Seminars will be held at 4:30 pm each Thursday. The specific meeting room for each seminar is listed along with the speaker information on the web site and on the paper announcement. Be on time! Changes in topic, location or date will be announced at the previous seminar and posted in hard copy outside the Chem & Biochem Department office, S&T I Room 343, and on the seminar web site:
http://chemistry.gmu.edu/seminar/seminar_fall2011.html
All graduate students are expected to attend all seminars, whether registered or not.
CHEM 790/490 is an attendance/participation based course. It is your responsibility to sign the attendance sheet. You must have at least: 90% attendance to get A, 80% for B, 70% for C, and <70% for F. In addition, you must submit a summary page of the seminar you have attended. This should be written in your own words demonstrating your interest and understanding. You could use available references on the topic. The hard copy summary is due during the next seminar.
Students who need to present a seminar as a requirement for the MS or PhD should schedule a date one semester in advance since the schedule fills quickly.
All seminars will take place in Innovation Hall room 136 from 4:30 to 5:45.
September 1
Safety Training by Environmental Health and Safety Office
Essaia Lowe
Director, Laboratory Safety
elowe@gmu.edu
September 8
Introduction to Research at GMU Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
Schreifels, Cooper, Foster, Honeychuck, Hussam, Bishop
September 15
Charge Carrying Implantable Electrodes
Professor Nathalia Peixoto
Neural Engineering Lab, Electrical and Computer Engineering and
The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study,
George Mason University
September 22
Probing Coupled Peptide-Water Motions in Dipeptide Nanotubes by Terahertz Spectroscopy
Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed
Biophysics Group, Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, US.
zeeshan.ahmed@nist.gov
September 29
Probabilistic Search Algorithms to Compute Conformations of the
Protein Native State
Professor Amarda Shehu
Computer Sciences Department
George Mason University
October 6
Drug Design and Drug Combination Studies
Dr. Mark Hixon
Principal Scientist Discovery Biology
Takeda San Diego, Inc.
mark.hixon@takedasd.com
October 13
Understanding molecular and cellular mechanisms in brain
Dr. Robert Lipsky
INOVA and The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
George Mason University
October 20
The Discovery of Methane on Mars
Professor Mike Summers
Department of Physics and Astronomy
George Mason University
October 27
Topic: Alternative Sources of Magnetization
Professor Karen Sauer
Department of Physics and Astronomy
George Mason University
November 3
The design and synthesis of small molecule TSHR modulators
Dr. Erika E. Englund
National Institutes of Health Chemical Genomics Center, Bethesda, MD, USA
eeenglund@gmail.com
November 10
Electrochemical Detection of Gas Phase Arsine
Jinsoo Hong
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
George Mason University
November 17
NMR studies of two proteins associated with proper development of human
ventral midline: correlating structure with function
Professor Michael Massiah
Department of Chemistry, George Washington University, Washington DC
massiah@gwu.edu
November 24
No Seminar
Thanks Giving
December 1
Evaluation of In-line Water Filters Made with Composite Iron Matrix
Farhan Ahmed
Topic: TBA
David Lieu
George Mason University
December 8
Gas Phase Chemiluminescence: Measurement of Trace Arsenic in the Environment
Kirubel Assegid
Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry
George Mason University
