WEDNESDAY – September 5 – WEDNESDAY
Prof. Jeff Johnston
Vanderbilt University
"New Reactions and Reagents for Alkaloid Synthesis: Chiral Proton
Catalysis"
Host: Carl Lovely
September 7
Prof. Carl Lovely
University of Texas – Arlington
"Total Synthesis of Marine Natural Products"
Host: Martin Pomerantz
September 14
Prof. John A. Schetz
University of North Texas Health Science Center
"Putting Their Feet to the Fire: A Green Chemistry Approach to
Aquatic Biofouling"
Host: Richard Timmons
September 21
Dr. Paul Hemmes
LabNow, Inc., Austin, TX
"Chemistry on a Stick -- the Development of a Clinical Diagnostic
Test for Serum Potassium Using Reflectance Spectroscopy"
Host: Zoltan Schelly
September 28
Prof. Francis D'Souza
Wichita State University
"Bio-inspired Electron Transfer in Supramolecular Donor-Acceptor
Conjugates"
Host: Krishnan Rajeshwar
October 5
Prof. James Imlay
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Molecular Explanations for the Toxicity of Oxygen"
Host: Jongyun Heo
October 12
Prof. John C. Poutsma
College of William and Mary
"Amino Acid Thermochemistry from the Extended Kinetic Method"
Host: Kevin Schug
October 19
Prof. Yuri Kazakevich
Seton Hall University
"Geometry and Surface Chemistry of Silica-Based HPLC
Adsorbents"
Host: Kevin Schug
October 26
Prof. Zoltan Schelly
University of Texas – Arlington
"Electrooptics, Electroporation, Vesicles, Quantum Dots"
Host: Sandy Dasgupta
November 2
Prof. Nenad M. Kostic
Texas A&M at Commerce
"Metal Complexes as Artificial Peptidases: Reaction Mechanism and
Applicability in Biotechnology and Proteomics"
Host: Sandy Dasgupta
TUESDAY –
November 6 – TUESDAY
Prof. Cameron Jones
Monash University, Australia
"Group 13 Metal(I) Heterocycles: Metal Donor Lewis Bases and N-heterocyclic Carbene Analogues"
Host: Rasika Dias
November 9
Prof. Alakanada Basu
University of North Texas Health Science Center
"To Die or Not to Die: Protein Kinase C Takes the Central
Stage"
Host: Subhra Mandal
November 16
Prof. Wei Chen
Department of Physics, UT-Arlington
"Nanoparticle Fluorescence-Based Technology for Biomedical
Applications"
Host: Sandy Dasgupta
November 23
Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30
Prof. Jerry R. Faust
Tufts University Medical School
"Isopentenyladenosine and Suppression of Stop Codons"
Host: Ed Bellion
December 7
Prof. Abul Hussam
George Mason University
"Arsenic in Groundwater: Aquatic Chemistry and Mitigation through
Filtration Technologies"
Host: Sandy Dasgupta
