Seminars

Past Seminars

Spring 2009 Seminars

All seminars will be held from 3:15 - 4:20 PM in Science Building 1 Room 107 unless otherwise noted.

April 3rd	Buddy Ratner University of Washington From XPS and SIMS to Engineered Tissues: Bringing Surface Studies to Life
April 10th	Janet Morrow University at Buffalo, State University of New York Dinuclear and Mononuclear Lanthanide Complexes as Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Agents for MRI contrast
April 17th	Ming Xian University of Washington at Pullman Chemical Approaches for the Detection of S-Nitrosothiols
April 24th	Ashton Cropp University of Maryland New Approaches to Searching Protein Sequence Space
April 27th	Don Jacobsen Case Western Reserve University The Homocysteine Paradox: Can a Mediator Become a Marker of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality?
May 1st	Chemistry Graduate Student Talks Jie Liu, Merfat Alsabban
May 8th	Ana de Bettencourt Dias University of Nevada, Reno Luminescent Lanthanide Ion Complexes
May 15th	Hong Li Florida State University Recognizing RNAs: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
May 22nd	George Chumanov Clemson University Optical Properties and Applications of Plasmonic Structures
May 29th	Chemistry Awards Ceremony
June 5th	Chemistry Graduate Student Talks Ada Secasiu and Beth Manhat

Winter 2009 Seminars

All seminars will be held from 3:15 - 4:20 PM in Science Building 1 Room 107 unless otherwise noted.

January 9th	Brian C. O'Regan Imperial College London Understanding Dye Sensitized Solar Cells.
January 16th	TBA
January 23rd	Jonathan Veinot University of Alberta Functional Group 14 nanoparticles and nanoparticle composites prepared from compositionally tailored sol-gel precursors
January 30th	Robert Corn UC Irvine Biosensing with Nanoparticles, Plasmons and Nanowire Diffraction Gratings
February 6th	Dipankar Sen Simon Frasier University Light as activator, effector, and substrate in the chemistry and biology of DNA and RNA
February 13th	Arthur Glasfeld Reed College
February 20th	Tania Vu Portland State University Quantum Dot TECHNOLOGIES for ELUCIDATING Brain Chemical Signaling
February 27th	Nancy Mills Trinity University Understanding Aromaticity through Antiaromaticity: The advantages of Serendipity
March 6th	Michael C. Standen Synthetech Inc. The Large Scale Synthesis of Chiral Compounds: Kilograms to Tons
March 13th	Graduate Students: Jessica DiBari & Katherine Liebman Portland State University

Fall 2008 Seminars

All seminars will be held from 3:15 - 4:20 PM in Science Building 1 Room 107 unless otherwise noted.

October 3	Brian Gregg National Renewable Energy Laboratory Excitonic Semiconductors and Solar Cells
October 10	Robert Cook Louisiana State University A Three Sphere View of Natural Organic Matter
October 17	Zhen Huang Georgia State University Chemogenetic Investigation of Nucleic Acid Structures and Functions via Atom-specific Substitution of Oxygen with Selenium.
October 24	Juliane Fry Reed College Atmospheric chemistry of nitrogen oxides
October 31	Jim White Oregon State University Excursions and Diversions in Marine Natural Product Synthesis
November 7	Abhik Ghosh Department of Chemistry, University of Tromsø, Norway Bioinorganic odd couples: High-valent transition metal centers with reducing ligands
November 14	Chemistry Graduate Students Talks Portland State Univesity
November 21	Jeff Banning Xerox, Wilsonville Color Chemistry: From Prisms to Phthalocyanines
December 5	Tami Lasseter Clare Department of Conservation Philadelphia Museum of Art Seeing Metal Artwork through the Eyes of a Materials Chemist: from Research and Development to Public Outreach

Spring 2008 Seminars

All seminars will be held from 3:15 - 4:20 PM in Science Building 1 Room 107 unless otherwise noted.

April 4	Bruce C Gibb University of New Orleans Encapsulation Chemistry Promoted by the Hydrophobic Effect
April 11	Nicholas Kotov University of Michigan Self-Organization of Nanoparticles: Surprising Analogies with Protein Superstructures
April 18	David Castner University of Washington Structure and Hybridization Properties of DNA Surface
April 25	Marty Zanni University of Wisconsin, Madison TBA
May 2	Peter Steyger OHSU Aminoglycoside trafficking in the mammalian cochlea
May 9	Stig E Friberg University ofVirgina The Complex Structure of Emulsions and some PracticalConsequences
May 16	James Radney, Risikat Ajibola, andRebekah Dickman Portland State University Chemistry Graduate Student Talks
May 23	Daniel M Ratner University ofWashington Engineering the Glycomics Revolution: Carbohydrate Synthesis, Microarrays and Emerging Tools for Glycobiology
May 30	Annual Awards Ceremony Hoffman Hall 109 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
June 5	Paul Joseph and Ben Ayres Portland State University Chemistry Graduate Student Talks SB2 101 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm (Please note: June 5th is a Thursday)

Winter 2008 Seminars

All seminars will be held from 3:15 - 4:20 PM in Science Building 1 Room 107 unless otherwise noted.

Jan. 25	Rosalie Sears OHSU Phosphorylation sites that regulate c-Myc protein stability and oncogenic potential
Feb. 1	Mohamed Atta Institut de Recherches en Technologie\| et Sciences pour le Vivan Mechanistic Studies of the DNA Spore Photoproduct Lyase Enzyme from Bacillus Subtilis
Feb. 8	Xin Wang and Suji Uppalapati TBA
Feb. 15	Kendall Houk University of California, LosAngeles Theory and Modeling of Stereoselective Organic Reactions
Feb. 22	Binghe Wang Georgia State University Going after the "Sweet Spot" in Selecting DNA Aptamers for Glycoproteins
Feb 29	Allan S. Hoffman University of Washington Smart Polymers and their Bioconjugates
March 7	David H. Sherman TBA
March 14	Samson A. Jenekhe University of Washington Advances in Organic Electronics and Optoelectronics: Materials and Devices

Fall 2007 Seminars

All seminars will be held from 3:15 - 4:20 PM in Science Building 1 Room 107 unless otherwise noted.

Oct. 1	Jay Winkler California Tech Photons, Electrons, and Metals - Light-Triggered Redox Reactions of Inorganic Molecules
Oct. 5	Michael Lerner Oregon State University Can we make Graphene from Graphite?
Oct. 12	Dr. Chris D. Geddes Institute of Fluorescence, Medical Biotechnology Center, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute " Microwave-Accelerated Plasmonics "
Oct. 19	Bruce Branchaud Invitrogen " Chemical Biology at Invitrogen "
Oct. 26	Bradley S. Moore Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of OceanographyUniversity of California at San Diego " Biosynthesis of marine natural products"
Nov. 2	Bruce Gibbins AcryMed Corporation Antimicrobial Silver: A biological application for Nanomaterials
Nov. 9	Eric Schmidt University of Utah Marine symbiotic natural product diversity and biosynthetic pathway engineering
Nov. 16	John Perona UC Santa Barbara Structural origins of fidelity in expression of the genetic code
Nov. 23	No Seminar due to Thanksgiving
Nov. 30	Kenneth J. Shea University of California, Irvine "Bridged Polysilsesquioxanes. A molecular based approach for synthesis of functional hybrid materials."

Spring 2007 Seminars

All seminars will be held from 3:15 - 4:20 PM in Science Building 1 Room 107 unless otherwise noted.

April 6	Squire Booker, Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University Taking a Hit for the Team: Self-Sacrifice as an Enzymatic Strategy in the Biosynthesis of Lipoic Acid
April 13	Jim Hurst, Ph.D. Washington State University Metal ion catalysis of water oxidation - what we can learn from ruthenium μ-oxo dimers
April 20	No Seminar
April 27	Margo Haygood, Ph.D. OHSU Department of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems The role of bacterial symbionts of marine invertebrates in thebiosynthesis of marine natural products.
May 4	No Seminar
May 11	Nancy Horton University of Arizona, Department of Biochem & Molecular Biophysics Alteration of DNA Sequence Specificity of a Type II Restriction Endonuclease via an Indirect Readout Mechanism
May 18	Mamoun Alhamadsheh and Nadaraj Palaniappan PSU Department of Chemistry Combinatorial Biosynthesis of Novel Phoslactomycin Analogs asPotent PP2A Inhibitors
May 25	Manal Swairjo Department of Basic Medical Sciences at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona tRNA Modification - New Pathways for Drug Targets and Translational Control
June 1	Graduate Student Talks Sailaja Chada and Kai Wang
Jun 8	Undergraduate Research Symposium Portland State University

Winter 2007 Seminars

All seminars will be held from 3:15 - 4:20 PM in Science Building 1 Room 107 unless otherwise noted.

