Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

Date Time Where	Who / What Institution	Topic	Category
September 8 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 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Paul F. Nealey University of Wisconsin, Madison	Block Copolymer Lithography	Analytical
September 12 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Cecilia Clementi Rice University	TBA	Physical
September 16 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 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Robert L. Cook Louisiana State University and Souther University at Baton Rouge	NMR Studies of the Assemblage and Hydration of 'in situ' Natural Organic Matter on Solid Surfaces	Analytical
September 24 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Adam McGraw Penn State University	TBA	Thesis Defense
October 6 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Michael E. Hagerman Union College	TBA	Inorganic
October 9 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 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 17 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Darrell Schlom Penn State-Department of Materials Science and Engineering	TBA	Physical
October 20 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Xiao Liu PSU Graduate Student	Protein-polymer Bioconjugates: Synthesis and Application as Novel Therapeutics	Organic
October 23 12:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Tamar Seideman Northwestern University	TBA	Colloquium
October 28 04:00 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Adrian Roitberg University of Florida	TBA	Biological
October 30 12:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Laura Kiessling - Marker Lecturer University of Wisconsin-Madison	TBA	Colloquium
October 31 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Xiaoyang Zhu University of Minnesota	Charge Separation and Transport in Organic Semiconductors	Physical
October 31 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 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	David Gin Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	Synthesis of Carbohydrate Immunostimulants and Bioactive Alkaloids	Organic
November 4 04:00 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Katsuhiko S. Murakami Penn State Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	TBA	Biological
November 7 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Kankan Bhattacharyya Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science	Femtosecond Dynamics in Nano-confined Systems: From Biological Assemblies to Ionic Liquid	Physical
November 12 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Greg M. Swain Michigan State University	TBA	Analytical
November 18 04:00 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Barry S. Cooperman University of Pennyslvania	The Dynamics of Protein Synthesis	Biological
November 19 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Kevin W. Plaxco University of California	Better Living through Biosensors	Analytical
November 20 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 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Shivangi Nangia PSU Graduate Student	Water Dynamics: Insight into Hydrogen Bonding from Reorientation Lifetimes	Physical
December 2 04:00 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Song Tan Penn State Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Molecular Recognition of the Nucleosome by a Chromatin Enzyme	Biological
December 4 12:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Jacqueline Barton California Institute of Technology	DNA-mediated signaling of Damage and Repair	Colloquium
December 5 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Coray Colina Penn State - Department of Materials Science and Engineering	TBA	Physical
December 9 04:00 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Matthew D. Disney University of Buffalo	TBA	Biological
December 10 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	James C. Weisshaar University of Wisconsin, Madison	TBA	Analytical
February 12 12:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Tadhg Begley Cornell University	TBA	Colloquium
February 26 12:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Peter Stang University of Utah	Abiological Self-Assembly: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via Coordination	Colloquium
March 2 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Paula Diaconescu UCLA	TBA	Inorganic
March 5 12:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Jeff Moore University of Illinois	Mechanoresponsive Polymers	Colloquium
March 30 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Paul J. Chirik Cornell University	TBA	Inorganic
April 2 12:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Geraldine Richmond University of Oregon	At the Water's Edge	Colloquium
April 9 12:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Tobin Marks Northwestern University	Self-Assembly Processes for Constructing Unconventional Organic, Organometallic, and Inorganic Electronic Circuitry	Colloquium
April 16 12:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Bruce Bursten University of Tennessee	TBA	Colloquium
April 23 12:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Priestley Lecturer	Speaker/Title TBA	Colloquium
April 27 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Mahdi Abu-Omar Purdue University	TBA	Inorganic

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