SPRING 2016
February 11, 2016 – 3:30 pm, PS 103
Scott Davis, Patent Agent (Blum)
Licensing Associate
Technology Development Center (TDC)
"The TDC Technology Commercialization Process"
February 17, 2016 - 2:00 pm, NRC 207
Sigma Xi Young Investigator Lecture
Dr. Gopan Krishnan, Department of Chemistry
"Biological Electrocatalysis, Clinical Biosensors and Microarrays"
February 25, 2016 – 3:30 pm, PS 103
Sarah Pope Miksinski (Blum)
Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
"From Bench to FDA: Career Development Outside of the Laboratory"
March 3, 2016 – 3:30 pm, PS 103
No Seminar Scheduled
March 10, 2016 – 3:30 pm, PS 103
Stanton F. McHardy (Weaver)
University of Texas, San Antonio
“Structure Based Drug Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of New Antischistosomal Agents”
March 17, 2016 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Oliver Reiser (Weaver)
University of Regensburg, Germany
"Visible light photoredox catalyzed processes for carbon-carbon bond forming reactions"
March 25 (Friday), 2016 – 3:30 pm - PS 141
Dr. Richard Zare, Stanford University
Phi Lambda Upsilon/Otto M. Smith Lecture (cohosted with Department of Physics)
"Mass Spectrometry, Drop by Drop"
March 31, 2016 – 3:30 pm, PS 103
Ryan Nieuwendaal (White)
National Institute of Standards & Technology
“Three Tales of Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry”
April 7, 2016 – 3:30 pm, PS 103
Aldrich Lecturer: Eric Anslyn (Nelson)
University of Texas, Austin
“Three Tales of Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry”
April 14, 2016 – 3:30 pm, PS 103
Erwin London
Stony Brook
"Understanding the principles of ordered membrane domain (raft) Formation and properties in eukaryotes and bacteria"
April 19, 2016 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
6011 Seminar: Helanka Perera
"Superhydrophobic Coatings and Structural Arrangement of the Silanes on Silica"
April 21, 2016 – 3:30 pm, PS 103
Mark McCormick (White)
3M Company
"Tracking the Dynamics of the Rubber and Tackifier in Pressure Sensitive Adhesives"
April 28, 2016 – 3:30 pm, PS 103
Gabriel LeBlanc (Tahsini)
SWSE Program
"Electrochemical Control over the Phase Transition in Nanocrystalline VO2 Films"
May 5, 2016 – 3:30 pm, PS 103
Touradj Solouki (Lavine)
Baylor University
Title TBA Postponed until Fall 2016
May 12, 2016 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
6011 Seminar: Shantipriya Khadka
"Hydroxy monolith precursor for the preparation of organic polymer monolithic columns by post-polymerization modification with various surface retentive ligands for capillary electrochromatography and high performance liquid chromatography"
May 17, 2016 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
6011 Seminar: Asma Alothman
Title TBA
FALL 2015
Thursday, September 24 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Shelley Minteer, University of Utah (Krishnan)
"Enzymatic bioelectrocatalysis: From metabolic pathways to metabolons"
Thursday, October 8 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Peter Dvornic, Pittsburg State University (Blum)
"Hyperbranched Polymers by Bimolecular Non-linear Polymerization"
Thursday, October 15 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Kayunta Johnson, University of Texas, Arlington (Krishnan)
"Half Site Reactivity and Negative Cooperativity within F420 Cofactor NADP+ Oxidoreductase: A Kinetic Analysis"
Thursday,October 22 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
John Tomich (Cook)
"Branched Amphipathic Peptide Bilayers: A Singularly Versatile Biomaterial"
Thursday, October 29 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Om Prakash (Cook)
