Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

Date Time
Where
Who / What
Institution
Topic Category
November 9 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Wanji Seo PSU Graduate Student Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimers As Anti-Cancer Drug Conjugated Systems: Synthesis and Surface Properties Organic
November 9 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Andrew Hess PSU Graduate Student Bioinspired Adhesive Based on the Adhesive Proteins of the Marine Mussel Mytilus edulis Organic
November 10 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Nicole Morozowich PSU Graduate Student Biodiesel Fuel Production from Renewable Resources using Heterogeneous Catalysis Inorganic
November 10 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Ailong Ke Cornell University Mechanism of Ligand-sensing and Multimerization in RNA Biological
November 11 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jihye Kim PSU Graduate Student Fluorescent Probes for the Specific Detection of Ozone Analytical
November 12 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Wilfred van der Donk University of Illinois New Methods for the Discovery and Synthesis of Natural Products Colloquium
November 13 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Christopher Ellis PSU Graduate Student The Physical Chemistry of DNA Viruses Physical
November 13 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Laura Fernandez PSU Graduate Student Observation of Interactions at Water Interfaces by Sum Frequency Generation Physical
November 17 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Margot Zaccardi PSU Graduate Student Insight into the Mechanism of Pore Formation in Cytotoxin ClyA Biological
November 18 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Lauren Jackson PSU Graduate Student Chemical Imaging of In Situ Biochemical and Biological Samples by Two-dimensional Fourier Transform–infrared Microspectroscopy Analytical
November 18 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Huilin Yang PSU Graduate Student The Application of TiO2 Nanostructures in Biosensor Analytical
November 20 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Kwang Seob Jeong PSU Graduate Student Charge Transfer in DNA Physical
November 20 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Wei Wang PSU Graduate Student SED and FED - Technologies in the Next Generation of Flat Screen TV Panel Physical
December 10 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
P. Les Dutton University of Pennsylvania TBA Colloquium
February 4 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Ben Feringa - Marker Lecture University of Groningen TBA Colloquium
April 8 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Mostafa El-Sayed Georgia Institute of Technology TBA Colloquium

Past Seminars

Date Time
Where
Who/What
Institution
Topic Category
September 18, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Xiaowei Zhang " N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands and their Applications in Asymmetric Catalysis "
September 20, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Shigeru Amemiya “Chemical Imaging of Nanostructured Interfaces by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy"
September 21, 2006 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Shiv Khanna “Superatoms: The New Elements of the Periodic Table”
September 22, 2006 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Ken-ichi Sugiura “The Longest Precise Conjugated Molecules Ever Synthesized”
September 22, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Alexei Stuchebrukhov “Molecular mechanism of Cytochrome c oxidase and biological energy transduction. Computational insights”
September 25, 2006 12:30 pm
S-5 Osmond
Raymond Schaak “Metallurgy in a Beaker: Nanoparticle Toolkit for Solid State Synthesis ”
September 28, 2006 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jacob Schaefer “Polycarbonate Chain Packing and Dynamics by Solid – State NMR”
September 29, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Mark Kobrak “The Chemical Physics of Ionic Liquids: Life Without a Dipole Moment”
October 2, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Omkar Parajuli “Nanoparticles Assembly on the Self-Assembled Block Copolymer Template”
October 5, 2006 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
M.G. Finn “Viruses and Click Chemistry: Bricks and Mortar on the Nanochemical Scale”
October 9, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Bruno Ameduri "Use of Vinylidene Fluoride for the Synthesis of new Fluorinated Intermediates, new Monomers, new Fluorinated Copolymers and Fuel Cell Membranes"
October 13, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Sarah Hillard “Electronic Structure Calculations of Xenon-Hydrocarbon Compounds”
October 13, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Maureen Hegadorn “FTIR Imaging: Integrating Vibrational Spectroscopy and Optical Imaging Microscopy”
October 16, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Stefan Bernhard “Synthetically Tuned Luminophoric Materials: 3D Displays, Solar Energy Conversion and Beyond”
October 16, 2006 04:00 pm
102 Thomas Building
Frances H. Arnold “A Synthetic Family of Cytochrome P450s by site – directed SCHEMA Recombination”
October 18, 2006 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Seung-Hyun Lee (Anna) “Vesicle-Encapsulated Ribozymes”
October 18, 2006 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Carl Myers “Controllable Microarray Replication Using DNA”
October 20, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Deborah Levin “Kinetic Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Cluster Formation Processes in Free Gas Expansions”
October 23, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemsitry Building
Xuefei Huang “Development of Novel One-pot Oligosaccharide Synthesis Methodologies”
October 25, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Monique Makos “Surface Plasmon Resonance Using Optical Fibers”
October 25, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Meaghan Andes “Detection of Cardiac Markers using a Microfluidic Device”
October 27, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Erin Goken “SERS of blinking metal nanoparticles”
October 27, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Patrick O'Connor “Single cell analysis on a microfluidic chip”
October 30, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Arlin Weikel “Antifoams and Defoamers”
October 30, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Wei Li “Enantioselective Catalysis of the Carbonyl-Ene Reaction”
November 1, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Dan Mao "Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging: Walk into the Biomolecular Interactions"
November 1, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Donna Omiatek “Microwave Accelerated Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence”
November 2, 2006 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Steve Boxer “Patterned Bilayers and Tethered Vesicles: Soft Nanoscience”
November 6, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Max Majireck “Direct Organocatalytic Asymmetric Mannich Reactions”
November 7, 2006 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Sunil Saxena "Pulsed ESR spectroscopic rulers: A new spin on protein dynamics"
November 8, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Sang Bok Lee “Designer Nanoparticles: Nanotubes, Application from Nano-Bio Medicine to Electronics”
November 10, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Larry Barbour “X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy: Using EXAFS to Probe Structural Disorder in Amorphous Semiconductors”
November 10, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Andrew Kucher “Sum Frequency Generation – A Novel Technique for the Study of Molecular Chirality”
November 13, 2006 12:00 pm
S-5 Osmond
Jennifer Aitken “Controlling the Solid-State Microwave Irradiation Method to Prepare Inorganic Material”
November 13, 2006 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jane Dyson "Illumination of Protein Folding and Dynamics by NMR”
November 15, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Ajeet Kumar "On-Chip Optofluidic Devices"
November 15, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Stacey Lynn Dean “Detection of Toxic Gases Using Mesoporous Metal Oxides”
November 16, 2006 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Chris Keating "Towards Functional Architectures on the Micro- and Nanoscale"
November 17, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Evan Leibner “UV Raman Spectroscopy of biological systems”
November 17, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Michelle Ludlow “Hydrogen Storage in Metal Organic Frameworks”
November 17, 2006 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Hang (Hubert) Yin "Computationally Designed Peptides that Target Transmembrane Helices"
November 20, 2006 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Ryan Looper "Zooming out on Small Molecule Structure and Function"
November 27, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Neal Zondlo “Design of Tunable Proteins: Control of Protein Structure by Electronics, by Stereoelectronic Effects, and by Phosphorylation”
November 28, 2006 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Anne McNeil "Thinking Outside the Backbone: Unique Approaches to Modifying Conjugated Polymers"
November 29, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Steven Baldelli "Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy and Imaging of Surfaces"
November 30, 2006 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Mary Beth Williams "Bioinspired Inorganic Nanomaterials"
December 1, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Andrei Tokmakoff “Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of Protein Conformation and Unfolding”
December 1, 2006 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Ted Betley "Multi-electron redox reactions at first row transition ions"
December 4, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Mark Hindenlang “Microwave Initiated Polymerization”
December 6, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Theresa Reineke "Glycopolymers for Cellular Drug Delivery and Imaging"
December 7, 2006 12:25 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Special Event "On the Air with Joseph Priestley"
December 7, 2006 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Lasse Jensen "Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering: Mechanistic insights from molecules interacting with small metal clusters"
December 8, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Chad M. Rienstra “Structure Determination of Nanocrystals, Fibrils and Membrane Proteins by Magic-Angle Spinning Solid-State NMR”
December 8, 2006 04:00 pm
301A Chemistry Building
Caleb Strepka "Neutron Diffraction"
December 8, 2006 04:00 pm
301A Chemistry Building
Kristen Cederquist "The Use of Conjugated Polyamidoamine Dendrimers as Anti-Cancer Agents”
December 8, 2006 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Kuo-Wei (Andy) Huang "Design and Discovery of Unusual Organometallic Reactions: Mechanistic Studies and Applications Relevant to Olefin Polymerizations and Small Molecule Activation"
December 12, 2006 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Gordon Hammes “Single Molecule Studies of Enzyme Mechanisms”
December 13, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Lukas Tamm “Tracking Single Proteins and Lipids in Engineered Supported Membranes”
December 14, 2006 12:15 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Dave Fleming - Thesis Defense "Functional Nanomaterials: Synthesis and Functionalization"
December 14, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Yolanda Small - Thesis Defense "Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Methods for Proton and Hydride Transfer in Enzymes"
December 14, 2006 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Will Noid "A new perspective on the multiscale challenge"
December 15, 2006 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Ingolf Hertel "Dynamics and Spectroscopy of Water: Doped Water Clusters, Solvates and the Water Surface"
December 19, 2006 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Lyudmila Slipchenko "Computational challenges: From ionization potentials to intermolecular forces"
December 21, 2006 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Zachary Aron Harvard Medical School "The Chemical and Biological Synthesis of Natural Products" Special
January 8, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Chad Risko Northwestern "Functional Organic Electronic and Optical Molecular Systems: A Theoretical Perspective" Special
January 12, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Bianxiao Cui Stanford University "Single Molecule Analysis of NGF Transport in Live Neurons Using Quantum Dots" Special
January 16, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Melissa Mullen PSU, 2nd Year Grad "The Kinetics of Ribosome Assembly" Biological
January 17, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Emil Hernandez PSU, 2nd Year Grad "A Label-Free Immunosensor Based on SiO2" Analytical
January 17, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Melissa Passarelli PSU Graduate Student "Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) In Living Cells" Analytical
January 22, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Joshua Sacher PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Three-Component Coupling of Benzyne" Organic/Inorganic
January 24, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
James Adair Penn State University "Nanocomposite Inorganic-Organic Colloids for Bioimaging, Bioassays, and Drug Delivery" Analytical
January 26, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Xiang Li PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Topology in Chemistry: Mobius Aromaticity" Physical
January 26, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Ricardo Louro Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology, New University of Lisbon "NMR in Biology, Important Answers Using Simple Tools" Biological
January 29, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Mark Nilson PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Recent Developments in Heck Cyclizations with Unfunctionalized Arenes (Fuijiwara-Moritani Arylations)" Organic/Inorganic
January 29, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry
Sharon Rozovsky University of California Berkeley "A fresh look at triosephosphate isomerase reaction mechanism & Reshaping the membrane environment" Special
January 30, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Keith Krise PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Structural Characterization of Purine Riboswitches" Biological
February 2, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Deborah Levin Penn State University, Aerospace Engineering "Kinetic Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Cluster Formation in Free Gas Expansions" Physical
February 6, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Christal Lee PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Interactions between Copper and Prion Protein in the Formation of Protease-resistant Aggregates" Biological
February 12, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Ahmed Yimam PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Strain-Release Driven Pericyclic RXNS of Aziridines" Organic/Inorganic
February 12, 2007 03:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jianfeng Li PSU, 2nd Year Grad "The Ruthenium-Catalyzed Alkene-Alkyne Coupling Reactions" Organic/Inorganic
February 15, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Timothy Swager MIT CANCELLED Colloquium
February 19, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Sutang Cai PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Chemistry and Biology of Carbohydrate-based Vaccines" Organic/Inorganic
February 19, 2007 03:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Anne Kaintz PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Using Lasers to Control Reaction Products" Organic/Inorganic
February 20, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Narayanan Veeraraghavan PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Substrate Auto-Catalysis of Uracil-DNA Glycosylase" Biological
February 21, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Amanda Bressler PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Metabonomics: Using High-Resolution Magic Angle Spinning NMR to Study Renal Function" Analytical
February 21, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Daniel A. Brenes PSU, 2nd Year Grad "ToF-HREELS: A Novel Approach to Increase Throughput" Analytical
