The Department of Chemistry

Spring 2013: Schedule of Seminars & Events

Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:30 AM - Angell B112

Coffee at 11:15 AM in Cook A229

 SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

DATE

Faculty meeting

1/15/13

Ramesh Jasti

Boston Univ

The Bottom-Up Organic Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes

ACW

1/24/13

Sharon Rozovsky

Univ of Delaware

⁷⁷Se NMR of Selenoproteins

RJH

2/14/13

Faculty meeting

2/19/13

Stewart Novick

Wesleyan Univ

Laboratory Astrochemistry

DWP

3/14/13

Faculty meeting

3/19/13

David Slade

William & Hobart Smith Colleges

Discovery and Development of a Rho-Kinase Inhibitor for the Treatment of Glaucoma

RJH

3/21/13

Tim Korter

Syracuse Univ

THz Spectroscopy of Crystalline Pharmaceuticals

DWP

3/28/13

Hélène Lebel

Univ of Montreal

Stereoselective Amination Reaction

JSM

4/02/13

Heather Bean

UVM Coll. of Engineering

Developing Breath-based Diagnostics: Applications of GCxGC-TOFMS and SESI-MS

WRL

4/04/13

Lori Gavrin

Pfizer

Adventures in Drug Discovery

MB

4/09/13

Department Awards Ceremony

4/11/13

Faculty meeting

4/16/13

Chris Vanderwal

Univ of California, Irvine

Synthesis of Complex Bioactive Natural Products

MB

4/18/13

Chem 282 talks:

·         Evan Sherbrook

·         Eric Horak

·         Recent Developments in the Povarov Reaction

·         Alkane Activation by Nonheme Iron-Oxo Complexes

JSM

4/23/13

Chem 282 talks

·         Emily Aldrich

·         Melissa Allison

·         The Nanoconfinement of Hydrogen Gas in Carbon Aerogel Scaffolds

·         Polymer and Ceramic-Based Injectable Scaffolds in Regenerative Medicine

JSM

4/25/13

Chem 282 talks

·         Teruki Watanabe

·         Nolan Hayden

·         Stereoselectivity of Proline-Based Organocatalysis in Michael Addition

·         The Challenges of Bimetallic Catalyst for Artificial Photosynthesis

JSM

4/30/13

Chem 282 talks

·         Chaz Cao

·         Jesse Wiener

·         Conformational Change of G-Protein Coupled Receptors as Mediated by Agonists

·         TBD

JSM

5/02/13

Chem 282 talks

·         Andrew Spaulding

·         Evan Cooper

·         Metal-Catalyzed Oxidative Amide Bond Formation

·         TBD

JSM

5/08/13

Faculty retreat

5/13/13