho Kim
Department of Chemistry
Yonsei University
Thursday, Oct 18th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: V. Birman
Nucleophilic Catalysis and the Quaternary Carbon Problem
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan
Tuesday, Oct 23rd
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: K. Wooley
Reaction Chemistry Meets Lithography
Department of Chemistry
Columbia University
Monday, Oct 29th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: P. Gaspar
Tracking Conformational Change in Membrane Proteins - Monte Carlo Normal Mode Following
Department of Chemistry
Brandeis University
Thursday, Nov 1st
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: R. Mabbs
Mechanisms for Electron-Capture and Electron-Transfer Dissociation Peptide Fragmentation in Mass Spectrometry
Department of Chemistry
University of Utah
Thursday, Nov 8th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: Bleeke
Metal-accelerated Cycloaromatizations of Enediynes and Dienynes
U.C. San Diego
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Thursday, Nov 15th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: M. Gross
Journal of the American Society for MS Lecture:
Proteins in a Solventless Environment: Mass Spectrometry of Complexes and Aggregates
UCLA
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Tuesday, Nov 27th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Chemical Genetics: From Ad Hoc to Systematic"
Xiang Wang
Harvard University
Thursday, Nov 29th
4:00 pm
264 McDonnell Science Building (Medical Campus)
Thiols, Peptides, and Proteins - Uncovering Biochemical Sensing Mechanisms
Joseph Jez
Danforth Plant Science Center
Tuesday, Dec 4th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Protein Infrastructure and Folding Dynamics: The Requisites of de novo Design
Corey Wilson
California Institute of Technology
Thursday, Dec 6th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
New Chemical Tools for the High Throughput Analysis of Biomolecular Interactions
Julio Camarero
Laboratory of Protein Chemistry and Engineering
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Tuesday, Dec 11th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Enzymatic Transition States and Inhibitor Design: From Purine Salvage to RNA Editing
Minkui Luo
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Department of Biochemistry
Thursday, Dec 13th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Chemical Probes to Explore Enzyme and Metabolite Function
Erin Carlson
Departments of Chemistry and Cell Biology
Scripps Research Institute
Monday, Dec 17th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
The New Recruits to Nature's Drug Assembly Lines
Nathan Magarvey
Harvard University
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology