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Chem 502: Graduate Student Seminars - 2008 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2009

January
14 January
11:00am
NRE 2-003
Jeremy Gauthier
Control of reactivity in aromatic and anti-aromatic systems through coordination to transition metals
16 January
11:00am
E3-25
Messele Fentabil
Electrophoretic Analysis of N-glycans on Microfluidic Devices
21 January
11:00am
NRE 2-003
Hashem Taha
Salvinorin A: A Potent Kappa Opioid Receptor Agonist
23 January
11:00am
E3-25
Sayed Nagy
Electrochemical Step Edge Decoration for the Synthesis of Ultra Long Metal Nanowires
30 January
11:00am
E3-25
Melissa Gajewski
Observing orbitals
February
4 February
11:00am
NRE 2-003
Tina Bott
Haouamines A and B: Marine Alkaloids with a "Bent" Benzene Ring
6 February
11:00am
E3-25
Xiaojiang Zhang
title
11 February
11:00am
NRE 2-003
Dan Lehnherr
Recent Discoveries of Stereoselective Reactions Dominated by Stereoelectronic Effects
13 February
11:00am
E3-25
Tiffany Ulmer
New Advances in Non-Classical Lewis Acid-Base Chemistry: Reactivity Dominated by Steric Factors
25 February
11:00am
NRE 2-003
Sabesan (Jay) Yoganathan
Enzymatic Halogenation of Natural Products: Exploring the Mechanism of Halogenation
27 February
11:00am
E3-25
Matt Zamora
The phosphorous revolution: Acceptor properties of the classic Lewis Donor
March
5 March
11:00am
E3-25
Mike Slaney
Reactivity of Dinitrogen in Low-Valent Group 4 Metallocene Complexes
5 March
1:00pm
V-103
Raed Al-Zoubi
Recent Advances in Allylic Oxidation and Amination
10 March
11:00am
NRE 2-003
Umakanthan Sivasubramaniam
Hydrogen mediated C-C bond formation: A new concept in orgagnic chemistry
12 March
11:00am
E3-25
Mingguo Xu
Hairpin Fluorescence DNA probe for real-time Monitoring of DNA methylation
12 March
2:00pm
E3-25
Stephanie Wong
The photochemistry of Mars and its implications on the detection of surface organics
19 March
11:00am
E3-25
Avalyn Lewis
Identification of PCR products using PNA amphiphiles in micellar electrokinetic chromatography
26 March
11:00am
E3-25
Xiaoxia Ye
Integrated Affinity Capture, Purification, and Capillary Electrophoresis Microdevice for Quantitative Double-stranded DNA Analysis
31 March
11:00am
NRE 2-003
Jesse Li
Selective Tumor Cell Targetting Using Bifunctional Ligands
April
2 April
11:00am
E3-25
Lindsay Hounjet
Late Metal-Catalyzed Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Alcohols: Mechanistic Investigations and Synthetic Applications
2 April
1:00pm
V-103
Marlin Penner
"Metal Free" Hydrogenation
9 April
11:00am
E3-25
Yeping Xiaong
title
14 April
11:00am
NRE 2-003
Patrick (Hongqiang) Liu
Recent Advances of Chemical and Enzymatic Asymmetric Pictet-Spengler Reaction
16 April
11:00am
E3-25
Mingtao Wang
Molecular imaging using positron emission tomography
23 April
11:00am
E3-25
Amr Mahmoud
Direct Comparison of Au3+ and C60+ Cluster Projectiles in SIMS Molecular Depth Profiling
May
7 May
11:00am
E3-25
Nicole Dehm
Core/Shell Quantum Dots for Biological Imaging
7 May
2:00pm
E3-25
Yalina Tritzant
Electric Field in the Active Site of an Enzyme
12 May
11:00am
NRE 2-003
Michele Richards
Histone lysine N-methyltransferases: Probing the mechanism through computational chemistry
14 May
11:00am
E3-25
Anne Cooper
Iron and Iron Oxide Nanoparticles and Their Application in Arsenic Remediation
14 May
1:00pm
NRE 2-001
Jamie Bailey
Developmental Strategies for Small-Molecule Inhibitors against the Zinc Metalloprotease, Botulinum Neurotoxin A
21 May
11:00am
E3-25
Shoma Sinha
Exploring Redox Shuttle Molecules for Overcharge Protection in
Lithium Ion Batteries
21 May
2:00pm
E3-25
Rosha Teymoori
Optically induced dynamics study of Muonium centres in Silicon
June
25 June
2:00pm
E3-25
Hongmei Shang (Chem 502)
Development of Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging Assays for Detection of Bacterial Proteins and Whole Bacterial Pathogens
July
No seminars scheduled this month.
August
No seminars scheduled this month.
September
15 Sept.
11:00am
MEC 2-1
Umakanthan Sivasubramaniam
Total Syntheses of (+)-Neopeltolide; An Incredible Bioactive Macrolide from Deep Sea
17 Sept.
11:00am
E3-25
Ahmed Ibraheem
Emerging strategies for the development of peptide-based HIV-1 fusion inhibitors
24 Sept.
11:00am
E3-25
Jie Ru
Instantaneous derivatization technology for simultaneous and homogeneous determination of multiple DNA targets
October
8 October
1:00pm
E3-25
Spencer Alford
Innovative semi-synthetic routes to post-translationally modified proteins
15 October
11:00am
E3-25
Peter Blanchard
Synthesis, characterization, and applications of bimetallic catalytic nanomotors
22 October
11:00am
E3-25
Nicole Oro
A New Dual Fluorescence Sensor For The Detection of Temperature and Trace Oxygen
27 October
11:00am
MEC 2-1
Lihong Wang
Domino Ring Expansion Reactions - Recent Advances
29 October
11:00am
E3-25
Ryan Zaari
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (E.I.T.) - Light
Storage
November
3 November
11:00am
MEC 2-1
Sabesan (Jay) Yoganathan
Biological Evaluation and Synthetic Efforts Towards Cortistatins: A
Unique Class of Steroidal Alkaloids with Anti-angiogenic Properties
5 November
11:00am
E3-25
Matthew Markiewicz
New cobalt H20 oxidation catalyst for artificial photosynthesis, and its applications towards carbon-neutral energy production
12 November
11:00am
E3-25
Joel Kelly
The electrocaloric effect: materials for new application in solid state cooling
19 November
11:00am
E3-25
Lan Liu
Biochemical visualization of cell
surface molecular clustering in living cells
19 November
1:00pm
NRE 1-001
Hassan Elsaidi
Validation of Cdc7 Kinase as a New Target Class for Cancer Cell Chemotherapy
21 November
1:00pm
E3-25
Wei Shi
Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel aminosugar-containing anti-tumor compounds designed as mimics of anthracycline antibiotics
26 November
11:00am
E3-25
Naoto Soya
Electrostatic Repulsion Hydrophilic Interaction Chromatography for Isocratic Separation of Charged Solutes and Selective Isolation of Phosphopeptides
December
3 December
11:00am
E3-25
Xiaojiang Zhang
Hydrogen Storage in Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) - A Pipe Dream?
10 December
11:00am
E3-25
Jacquelyn Jhingree
Nanodiscs for Immobilization of Lipid Bilayers and Membrane Receptors:
Kinetic Analysis of Cholera Toxin Binding to a Glycolipid Receptor