February 26, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Runzhi Wu PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Synthetic Telomerase Inhibitors as Cancer Therapeutics" Organic/Inorganic
February 27, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Mike Proia PSU, 2nd Year Grad “Quantitative Analysis of the Mechanical Properties of Fibrin Fibers at the Single Molecule Level: A Review” Biological
March 5, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Ron Castellano University of Florida "Unconventional Donor-Acceptor Architectures for Supramolecular Applications" Organic/Inorganic
March 6, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Rebecca Grimme PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Bioconjugated Inorganic Nanoparticles as Sensors" Biological
March 7, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Michael Ibele PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy and its Application to the Fluorescent Detection of Single Molecules" Analytical
March 8, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
John Porco Boston University "New Approaches to the Chemical Synthesis of Bioactive Molecules" Colloquium
March 19, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Justin Du Bois Stanford University CANCELED Organic/Inorganic
March 20, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Paul R. Carey Case Western Reserve University "The Molecular Basis of Drug Resistance in Antibiotic Therapy, a Combined Raman and X-ray Crystallographic Approach" Biological
March 21, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Craig Aspinwall University of Arizona "Polymerized Phospholipid Membranes for Chemical Sensing and Separations" Analytical
March 22, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Dorothee Kern Brandeis University "Dynamics Personalities of Enzymes" Colloquium
March 23, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Dr. Peter Schiffer Penn State University "Beach Physics: Experimental Studies of the Physics of Granular Materials" Physical
March 26, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
David Roach PSU, 2nd Year Grad CANCELED Organic/Inorganic
March 27, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Lexan Lhu PSU, 2nd Year Grad "TBA" Biological
March 30, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Gang-yu Liu University of California, Davis "Nanoengineering Approach to Investigate Polyvalent Biochemical Interactions" Analytical
April 2, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Praveen Kumar PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Nickel-Catalyzed Intramolecular [4+4]-Cycloadditions" Organic/Inorganic
April 2, 2007 03:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Ying Chen PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Polymerization in Super Critical CO2" Organic/Inorganic
April 3, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Megan Matthews PSU, 2nd Year Grad "TBA" Biological
April 5, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Nicholas J. Turro Colubmia University "Content, Context and Cognition as Three Structural Pillars for Teaching, Learning and Research in Chemistry" Colloquium
April 6, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Vlasta Bonacic-Koutecky Humboldt University "Tailoring Functionality of Clusters and Their Complexes with Biomolecules by Size, Structures, and Lasers" Physical
April 9, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Coran Watanabe Texas A&M University "Inspiration from Nature: Natural Products in Drug Discovery Efforts" Organic/Inorganic
April 10, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Matthew Pond PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Elucidation of the Substrate Recognition Mechanism in Insulin-Degrading Enzyme" Biological
April 11, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
James Burgess Case Western Reserve University "Direct Electrochemical Evaluation of Plasma Membrane Cholesterol at Single Cells and Tissue: Disease State Alterations of Intracellular Traffic" Analytical
April 12, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Dan Neumark University of California, Berkeley "Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Excess Electrons in Clusters" Colloquium
April 12, 2007 08:00 pm
100 Berg Auditorium, Life Sciences Building
Rod MacKinnon The Rockefeller University "Ion Conduction and Selectivity in K+ Channels" Special
April 13, 2007 01:00 pm
Rod MacKinnon The Rockefeller University "Principles of Gating in K+ Channels" Special
April 13, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Alexei Main PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Ultrafast Electron Crystallography (UEC) Applied To Fatty-Acids and Phospholipids Films" Physical
April 16, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Steve L. Castle Brigham Young University "New Methods and Strategies for the Synthesis of Complex Peptides and Alkaloids" Organic/Inorganic
April 17, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Dan Herschlag Stanford School of Medicine "Dissecting Fundamental Components of Enzymatic Catalysis: Electrostatic versus Geometric Catalysis" Biological
April 19, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
George D. Rose Johns Hopkins University "Protein Folding - Inverting the Paradigm" Colloquium
April 23, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Amit Basu Brown University "Glycolipid Interactions at Membranes" Organic/Inorganic
April 24, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
David Matthews University of Rochester Medical Center "Dual Scale Modeling of RNA: Structure and Dynamics" Biological
April 25, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Teri Odom Northwestern University "Manipulating Light at the Nanoscale with Plasmonic Structures" Analytical
April 26, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
John B. Fenn Virginia Commonwealth University "Electrospray Wings for Molecular Elephants" Colloquium
April 27, 2007 04:00 pm
HUB Auditorium
Ahmed Zewail California Institute of Technology "Mysteries of Time" Special
April 30, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Lauren Sanford PSU, 2nd Year Grad "The Design and Synthesis of the Influenza Neuraminidase Inhibitor Tamiflu" Organic/Inorganic
April 30, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Joshua Antoline PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Nickel Catalyzed Coupling Reactions" Organic/Inorganic
May 1, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Tyler Grove PSU, 2nd Year Grad "Losing the Green: Chemistry of Chlorophyll Catabolism in Response to Senescence" Biological
May 3, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Daniel Nocera MIT "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: A Unifying Mechanism for Biological and Chemical Energy Conversions" Colloquium
May 4, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Bhavik Anil Patel Imperial College London "In Vitro Monitoring of Serotonin Release from Enterochromaffin Cells: A Means to Understanding Gastrointerinal Function" Analytical
May 14, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Bill D. Coggio 3M "Fluoroelastomers: Synthesis and Network Formation by Bis Nucleophiles - The Role of Dehydrofluorination" Analytical
July 23, 2007 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
John Vickerman University of Manchester "Imaging Mass Spectrometry with Fullerenes" Special
August 28, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Simon de Vries Delft University of Technology "Function of new Tryptophan Neutral Radical in Proton Pumping by Cytochrome c Oxidase" Special
September 5, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Yasunori Fujikawa Tohoku University "Interface Control of Organic Thin Films Based on Observations of Local Structures" Analytical
September 7, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Naomi Halas Rice University "Plasmon Hybridization: Molecular Orbitals Writ Large" Physical
September 14, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Bernard R. Brooks NIH "Multi-scale Methods for Macromolecular Systems in Computational Biophysics" Physical
September 21, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
R. Lee Penn University of Minnesota "Chemical, Physical, and Structural Properties of Oxide Nanoparticles" Physical
September 24, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Justin Du Bois Stanford University "The Allure of the Guanidinium Toxins as Targets for Chemical Synthesis" Organic/Inorganic
September 28, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Weinan Chen PSU Graduate Student "Enhanced Water Splitting Using TiO2 Nanotube Arrays Under Solar Light" Physical
September 28, 2007 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry
Ran Tu PSU Graduate Student "Receptor Ligand Interaction Studied with Fragment Molecular Orbital Calculations" Physical
October 3, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Claire Fleeger PSU Graduate Student "Real Time in-situ Detection of Antigen-Antibody Interactions Using Imaging Ellipsometry" Analytical
October 4, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Paula Hammond MIT "Electrostatics Driven Assembly of Hybrid Functional Thin Films for Biomaterials and Electrochemical Devices" Colloquium
October 8, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Patty Nguyen PSU Graduate Student "The Ammonia Borane Complex as a Hydrogen Storage Material" Organic/Inorganic
October 8, 2007 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry
Darlene Biziak PSU Graduate Student "Ferrocene Derivatives in Antitumor Research" Organic/Inorganic
October 17, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Matthew Augustine University of California, Davis "Fruit of the Vine or Pickle Juice: Modern Physical Chemistry Applied to Full Wine Bottle Analysis" Analytical
October 18, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Timothy M. Swager MIT Polymer Electronics for Ultrasensitive Chemical and Biological Sensors. Colloquium
October 22, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Paul Munson PSU Graduate Student "DNA Templated Organic Synthesis: Mimicking Natural Synthetic Strategy" Organic/Inorganic
October 24, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Hye Won Youm PSU Graduate Student "Biomolecular Sensing Using Near Infrared Photoluminescence from SWNT" Analytical
October 25, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Scott A. Strobel Yale University Enzymology of the Ribosomal Peptidyl Transferase Reaction Colloquium
October 26, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Don Gunaratne PSU Graduate Student "Physical Chemistry of Ionic Liquids" Physical
October 26, 2007 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry
Eric Tyo PSU Graduate Student "Ultrafast Electron Crystallography: Time Resolved Studies of Surfaces" Physical
October 29, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Brandon Selfridge PSU Graduate Student "The History of Azadirachtin: A Synthetic Triumph" Organic/Inorganic
October 29, 2007 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry
Kyle Schmid PSU Graduate Student "Synthetic Light Gated Ion Channels" Organic/Inorganic
November 5, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Emmanuel Lacote Universite Pierre et Marie Curie- Paris VI "An Organic Perspective of Polyoxometalates" Organic/Inorganic
November 6, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry
Tim Yosca PSU Graduate Student "Biological Alternatives to Platinum Catalysts for Fuel Cell Design" Biological
November 7, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
David Roach PSU Graduate Student "Detection of Label Free Single Molecule Through Resonant Wavelength Shift of Whispering Gallery Microcavities in Optical Sensors" Analytical
November 7, 2007 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry
Rebecca Sanders PSU Graduate Student "Dual-Pulse Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Sensitivity Enhancement and Applications" Analytical
November 8, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry
John Kozarich ActivX Biosciences Toward a Functional, Chemical Interrogation of Nucleotide Binding Space Colloquium
November 12, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Ulrich Wiesner Cornell University "Physical Chemistry of Silica-Based Organic-Inorganic Hybrids: A Perspective" Organic/Inorganic
November 12, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jon Rainier University of Utah "Targeting Heterocyclic Natural Products at 4700 Feet Above Sea Level" Organic/Inorganic
November 14, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Nils Petersen University of Alberta, NINT "Physical Properties of Functional and Dysfunctional Lung Surfactants" Analytical
November 15, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Burkhard Geil University of Dortmund, Germany The Mechanism of Proton Transport in Ice. An NMR Study Colloquium
November 27, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry
Peter Z. Qin University of Southern California "Site-directed Spin Labeling Studies of Nucleic Acids" Biological
November 28, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Dr. Peng Wu University of California Berkeley "Chemical Tools for Glycobiology" Special
November 29, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Erin D. Sheets Penn State University Life as a Lipid: Rafts, Dynamics and Interactions Colloquium
November 30, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Daniel Rabinovich UNC - Charlotte "New Sulfur-Donor Ligands: Novel Complexes and Unexpected Applications" Organic/Inorganic
November 30, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Ryan Pensack PSU Graduate Student "Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy: Application to the Visual Pigment Rhodopsin" Physical
November 30, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Dr. Scott Showalter Florida State University "Protein Conformational Dynamics from Experiment and Simulation with Applications to the Mdm2:p53 Interaction" Special
December 4, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry
Rachel Green John Hopkins University "Ribosomal Switches Modulated by tRNAs and Release Factors" Biological
December 5, 2007 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
William Woodward PSU Graduate Student "Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Ambient, Non-Proximate, and in-situ Applications" Analytical
December 6, 2007 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Michael Green Penn State University Understanding C-H Bond Activation in Heme Proteins: The Role of Thiolate Ligation in Cytochrome P450 Colloquium
December 7, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Barry Thompson University of California Berkeley "Design of Conjugated Polymers for Solar Cells" Special
December 10, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Dmitry Korzhnev University of Toronto "NMR Relaxation Dispersion Studies of Protein Folding Pathways" Special
December 11, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Gong Chen Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center "Development of New Methods for the Chemical Synthesis of Complex Glycoproteins" Special
December 13, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
David Boehr Scripps Research Institute "An energy landscape view of enzyme catalysis" Special
December 17, 2007 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Scott Phillips Harvard University "Molecules, Magnets, and Paper: Interfacing Organic and Analytical Chemistry" Special
January 7, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Dr. Laura Anderson University of California, Irvine "Amination Reactions: Tantalum, Silicon, and Bronsted Acid Based Methods" Special
January 8, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Matthew Soellner University of California, Berkeley "Synthetic Proteins and Identification of Protein Inhibitors" Special
January 11, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Erik Alexanian NIH Postdoc, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Synthesis of the furanosteroid viridin and investigations of group 10 transition metal catalysis and mechanism" Special
January 15, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Ian Stewart California Institute of Technology "I. Synthesis, Reactivity and Catalytic Applications of Ruthenium Phosphido Complexes II. Steric Effects on Ruthenium-based Olefin Metathesis" Special
January 17, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Assen Marintchev Harvard University Medical School "The architecture of the elF4A/4G/4H complex in translation initiation: from model to experiment" Special
February 8, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Djamaladdin (Jamal) G. Musaev Emory University "Understanding of Fundamental Principles of Synthetic and Biological Catalysis: Designing of New and More Efficient Catalysts" Physical
