Past Foster Chemistry Colloquium
(Held in the FALL and SPRING semesters)
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Spring Semester 2009
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January 30, 2009
Dr. Eva D. Zurek
Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University
Streaming Video: "Theoretical Studies of Complex Chemical Systems: Metal-Fullerene Clusters, Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Lithium-Ammonia Solutions"
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February 6, 2009
Professor Benjamin Cravatt
Chair, Dept. of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute
Streaming Video: "Activity-based Proteomics"
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February 13, 2009
Professor Mark A. Ratner
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Streaming Video: "Transport in Molecular Junctions: Molecular Interferents and Vibrations"
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February 20, 2009
Professor Ulli Krull
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Streaming Video: "Quantum Dots and Nanorods as Platforms for Nucleic Acid Biosensors"
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February 27, 2009
Professor Andrew B. Bocarsly
Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
Streaming Video: "Making a One Electron Shuttle do the Work of Six: Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Via Optical Conversion to Alcohols"
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March 6, 2009
Professor Yitzhak Tor
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
Streaming Video: "Targeting and Exploiting Negatively Charged Biopolymers"
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March 20, 2009
Professor Jamie Doudna Cate
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Structures of the Universal Translator, The Ribosome
Seminar not recorded
March 27, 2009 (CANCELED)
Professor Linda Hsieh-Wilson
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Cal Tech
Decoding Structure-Activity Relationships of Carbohydrates in the Brain
TUESDAY, March 31, 2009
Professor Julius Rebek, Jr.
Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
Streaming Video: "The Inner Space of Molecules"
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April 3, 2009
Professor Robert W. Schurko
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Windsor
Seeing the Invisible Nucleus: Ultra-wideline NMR of Organic, Inorganic and Organometallic Materials
Seminar not recorded
April 10, 2009
Professor Purnendu K. (Sandy) Dasgupta
Chair, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Arlington
Perchlorate and Iodine: Where do we go from here?
Seminar not recorded
April 17, 2009
Professor Raoul Kopelman
Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
Streaming Video: "Nano-sensors and Nano-actuators for Biochemistry and Medicine"
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April 24, 2009
Professor Kenneth N. Raymond
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Streaming Video: "Nanozymes: Supramolecular Metal Complex Cluster Catalysts"
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TUESDAY, May 5, 2009
Professor Julia Brumaghim
Department of Chemistry, Clemson University
Streaming Video: "A Predictive Model of DNA Damage Prevention by Polyphenol Antioxidants"
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WEDNESDAY, May 6, 2009
Professor Dr. Paul S. Pregosin
Laboratorium für Anorganische Chemie, ETH Zürich
Streaming Video: "Playing with Anions: 1) Fast, Environmentally Friendly Ruthenium-Allylation Catalysts and 2) Understanding and Predicting Ion Pairing"
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Fall Semester 2008
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September 5, 2008
Professor Michael Barnes
Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts
Streaming Video: "Single-Molecule Chiroptical Spectroscopy: Fluorescence Excitation and Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Single Helicenes"
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September 12, 2008
Professor R. Mark Wightman
Department of Chemistry, UNC Chapel Hill
Streaming Video: "Measurement of Neurotransmitter in the Brain"
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September 19, 2008
Professor Barry M. Trost
Chemistry Department, Stanford University
Streaming Video: "On the Invention of New Synthetic Methods and the Impact on Synthetic Strategy to Bioactive Targets"
http://stream.buffalo.edu/shared/devo/CHE/foster/Trost
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September 26, 2008
Professor Jonathan E. Spanier
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Drexel University
Towards Chemical Control of Ferroelectric Nanostructures via Molecular Adsorbates
Seminar not recorded.
October 3, 2008
Professor James R. Williamson
The Scripps Research Institute
Streaming Video: "A Post-Proteomic Approach to Study Ribosome Assembly"
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Professor Michael P. Jennings
Department of Chemistry, The University of Alabama
Efforts Towards the Total Synthesis of Beta-C-Glycoside Natural Products
Seminar not recorded.
