The University of Texas at Arlington

Current Seminar Schedule

Spring 2012

 

January 20  Professor Punit Kohli

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University

Title: “Breaking Diffraction Limit Using Microlenses

Website: www.chem.siu.edu/kohli/Site%209/Welcome.html

 

Host:  Dr. Roshan Perera, x2-9067, rperera@uta.edu

Host:  Dr. Sandy Dasgupta, x2-3806, dasgupta@uta.edu

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Week of January 27,

Faculty Candidates

Dates and times will be announced weekly

 

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Week of February 3,

Faculty Candidates

Dates and times will be announced weekly

 

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February 10  Professor Yehia Mechref

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University

Title: “Quantitative Probing of Breast Cancer Brain Seeking Cells Glycome by LC-MS

Website: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/chemistry/Faculty/mechref/

 

Host:  Dr. Kevin Schug, x2-3541, kschug@uta.edu

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February 17  Professor John Cong-Gui Zhao

Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio

Title: “New Methods for Conducting Organocatalyzed Enantioselective Aldol and Mannich Reactions

Website: http://utsa.edu/chem/Zhao.html

 

Host:  Dr. Carl Lovely, x2-5446, clovely@uta.edu

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February 24  TBA,

 

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March 2  Professor Jeremy May

Department of Chemistry, University of Houston

Title: “The Synthesis of the Flindersia Alkaloids

Website: http://www.chem.uh.edu/people/faculty/may/

 

Host:  Dr. Junha Jeon, x2-0262, jjeon@uta.edu

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March 9  Professor Joshua Telser

Department of Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences, Roosevelt University

Title: “A journey across the first row transition metals with high field/frequency electron paramagnetic resonance (HFEPR)

Website: http://sites.roosevelt.edu/jtelser/

 

Host:  Dr. Fred Macdonnell, x2-2972, macdonn@uta.edu

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March 16  SPRING BREAK

 

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March 23  Professor Andrew Hunt

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas at Arlington

Title: “In Situ Reduction of Lead (Pb) Toxicity in Soils by Phosphate Amendment

Website: http://www.uta.edu/ra/real/editprofile.php?pid=2263&onlyview=1

 

Host:  Dr. Frank Foss, x2-5245, ffoss@uta.edu

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March 30  Professor Julian Hurdle

Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington

Title: “Targeting the Bacterial Membrane: an Emerging Paradigm for Novel Antibiotics that Kill Persistent Pathogens

Website: http://www.uta.edu/biology/hurdle/index.htm

 

Host:  Dr. Frank Foss, x2-5245, ffoss@uta.edu

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April 6  Professor John Buynak

Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University

Title: “Exploring Mechanism Using Inhibitors: The Case of Beta-Lactamase

Website: http://smu.edu/chemistry/buynak.asp

 

Host:  Dr. Frank Foss, x2-5245, ffoss@uta.edu

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April 13  Professor Dimitri Pappas

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University

Title: “Integrated Cell Systems for Bioanalysis

Website: http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/dpappas/

 

Host:  Dr. Sandy Dasgupta, x2-3806, dasgupta@uta.edu

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April 20  Professor Rob Petros

Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas

Title: “Polymeric delivery vectors for metal-based therapeutics

Website: http://www.cas.unt.edu/~petros/index.html

 

Host:  Dr. Frank Foss, x2-5245, ffoss@uta.edu

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April 27  Professor Pablo Sobrado

Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech

Title: “Insight into the mechanism of substrate selectivity and stabilization of oxygen intermediates in A. fumigates SidA, a flavin-dependent N-hydroxylase

Website: http://sobradolab.weebly.com/index.html

 

Host:  Dr. Brad Pierce, x2-9066, bspierce@uta.edu

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May 4  TBA,

 

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May 11  Professor Frank D. Blum

Department of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University

Title: “Unusual Properties of Polymer Interfaces

Website: http://blum.okstate.edu/

 

Host:  Dr. E. Thomas Strom, x2-5441, tomstrom@juno.com

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Dr. Frank Foss, Seminar Coordinator

817-272-5245, ffoss@uta.edu

All seminars are at 3:00 pm on Fridays in  W. A. Baker Chemistry Research Building (CRB) in 114.  Refreshments will be served in CRB room 112 at 2:45 pm.

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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

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

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