February 11, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Eric Meggers University of Pennsylvania "New Research Opportunities at the Interface of Bioorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry" Organic/Inorganic
February 12, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Courtney Krest PSU Graduate Student "Staphylococcus aureus: Iron Thievery" Biological
February 15, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Joerg Kussman University of Tuebingen and PSU "Development of Linear-Scaling Ab-Initio Methods Based on Electron Density Matrices" Physical
February 19, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Nien-Hui Ge University of California, Irvine "Beyond One Dimension: Coherent 2D IR Spectroscopy as a Structural Probe of Peptides" Biological
February 21, 2008 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Geoffrey Ozin - Barrer Lecturer University of Toronto P-Ink and Elast-Ink Lab to Market Colloquium
February 22, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry
Michael Barnes University of Massachusetts Amherst "Probing the Chiroptical Response of a Single Molecule" Physical
February 25, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Susan Latturner Florida State University "Metal Flux Synthesis of New Intermetallic Phases" Organic/Inorganic
February 26, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Justine Roth Johns Hopkins University "Heme and Tyrosyl Radical Containing Enzymes" Biological
February 27, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Justin Smith PSU Graduate Student "Optical Traps: A New Strategy for Investigating Cells" Analytical
February 29, 2008 02:30 pm
110 Wartik Building
Nancy Levinger Colorado State University "Exploring How Confinement Affects Water: A Multifaceted Approach" Physical
March 7, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Joshua Melko PSU Graduate Student "Threshold Ion-Pair Production Spectroscopy" Physical
March 14, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Hea-Yeon Lee Osaka University "Integrated Biocompatible NanoBioCHIP Toward Multi-NanoMedicine" Special
March 18, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Nancy Thompson The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Total Internal Reflection with Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy" Biological
March 19, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Thomas P. Pearl North Carolina State University "Probing Molecular-level Organizational Structure and Electronic Decoupling of Weakly Surface Bound Chiral Domains and Biomolecular Species" Analytical
March 20, 2008 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Thomas Meyer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Water Oxidation from Photosystem II to the Blue Dimer Colloquium
March 24, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Francois P. Gabbai Texas A&M University "Cationic Boranes - Reduction Chemistry and Anion Complexation" Organic/Inorganic
March 25, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Matthew DeLisa Cornell University "Engineering the Protein Folding Landscape of Simple Bacteria for Solving Complex Problems in Biology and Medicine" Biological
March 26, 2008 07:30 pm
HUB Auditorium
Nathan Lewis California Institute of Technology "Powering the Planet: Where in the World Will Our Energy Come From?" Analytical
March 27, 2008 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Nathan Lewis California Institute of Technology Sunlight-Driven Hydrogen Formation by Membrane-Supported Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Colloquium
March 28, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
George Shields Hamilton College "Working with Undergraduates on Research: Cancer Drug Design and Modeling Atmospheric Chemistry Processes using Computational Methods" Physical
April 1, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Anne Kenworthy Vanderbilt University School of Medicine CANCELED--RESCHEDULING Biological
April 2, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Paul F. Nealey University of Wisconsin-Madison CANCELED--RESCHEDULING for Fall 2008 Analytical
April 3, 2008 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Judith Klinman University of California, Berkeley Hydrogen Tunneling in Enzymes: Looking Under the Covers of Catalysis Colloquium
April 4, 2008 02:30 pm
110 Wartik Building
Michael White Brookhaven National Laboratory/SUNY, Stony Brook "Surface Chemistry of Nanocatalysts Prepared by Size-selected Cluster Deposition" Physical
April 7, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Pete Lorenzo PSU Graduate Student "A Workable Biomimetic Model for Hydrogen Catalysis" Organic/Inorganic
April 11, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Sarawut Cheunkar PSU Graduate Student "Electrokinetic Hydrogen Generation from Liquid Water Microjets" Physical
April 15, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry
Elias Greenbaum Oak Ridge National Laboratory "New Vistas in Photosynthesis Research: Algal Biosensors, Renewable Hydrogen Production and Artificial Sight" Biological
April 16, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Michael Heien Penn State University "Probing Neurotransmitter Release and Function" Analytical
April 18, 2008 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Judith Herzfeld Brandeis University The Agendas of General Chemistry Colloquium
April 18, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Roger Loring Cornell University "Dielectric Fluctuations and Molecular Motions in Synthetic and Biological Polymers" Physical
April 21, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Zachary Schaefer PSU Graduate Student "Magnetic Nanoparticles: Size-Dependent Properties and Biomedical Applications" Organic/Inorganic
April 21, 2008 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Ting-Hao Phan PSU Graduate Student "Optical Properties of Nanostructured Rare-Earth Fluorides" Organic/Inorganic
April 22, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Joseph Wedekind University of Rochester Medical Center "Nucleobase Substitutions, Deletions and Modifications in the Core of a Small Ribozyme: A Demonstration of Structural Resilience with Some New Twists" Biological
April 23, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Richard M. Crooks The University of Texas at Austin "Synthesis, Characterization and Electrocatalytic Applications of Dendrimer-Encapsulated Nanoparticles" Analytical
April 24, 2008 07:30 pm
100 Berg Auditorium, Life Sciences Building
Frank Whitmore Lecture, Dr. Richard Zare Stanford University "Cars: Chemistry in Motion" Special
April 29, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Tobias Baumgart University of Pennsylvania "Of Domains and Boundaries: Phase Behavior in Biological Membrane Models" Biological
April 30, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Lin He North Carolina State University "Enriching the Analytical Toolbox for Biomedical Research" Analytical
May 1, 2008 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Mark Ratner Northwestern University Molecular Transport Structures: Elastic Scattering, Vibronic Effects and Beyond Colloquium
May 23, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Randolf Kohn University of Bath "Triazacyclohexanes as Small Macrocycles: Coordination Chemistry, Characterization by Paramagnetic NMR and Application" Special
September 8, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Zeev Gross Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Catalytic Decomposition of Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species by Iron and Manganese Corroles: From Pure Chemistry to Preclinical Results Inorganic
September 10, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Paul F. Nealey University of Wisconsin, Madison Block Copolymer Lithography Analytical
September 12, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Cecilia Clementi Rice University CANCELED-RESCHEDULING Physical
September 16, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Anne Kenworthy Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Dynamics of Lipid Rafts: How Cell Membranes Respond to Too Much or Too Little Cholesterol Biological
September 17, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Robert L. Cook Louisiana State University and Southern University at Baton Rouge NMR Studies of the Assemblage and Hydration of 'in situ' Natural Organic Matter on Solid Surfaces Analytical
