Chemistry Department Seminars
Spring 2012
Mondays and Wednesdays
12:00 noon - 1:00pm, MR 1027
Salzberg Chemistry Seminars are held on Mondays; Biochemistry Seminars are held on Wednesdays. Links to each series are at the bottom of this page.
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
| Jan. 30 |
Eric Block U. Albany |
Garlic and Other Alliums: The Lore and the Science |
| Feb. 1 |
Bertrand Garcia-Moreno Johns Hopkins |
Charges in the hydrophobic interior of proteins |
| Feb. 6 |
Cristian Contescu ONL |
Nanoporous Carbons for Hydrogen Storage: Challenges, Misconceptions, and Perspectives |
| Feb. 8 |
Peter Friedman U. Pittsburgh |
Struct. physiology of NHERF1, a multifunctional PDZ protein |
| Feb. 13 |
College Closed |
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| Feb. 15 |
Carlos Camacho U. Pittsburgh |
Interactive technologies for designing novel small molecules to target PPIs |
| Feb. 21 (TUE.) |
Akira Kawamura Hunter, CUNY |
Benzophenone Photoprobes for Drug-target Identification |
| Feb. 22 |
Susan Taylor UC, San Diego |
Assembly of a dynamic scaffold |
| Feb. 27 |
Bob Engel Queens College |
Recent Adventures in the Chemical Architecture of Polycationic Organic Species |
| Feb. 29 |
Kevin Dalby U Texas, Austin |
Mechanisms of non-ATP competitive inhibitors of MAP kinases |
| Mar. 5 |
Philip Batson Rutgers |
Aberration Correction: A Noisy Revolution in Electron Microscopy |
| Mar. 7 |
R. Andrew Byrd Natl Cancer Inst., NIH |
Exploring a ubiquitination machine using structural and chemical biology |
| Mar. 12 |
TBA |
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| Mar. 14 |
Paramjit Arora NYU |
Synthetic strategies for targeting protein-protein interactions |
| Mar. 19 |
TBA |
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| Mar. 21 |
Elizabeth Rhoades Yale U. |
Single molecule approaches to characterizing disordered proteins |
| Mar. 26 |
Alexander Neimark Rutgers |
Breathing Crystals: Adsorption-Induced Deformation in Metal-Organic Frameworks |
| Mar. 28 |
Steven O. Smith SUNY Stony Brook |
Ligand binding and helix interactions in GPCR activation |
| Apr. 2 faculty special |
Prof. Teresa Bandosz & Prof. Stephen O'Brien |
TB: Visible-Light-Enhanced Interactions of Sulfur Containing Gases with Composites of Zinc(Hydr)Oxide with Graphite Oxide and Graphene SO: TBA |
| Apr. 4 |
Kenneth Dill SUNY Stony Brook |
How protein physics limits the behaviors of biological cells. |
| Apr. 9 |
Spring Recess |
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| Apr. 11 |
Chungyu Wang Rensselaer Polytechnic |
Mechanism of Abeta aggregation and protein splicing |
| Apr. 16 faculty special |
Prof. Zimei Bu & Prof. Urs Jans |
ZB: TBA UJ: TBA |
| Apr. 23 |
Kathryn Beers NIST |
TBA |
| Apr. 30 |
Vinod Manoharan Harvard |
Colloids and Clusters: Watching Self-assembly in the Simplest Complex Systems |
| May 2 |
Justine Roth Johns Hopkins |
Metals and catalytic amino acid radicals: Cox I and II, inducible dioxygenases |
| May 7 |
Kay Brummond
U. Pittsburgh |
TBA |
| May 9 |
Paul Falkowski, NA Rutgers |
Discovering the electronic circuit diagram of life |
| May 14 |
Abigail Doyle Princeton |
New Approaches to C–F and C–C Bond Formation by Transition Metal Catalysis |
| May 16 |
Jeremy Dittman Weill Cornell |
Role of complexin in regulating vesicle fusion at the synapse |