"Chemical and Structural Basis of Catalytic Function of Norovirus Cysteine Protease: An Enzyme for Antiviral Drug Development"
Wednesday, November 4 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Christian Bruckner (Blum)
"The Breaking and Mending of the Pigments of Life"
Thursday, November 5 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Justin Ragains, Louisiana State University (Weaver)
"Visible Light Photochemistry and Electron Transfer in the Pursuit of Structure and Function"
Thursday, November 12 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Stephanie Brock, Wayne State University (Vasquez)
"The Role of Synthetic Levers for Control of Phase and Size in Nanoscale Transition Metal Pnictides: Consequences for Catalytic and Magnetic Properties"
Tuesday, November 17 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Madhubhashini Madduma Arachchilage - 6011 Seminar
"Dynamics of polymers and surfactants in bulk and on silica surface"
Thursday, November 19 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Julia Chan, University of Texas, Dallas (Vasquez)
"Targeted Crystal Growth of Rare Earth Intermetallics with Synergistic Magnetic and Electrical Properties: Structural Complexity to Simplicity"
Thursday, December 3 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Blaine Mooers, OUHSC (Fennell)
"TBA"
SPRING 2015
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Nathan Schley, California Institute of Technology
"From Water Oxidation to Cross-Coupling: A Mechanistic Approach to Catalysis"
Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Hee Yeon Cho, University of California, Berkeley
"Transition Metal Catalysis and Extended π-Systems: Toward Synthetic Efficiency and Selectivity"
Monday, January 12, 2015 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Charles Yeung, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University
"Catalysis with Transition Metals and Chiral Hydrogen Bond Donors: C-H Activation, Olefin Halogenation, Indoline Synthesis, and In Silico Protease Design"
Tuesday, February 10 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
John A. Pojman, Louisiana State University (Blum)
"Cure-On-Demand Polymerizations"
Thursday, February 12 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Matt Sherrill, Army Research Laboratory (Weaver)
"TBA"
Thursday, February 26 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Tom Tauge, Bruker Optics
"Novel Applications of Molecular Spectroscopy to Heritage and Biomedical Fields of Study"
Thursday, March 5 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Peter Mirau, Air Force Research Labs (White)
"TBA"
Thursday, March 12 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Phi Lambda Upsilon Lecture
Jonathan Ellman, Yale University
"TBA"
Thursday, April 2 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Jessica Sigle, Chemistry Graduate Student - 6011 Seminar
"TBA"
Friday April 3 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Aldrich Lecture
Huw Davies, Emory University
"TBA"
Thursday, April 9 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Evangeline Rukundo, Chemistry Graduate Student - 6011 Seminar
"TBA"
Thursday, April 16 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Priyabrata Mukherjee, Peggy & Charles Stephenson Cancer Center,
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
"Nanomedicine: From therapeutics, cell signaling to biomarker discovery"
Thursday, April 23 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Collin White, Chemistry Graduate Student - 6011 Seminar
"TBA"
Thursday, April 30 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Blaine Mooers, Oklahoma University Health Services Center (Fennell)
"TBA" This will be rescheduled.