September 24, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Adam McGraw Penn State University Protein-RNA interactions regulating expression of the tryptophan biosynthesis genes in bacillus subtilis Thesis Defense
October 1, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jason Stephens PSU Graduate Student Surface Plasmon Resonance: A Microarray for Disease Analysis Analytical
October 6, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Michael E. Hagerman Union College Laponite Nanomaterials for LED and Solar Applications Inorganic
October 8, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Rosalynn Molden PSU Graduate Student Controlling the Assembly of Spider Silk Proteins Analytical
October 9, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Thomas Building
Richard Noble - Barrer Lecturer University of Colorado at Boulder Gas Separations Using Ionic Liquids and Ionic Liquid Polymers Special
October 10, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Troy Van Voorhis - Materials Simulation Lecture Massachusetts Institute of Technology Exploring Electron Transfer: From Simple Photochemistry to Energy Conversion Physical
October 15, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Benjamin Smith PSU Graduate Student Utilizing PTR-MS to Characterize the Sensory Profiles of Foodstuffs Analytical
October 17, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Darrell Schlom Penn State-Department of Materials Science and Engineering A Thin Film Approach to Engineering Functionality into Oxides Physical
October 21, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Aleister Saunders Drexel University Identification & Characterization of APP Metabolism Regulators: Insight into Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis Biological
October 23, 2008 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Tamar Seideman Northwestern University Toward Current Control in the Nanoscale. From Molecular Machines to Ultrafast Nanoplasmonics Colloquium
October 24, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Eric Fillerup PSU Graduate Student Photonic Upconversion by Doping of Y2O3 Nanoparticles with Trivalent Rare Earth Metals Physical
October 24, 2008 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Allen Chao PSU Graduate Student Left-handed Materials: Invisibility Cloaks and Beyond Physical
October 27, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Xiao Liu PSU Graduate Student Protein-polymer Bioconjugates: Synthesis and Application as Novel Therapeutics Organic
October 28, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Adrian Roitberg University of Florida Molecular Modeling of Two Enzymes Associated with Chagas' Disease Biological
October 28, 2008 08:00 pm
101 Thomas Building
Laura Kiessling - Marker Lecturer University of Wisconsin-Madison Exploring and Exploiting the Biological Roles of Carbohydrates with Chemistry Special
October 29, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
David Cacace PSU Graduate Student Laser-based Methods for Art Restoration Analytical
October 29, 2008 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Natallia Kulyba PSU Graduate Student Molecular Probes for in vivo Imaging Alzheimer’s-related β-amyloid (Aβ) fibrils Analytical
October 29, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Laura Kiessling - Marker Lecturer University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemical Probes of Carbohydrate Biosynthesis in Mycobacteria Special
October 30, 2008 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Laura Kiessling - Marker Lecturer University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemical Strategies for Controlling Cell Fate Decisions Special
October 31, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Xiaoyang Zhu University of Minnesota The Exciton Dissociation Problem in Inorganic Quantum Dot and Organic Semiconductor Based Solar Cells Physical
October 31, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
John Gupton - Special Date and Time University of Richmond Vinylogous Iminium Salts as Building Blocks in Organic Synthesis Organic
November 3, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
David Gin Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Synthesis of Carbohydrate Immunostimulants and Bioactive Alkaloids Organic
November 4, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Katsuhiko S. Murakami Penn State Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Crystallographic Study of Promoter Recognition and 'de novo' Transcription Initiation by Bacteriophage N4 RNA Polymerase Biological
November 5, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Justin Sparks PSU Graduate Student Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors as Selective Chemical Sensors Analytical
November 7, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Adri Van Duin Penn State Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering Atomistic-scale Simulations of Chemical Reactions: Bridging from Quantum Chemistry to Engineering Physical
November 7, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Kankan Bhattacharyya Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science CANCELED Physical
November 11, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Zachary Donhauser Vassar College Nanometer-scale Mechanics of Microtubules Biological
November 12, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Greg M. Swain Michigan State University CANCELED-RESCHEDULING FOR SPRING 2009 Analytical
November 14, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Seth Morton PSU Graduate Student Following Electrons: Understanding Dye-Sensitized TiO2 Solar Cells Physical
November 14, 2008 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
J. Wayne Mullinax PSU Graduate Student Burnt-Bridge Models of Motor Proteins Physical
November 17, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Matthew Coppock PSU Graduate Student Metal Chalcogenide Aerogels Inorganic
November 18, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Barry S. Cooperman University of Pennsylvania The Dynamics of Protein Synthesis Biological
November 19, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Kevin W. Plaxco University of California Better Living through Biosensors Analytical
November 20, 2008 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Andrew Webb Penn State - Dept of Bioengineering Magnetic Resonance at the Microscale: Spectroscopy, Imaging and Functional Contrast Agents Colloquium
November 21, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Shivangi Nangia PSU Graduate Student Water Dynamics: Insight into Hydrogen Bonding from Reorientation Lifetimes Physical
December 2, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Song Tan Penn State Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Molecular Recognition of the Nucleosome by a Chromatin Enzyme Biological
December 3, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jacob Beveridge PSU Graduate Student Fast Fluid Flow through Nanotubes and Nanopipes Analytical
December 3, 2008 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Lymaris Ortiz Rivera PSU Graduate Student Quantum Cascade Laser Based Absorption Spectroscopy Analytical
December 4, 2008 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jacqueline Barton California Institute of Technology DNA-mediated signaling of Damage and Repair Colloquium
December 5, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Coray Colina Penn State - Department of Materials Science and Engineering Protein Dynamics: Does shape matter? Physical
December 9, 2008 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Matthew D. Disney University of Buffalo Targeting RNA with Small Molecules - Progress Towards a Chemical Code Biological
December 10, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
James C. Weisshaar University of Wisconsin, Madison Protein Diffusion in the Crowded E. coli Cytoplasm Analytical
December 12, 2008 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Kristin Krantzman College of Charleston The Effects of Impact-Induced Chemistry During keV-C60 Cluster Bombardment of Si, SiC and Diamond Physical
December 17, 2008 04:00 pm
S5 Osmond Lab
Dr. Matthew Kanan Massachusetts Institute of Technology "I. A Selection-Based Approach to Reaction Discovery II. Electrooxidation of Neutral Water Catalyzed by a Cobalt-Phosphate Compound" Special
January 5, 2009 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Dr. Louise Berben Massachusetts Institute of Technology Magnetochemistry and Electrochemistry at First Row Transition Metal Complexes Special
