Fall 2005

Date
Time
Room

Speaker Seminar Title

Thurs., Sep. 8, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall

Lawrence Que
University of Minnesota
Kick-off Seminar: Exploring the Oxoiron Reaction Landscape

Mon., Sep. 12, 2005
11:00 am
117/119 Smith

Robert S. Coleman
Ohio State University
Special Seminar: Total Synthesis and Mechanism of Cytotoxic Natural Products

Host: Richard Hsung

Wed., Sep. 14, 2005
4:15 pm

100 Smith

Thurs., Sep. 15, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith

Barbara Imperiali
MIT
Kolthoff Lecture Series
Lecture 1: Chemical Tools for the Study of Complex Biological Systems

Lecture 2: Fluorescent and Luminescent Probes for Chemical Biology
Host: Gianluigi Veglia

Tues., Sep. 20, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall

Kristopher McNeill
University of Minnesota

Photosensitized reactions in natural waters: Implications for pollutant degradation and the carbon cycle

Host: Jeffrey Roberts


Thurs., Sep. 22, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall

Phillipe Buhlmann
University of Minnesota

Ionophore-Based Chemical Sensors: Testing the Limits of Fluoroelectrochemistry

Host: Jeffrey Roberts


Fri., Sep. 23, 2005
4:15 pm
331 Smith Hall

Graham R. Fleming
Univ. of California, Berkeley

Student Seminar Series: The Chemical Physics of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting


Tues., Sep. 27, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall

David A. Blank
University of Minnesota

Watching the local solvent environment participate in chemical reactions

Host: Jeffrey Roberts


Tues., Sep. 27, 2005
5:00 pm
117/119 Smith Hall

Toyoji Kakuchi
Hokkaido University

Special Seminar: Synthesis and Aggregation Property of Amphiphilic End-Functionalized Polymers

Host: Timothy Lodge


Wed., Sep. 28, 2005
1:25 pm
117/119 Smith Hall

Shinichi Itsuno
Toyohashi University of Technology

Special Seminar: Synthesis of Polymers Containing Chiral 1,2-Diamine Derivatives and Their Application to Asymmetric Reactions

Host: Thomas Hoye


Thurs., Sep. 29, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall

Michael T. Bowser
University of Minnesota

Bioanalytical Applications of Capillary Electrophoresis: Aptamers, Neurotransmitters and Microfluidics

Host: Jeffrey Roberts


Fri., Sep. 30, 2005
2:00 pm
117/119 Smith Hall

Horacio F. Olivo
University of Iowa

Special Seminar: Adventures in the Synthesis of Stemona Alkaloids

Host: Richard Hsung


Tues., Oct. 4, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall

Gianluigi Veglia
University of Minnesota

Structural Dynamics of Membrane Proteins by NMR Spectroscopy

Host: Jeffrey Roberts


Thurs., Oct. 6, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall

Mark D. Distefano
University of Minnesota

Mechanistic, Structural and Functional Analysis of Protein Prenylation

Host: Jeffrey Roberts


Fri., Oct. 7, 2005
3:35 pm
231 Smith Hall

Andrew J. Phillips
University of Colorado at Boulder

Special Seminar: From Targets to Strategies and from Reactions to Targets: Cyanthiwigin, Cylindramide and Dictyostatin

Host: Thomas Hoye


Wed., Oct. 12, 2005
3:30 pm
TBA

Fri., Oct. 14, 2005
3:30 pm
TBA

Barry K. Carpenter
Cornell University

Gassman Seminar Series
Lecture 1:
Chemistry of Reactive Intermediates: the Role of Nonstatistical Dynamics

Lecture 2: Chemistry of Reactive Intermediates: the Role of Nonadiabatic Effects

Host: Christopher Cramer


Thurs., Oct. 20, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall
Robert J. Hamers
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
Departmental Seminar: Molecular and Biomolecular Interfaces to Microelectronics

Host: Christy Haynes

Thu., Oct. 27, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall
James Landers
University of Virginia

Departmental Seminar:

Integrated Microdevices for Ultrafast Genetic Analysis: From Respiratory Pathogens and Biowarfare Agents to Human Cancer Mutations



Host: Michael Bowser


Fri., Oct. 28, 2005
postponed
Laurie E. Locascio
NIST

WISE Seminar: Cells and Cell-Mimetic Systems in Microfluidics

Abstract


Thurs., Nov. 3, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall
Jeffrey N. Johnston
Indiana University
Departmental Seminar: The Development of New Reactions and Reagents for Chemical Synthesis: Chiral Proton Catalysis

Host: Richard Hsung

Thurs., Nov. 10, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall
James D. Wuest
Université de Montréal
Etter Lecture: Engineering Molecular Crystals

Host: T. Andrew Taton

Tues., Nov. 15, 2005
3:00 pm
117/119 Smith Hall
Janis Louie
University of Utah
Special Seminar: The Versatility of Nickel Cycloaddition Catalysts

Host: Richard Hsung

Wed., Nov. 16, 2005
4:15 pm
TBA

Thurs., Nov. 17, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith
J. Fraser Stoddart
UCLA
Gassman Lecture Series:
Lecture 1:
Nano Art and Nano Toys:  How Beauty and Fun Inspire Creativity


Lecture 2:
Whither Molecular Electronics?

Host: Kristopher McNeill

Mon., Nov. 21, 2005
4:15 pm
331 Smith
John C. Gordon
Los Alamos National Lab
Special Seminar: Some New f-element Chemistry from Los Alamos

Host: Kristopher McNeill

Thurs., Dec. 8, 2005
4:15 pm
331 Smith
Regan J. Thomson
Harvard University
Faculty Candidate Seminar: Total Synthesis of Sordaricin and the Development of Ni(II) Tol-BINAP-Catalyzed Enantioselective Reactions

Host: Craig Forsyth

Mon., Dec. 12, 2005
4:15 pm
331 Smith
Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova
Harvard Medical School

Faculty Candidate Seminar: Pyrrole Formation and Modification in Secondary Metabolites

Host: Mark Distefano


Thurs., Dec. 15, 2005
4:15 pm
331 Smith
Aaron M. Massari
Stanford University

Faculty Candidate Seminar: Impact of the Surrounding Medium on Ultrafast Protein Dynamics

Host: David Blank