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Current Seminar Schedule
January 25 Professor Jeremy Smith
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
New Mexico State University
Title: “Tailoring ligand design for synthesis and catalysis”
Host: Dr. Rasika Dias
February 1 Professor Frank D. Blum
Department of Chemistry
Oklahoma State University
Title: “Dynamics of Polymers at Interfaces”
Host: Dr. Thomas E. Strom
February 8 Professor Walter Fast
College of Pharmacy
University of Texas-Austin
Title: “Halopyridines as novel covalent inhibitors: Inactivation of Dimethylargininase and Beyond”
Host: Dr. Kayunta Johnson-Winters
February 15 Professor Gerardine G. Botte
Center for Electrochemical Engineering Research
Ohio University
Title: “Electrochemical Technologies for the Production of Hydrogen from Alternative Sources”
Host: Dr. Krishnan Rajeshwar
February 22 Professor Phillip Crews
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California-Santa Cruz
Title: “Discovery of Biomedically Important Marine Natural Products: Some Effective Paradigms, Lessons Learned, and Significant Outcomes”
Host: Dr. Carl Lovely
March 1 Professor Jay C. Groppe
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry
Title: “Regulation of biomineralization by disparate Ser/Thr kinases: secreted phosphoproteins and BMP signal transduction”
Host: Dr. Frank Foss
March 8 Professor Catherine F. Clarke
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California-Los Angeles
Title: “Biosynthesis and function of coenzyme Q: Many paths to Q in yeast, human and E. coli cells”
Host: Dr. Kayunta Johnson-Winters
March 15 Spring Break
March 22 Professor Graeme Henkelman
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Texas-Austin
Title: “"Correlating structure and function for nanoparticle catalysts”
Host: Dr. Peter Kroll
March 29 No Seminar
April 5 Professor Brian Zoltowski
Department of Chemistry
Southern Methodist University
Title: “Tuning of Reaction Mechanisms in Circadian Clock Photoreceptors”
Host: Dr. Roshan Perera
April 12 Graduate Student Research Award Final
April 18 (Thursday, 3:30 PM) Professor Silas Cook
Department of Chemistry
Indiana University-Bloomington
Title: “The Search for Efficiency in Synthesis”
Host: Dr. Frank Foss
April 19 Professor Joseph A. Loo
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California-Los Angeles
Title: “Applying Native Mass Spectrometry for Defining Protein Interactions Important in Biology and Medicine”
Host: Dr. Saiful Chowdhury
April 26 Dr. Csaba Janáky
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Texas at Arlington
Title: “Hybrid assemblies based on inorganic nanoarchitectures - from fundamental concepts to energy applications”
Host: UTA Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
May 3 Professor Dianqing Sun
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Hawaii
Title: “Natural products-inspired novel antibacterial agents”
Host: Dr. Frank Foss
Dr. Peter Kroll, Seminar Coordinator
817-272-3814, pkroll@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.
About the Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminar program
We have a very active and a popular seminar program and have had a number of Chemistry Nobel Laureates visit the department and present talks as listed below:
Roald Hoffmann – One full week in May, 1981
William Lipscomb – November 10, 1983 and March 4, 1996
Richard Smalley – September 9, 1988
John Pople – October 15, 1991
Sir Derek Barton – February 9, 1996
Johann Deisenhofer – April 16, 1999
Ilya Prigogine – October 8, 1999
Robert Curl – January 28, 2000