Washington University Department of Chemistry
Seminars - Spring 2008
Thursday, Jan 3rd
12:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: W. Buhro
Chemistry and Electrostatics of Interfaces: From Silicon Surfaces to Protein Active Sites
Lauren Webb
Stanford University
Department of Chemistry
Friday, Jan 4th
12:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: W. Buhro
Magnetic Materials with New Polydentate Capping Ligands (and Late Metal Imide Complexes)
David Jenkins
U. C. Berkeley
Department of Chemistry
Monday, Jan 7th
12:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: W. Buhro
Aerogel Templated Metal Oxide Photoelectrodes
Thomas Hamann
Northwestern University
Department of Chemistry
Tuesday, Jan 8th
12:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: W. Buhro
Metal Reagents for Biological Sensing and chemotherapeutic Applications
Mi Hee Lim
California Institute of Technology
Department of Chemistry
Friday, Jan 11th
12:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: W. Buhro
Synthetic Control of Magnetic Anisotropy: From Molecules to Extended Solids
Bart Bartlett
U. C. Berkeley
Department of Chemistry
Monday, Jan 14th
4:00 pm
264 McDonnell Science Bldg. (Medical Campus)
Host: W. Buhro
Exploiting Engineered P450 Enzymes for Alternative Fuel Production and Synthetic Applications
Rudi Fasan
California Institute of Technology
Department of Chemistry
Wednesday, Jan 16th
4:00 pm
264 McDonnell Science Bldg. (Medical Campus)
On The Battleground Against Bacterial Pathogens: Where Solid-State NMR Joins Chemical Biology
Lynette Cegelski
Washington University School of Medicine
Thursday, Jan 17th
12:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: W. Buhro
Mechanistic Studies of Dioxygen Activation and Substrate Oxidation by Model Complexes and Metalloenzymes
Liviu Mirica
U. C. Berkeley
Department of Chemistry
Thursday, Feb 7th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: C. Anderson
Technetium and other Radionuclides: Applications in Molecular Imaging, Radiotherapy and the Environment
Department of Chemistry
Hunter College of CUNY
Thursday, Feb 14th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: L. Gelb
Structure, Dynamics, and Function in Biological Electron Transfer
Duke University
Department of Chemistry
Tuesday, Feb 19th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Studies in Total Synthesis and Asymmetric Catalysis
Washington University in St. Louis
Department of Chemistry
Thursday, Feb 21st
12:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: K. Wooley
Applications for Ultrathin Polymer Films Assembled on Flexible Substrates
Adam Nolte
NIST
Thursday, Feb 28th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: K. Wooley
New Building Blocks and Tools for Molecular Self-Assembly
Department of Chemistry
Mount Holyoke College
Thursday, Mar 6th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Bio-organometallic Chemistry and the Development of New Discovery and Production Strategies for Molecular Imaging and Therapy Agents
McMaster University
Department of Chemistry and Medical Physics
Tuesday, Mar 11th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: T. Kappock
The Role of Flexible Protein Loops in Enzymatic Catalysis of Polar Reactions
University at Buffalo
Department of Chemistry
Thursday, Mar 20th
4:00 pm
TBA
Host: G. Jensen
Navier-Stokes Dynamics on a Differential One-Form
(Joint with Mathematics)
Troy Story
Morehouse College
Department of Chemistry
Tuesday, Apr 1st
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: T. Lin
Chemistry in Nanospace
National Taiwan University
Department of Chemistry
Thursday, Apr 3rd
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: Bleeke
Better Catalysts for Better Pharmaceuticals - Novel Catalytically Active Ruthenium and Iron Complexes
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Thursday, Apr 10th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: P. Gaspar
Activation of Organic and Organosilicon Compounds by New Low Valent Ruthenium Complexes
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Chemistry
Thursday, Apr 17th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: Birman
The Development of New Stereoselective Organocatalytic Processes
University of South Florida
Department of Chemistry
Thursday, Apr 24th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: S. Hayes
Spontaneously Formed Composite Nanostructures for Catalysis and Magnetism
Department of Materials and Materials Research Laboratory
UC Santa Barbara
Thursday, May 1st
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: Taylor
Caged Oligos and Xenon Biosensors: Chemical Tools for Biological Discovery
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Chemistry
Thursday, May 8th
4:00 pm
311 McMillen
Host: Schaefer
The Bacteriophage DNA Packaging Nanomotor
School of Medicine, University of Maryland
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology