Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

Date Time Where	Who / What Institution	Topic	Category
May 23 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Randolf Kohn University of Bath	"Triazacyclohexanes as Small Macrocycles: Coordination Chemistry, Characterization by Paramagnetic NMR and Application"	Special

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
January 18, 2008 02:30 pm 102 Chemistry Building	Maria Gomez Mount Holyoke College	CANCELED	Physical
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	Courtne