Fall 2008
August
25 No Seminar First day of the fall semester
September
01 Labor Day Holiday - U of A Closed
08 Steve Van Doren, University of Missouri, "Finding Binding Sites and Binding Effects in the Wrong Places in Proteins"
15 Robert J. Cotter, The Johns Hopkins University, "A Physical Chemist Tackles Proteins"
22 Al Padwa, Emory University, "Applications of Thio Chemistry for the Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles"
29 Bruce Bowler, The University of Montana, "Probing Disordered States of Proteins"
October
06 Oliver Reiser, University of Regensburg, "Strategies for Catalyst Immobilization and Their Application to Organic Synthesis"
13 Larry Suva, UAMS College of Medicine, "The Skeletal Consequences of Disease: Development to Diabetes"
20 Robert Powers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Protein Functional Annotation using NMR Ligand Affinity Screens"
27 Babak Nikoobakht, National Institute of Standards and Technology, "Directed Assembly of Nanowires and Scaling up Nanodevice Fabrication"
November
03 Ellen Fisher, Colorado State University, “Understanding Plasma Processing on a Molecular-Level: Deciphering Plasma Deposition and Etching of Silicon and Carbon-based Materials”
10 Liming Zhang, University of Nevada-Reno, "Au/Pt-Catalyzed Organic Reactions"
17 Robert Gensure, Ochsner Health Systems, "Towards Better Treatment of Osteoporosis--A Fusion Protein of Parathyroid Hormone (PTH) and a Collagen Binding Domain Shows Superior Efficacy and Longer Duration of Action Compared to PTH(1-34) as an Anabolic Bone Agent in Normal Female Mice"
24 Robert Ben, University of Ottawa, "Elucidating the Role of Hydration in Antifreeze Activity"
December
01 Christy Landes, University of Houston, "Signal Transduction in Single Molecules: How can Biology Inform Materials Design?"
08 Olafs Daugulis, University of Houston, "Regioselective Functionalization of Unreactive C-H Bonds"
12 No Seminar - First Day of Spring Classes 19 No Seminar - Martin Luther King Day Holiday, U of A Closed 26 Clemens Burda, Case Western Reserve University, "Nanoparticles for the Delivery of PDT Reagents: From Photophysics to In-vivo Studies" February 02 John Stanton, University of Texas, "The Poor Little Molecule that Doesn't Have a Structure" 09 Ken Balkus, University of Texas at Dallas, "Titanium Dioxide Nanotube Composites" 16 POSTPONED Paul Hanson, University of Kansas 23 Kenneth J. Klabunde, Kansas State University, "Nanocrystal Superlattices and the Mysteries of their Formation" March 02 No Seminar - Biophysical Society meeting 09 Krishnan Raghavachari, University of Indiana, "Modeling Adsorbate Vibrations on Silicon Surfaces: From Small Clusters to Infinite Lattices" 23 No Seminar - ACS Meeting 30 Carl Koval, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Addressing the Energy and Climate Challenge" April 06 Squire Booker, Penn State, "Taking a Hit for the Team: Self-Sacrifice as an Enzymatic Strategy in the Biosynthesis of Lipoic Acid" 13 Fry Lecture - Robert Grubbs, California Institute of Technology, "The Synthesis of Large and Small Molecules Using Olefin Metathesis Catalysts." Special time and location: 4 p.m. CHEM 132. 20 Cynthia Larive, UC Riverside, "Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Improving the Analytical Methods for Heparin and Heparan Sulfate Characterization" 27 Xiao Cheng Zeng, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Computer-Aided Nanoscience Research: Nanoice, Nanoclusters, and Superhydrophobicity"
Spring 2009
January
16 No Seminar - Spring Break