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Southwest Regional Speaker Exchange Program

(UTA will pick up cost of travel for smaller Institutions within a 150 miles and through southwest speaker exchange)

The following seminars from our faculty are available to participating institutions.  If your department wishes to take advantage of any such presentation, please contact the faculty member directly.

* Indicates faculty who have joined the department since Fall 2008.

Armstrong, Daniel   817-272-3805danarm@uta.edu

“Ionic Liquids and Their Use in Chemical Analysis”

“Recent Advances in the Development and Use of Chiral Selectors in Separation Science”

“Separations-Based High Efficiency Microbial Analysis”


Dasgupta, Purnendu (Sandy)   817-272-3171,   dasgupta@uta.edu

"A Green Analyzer for Arsenic"

"Perchlorate :  Where now?"


Dias, Rasika   817-272-3813,   dias@uta.edu

"Teflon Coated Pyrazolates and Scorpionates"

"Light Emitting Chains, Rings and Other Types of Aggregates Containing Copper, Silver and Gold Atoms"


Foss, Frank   817-272-5245,   ffoss@uta.edu

"Phospholipid Metabolism and Signaling: Developing Non-Natural Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Analogues as Biological Tools"

"Artificial Enzymes: Mimicking Nature to Develop Non-Natural Catalysts"

"Molecular Electronics: Structure-Function Relationships in Electron Transport through Aromatic and Anti-Aromatic Molecules"

"The "Weaker Forces": An Introduction to Intermolecular Forces and Self-Assembly in Nature and Nanoscale Materials"


Guan, Richard (Xiyun)    817-272-6086,   xguan@uta.edu

"Single-Molecule Stochastic Sensing with a Genetically Engineered Protein Nanopore"

"Whole-Cell Sensing of Environmental Pollutants in Liquids and Soils"

"Stochastic Sensing of Explosives and Warfare Agents in an Engineered Nanopore"

"Nanopore Stochastic Detection of Peptides and DNA"


Heo, Jongyun   817-272-1076,   jheo@uta.edu

"Anticancer Therapeutic Potentials and Redox Regulation Mechanisms of Ras, Rho and Ran GTPases"


Kroll, Peter   817-272-3814,   pkroll@uta.edu

"Computational High-Pressure Chemistry of Nitride Compounds"

"Order in Disordered Materials: Modeling and Computation of 
Nano-domains in Glasses and Amorphous Ceramics"

"Amorphous Ceramics, Interfaces, and Nanostructures: Atomistic Modeling and ab-initio Computations"

"Computational Solid State Chemistry: Glasses, Nanostructures, and High-Pressure Science"


Lovely, Carl   817-272-5446,  lovely@uta.edu

"New Methods for Imidazole Functionalization -- Application to the Total Synthesis of Marine Alkaloids"

"New Methods of Transition Metal-Mediated and -Catalyzed Synthesis"


MacDonnell, Frederick   817-272-2972,   macdonn@uta.edu

"Hypoxia Selective DNA Cleavage Using DNA Binding Metal Complexes"

"Photodriven Sequential and Concerted Multi-Electron Reduction of Ruthenium Complexes:  Potential Towards Hydrogen Production"


Mandal, Subhra    817-272-3808,   smandal@uta.edu

"Mixed Lineage Leukemia Histone Methylases in Gene Expression, Hormone Signaling and Cancer"

"Mixed Lineage Leukemias Bridge Between Estrogen Signaling and Blood Cholesterol"

"Screening Small Molecules:  Metallo-Salens Are Potential Novel Anti-Tumor Agents"


O'Brien, Christopher   817-272-0262,   cobrien@uta.edu

“Recycling the Waste: The development of a Catalytic Wittig Reaction.”


Perera, Roshan   817-272-9067  perera@uta.edu

“Proteins Containing Unnatural Amino Acids”

“Genetically Engineered Protein Mimics”


Pierce, Brad   817-272-9066  bspierce@uta.edu

"Pre-Steady State and Spectroscopic Characterization of Substrate-Gated Reduction of Stearoyl-ACP delta-9-Desaturase by [2Fe-2S] Ferredoxin"

"Characterization of the Nitrosyl Adduct of Substrate-Bound Mouse Cysteine Dioxygenase by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance:
Electronic Structure of the Active Site and Mechanistic Implications"


Pomerantz, Martin   817-272-3808,   pomerantz@uta.edu

"Studies of Polythiophenes and Model Systems"


Rajeshwar, Krishnan   817-272-3511,   rajeshwar@uta.edu

"Combining Photochemistry with Electrochemistry:  The Sun is the Limit"

"Solar Hydrogen Generation:  Toward a Renewable Energy Economy"


Schelly, Zoltan   817-272-3803,   schelly@uta.edu

"Electrooptics, Electroporation, Liposomes, and Uncapped Quantum Dots"

"Transient Electro-Optics of Organized Assemblies of Surfactants"

"Preparation of Quantum Dots via Electroporation of Vesicles"


Schug, Kevin    817-272-3541,   kschug@uta.edu

“The Caveats of Studying Solution Phase Small Molecule Molecular Recognition by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry”

“Chiral Recognition and Enantiodiscrimination by Mass Spectrometry:  Ready for Industry or Purely Academic?”


Timmons, Richard   817-272-3801,  timmons@uta.edu

"Variable Duty Cycle Pulsed Plasma Polymerizations:  A Convenient Route to Molecularly Tailored Surfaces"

"Controlled Surface Modifications to Improve the Biocompatibility of Materials"


 

 

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