Past Foster Chemistry Colloquium
(Held in the FALL and SPRING semesters)
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FALL SEMESTER 2012
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Fri., August 31, 2012
Professor Jeffrey S. Johnson
Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Complexity and Simplicity in Organic Synthesis: Some Recent Case Studies
Fri., September 14, 2012
Professor Deborah E. Leckband
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Engineering Smart Surfaces for Biotechnology and Tissue Regeneration
Fri., September 21, 2012
Dr. Matthew Sfeir
Staff Scientist, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Interfacial Charge Transfer in Nanomaterial Based Light Harvesting Devices (Abstract)
TUESDAY, September 25, 2012
Dr. R. Morris Bullock
Director, Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis and Laboratory Fellow, Chemical and Materials Science Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
Design and Development of Molecular Electrocatalysts for the Production and Oxidation of Hydrogen (Abstract)
Fri., October 19, 2012
4:00 - 5:30 PM in 121 Cooke Hall
4th Annual Howard Tieckelmann Lecture Series (Info...)
Fri., November 2, 2012
Professor David H. Sherman
Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Michigan
Chemical Diversity and Metabolic Versatility in Natural Product Biosynthesis: C-H Bond Activation Catalysts from Microbial Resources
Fri., November 9, 2012
Professor T. Daniel Crawford
Chemistry Department, Virginia Tech
Through the Looking Glass and What the Quantum Chemist Found There
Fri., November 16, 2012
Professor Samuel H. Gellman
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Mimicry of Protein Surfaces with Peptidic Foldamers
SPRING SEMESTER 2012
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Fri., January 27, 2012
Professor Giovanni Gadda
Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University
Oxygen Activation in Flavoprotein Oxidases: The Importance of Being Positive
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Fri., February 17, 2012
Professor Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Targeting Noncentrosymmetric Structures and Other New Materials (Abstract)
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Fri., February 24, 2012
Professor Svilen Bobev
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware
Zig-zag Chains and Square-nets as Building Blocks in Solids. Crystal Chemistry of New (and some old) Rare-Earth Metal Germanides
Seminar not recorded
Professor Erick M. Carreira
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich
Discovery and Surprises with Natural Products
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Fri., March 23, 2012
Professor Alan E. Friedman
Univ. of Rochester Medical Center, School of Medicine and Dentistry
Cancer, Proteomics and Histidine/Aspartic Acid Phosphorylation
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**TUESDAY**, April 3, 2012
Dr. James Fraser
Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California at San Francisco and California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences
Protein Ensembles from X-ray Crystallography
Seminar not recorded
Fri., April 6, 2012
Professor Lingjun Li
School of Pharmacy and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Advancing Neuroscience Research by a Multi-Faceted Mass Spectral Platform
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CANCELLED
Fri., April 13, 2012
Professor Russell J. Hemley
Director, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Molecules at Very High Pressures
CANCELLED
Thurs., April 19, 2012
4th Annual Howard Tieckelmann Lecture Series
Fri., April 20, 2012
Professor Valerie Pierre
Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
Imaging Metal-Induced Oxidative Stress: Inorganic Chemistry to the Rescue (Abstract)
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FALL SEMESTER 2011
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Fri., September 2, 2011
Professor Scott A. Snyder
Department of Chemistry, Columbia University
Lessons in Chemoselectivity: Total Synthesis of Polyphenolic Natural Products
Seminar not recorded
Fri., September 16, 2011
Professor Javid Rzayev
Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo
Nanostructured Materials from Multicomponent Bottlebrush Copolymers
Seminar not recorded
Fri., September 23, 2011
Professor Sarbajit Banerjee
Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo
Elucidating Finite Size Effects on Phase Stabilities, Phase Transitions, and Electronic Structure
Seminar not recorded
CANCELLED
Fri., October 14, 2011
Professor Mark Lautens
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
No Strain, No Gain? Lessons in Catalysis
Fri., October 21, 2011
Dr. David Prendergast
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
First-Principles Simulation and Interpretation of the X-ray Absorption Spectra of Materials
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Fri., November 4, 2011
Professor Bruce Parkinson
Department of Chemistry, University of Wyoming
Single Crystal Oxide Photoelectrodes as Model Systems for Solar Energy Conversion
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Fri., November 11, 2011
Dr. Herman Cho
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
Elucidation of Electronic Structure in Actinide and Technetium Solids by NMR Spectroscopy
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Fri., November 18, 2011
Professor Philip A. Cole
Dept. of Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Chemical Approaches to Sorting out Protein Phosphorylation
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Fri., December 2, 2011
Professor Joseph A. Gardella, Jr.
Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo
The UB Buffalo Public Schools Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Partnership: Translating Research and Mentoring into Science and Engineering Education in Urban Public Schools
Seminar not recorded
SPRING SEMESTER 2011
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Fri., January 28, 2011
Professor Douglas L. Gin
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University at Colorado
Functional, Nanoporous Polymers Based on Surfactant Liquid Crystal Assemblies for Catalysis, Molecular-Size Separations, and Enhanced Ion Transport
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Fri., February 18, 2011
Professor William D. Jones
Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester
Strong C-H and C-C Bond Cleavage Reactions using Homogeneous Transition Metal Complexes
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Fri., February 25, 2011
Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University
Inexpensive, Efficient Approaches for Energy Production and Storage: Photovoltaic Devices and Li-Ion Batteries
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Fri., March 4, 2011
Professor Howard Fairbrother
Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University
Influence of Surface Properties on Environmentally Relevant Properties of Engineered Nanomaterials
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Fri., April 8, 2011
Professor Tristan H. Lambert
Department of Chemistry, Columbia University
Reaction Design and Catalysis with Aromatic Ions
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Fri., April 15, 2011
Professor Timothy M. Swager
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Top-Down Chemistry: Functionalization and Applications of Nano-Carbon Materials
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Fri., April 22, 2011
Professor Axel Enders
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Self-Assembly and Properties of Organic Nanostructures on Surfaces
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FALL SEMESTER 2010
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Fri., September 3, 2010
Professor Qing Lin
Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo
Photoinducible Bioorthogonal Chemistry: A New Tool for Chemical Biology
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Fri., September 10, 2010
Professor Charles R. Martin
Department of Chemistry, University of Florida
Nanopore Electrochemistry: Biosensing and Electroosmotic Flow
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Fri., September 17, 2010
Scripps Research Institute
Accelerated C-H Activation Reactions: Enantioselectivity and Positional Selectivity
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Fri., September 24, 2010
Professor Vicki H. Grassian
Department of Chemistry, The University of Iowa
Size-Dependent Properties and Surface Chemistry of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanomaterials in Environmental Processes
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Fri., October 1, 2010
Professor H. Bernhard Schlegel
Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University
Exploring Potential Energy Surfaces for Chemical Reactions Using Molecular Orbital Calculations
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Fri., October 8, 2010
Professor Robert Hudson
Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario
Toward PARACEST Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents: New Ligand for Lanthanide Ions -- Syntheses and Properties
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Fri., October 15, 2010
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Nanowire Arrays for Energy Applications
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Fri., October 22, 2010
Professor Teri W. Odom
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
All Things Pyramids: New Platforms for Real-time Sensing and Imaging
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(CANCELED)
Fri., October 29, 2010
Dept. of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Microfluidic Biosensors and Nanofiber Paper-based Diagnostic Assays for Pathogen and Toxin Detection in Real Samples
(CANCELED)
WED., November 3, 2010
Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization - From Mechanisms to Materials
Fri., November 12, 2010
Professor Patrick H. Vaccaro
Departments of Chemistry, Yale University
Optical Activity and the Road to Solvation
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Fri., November 19, 2010
Dr. David Y. Gin
Molecular Pharmacology & Chemistry, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr.
Synthesis of Vaccine Adjuvants and Bioactive Alkaloids
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Fri., December 3, 2010
Professor Christian P. Whitman
Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin
New Tricks from an Old Dog: The 4-Oxalocrotonate Tautomerase Saga
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SPRING SEMESTER 2010
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January 22, 2010
Professor Stephen C. Jacobson
Department of Chemistry, Indiana University
Nanofluidics: Analysis of Ions, Viruses, and Cells
Video not available
January 29, 2010
Professor Hector D. Abruña
Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University
Discovery and Characterization of Novel Materials for Fuel Cell Applications
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Fri., February 12, 2010
Chairman, Department of Cell Stress Biology
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Principles and Advantages of Non-Targeted Drug Discovery
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Fri., February 19, 2010
Professor Carlito B. Lebrilla
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis
Enabling Analytical Methods for Understanding the Role of Glycosylation
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Wed., February 24, 2010
Professor Chaitan Khosla
Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Modular Biocatalysts
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Fri., March 5, 2010
Dr. Lynda Soderholm
Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory
How Metal-Ligand Correlations Impact Solution Chemistry
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Fri., March 19, 2010
Dr. Janet Cheetham
Director in Chemistry Research and Discovery, Amgen Inc., CA
A Darwinian Path: Evolution of NMR within the Biopharmaceutical Industry
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Fri., March 26, 2010
Professor R. Lee Penn
Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
Crystal Growth by Oriented Aggregation
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Fri., April 2, 2010
Dr. Kay Ahn
Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT
Discovery of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase (FAAH) Inhibitors for the Treatment of Inflammatory Pain
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Wed., April 7, 2010
Professor Mohammad Movassaghi
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Complex Alkaloid Total Synthesis
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Fri., April 16, 2010
Professor A. Welford Castleman, Jr.