October 17, 2008
Department of Chemistry, Yale University
Streaming Video: "Photoactivation Mechanism of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Rhodopsin"
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October 24, 2008
Professor Daniel W. Armstrong
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The Univ. of Texas, Arlington
Streaming Video: "Ionic Liquids in Separations and Mass Spectrometry, A New Frontier"
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October 31, 2008
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Streaming Video: "Mechanism Inspired Methods for Organic Synthesis"
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November 7, 2008
Department of Chemistry, Columbia University
Chemistry and Physics of Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Seminar not recorded.
November 14, 2008
Professor Kevin M. Weeks
Department of Chemistry, The Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
High-Throughput Analysis of HIV Genome Structure
Seminar not recorded.
November 21, 2008
Professor Guy C. Lloyd-Jones
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK
Streaming Video: "Palladium Catalyzed Allylation: A Well-Understood Reaction?"
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December 5, 2008 -- CANCELLED
Professor Chad M. Rienstra
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois
High-Resolution Structure Determination by Magic-Angle Spinning Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy
Spring Semester 2008
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January 25, 2008 -- CANCELLED
Professor Geoffrey W. Coates
Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
Discovery and Development of New Catalysts for the Synthesis of Small Molecules and Polymers
February 1, 2008
Professor Bruce M. Foxman
Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University
Streaming Video: "Discovery, Design and Understanding of Stereospecific Reactions in Crystals"
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February 8, 2008
Professor T. V. RajanBabu
Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University
Streaming Video: "Development and Applications of Hydrovinylation Reactions"
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February 15, 2008
Professor Giovanna Ghirlanda
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University
Streaming Video: "Sweet Entanglement: Multivalent Binding to Sugar-coated gp120 is Crucial for
the anti-HIV Activity of Cyanovirin"
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February 22, 2008
Professor William R. Heineman
Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati
Streaming Video: "Chemical Sensors Based on Spectroelectrochemistry"
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February 29, 2008 -- CANCELLED
Professor Daniel P. Raleigh
Department of Chemistry, SUNY at Stony Brook
The Unfolded State: The Other Half of the Protein Folding Problem
March 7, 2008
Professor Michael A. Marletta
Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Streaming Video: "Nitric Oxide Signaling: Selectivity and Reactivity"
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March 21, 2008
Professor Mark E. Girvin
Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Streaming Video: "How Proton Translocation Drives ATP Synthesis in F1Fo ATP Synthase"
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March 28, 2008
Professor Vincent L. Pecoraro
Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
Understanding Heavy Metal-Protein Interactions Using a de novo Design Strategy
Seminar not recorded
April 4, 2008
Professor David A. Evans
Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Thoughts on the Frontiers of Chemistry
Seminar not recorded
April 11, 2008
Professor Catherine J. Murphy
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina
Streaming Video: "Synthesis, Assembly, Sensing and Imaging with Metallic Nanorods"
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April 18, 2008
Professor Paul S. Weiss
Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University
Designing, Measuring and Controlling Molecular- and Supramolecular-Scale Properties for Molecular Devices
Seminar not recorded
April 25, 2008
Professor David W.C. MacMillan
Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
New Catalysis Concepts
Seminar not recorded
May 2, 2008
Professor Yoshito Kishi
Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Streaming Video: "Mechanisms for Fatty Acid Biosynthesis Catalyzed by Mycobacterium smegmatis FAS I: A Detective Story via Organic Syntheses"
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Fall Semester 2007
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September 07, 2007
Professor Shuming Nie
Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University
Streaming Video: Cancer Nanotechnology: Adventures at the Interface of Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine
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September 14, 2007
Professor David S. Wishart
Departments of Computing Science and Biological Science, University of Alberta
Streaming Video: NMR and the Human Metabolome Project
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September 21, 2007
Professor Paul R. Hanson
Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas
Streaming Video: New Methods in Synthesis: Phosphate Tethers, Functional Oligomers and Sultam Libraries
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September 28, 2007
Professor Richard Cheng
Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo
Streaming Video: Two Tales of the alpha-Helix: Intrahelical Glu-Lys Interactions and Highly Fluorinated Amino Acids
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October 05, 2007
Professor Sherry Chemler
Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo
Streaming Video: From Reaction Discovery to Catalytic Asymmetric Reactions: Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Intramolecular Addition of Amines to Alkenes: Carboamination, Diamination, Aminohydroxylation
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October 12, 2007
Professor Stefan Lutz
Department of Chemistry, Emory University
Streaming Video: Engineering Enzymes: New Tricks for Tailoring Biocatalysts' Selectivity and Specificity
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October 19, 2007
Dr. Darrel F. Untereker
V.P. of Research and Technology, Medtronic, Inc.
