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Chemical Biology Colloquia Spring 2005 (PDF)


Spring 2005

Date
Time
Room

Speaker Seminar Title
Tuesday
Jan. 18, 2005
9:45am
331 Smith Hall

Daniel Armstrong
Iowa State University
Departmental Seminar: Synthesis, Characterization, and use of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids

Host: Edgar Arriaga
Tuesday
Jan. 25, 2005
9:45am
331 Smith Hall
Greg Scholes
University of Toronto
Departmental Seminar: Designing materials for processing light

Host: David Blank
Friday
Jan. 28, 2005
4:15 pm
331 Smith Hall


Saturday
Jan. 29, 2005
10:30 am
117/119 Smith

Peter Beak
University of Illinois

Student Seminar Series
Lecture 1: Lessons learned from carbanion chemistry (part 1)



Lecture 2: Lessons learned from carbanion chemistry (part 2)

Monday
Jan. 31, 2005
4:15 pm
100 Smith

Tuesday
Feb. 1, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith

Wednesday
Feb 2, 2005
4:15 pm
331 Smith
Peter J. Stang
University of Utah

Gassman Lecture Series
Lecture 1:
Nanoscale Molecular Architecture: Design and Self-Assembly of Metallocyclic Polygons and Polyhedra via Coordination
***Reception to follow in 117/119 Smith

Lecture 2: Chemical Publishing: Perspectives of a JACS Editor




Lecture 3: Polyvalent Iodine Chemistry


Host: Steven Kass

Tuesday
Feb. 8, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall
Tom Meade
Northwestern University
Departmental Seminar: Seeing is Believing: The Chemistry of Biological Molecular Imaging

Host: Lawrence Que
Tuesday
Feb. 15, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall
Gary Keck
University of Utah
Departmental Seminar: Adventures with Pyrans: Synthetic Studies on Bryostatin and Analogues

Host: Thomas Hoye
Monday
Feb. 21, 2005
4:15 pm
331 Smith Hall
Laura Gagliardi
University of Palermo, Italy
Special Seminar: Quantum Chemistry for Heavy-Metal Systems: From Transition Metals to Actinides

Host: Christopher Cramer
Thursday
Feb. 24, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall
Susan Taylor
University of California, San Diego
Departmental Seminar: Dynamics of Signaling by PKA

Host: Jiali Gao
Tuesday
Mar. 1, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall
Richard Zepp
US EPA
Departmental Seminar: Interactions of Solar UV Radiation
and Dissolved Organic Matter in Aquatic Environments (Abstract)(Biosketch)

Host: Kristopher McNeill
Tuesday
Mar. 8, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall
Arthur Palmer
Columbia University
Departmental Seminar: TBA

Host: Gianluigi Veglia

Thursday
Mar. 10, 2005
11:15 am
B75 Amundon

Friday
Mar. 11, 2005
4:00 pm
100 Smith

Eduard Arzt
Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung


Biography

Donaldson Lecture Series: TBA
Lecture 1: Constrained plasticity and fatigue in sub-micron metallic films (Abstract)


Lecture 2: From biological to artificial nano-scale devices: how flies and geckos adhere to surfaces


Host: Bill Gerberich, CEMS

Monday
March 21, 2005
4:15pm
100 Smith Hall

Tuesday
March 22, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall

Wednesday
March 23, 2005
4:15 pm
331 Smith Hall


Thursday
March 24, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall

Ben Feringa
University of Groningen
Gassman Lecture Series
Lecture 1: Molecular Switches: In Control of Chirality and Organization



Lecture 2: Molecular Motors




Lecture 3: Monodentate or Bidentate Ligands in Asymmetric Catalysis?




Lecture 4: Exploiting Chiral Space in Asymmetric Catalysis


Host: Lawrence Que
Tuesday
Mar. 29, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall
Neil Kelleher
Univ. of Illinois
Departmental Seminar: Planting the Seeds of New Technology: Top Down Mass Spectrometry Coming of Age for Chromatin Biology and Proteomics Across the Phylogenetic Tree

Host: Michael Bowser
Tuesday
Apr. 5, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall
Stacey F. Bent
Stanford Univ.
Student Seminar Series: Gaining Control of Electronic Materials: from Functionalizing Surfaces to Making Devices
Tuesday
Apr. 12, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall

Michael Summers
HHMI,
Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County

Departmental Seminar: Structural basis for retroviral genome recognition and packaging by the Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus

Host: Karin Musier-Forsyth

Wednesday
Apr. 13, 2005
9:45 am
402 Walter Library (DTC)

Thursday
Apr. 14, 2005
3:45 pm
2-470 Phillips-Wangensteen Bldg.

Julia Phillips
Sandia National Laboratories
Donaldson Lecture Series: TBA
Additional Lecture: A Tour of Nanosecond Research at Sandia National Laboratories



Main Lecture: Why is Nanotechnology So Big?
Reception to follow in the Arthur Upson Room of Walter Library



Host: Jeffrey Roberts
Tuesday
Apr. 19, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall
Hilary A. Godwin
Nortwestern Univ
Student Seminar Series: Why is lead toxic? Unraveling the molecular mechanism(s) of lead posioning
Friday
Apr. 22, 2005
4:15 am
331 Smith Hall


Saturday
Apr. 23, 2005
10:00 am
117/119 Smith
Richard Larock
Iowa State Univ.

Student Seminar Series
Synthesis of carbocycles and heterocycles via iodine- and palladium-promoted cyclizations and annulations (Abstract)


Workshop Series in Synthetic Organic and Medicinal Chemistry


Host: Kimberly Kurtz

Tuesday
Apr. 26, 2005
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall
Debra Rolison
Naval Research Laboratory
Departmental Seminar: Nanostructured Mesoporous Three-Dimensional Architectures for Catalysis, Sensing, Energy Storage, and -Conversion You-Name-It!

Host: Lee Penn
Tuesday
May 3, 2005
9:45 am
117 Smith Hall
Carmay Lim
Academica Sinica, Taiwan
Special Seminar: Metal Ion Selectivity and Function in Proteins


Host: Don Truhlar