Departments of Chemistry & Physics, Penn State University
Clusters, Catalysis, and Materials: Kinetic, Super Atom, and Isoelectronic Concepts
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Fri., April 23, 2010
Professor Jeanne E. Pemberton
Department of Chemistry, The University of Arizona
In Pursuit of a Molecular View of Low Work Function Metal-Organic Interfaces in Photonic Devices
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Fri., April 30, 2010
Professor Dennis C. Liotta
Department of Chemistry, Emory University
New Therapies for Treating Cancer and Inflammation
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Fri., May 7, 2010
Professor Linda Hsieh-Wilson
Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Unlocking the Structure-Activity Relationships of Molecules in the Brain
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FALL SEMESTER 2009
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September 4, 2009
Professor Marisa C. Kozlowski
Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Catalytic Asymmetric Oxidative Naphthol Coupling and Claisen Rearrangement Reactions
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September 11, 2009
Professor Mary J. Wirth
Department of Chemistry, Purdue University
Silica Colloidal Crystals in Bioanalytical Chemistry
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September 18, 2009
Professor John C. Conboy
Department of Chemistry, University of Utah
Nonlinear Vibrational Spectroscopy for the Analysis of Biological Membranes (How Scientific Contributions from the Past Shape the Present)
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September 25, 2009
Professor David Watson
Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo
Photoinduced Electron Transfer Reactivity of Nanostructured Inorganic Interfaces
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October 2, 2009 (Cancelled)
Dr. Janet Cheetham
Director in Chemistry Research and Discovery, Amgen Inc.
A Darwinian Path: Evolution of NMR within the Biopharmaceutical Industry
October 9, 2009
Professor Anthony B. Brennan
Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Florida
Antifouling - Chemistry or Topography?
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October 16, 2009
Professor Matthew Disney
Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo
Progress Towards the Rational Design of Small Molecules Targeting RNA
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October 23, 2009
Professor David E. Clemmer
Department of Chemistry, Indiana University
Anhydrous Protein Ions
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October 30, 2009
Professor Robin D. Rogers
Department of Chemistry, The University of Alabama
From Green Chemistry to a 'Green' Industrial Revolution: Are Ionic Liquids Pointing the Way?
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November 6, 2009
Professor Catalina Achim
Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
Ligand- and Metal Ion-Modified Peptide Nucleic Acids for Nanotechnology Applications
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November 13, 2009
Professor Andrew Bennet
Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University
Catalysis and Reactivity in Glycosidase-Catalyzed Reactions
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November 20, 2009
Professor Zhibin Guan
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
Design of Novel Soft Matters with Inspirations from Catalysis and Biology
Video not available
December 4, 2009
Professor R.J. Dwayne Miller
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
"Making the Molecular Movie": Quest for the Structure-Function Correlation in Biology
Video not available
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
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March 27, 2009 (Cancelled)
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
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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?
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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
Video not available
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
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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
Video not available
November 14, 2008
Professor Kevin M. Weeks
Department of Chemistry, The Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
High-Throughput Analysis of HIV Genome Structure
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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
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April 4, 2008
Professor David A. Evans
Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Thoughts on the Frontiers of Chemistry
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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
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April 25, 2008
Professor David W.C. MacMillan
Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
New Catalysis Concepts
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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
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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*
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October 26, 2007
Professor Gary A. Molander
Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Organotrifluoroborates-Robus Surrogates for Boronic Acids in Suzuki Coupling*
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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)
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November 16, 2007
Professor Julia Y. Chan
Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University
Crystal Growth of Intermetallics: Challenges and Opportunities
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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
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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 (Cancelled)
Professor Daniel Raleigh
Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook
"Protein Folding: From Amyloid Formation to Protein Design"
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 (Cancelled)
Professor Shuming Nie
Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University
"Cancer Nanotechnology: Adventures at the Interface of Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine"
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"
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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"
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