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Fall 2006 Speakers

 

Seminar Date

Speaker

Title

Hosted by
December 4, 2006
ILC Room 140
5:00pm		 Professor Paul S. Weiss
The Pennsylvania State University		 "Designing, Measuring and Controlling Molecular- and Supramolecular-Scale Properties for Molecular Devices" Dr. Oliver Monti
Chemistry
November 6, 2006
ILC Room 140
5:00pm		 Dr. Hans Frauenfelder LANL
 		 “Proteins:  Energy Landscape, Fluctuations, and Function” Dr. Osamu Miyashita
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
September 11, 2006
ILC Room 140
5:00pm		 Professor Stan Opella “Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins by NMR Spectroscopy” Dr. Megan McEvoy
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics

Spring 2006 Speakers

 


 

Seminar Date

Speaker

Title

Hosted by

April 24, 2006
ILC Room 130
5:00pm

Dr. Edwin L. Thomas
Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 “Blind, Deaf and Tough Having Fun with Periodic Polymers” Dr. Jeffrey Pyun
Chemistry

April 10, 2006
ILC Room 130
5:00pm

Dr. Brian Matthews
 Professor of Physics
Institute of Molecular Biology
 University of Oregon

 "Tolerance and Intolerance in Protein Structure and Function" Dr. Matthew Cordes
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics

March 6, 2006
ILC Room 130
1:00pm

Dr. Jeffery W. Kelly
 Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Chemistry
The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
The Scripps Research Institute

 Dr. Indraneel Ghosh
Chemistry

January 23, 2006
ILC Room 130
5:00pm

Professor Mark Ratner
Morrison Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University

 "Molecular Junction Transport: Phenomenology and Interpretation" Dr. Oliver Monti
Chemistry

2005 Speakers


 

Seminar Date

Speaker

Title

Hosted by

May 2, 2005
ILC Room 130
5:00pm

Dr. Paul Barbara
 Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
 University of Texas at Austin

 "The surprising electronic energy landscape of conjugated polymers" Dr. Oliver Monti
Chemistry

April 18, 2005
ILC Room 130
5:00pm

Dr. Victor Hruby
Regents Professor Emeritus
Department of Chemistry
 University of Arizona

 "Chemical Biology:  FUNdamental Research at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology" Dr. Neel Ghosh
 Chemistry

March 7, 2005
ILC Room 130
5:00pm

Dr. Curt Wittig
Paul A. Miller Professor of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Department of Chemistry
 University of Southern California

 Dr. Andrei Sanov
 Chemistry

February 14, 2005
ILC Room 130
5:00pm

Dr. Vern Schramm
Professor & Ruth Merns
Chair in Biochemistry
Department of Biochemistry
 Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

"Enzymatic Transition States and the Immucillins"

 		 Dr. Vahe Bandarian
 Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
 

2004 Speakers


 

Seminar Date

Speaker

Title

Hosted by

December 6, 2004
ILC Room 130
5:00pm

Dr. Kendall N. Houk
 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
 University of California,
Los Angeles

 "Computational Modeling of Organic Reactions: Mechanisms, Dynamics, and Selectivities" Dr. Katrina Miranda
 Chemistry

November 8, 2004
ILC Room 130
5:00pm

Dr. Greg Petsko
 Department of Chemistry
 Brandeis University

 "How Enzymes Work: The Role of Protein Dynamics in Enzymic Catalysis" Dr. Nancy C. Horton
 Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

October 11, 2004
ILC Room 120
4:00pm

Dr. Doug Rees
 Department of Chemistry, Investigator with Howard Hughes Medical Institute
 California Institute of Technology

 "Structural studies of channels and transporters" Dr. Megan McEvoy
 Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics