Department of Chemistry Fall 2008 Colloquia
All seminars Thursdays 10:30 AM, Room 007 Steele (except where noted below)
Fall 2008
October 2
Prof. Jonas C. Peters, W.M. Keck Professor of Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Surprisingly bright emission from copper
October 9
Industrial Speaker Program: Dr. Douglas Robello, Kodak
Photoinitiated Chain Reactions in Solid Polymers: New Materials for Holographic Recording
October 15-16
The Twelfth Annual Robert M. and Martha W. Ross Lectures
Dr. Roy Vagelos, Retired Chairman and CEO, Merck & Co., Inc.
Wednesday, October 15 - 4:00 PM - Room 006 Steele Hall
Coping with Diseases of the Developing World
Thursday, October 16 - 10:30 AM - Room 006 Steele Hall
Strategy for Drug Discovery
October 23
Dr. Deborah A. Hogan, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School
Title to be announced
October 30
Prof. Douglas C. Neckers, Bowling Green State University
Title to be announced
November 6
Prof. Paul Williard, Brown University
Solid state and solution structural studies by X-ray diffraction and Diffusion NMR technigues
November 13
Prof. Petia M. Vlahovska, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
Title to be announced
November 20
Prof. Rachel N. Austin, Bates College
Title to be announced
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Spring 2008
March 27
Prof. Brian P. Coppola, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry, University of Michigan
The Most Beautiful Theories...
April 3
Prof. Yi Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Biosynthetic Inorganic Chemistry
April 4 - Friday 2:00 PM
Prof. Stefano Ciurli, University of Bologna
Nickel biochemistry: Urease as a paradigm for enzyme efficiency and metal ion cellular handling
April 9 - Wednesday 4:00 PM
Prof. James M. Mayer, University of Washington
Metal-mediated oxidations of C-H and O-H bonds: radical and non-radical pathways
April 10
Annual Laboratory Safety Training
April 16 and 17 - The 38th Annual Camille and Henry Dreyful Lectures
Prof. Timothy P. Lodge, Distinquished McKnight University Professor and Lloyd H. Reyerson Professor of Chemistry,University of Minnesota
- Wednesday, April 16 - 4:00 PM-Room 006 Steele: Block Copolymer Self-assembly: The Flexible Route to Nanostructure Control
- Thursday, April 17 - 10:30 AM-Room 006 Steele: Block Copolymers in Ionic Liquids: A New Class of Functional Nanocomposites
April 24
Prof. Markus Meuwly, University of Basel
Quantitative Atomistic Simulations: From Ligands in Myoglobin to Doped Ices
May 1
Prof. Patrick Holland, University of Rochester
Three Coordinate Iron Complexes: Synthesis, Spectroscopy, and Insights into Nitrogenase Mechanism
May 8 - Industrial Speaker Program
Dr. Michael Cukan, Glycofi
Recombinant Human Lactoferrin Expressed In Clycoengineered Pichia Pastoris: Effect of terminal N-Acetylneuraminic Acid on in vitro Secondary Humoral Immune Response
May 15
Prof. Erin Pelkey, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Developing Methodology for the Synthesis of Biologically Active 3-Pyrrolin-2-ones
Tuesday, May 27
Prof. Emily A. Carter, Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
Disentangling High Temperature Evolution of Thermal Barrier Coatings
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Winter 2008
January 31
Prof. Brian Jackson, Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences
Coupled analytical techniques for the determination of arsenic and mercury speciation in the environment
February 7
Prof. Michael Knapp, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Controlling O2: A)Hypoxia sensing B)metalloenzyme/nanoparticle hybrids
February 14
Prof. Clark Landis, University of Wisconsin
Transforming a Commodity Chemical Process into a Route to Pharmaceuticals
February 21
Industrial Speaker Program - Dr. Jason Ness, Arkema Inc., King of Prussia, PA
Advanced Materials through Polymer Design
February 28
Prof. Rory Waterman, University of Vermont
Zirconium-Catalyzed Bond-Forming Reactions
March 6
Prof. Karl A. Scheidt, Northwestern University
A Tale of Two Pyrones: Challenges and Opportunities for Discovery in Natural Product Synthesis
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Fall 2007
September 27
Dr. Peng Chen, Cornell University
