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Chem 502: Graduate Student Seminars - 2005 · 2004 · 2006

Note: All seminars are on Monday or Wednesday at 11:00am in V-107 (unless otherwise indicated).

January
5 Jan. Fu Chen
Distance Measurements Using Modern Pulse Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
17 Jan. Thanh Luu
Recent Advances in the Synthesis and Studies of Fulgide Switches
19 Jan. Kuburat Saliu
Gadolinium(III)-based contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging; recent advances
26 Jan. Donna Gulcev
Spectroscopic features of dual fluorescence/ luminescence energy transfer molecular beacons
31 Jan. Gladys Completo
Recent Advances in the Inhibition of Amyloid β Aggregation
February
2 Feb. Zheng Su
Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy: Molecular structure and dynamics in solution
9 Feb. Janet Macdonald
Up-Conversion Phosphors: The Next Generation of Bio-tags
14 Feb. Vijaya Pattabiraman
Exponential Fragmentation of Dendritic Structures and their Potential Application in Cancer Prodrug Therapy
March
7 Mar. Jianmin Zhang
Advances in Iminium Organocatalysis of α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds
9 Mar. Genaro Gelves-Canas
Development of lithium iron phosphate as a cathode for rechargeable Li-ion batteries
11 Mar.
4:00pm
V-106
Alya Goulko
Colorimetric Lead (Pb) Biosensors Based on DNAzyme-Assembled Gold Nanoparticles
14 Mar. Ali Rostami
Recent Applications of Tungsten Vinylidene Complexes in Organic Synthesis. A New Route for Construction of Cyclic Molecules
16 Mar. Josh Morrissey
Design, synthesis, and application of particle-based fluorescence resonance energy transfer sensors for carbohydrates and glycoproteins
23 Mar. Josh Wasylycia
High spatial resolution mass spectrometric imaging of peptide and protein distributions on a surface
30 Mar. Huiming Yan
Nucleic Acid Programmable Protein Array (NAPPA) Technology
April
4 Apr. Minaruzzaman
Indium in Organic Synthesis - Recent Advances
6 Apr. Bryan Chan
Recent advances in Technitium and Rhenium radiopharmaceuticals
13 Apr. Igor Sinelnikov
Determination of the volumetric properties of proteins and other solutes using pressure perturbation calorimetry
18 Apr. Wei Shi
Organic Synthesis of Endohedral Fullerenes and Their Potential Application in Medicine
20 Apr. Hongmei Shang
Shielded stationary phases based on porous polymer monoliths for the capillary electrochromatography of highly basic biomolecules
27 Apr. Sherri MacLeod
Array Biosensor for Detection of Ochratoxin A in Cereals and Beverages
May
2 May
2:00pm
V-107
Nina Vo
Extending the Pummerer Reaction: The Vinylogous and Vinylogous-Type Pummerer Reactions
4 May Robin Hamilton
Hydroformulation of olefins in supercritical CO2; a new approach to an old reaction
June
No seminars scheduled this month.
July
No seminars scheduled this month.
August
No seminars scheduled this month.
September
19 Sept. Grigory Tikhomirov
Rotaxane Based Nanoshuttles
October
3 Oct. Huiwang Ai
The Chemical and Biological Approaches of RNA Therapeutic Delivery
5 Oct. Drs. Glen Loppnow & Charles Lucy (Univ. of Alberta)
How To Give Oral and Poster Presentations
CGSS Professional Development Seminar
17 Oct. Dazhan Liu
Recent Advances in Asymmetric [3+2]-Cycloaddition Reactions
26 Oct. Rongbing Du
Million-fold Preconcentration of Proteins and Peptides by Nanofluidic Filter
31 Oct. Mitchel Flegel
Biosynthesis of Taxol
November
16 Nov. Shaune McFarlane
Synthesis and Properties of Linear Oligo- and Polystannanes
16 Nov.
1:00pm
V-121
Ross Johnson
DNA as a Tunable Material for Molecular and Supramolecular Synthesis
21 Nov. Darren Derksen
Synthesis and Reactions of Multisubstituted Allenes
30 Nov. Owen Lightbody
Dendrimer Synthesis and Dendritic Encapsulation of Metalloporphyrins
December
5 Dec. Dianjie Hou
Quorum Sensing in Bacterial Communication and Biofilm Formation
7 Dec. Jiangxio Sun
Metabolizing enzyme toxicology assay chip (MetaChip) for high-throughput microscale toxicity analyses
13 Dec.
1:00pm
E3-25
Xuri Gao
Development of novel three component [4+2] cycloaddition/ allylboration reactioins and their applications in natural product synthesis
14 Dec. Javier Cuervo
Molecular Computing: Algorithmic Self-Assembly of DNA