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2009-2010 Seminar Series
Seminars take place during the fall and spring semester in CHEM 144 at 3:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted. The events are open to the public.
A reception will be after each seminar in CHEM 105.
Fall 2009
August
24 No seminar - First day of the fall semester
31 Paul Hanson, University of Kansas, "New Methods in Phosphate Chemistry: Application in Natural Product Synthesis"
September
07 No seminar - Labor Day Holiday - U of A Closed
14 David Collum, Cornell University, "LDA-Mediated Ortholithiations: Salt Effects and Autocatalysis"
21 Jin-Quan Yu, The Scripps Institute, "Pd-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation from C-H Bonds: Diastereoselectivity to Enantioselectivity"
28 Michael Schaeferling, University of Regensburg, "Advanced Luminescent Probes and their Applications to Life Sciences"
October
05 Mona Mohamed, National Institute of Laser Enhanced Science, Cairo University, Egypt, "Engineering Semicondcutor Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Optical Properties and Ultrafast Optical Response"
12 Nick Leventis, Missouri University of Science and Technology, "Assemblies of Nanoparticles as 3D Scaffolds for New Materials: from Mechanically Strong Polymer Crosslinked Aerogels to Porous Iron and Silicon Carbide"
19 Franklin Davis, Temple University, "Asymmetric Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles using Sulfinimines (N-Sulfinyl Imines)"
26 Wilfried Meyer, University of Kaiserslautern, "Nuclear Dynamics on Degenerate Electronic Potential Surfaces: High Resolution Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Calculations for Alkali Trimers and C3+"
November
02 Jonathan Clayden, The University of Manchester, "Conformational Communication, and New Organolithium Reactivity"
09 Roberto De Guzman, The University of Kansas, "NMR Studies of Bacterial Nanoinjectors and Hantaviral Zinc Fingers"
16 Blanca Barquera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), "Enzymes that use Na*- instead of H* as Bioenergetic Currency"
23 Suresh Kumar, University of Arkansas, "Fibroblast Growth Factors -Structure, Folding, Dynamics and Interactions"
30 Z. Ryan Tian, University of Arkansas
December
07 Frances Ligler, Naval Research Laboratory, "Optical Biosensors and a Perspective on the Future"
Spring 2010
January
11 No seminar - First Day of Spring Classes
18 No seminar - Martin Luther King Day Holiday, U of A Closed
25 open
February
01 open
08 open
15 open
22 No seminar - Biophysical Society Meeting
March
01 Blake Peterson, The University of Kansas
08 John Gladysz, Texas A & M
15 Iain Coldham, University of Sheffield
22 No seminar - ACS Meeting and spring break
29 Fry Lecture
April
05 John P. Wolfe, University of Michigan
12 Jerry Ware, UAMS
19 W. Carl Lineberger, University of Colorado
26 Michael Zolensky, NASA Johnson Space Center
Future seminars
Fall 2010 - Spring 2011
Past seminars