Thursday, May 14 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Tapash Arifuzzaman, Chemistry Graduate Student - 6011 Seminar
"TBA"
Past Seminars - Fall 2014
Thursday, September 25 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Catherine Murphy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Vasquez)
"Molecular Engineering of Nanorod Surfaces"
Tuesday, October 14 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Tan Zhang, Chemistry Graduate Student - 6011 Seminar
"Surfactant Can Do More Than Surface Modification"
Thursday, October 16 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Christopher Bielawski, University of Texas at Austin (Nelson)
"Externally Controlled Chemistry"
Thursday, October 23 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Mathis Hodge, Chemistry Graduate Student - 6011 Seminar
"Modular Synthesis of Amphiphilic Networks with Guest-Host Capabilities"
Tuesday, October 28 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Sathish Lageshetty, Chemistry Graduate Student - 6011 Seminar
"(A) Epoxy Curing (B) Characterization of Epoxy/SWNT Nanocomposites & (C) MnO2 Nanostructures for Catalysis"
Thursday, October 30 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Seminar Cancelled - will be rescheduled later
Rangika Hikkaduwa Koralege, Chemistry Graduate Student - 6011 Seminar
"TBA"
Thursday, November 6 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Teri Odom, Northwestern University (Vasquez)
"TBA"
Thursday, November 6, 3:30 pm, PS 101
Mikio Kataoka, Nara Institute of Science & Technology, Japan (Joint seminar with Physics Department)
"TBA"
Tuesday, November 11, 3:30 pm, PS 103
Ahmed Moneeb, Chemistry Graduate Student, 6011 Seminar
"TBA"
Thursday, November 13, 3:30 pm, PS 103
Ken Dill, Stony Brook University (Joint seminar with Physics Department)(Fennell)
"Proteins are the Original Programmable Self-Assembling Nano-Machines"
Thursday, December 4, 3:30 pm, PS 103
Nuwan Perera, Chemistry Graduate Student - 6011 Seminar
"Swellable pH Sensitive N-isopropylpolyacrylamide Polymer Particles for Optical Sensing​"
Thursday, December 11, 3:30 pm, PS 103
Shadi Alizadeh-Bazazi, Chemistry Graduate Student - 6011 Seminar
"TBA"
Past Seminars - Spring 2014
Thursday, January 9 - 3:30 pm, PS 101
Dr. Elliott Hulley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"Metal-localized vs. Ligand-localized Reactivity: Utilizing Metal-Ligand Cooperativity"
Thursday, January 14 - 3:30 pm, PS 101
Dr. Nicholas Travia, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Reaction Complexity Revealed from Transition Metals to Actinide Complexes"
Thursday, January 21 - 3:30 pm, PS 101
Dr. J. Brannon Gary, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
"Improved Catalysis and Reactivity in C-H Activation and Functionalization Chemistry"
Thursday, January 30 - 3:30 pm, PS 101
Dr. Smita Mohanty, Auburn University
"Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation: Mechanisms of Oligosaccharyl Transferase Function"
Thursday, February 4 - 3:30 pm, PS 101
Dr. Laleh Tahsini, Boston University
"Copper Complexes and Catalytic Dioxygen Reduction: From (2-Pyridyl)alkylamines to Fluorinated Alkoxides"
Thursday, February 6 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Dr. Gabriel Cook, University of California, San Diego
"Closing in on the target: using NMR to study the Hepatitis C Viral membrane protein p7"
Thursday, February 13 - 3:30 pm, PS 101
Dr. Arthur Tinoco, University of Puerto Rico
"Regulation of the Bioactivity of Metals and Peptides through Protein Interactions and Insight into Drug Development"
Thursday, February 20 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Robert Cody Cannon, Chemistry graduate student - 6011 Seminar
"New Techologies for the Improvement of Concrete Properties"
Thursday, February 27 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Dr. Jon Tunge, University of Kansas (Weaver)
"“Synthesis via C-C Cleavage”"
Thursday, March 6 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Cory Perkins, Chemistry graduate Student - 6011 Seminar
"Group VI oxides for the remediation of lead contaminated water"
Thursday, March 13 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Clemens Krempner, Texas Tech (Weinert)
"Zwitterionic Metal Tetrelides - Synthesis, Structure, Reactivity and FLP Chemistry"
Friday, March 14 - 3:30 pm, PS 110
Melik Demirel, Pennsylvania State University (Nelson)
"Genomic studies of ratchets for asymmetric wetting, adhesion, and transport properties" This seminar has been cancelled.
Tuesday, March 25 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Kimberly Roewe, Chemistry graduate student - 6011 Seminar
"Rational Synthesis and Properties of Long-Chain Linear Oligomeric Germanium Compounds"
Thursday, March 27 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Dr. Frank Foss, University of Texas, Arlington (Weaver)
"Structure and Function of B Vitamins: Opportunities for Greener Oxidations and Antibacterial Treatment"
Thursday, April 3 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Dr. Jeremy Schmit, Kansas State University (Fennell)
"Many-body Protein Systems: Challenges of Timescale and Resolution"
Tuesday, April 8 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Aaron Schrick, Chemistry graduate student - 6011 Seminar
"Investigations of Novel Germanium Compounds"
Thursday, April 10 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Dr. Vijay Varadan, University of Arkansas (Krishnan)
"TBA" This seminar has been cancelled.
