Spring 2013 Schedule
Chem 505
All seminars are held in Natural Sciences Center Room 128B from 3-4:05 p.m. on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted.
| Date (Wednesday) | Speaker | Title |
| 1/30 | Hunter Hoffman | Controlled clockwise and anticlockwise rotational switching of a molecular motor |
| 2/6 | Jakub Husek | Hydrogen Storage in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes by Ca, Co, Fe, Ni, and Pd Nanoparticles under Ambient Conditions |
| 2/13 | Joseph Lafferty | Spectroscopic Analysis of Noncognate Chromophores Produced via Heterologous Expression in Escherichia Coli |
| 2/20 | Alycia Frampton | Site-specific chemoenzymatic modification of aldehyde-functionalized proteins via analine-catalyzed hydrazone or oxime ligation |
| 2/27 | Matthew Gabrielson | Improvements to the Lithium Ion Battery through Carbon-Containing Metal Oxide Electrode Materials |
| 3/6 | No seminar - Spring Break | |
| 3/13 | Rizwan Khan | Utilizing Photoinduced Electron Transfer Energy from Supramolecular Polyads of Covalently-linked azaBODIPY-Bisporphyrin ‘Molecular Clip’ Hosting Fullerene. |
| 3/20 | Dalyna Ngo | An Analysis of the Preference in the Helical Conformation of an Achiral Peptide Chain Containing 2-Aminoisobutyric Acid |
| 3/27 | Samantha Coons | Efficient Enhancement of the Visible-Light Absorption of Cyclometalated Ir(III) Complexes Triplet Photosensitizers with Bodipy and Applications in Photooxidation and Triplet−Triplet Annihilation Upconversion |
| 4/3 | No seminar | |
| 4/10 | No seminar | |
| 4/17 | Alexander Rhodes | Synthesis of 1,2-diols by Selective Cis-1,2-dihydroxylation of Alkenes Catalyzed by Osmium Catalysts |
| 4/24 | Janelle Geist | Structural Insights into a Unique Inhibitor Pocket in Kinesin Spindle Protein |