January 14, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Daniel Dewey PSU Graduate Student Construction of Channel Waveguides from Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Analytical
January 19, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Siddhartha Kumar PSU Graduate Student Transition Metal Catalyzed Cycloisomerizations of Enynes Organic
January 22, 2009 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Suzanne Brantley Penn State University Kinetics of Mineral Reactions from the Atomic Interface to the Watershed Colloquium
January 26, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Amber Bisch PSU Graduate Student Recent Developments in the Chemistry of Arynes Organic
January 26, 2009 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Kyle Hovick PSU Graduate Student Transition-Metal Mediated Allylic Substitutions Organic
January 26, 2009 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Dr. Eric Schelter Los Alamos National Laboratory "Electrochemical and Magnetic Studies of Metal-Metal Interactions in Actinide and Mixed F-element Complexes" Special
February 2, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jennifer M. Nguyen PSU Graduate Student Reactions of Atomic Carbon with Organic Substrates Organic
February 5, 2009 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Patrick Cirino Penn State University Protein and Metabolic Engineering for Biocatalysis Colloquium
February 6, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Min Liang PSU Graduate Student Tomographic Imaging of Molecular Orbitals by High Harmonic Generation Physical
February 9, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
James Bondi PSU Graduate Student Low-Temperature CO Oxidation on Au Surfaces Inorganic
February 9, 2009 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Hua Zhang PSU Graduate Student Photo-mechanic Soft Materials Organic
February 12, 2009 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Tadhg Begley Cornell University Thiamin Biosynthesis - Still Yielding Fascinating Biological Chemistry Colloquium
February 16, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jeffrey W. Bode University of Pennsylvania Catalytic, Enantioselective Annulations Organic
February 20, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jorge O. Sofo Department of Physics, PSU Graphane: A New Hydrocarbon, Predicted First, Then Observed Physical
February 23, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Matthew Buck PSU Graduate Student Single Molecule Magnetism in Mononuclear Lanthanide Ion Complexes Inorganic
February 23, 2009 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Nathan Motl PSU Graduate Student Applications of Carbon Nanotubes in Solar Cell Devices Inorganic
February 23, 2009 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jón T. Njarðarson Cornell University Natural Product Synthesis and New Synthetic Methods Organic
February 24, 2009 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Samudra Sengupta PSU Graduate Student Role and Structure of Oxygen-Evolving Center (OEC) in Photosystem II Biological
February 25, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Bala Krishna Pathem PSU Graduate Student A Novel In Situ Forming Oxygen-Evolving Catalyst for Artificial Photosynthesis Analytical
February 26, 2009 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Peter Stang University of Utah Abiological Self-Assembly: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via Coordination Colloquium
March 2, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Paula Diaconescu UCLA Reactions of Heterocycles with Electrophilic Ferrocene Diamide Complexes Inorganic
March 3, 2009 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jennifer Wilcox PSU Graduate Student Inhibition of Caspase Activity by XIAPs Biological
March 4, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Christopher Wostenberg PSU Graduate Student Cheaper and Faster Sequencing of an Individual's Whole Genome Through the Use of Parallel Sequencing Analytical
March 5, 2009 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jeff Moore - CANCELED University of Illinois RESCHEDULED FOR FALL - SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 Colloquium
March 6, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Andrew Rappe University of Pennsylvania Switchable Nanocatalysts: Using Ferroelectric Oxides to Control Surface Catalysis Physical
March 16, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jenay Robert PSU Graduate Student New Developments in Folate-Targeted Therapeutics Organic
March 16, 2009 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Ian Sines PSU Graduate Student Two-Electron Mixed Valence Complexes for Hydrogen Production Inorganic
March 17, 2009 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Wenhui Ren PSU Graduate Student Live Cell Imaging: Virus-cell Interaction Biological
March 18, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Chris Chang University of California, Berkeley Chemical Approaches to Understanding Copper and Peroxide Biology in the Brain Analytical
March 20, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Krista Kane PSU Graduate Student Hydrogen Storage in Carbon Materials Physical
March 30, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Paul J. Chirik Cornell University Catalysis with Iron Inorganic
March 31, 2009 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Stephanie Reigh PSU Graduate Student Fragment-Based Lead Design of Protein Inhibitors Biological
April 2, 2009 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Geraldine Richmond University of Oregon At the Water's Edge Colloquium
April 3, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Maria Gomez Mount Holyoke College The Elusive Proton: Finding Conduction Pathways in Solid and Liquid Phases Physical
April 6, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Yiqing Feng PSU Graduate Student Quantum Dots: Visualizing the Pathway of Cell Biology via Nano Tags Organic
April 6, 2009 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Puhui Li PSU Graduate Student Oxidative Enolate Coupling Organic
April 7, 2009 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Ruth Nussinov National Cancer Institute at Frederick Allosteric Effects and Conformational Selection in Signaling: The Ubiquitin E3 Ligases Biological
April 8, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Greg M. Swain Michigan State University CANCELED Analytical
April 9, 2009 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Tobin Marks Northwestern University Self-Assembly Processes for Constructing Unconventional Organic, Organometallic, and Inorganic Electronic Circuitry Colloquium
April 10, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
David Waldeck University of Pittsburgh Studies of Electron Tunneling and Transport in Molecules and between Biomolecules and Electrodes Physical
April 13, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Paul Blakemore Oregon State University Ambifunctional Molecular Systems in Organic Synthesis Organic
April 14, 2009 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Kathleen B. Hall Washington University School of Medicine Mechanisms of RNA Binding by RNA Recognition Motifs (RRMs) Biological
April 15, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Anne A. Lazarides Duke University Near Fields without NSOMs Analytical
April 16, 2009 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Bruce Bursten University of Tennessee The Centrality of Chemistry Colloquium
April 17, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Kyle Banyas PSU Graduate Student Looking at Interfacial Dipoles Using Ultraviolet Photoemission Spectroscopy Physical
April 17, 2009 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Daryl Mains Jr. PSU Graduate Student Modeling Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystal Systems Physical
April 20, 2009 02:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
John Dawson South Carolina University Mechanistic Studies of Oxidative Halophenol Dehalogenation by Heme-Containing Enzymes Inorganic
April 20, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Geert-Jan Boons University of Georgia CANCELED: RESCHEDULED for October 5, 2009 Organic
April 22, 2009 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Chad Mirkin Northwestern University Anisotropic Nanostructure: Building Valency into Nanoparticles Colloquium
April 23, 2009 04:30 pm
Berg Auditorium - 100 Life Sciences Bldg.