Designing Implantable Medical Devices for Reliability*
Seminar not recorded
October 26, 2007
Professor Gary A. Molander
Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Organotrifluoroborates-Robus Surrogates for Boronic Acids in Suzuki Coupling*
Seminar not recorded
November 2, 2007 - CANCELLED
Professor Jonathan E. Spanier
Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Drexel University
Towards Chemical Control of Ferroelectrics via Molecular Adsorbates
November 9, 2007
Professor Marc Grynpas
Dept. of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto
Bone, A Living Material (ABSTRACT)
Streaming Video: Bone, A Living Material
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November 16, 2007
Professor Julia Y. Chan
Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University
Crystal Growth of Intermetallics: Challenges and Opportunities*
Seminar not recorded
November 30, 2007
Professor Brian M. Stoltz
Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, CalTech
Streaming Video: Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry
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WEDNESDAY, December 5, 2007
(Co-sponsored with UB Dept. of Chemical & Biological Engineering)
Professor Virginia Cornish
Department of Chemistry, Columbia University
Expanding the Synthetic Capabilities of the Cell
Seminar not recorded
December 7, 2007
Dr. Frances S. Ligler
Center for Bio/Molecular Science & Engineering, Naval Research Laboratory
Streaming Video: Biosensors for Highly Multiplexed Analyses
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Spring Semester 2007
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January 26, 2007
Professor Daniel Raleigh
Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook
"Protein Folding: From Amyloid Formation to Protein Design"
SEMINAR CANCELLED
February 2, 2007
Professor Dirk Trauner
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Streaming Video: "Synthetic Studies on Natural Products and Neurons"
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February 9, 2007
Professor Shuming Nie
Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University
"Cancer Nanotechnology: Adventures at the Interface of Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine"
SEMINAR CANCELLED
February 16, 2007
Professor Gabriele Varani
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington
Streaming Video: "New Peptidomimetic Inhibitors of HIV Replication Targeting Transcriptional Activation"
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February 23, 2007
Professor Thomas Mallouk
Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University
Streaming Video: "Nanostructural Design of Photocatalysts and Photoelectrochemical Cells"
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March 2, 2007
Professor Ross A. Widenhoefer
Department of Chemistry, Duke University
Streaming Video: "Catalytic Hydrofunctionalization of Alkenes"
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March 9, 2007
Professor Marc L. Snapper
Department of Chemistry, Boston College
Streaming Video: "New Reactions/New Strategies: Our Efforts to Improve Synthetic Efficiency"
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March 23, 2007
Professor Norm Dovichi
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington
Streaming Video: "Chemical Cytometry -- The Chemical Analysis of Single Cells"
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March 30, 2007
Professor Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
Streaming Video: "Green Chemistry Strategies Using Crystal-to-Crystal Reactions: Total Syntheses of Natural Products with Adjacent Quaternary Stereogenic Centers"
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April 6, 2007
Professor Frank Weinhold
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Streaming Video: "Valency and Bonding from the Natural Bond Orbital Perspective"
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April 13, 2007
Professor Krishna Kumar Pearson
Chemistry Laboratory, Tufts University
"Bioorthogonal Noncovalent Chemistry"
Seminar not recorded
April 20, 2007
Professor George S. Wilson
Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas
Streaming Video: "Making it Stick: Recent Applications of Biological Recognition to Analytical Problems"
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April 27, 2007
Professor Thomas J. Meade
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
"Chemistry of Biological Molecular Imaging: The Future Looks Bright"
Seminar not recorded