Thursday, April 17 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Dr. Evguene Nesterov, Louisiana State University
"Molecular Systems with Extended Electronic Delocalization in Design of Ampliphying Fluorescent Sensors"
Thursday, April 24 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Travis James, Chemistry graduate student - 6011 Seminar
"TBA"
Thursday, May 1 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Yohan Mathota, Chemistry graduate student - 6011 Seminar
"TBA"
Thursday, May 8 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Charles Chusuel, Middle Tennessee State University (Materer)
"TBA"
Thursday, May 22 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Dr. Nan Zheng, University of Arkansas (Weaver)
"TBA"
Thursday, May 29 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Balika Khatiwada, Chemistry graduate student - 6011 Seminar
"Study of interfacial interactions of polymer on surfaces"
Thursday, June 5 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Charmaine Munro, Chemistry graduate student - 6011 Seminar
"TBA"
Thursday, June 12 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Farai Kwaramba, Chemistry graduate student - 6011 Seminar
"Sterically Directed Iridium-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Alkenes in the Presence of Alkynes"
Past Seminars - Fall 2013
Thursday, September 19 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Dr. Sujata Bhatia, Harvard University Associate, Biomedical Engineering
"Natural Biomaterials for Tissue Repair, Reconstruction, and Regeneration"
Thursday, October 3 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Dr. John K. Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley
Third Annual Aldrich Seminar
"Catalytic, Selective Functionalization of C-H Bonds"
Friday, October 4 - 2:30 pm, PS 101
Dr. Tom Puckette, Eastman Chemical Company
"Hydroformylation Catalysis at Eastman Chemical: The Discovery of Generations of Catalysts"
Tuesday, October 15 - 4:00 pm, PS 110
Dr. Paul Russo, Louisiana State University
"Learning from Mother Nature at her Worst"
Thursday, October 31 - 3:30 pm, PS 103
Dr. H.N. Cheng, United States Department of Agriculture
"Converstion of Renewable Resources to Value-Added Materials"
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 3:30 pm, PS 103 - 5011 Seminar
Kuizhi Chen, Chemistry graduate student
"'Writing' on polymer chains by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP)"
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 3:30 pm, PS 103 - 5011 Seminar
Hasani Jayasinghe, Chemistry graduate student
"Double Network Structures to Improve Mechanical Strength of Hydrogels a Potential Application for Tissue Engineering"
Tuesday, November 7, 2013 - 3:30 pm, PS 103 - 6011 Seminar
Ahmad Soufiani, Chemistry graduate student
"Density-Functional Studies of Molybdenum Oxide and its Bronze"
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 3:30 pm, PS 103 - 5011 Seminar
Sandhya Rani Pampati, Chemistry graduate student
"Superheated Water Chromatography"
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 3:30 pm, PS 103 - 5011 Seminar
Ugo Arua, Chemistry graduate student
"Self-immolative Polymers and their Applications"
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 3:30 pm, PS 103 - 5011 Seminar
Deshani Fernando, Chemistry graduate student
"pH Responsive Drug Release from Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles"
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 3:30 pm, PS 103 - 6011 Seminar
Danny Maples, Chemistry graduate student
"Unexpected molecular mechanism of a funcionally important helical expression in a light-triggered PAS domain protein"
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 3:30 pm, PS 103 - 5011 Seminar
Ujith Madduma Bandarage, Chemistry graduate student
"Chemically Driven Dynamic Magnetic Metal Organic Frameworks"
Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 3:30 pm, PS 103 - 6011 Seminar
Erandi Mayadunne, Chemistry graduate student
"Non polar and affinity mololithic stationary phases for HPLC of large and small molecules and their use in a multi column liquid phase separation platform for the capturing and fractionization of sialoglycoproteins from human serum"