From Bioinorganic Chemistry to Nanocatalysis One Molecule at a Time
October 3 -4
The Eleventh Annual Robert M. and Martha W. Ross Lectures
Prof. Roger Y. Tsien, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Pharmacology
October 11
Dr. Pat Confalone, DuPont
Topics in Agrochemicals Research and Pharmaceutical Process R&D
October 18
Dr. Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley
Cycloalkadienes in the Synthesis of Natural Products
October 25
CANCELLED Industrial Speaker Program: Dr. Lee R. Lynd, Mascoma Corporation and Thayer School of Engineering
November 1
Prof. Huw M.L. Davies, SUNY at Buffalo
C-H Functionalization: Applications in Organic Synthesis
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Spring 2007
April 5
Industrial Speaker Program: Dr. Nora Radu, DuPont Central Research
Design of Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
April 12
Prof. Richard Eisenberg, University of Rochester
Making Hydrogen from Water using Platinum Complexes; the Reductive Side of Water Splitting
April 26
Annual Departmental Laboratory Safety Seminar
May 3
Prof. Benjamin Enhrenberg, Bar Ilan University, Israel
The topography porphyrins in membranes affects their photosensitization reaction
May 17
Prof. N. Dennis Chasteen, University of New Hampshire
Ferritins and Dps Proteins: Different Strategies for Iron Storage and Detoxification
May 24
Prof. Daniel J. Kosman, State University of New York at Buffalo
Linear Free Energy Relationships in Iron Uptake in Yeast
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Winter 2007
January 18 - Note: Colloquium in Room 007 Steele, 10:30 AM
Dr. Daesung Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Metal-Catalyzed Ene-Yne Coupling Reactions and Their Use in Synthesis
February 1
Industrial Speaker Program: Dr. John Kadow, Director, Discovery Chemistry, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Inhibitors of HIV Attachment
February 8
Prof. Thomas A. P. Seery, University of Connecticut
Total Synthesis of Nanocomposites
Tuesday, February 13 - Room 315 Steele - 10:30 AM
Dr. Ryan E. Looper, Harvard University
Zooming out on small-molecule structure and function
February 15
Prof. Scott A. Gerber, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Department of Genetics, Lebanon, NH
Analytical Infrastructure for High-Performance Proteomics
February 22
Prof. Dean R. Madden, Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
The CAL PDZ domain: a candidate therapeutic target for cystic fibrosis
March 1
Prof. Tillman R. Gerngross, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
The Use of Humanized Yeast to Explore the Glyco-Design Space - A Novel Discovery Platform for Biotheraptutics
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Fall 2006
October 5 & 6 - The Tenth Annual Robert M. and Martha W. Ross Lectures
Prof. Robert H. Grubbs, Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology.
- Thursday, October 5, 2006 10:30 AM-006 Steele Hall: The Synthesis of Large and Small Molecules Using Olefin Metathesis Catalysts
- Friday, October 6, 2006 4:00 PM-006 Steele Hall: Applications of Olefin Meththesis Catalysts: Fundamental Research to Commercial Products
October 12
Dr. Joel M. Hawkins, Pfizer Global Research and Development
New Technologies for Process R&D in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Case Studies, Work Flows and New Approaches
October 19
Dr. Lawrence Hamann, Bristol Meyers Squibb
Discovery of Saxagliptin (BMS-477118): A Long-Acting Dipeptidyl Peptidase IV Inhibitor for the Treatment of Type II Diabetes
Friday, October 27 - The 38th Annual Camille and Henry Dreyfus Chemistry Lectures
Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn, Director, Institute of Science and Supramoléculaires Engineering, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, Professor, College of France, Paris
- 4:00 PM-006 Steele Hall: From Supramolecular Chemistry to Constitutional Dynamic Chemistry
- 8:00 PM-006 Steele Hall: From Matter to Life: Chemistry? Chemistry!
November 9
Prof. Robert H. Crabtree, Yale University
Homogeneous Catalysis: CH Activation, Carbenes and Molecular Recognition
November 30
Prof. Benjamin King, University of Nevada, Reno
Polymeric Helicenes: Synthesis, Properties and Applications
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