CHEMISTRY SEMINARS SPRING 2013
Flanner Hall 133 - 4:00pm
Weekly seminars and the annual Denkewalter Lecture (which brings the winner of either the American Chemical Society's Pure Chemistry or Eli Lilly awards to campus) provide an opportunity to learn about up to date advances from respected scientists from industry and academia.
Seminars Begin at 4:00 pm, Flanner Hall 133, Refreshments at 3:45pm
April 25, 2013
Peter W. Rabideau
Alumnus of the Year
Misssissippi State University
Title: "Life is Just a Buckybowl of Cherries" http://www.chemistry.msstate.edu/people/faculty/detail.php?faculty=rabideau
April 18, 2013
John Rogers
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title: "Stretchy Electronics That Dissolve in Your Body"
http://rogers.matse.illinois.edu
April 11, 2013
Cathrine Putonti
Loyola University Chicago
Title: "The Roar of the Silent Mutation"
http://sites.google.com/site/putonti/
April 4, 2013
Denkewalter Seminar
Melanie Sanford
University of Michigan
Title: "C-H Bond Functionalization in Organic Synthesis"
http://www.umich.edu/~mssgroup/
March 21, 2013
Perry Frey
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: "The Past, Present, and Future of Radical SAM Enzymology"
http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/faculty/frey/
March 14, 2013
Graham Griffin
The University of Chicago
Title: "Engineering Persistent Electronic Coherence in Synthetic Systems" `
February 28, 2013
Vladimir Gevorgyan
University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: "Development of Novel Transition Metal-Catalyzed Synthetic Methodologies"
http://www.chem.uic.edu/faculty_detail.php?fac_id=17
February 21, 2013
Wilson Ho
University of California-Irvine
Title: "Single Molecule Chemistry at the Atomic Scale"
http://www.physics.uci.edu/~wilsonho/whoghp.htm
February 14, 2013
Lynn Kamerlin
Uppsala University
Title: "Modeling Promiscuity in the Alkaline Phosphatase Superfamily" http://xray.bmc.uu.se/kamerlin/
February 7, 2013
Renee Cole
University of Iowa
Title: "Using Discourse to Enhance Student Understanding in Chemistry"
https://www.chem.uiowa.edu/people/renee-s-cole
January 31, 2013
Abde Abukhdeir
Rush Medical Center
Title: "Genetic Signatures that Predict for Response to Anti-cancer Therapies"
January 24, 2013
Seth Darling
Argonne National Lab
Title: "Rethinking the idealized morphology in organic photovoltaics" http://www.anl.gov/contributors/seth-darling
January 17, 2013
Ann West
University of Oklamoma
Title: "His-to-Asp Phosphorelay Signal Transduction in Yeast"
http://chem.ou.edu/ann-h-west