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 Robinson B-205, Room 343.
All graduate students are expected to attend all seminars, whether registered or not.
CHEM 690 is an "attendance/participation based course". To receive credit for CHEM 690 you must attend at least 4/5 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. Refer to syllabus.
January 24
Dr. Matthew B. Harney
“Harnessing Dynamic Processes for Stereochemical Control in Living Ziegler-Natta Polymerization of Propylene”
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, DC
Robinson B-205
January 31
Dr. Wade N. Sisk
Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
“Energy Transfer and Reversible Photoreduction of Polymer-dispersed Perylene Diimide Dyes”
http://www.chem.uncc.edu/faculty/sisk/profile_sisk.html
Robinson B-205
February 7
David Yee, JD
"An Introduction to Technology Transfer"
Office of Technology Transfer
George Mason University
Robinson B-205
February 14
Dr. Robert M. Fairchild
"Functionalization and Applications of the [Cp*Ru]+ Moiety: Aqueous Metalation, Anion Binding Cryptophanes, Metal-Organometallic Frameworks, and More"
Chemistry Department
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Robinson B-205
February 21
Dr. Preston Fulmer
“Molecular genetics of Herpes Simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1)”
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, DC
Robinson B-205
February 28
Dr. Kelling Donald
“Solid Memory Structural preferences in Groups 2 and 12 Dihalide Monomers, Dimers and Solids”
Department of Chemistry
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA
http://chemistry.richmond.edu/faculty/Donald_Kelling.html
Robinson B-205
March 6
Dr. Matthew C. T. Hartman
"Diverse Natural Product-like Peptide Libraries: A New Source of Tools for Biological Inquiry"
Massey Cancer Center
Department of Chemistry
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
http://www.has.vcu.edu/che/people/bio/hartman.html
Robinson B-205
March 13
Spring Break
March 20
Dr. Michael Leopold
"Nanoparticle Film Assemblies as Platforms for Protein Adsorption and Functional Components of Protein Monolayer Electrochemistry"
Department of Chemistry
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA
http://chemistry.richmond.edu/faculty/Leopold_Michael.html
Robinson B-205
March 27
To be announced
Robinson B-205
April 3
Dr. Martin Safo
“Sickle Cell Anemia: Hemoglobin as a target to design antisickling agents”
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
School of Pharmacy
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
http://www.phc.vcu.edu/Faculty/Safo.html
Robinson B-205
April 10
Dr. Christian Melander
“Chemical Control of Bacterial Biofilms ”
Department of Chemistry
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
http://www.ncsu.edu/chemistry/facultyPages/cmelander.html
Robinson B-205
April 17
Dr. Veronika Szalai
"Metals in your Mind: Copper and the Amyloid-beta Peptide of Alzheimer's Disease"
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD
http://www.umbc.edu/chem/general/user/vszalai
Robinson B-205
April 24
Dr. Wade Downey
“An In Situ Enol Silane Formation-Mukaiyama Aldol Reaction Mediated by TMSOTf”
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA
http://chemistry.richmond.edu/faculty/Downey_Wade.html
Robinson B-205
May 1
Kirubel Assegid
M.S. Candidate, GMU
Jae J. Kwak
M. S. Candidate, GMU
Robinson B-205