Chad Mirkin - Priestley Lecture Northwestern University Programming Materials Synthesis with DNA: Applications in Biology and Medicine Special
April 27, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Mahdi Abu-Omar Purdue University High-Valent Imido and Oxo Complexes in Catalysis and Dioxygen Evolution Inorganic
April 29, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Joseph Wang University of California, San Diego Multifunctional Nanowires: From Nanoactuators to Nanomotors Analytical
May 1, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Lucas Jellison PSU Graduate Student Li+ ion Migration in Rechargeable Batteries Physical
May 8, 2009 02:30 pm
301A Chemistry Building
Markus Meuwly University of Basel Studying the Dynamics of Chemical Reactions with Force Fields: Proton Transfer and Ligand Binding in Proteins Physical
May 14, 2009 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Michael Fayer Stanford University Watching Ultrafast Molecular Motions in Liquids, Molecules, and Proteins Colloquium
May 18, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Mohammad Movassaghi MIT Complex Alkaloid Total Synthesis Organic
August 26, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Klaus Muller-Dethlefs The University of Manchester A Novel Ultra-cold Molecular Rydberg Plasma: A New State of Matter Analytical
September 10, 2009 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jeffrey Moore University of Illinois RESCHEDULING for SP2009 Colloquium
September 11, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
David Weiss Penn State University, Department of Physics Experiments with Atoms in Optical Lattices Physical
September 14, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Chris Vanderwal UC Irvine Synthesis and Study of the Chlorosulfolipids and Complex Molecule Synthesis Inspired by the Zincke Ring-Openings of Pyridines Organic
September 15, 2009 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Dave Thirumalai University of Maryland Chaperonin-mediated Protein Folding Biological
September 17, 2009 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Richard Silverman Northwestern University Selective Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitors for the Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases Colloquium
September 18, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Matthew Ross PSU Graduate Student Ultrafast EELS: Probing the Dynamics of Reactions with Femtosecond Time Resolution Physical
September 28, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Daniel Wendekier PSU Graduate Student Recent Developments in the Synthesis and the Applications of Intricate Rotaxanes for Use in Molecular Based Devices Organic
September 28, 2009 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Hemakesh Mohapatra PSU Graduate Student New Methods for Rapid Determination of Enantiomeric Excess Organic
September 30, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Joy Gallagher PSU Graduate Student Sensing of Zn(II) Using MRI Contrast Agents Analytical
October 1, 2009 12:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Angela Belcher Massachusetts Institute of Technology Biological Routes to New Materials for Energy Colloquium
October 2, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
John T. Fourkas University of Maryland Multiphoton Absorption Polymerization: 3D Fabrication from the Nanoscale to the Macroscale Physical
October 5, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Geert-Jan Boons The University of Georgia Towards a Fully Synthetic Carbohydrate-based Vaccine for Cancer Organic
October 6, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Elizabeth Essinger-Hileman PSU Graduate Student Fluorescent Nanodiamonds: Prospects and Challenges for Biological Imaging Applications Inorganic
October 6, 2009 04:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Amnon Kohen The University of Iowa Thymidylate Synthases: From Organic Mechanisms to Physical Studies Biological
October 7, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Daniel Suchy PSU Graduate Student Monitoring Metal Pollutants in Aqueous Systems through Diffusive Gradient Thin Films Analytical
October 8, 2009 01:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Wuu Yung Lin Principal Scientist, Honeywell International "Structure Elucidation of a Pharmaceutical Impurity" Special
October 9, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Jens Breffke PSU Graduate Student Environmental Interface Interactions Studied by Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) Physical
October 9, 2009 03:00 pm
102 Chemistry Building
Phil Hanoian PSU Graduate Student Neutron Diffraction Studies of the Hydration Shell of Free Amino Acids in Aqueous Solution Physical
October 12, 2009 01:15 pm
301A Chemistry Building
Jiadi Xu University of Michigan "Molecular Imaging of Membrane Proteins by NMR-A Case Study of Cytochrome B5" Special
October 12, 2009 02:30 pm
102 Chemistry Building
F. Akif Tezcan University of California, San Diego Inorganic Control of Biological Self-Assembly Inorganic
October 13, 2009 02:30 pm
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Matthew Langston PSU Graduate Student Iron Hydrogenes: Spectroscopic Investigations Inorganic
October 16, 2009 02:30 pm
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Reka Albert Penn State University, Department of Physics Discrete Dynamic Modeling of Signal Transduction Networks Physical
October 19, 2009 02:30 pm
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Lai-Xi Wang University of Maryland School of Medicine Chemical Biology of Protein Glycosylation Organic
October 20, 2009 04:00 pm
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Jennifer DuBois University of Notre Dame O-O Bond Formation by a Heme Enzyme: An Evolved Response to an Environmental Challenge Biological
October 21, 2009 02:30 pm
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Robert Murphy University of Colorado Denver Challenges in Lipid Biochemistry: Diversity, Activity, Location Analytical
October 23, 2009 02:30 pm
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Alejandro Vila Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology of Rosario-IBR Mechanistic and Evolutionary Features of Metallo-beta-Lactamases: Does it take two to tango? Inorganic
October 26, 2009 02:30 pm
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Meghan Nines PSU Graduate Student Direct Arylation of Aryl and Heteroaryl C-H Bonds Organic
October 27, 2009 02:30 pm
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Elizabeth Onderko PSU Graduate Student Non-Heme Iron Model Complexes: Characterization and Subsequent Biological Implications Inorganic
October 27, 2009 04:00 pm
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Carrie Wilmot University of Minnesota Oxygen Activation in Copper Amine Oxidase Biological
October 28, 2009 02:30 pm
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William Aumiller, Jr. PSU Graduate Student Forensic Applications of Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART) Ion Source Coupled with Time of Flight (TOF) Mass Spectrometry Analytical
October 28, 2009 03:00 pm
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Shraddha Surve PSU Graduate Student Biocomputing with Enzyme Based Logic Systems for Multi-signal Responsive Materials Analytical
October 30, 2009 02:30 pm
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Joan-Emma Shea University of California, Santa Barbara Simulations of the Self-assembly of the Alzheimer Amyloid-beta Protein into Amyloid Fibrils Physical
November 3, 2009 04:00 pm
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Lauren Sites PSU Graduate Student Click Chemistry and Bioorthogonal Reactions for the Labeling of Biomolecules Biological
November 4, 2009 02:30 pm
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Benjamin List Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung A Small Molecule with a Big Impact: Inspirations from Proline Catalysis Organic
November 6, 2009 02:30 pm
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Vincent Crespi Penn State University, Department of Physics Topologically Frustrated Chemistry: New Interactions from Old Atoms Through Geometrical Constraint Physical