Southwest Regional Speaker Exchange Program

Armstrong, Daniel 817-272-3805 danarm@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"

UT Arlington will pick up cost of travel for smaller Institutions within a 150-mile radius, through the 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.

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

The University of Texas at Arlington · Arlington, Texas 76019-0065 USA

Phone: 817-272-3171 | Fax: 817-272-3808