Seminars will be held at 4:30 p.m. each Thursday. The specific meeting room for each seminar is listed along with the speaker information for each date. Be on time! Changes in topic, location or date will be announced at the previous seminar and posted at the Chemistry Department office in Science & Tech I, Room 343.
All graduate students are expected to attend all seminars, whether registered or not.
CHEM 690 is an "attendance based course". To receive credit for CHEM 690 you must attend at least 3/4 of all seminars in order to pass the course and will receive a "B" if you miss more than 2 seminars during a semester and a "C" if more than 3 seminars are missed. It is your responsibility to sign the attendance sheet. Students who need to present a seminar, as required before graduation, should schedule a date.
January 26
Dr. Emanuel Waddell
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, AL
http://chemistry.uah.edu/Faculty/waddell/
"Laser Ablation of Polymer Substrates: A Biotechnology and Materials Science Overview"
JC 3rd Floor Meeting Room D
February 2
Dr. Sibrina N. Collins
Claflin University
Orangeburg, SC
http://www.claflin.edu/
"Mike and Ike Chemistry: Crystal Engineering of Colorful Metal-Organic Frameworks"
JC 3rd Floor Meeting Room E
February 3
Undergraduate Seminars
February 9
Dr. Neal Zondlo
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
http://www.udel.edu/chem/zondlo
"Design of tunable proteins: control of protein structure by phosphorylation , by electronics. and by stereoelectronics"
JC 3rd Floor Meeting Room B
February 16
Dr. Lambert Ngoka
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
http://www.vcu.edu/csbc/msrsbc/
http://www.has.vcu.edu/che/
"Proteomics of Colloid Breast Carcinoma: Cancer Biomarkers and Gene Ontology Insight into Probable Biochemical Basis for the putative Antiproliferative and AntimetastaticEffects of MUC2"
JC 3rd Floor Meeting Room F
February 23
Archita Chatterjee, M.S. Candidate
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
Joe Bozenko, M.S. Candidate
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
"Engineering Defensin Chemistry"
JC 3rd Floor Meeting Room D
March 2
Dr. Vladimir Sidorov
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
http://www.has.vcu.edu/che/people/bio/sidorov.html
"Functional Biomembrane-Active Receptors"
JC 3rd Floor Meeting Room D
March 9
Eric Levenson, M.S. Candidate
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
JC 3rd Floor Meeting Room D
March 16
Spring Break
March 23
Dr. Shawn R. Hitchcock
Illinois State University
Bloomington, IL
http://www.che.ilstu.edu/people/faculty/hitchcock.htm
"Intramolecular Chiral Relay at Nitrogen: The Revolutionary Development of Oxadiazinones as Chiral Auxiliaries"
JC 3rd Floor Meeting Room D
March 30
Dr. Timothy H. Warren
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/chemistry/faculty/warren.htm
"Nitric Oxide Reactivity at Co, Ni, and Cu:From Catalytic Converters to Metalloenzymes"
JC 3rd Floor Meeting Room D
April 6
Dr. Elizabeth C. Minor
Large Lakes Observatory and
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Minnesota
Duluth, MN
http://www.d.umn.edu/llo/people/eminor.html
"Photodegradation of natural organic matter in a temperate estuary."
JC 3rd Floor Meeting Room D
April 13
Dr. Maryanne M. Collinson
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
http://www.has.vcu.edu/che/people/bio/collinson.html
"The Wonderfuyl World of Templating: New Routes to New Materials to New Applications"
JC 3rd Floor Meeting Room D
April 20
Dr. Laura Medhurst
Marymount University
Arlington, VA
"Using FTIR to Measure Automobile Exhaust, Comparing the Results with EPA Certification Data and the Virginia Emission Inspection"
JC 3rd Floor Meeting Room D
April 27
Dr. Julio C. Alvarez
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
http://www.has.vcu.edu/che/people/bio/alvarez.html
"Thermodynamic and Kinetic Enhancement of Electrochemical Sensitivity by Chemical Coupling in Microfluidic Systems"
JC 3rd Floor Meeting Room D
Last But Not Least!
May 4
Lirije Shala, M.S. Candidate
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
Ramesh Pant, Ph.D. Candidate
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
JC 3rd Floor Meeting Room D