Jan. 12	Larry Dominey Chemi-Con Materials, Inc "New Electrochemical Devices: 21st Century Chemistry and Applications"
Jan. 19	Tom Scanlan Dept. of Physiology & Pharmacology, OHSU "New Paradigms and Experimental Therapeutics in Thyroid Hormone Action"
Jan. 26	Cindy Burrows University of Utah "Chemistry and Biology of Guanine Oxidation in DNA"
Feb. 2	Wei Kong Dept. of Chemistry Oregon State University "On the photostability of nucleic acid bases"
Feb. 9
Feb. 9	Warren Wood Dept. of Physiology & Pharmacology, OHSU Methods Towards the Rapid and Efficient Synthesis of Peptidic and Nonpeptidic Cysteine Protease Inhibitors
Feb. 16	Grad Students: Gann/Ruwona PSU Chemistry Department
Feb. 23	A.P. Duncan Willamette University Chirality-"Transfer as a Means and an End: synthetic and mechanistic studies in organometallic and organic systems"
March 2	Margaret Ziomek-Moroz U.S. Dept. of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Albany, Oregon Materials Issues in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems
March 9	Ryan Koehler, Ph.D. Applied Biosystems "Affinity fingerprints, molecular docking, and chemical library design"

Fall 2006 Seminars

All seminars will be held from 3:15 - 4:20 PM in Science Building 1 Room 107 unless otherwise noted.

Sep 29	New Graduate Student Welcome Party
Oct 6	Angel Kaifer University of Miami "Functionalized Dendrimers as Frameworks for Electron Transfer and Host-Guest Recognition Processes "
Oct 13	Dave Tyler University of Oregon " Coordination Chemistry of H2 and N2 in Aqueous Solution; Environmentally Benign Production of Ammonia "
Oct 27	Vickie DeRose University of Oregon "Ribozymes: RNA Molecules That Do Chemical Reactions "
Nov. 3	Grad Student Talks: Vimbai Masiyanise/John Gann PSU
Nov. 17	Coran Watanabe Texas A&M University
Dec 1	Peter Unrau Simon Fraser University "Catalytic strategies exploited by ribozymespromoting small molecule chemistry"

Winter 2006 Seminars

All seminars will be held from 3:15 - 4:20 PM in Science Building 1 Room 107 unless otherwise noted.

Jan 13th	Sheila David University of Utah, Department of Chemistry "The Secret Life of the Genome: The Importance of Repair of Oxidatively Damaged DNA Bases in preventing Mutagenesis and Carcinogenesis"
Jan 20th	David Grandy OHSU, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology "The Chemical Biology of Thyronamines"
Jan 27th	George Pack University of Louisville, Department of Chemistry, Chairman "Computational Approaches to Magnesium - Nucleic Acid Binding"
Feb 3rd	Jodi O'Donnell Reed College "The Design of Smart Membrane Materials: Synthesis of Polymeric Porphyrinic Materials with Nanoscale Porosity"
Feb 10th	Graduate Student Talks: Fidelis Manyanga - "Locked nucleic acids: Novel DNA Analogs for Optimal Design of Hybridization Probes" Aaron Burton - "Change of pH with temperature and how thermoregulating organisms can survive under these conditions"
Feb 17th	Mark Zabriskie Oregon State University, College of Pharmacy "Precursor amino acid formation and post-assembly tailoring in nonribosomal peptide antibiotic biosynthesis"
Feb 24th	Graduate Student Talks: Allan Chaperadza - "Epitaxial metal oxides for high-k dielectrics: the MBE approach" Ian Hesselsweet - "Development of high explosives"
Mar 3rd	Richard Sheardy Seton Hall "A Biophysical Basis for Gene Expansion in Triplet Repeat DNA Diseases"
Mar 10th	Sunny Zhou Washington State University, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Title: TBA
Mar 17th	Jim Mayer University of Washington, Department of Chemistry University of Washington, Department of Chemistry "Oxidations of C-H and O-H bonds by metal complexes: Hydrogen atom transfer, proton-coupled electron transfer, and Marcus Theory"

Spring 2006 Seminars

All seminars will be held from 3:15 - 4:20 PM in Science Building 1 Room 107 unless otherwise noted.

April 7th	K. Gregory Department of Chemistry "Title TBD "
April 14th	Ron McClard Arthur F. Scott Professor of Chemistry (Biochemistry) Reed College "Alternating Sites Catalysis in Pyrimidine Biosynthesis"
April 21st	Jonathan L. Vennerstrom Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy University of Nebraska Medical Center "Synthetic Peroxides As Antimalarials: Identification of a Secondary Ozonide (1,2,4-Trioxolane) Drug Development Candidate"
April 28th	Drew Rice Portland State University, Department of Physics "Using isotopes to understand our changing atmosphere"
May 12th	PSU Graduate Student Talks: Monica Wright - "Title TBD "
May 19th	George Agnes Department of Chemistry "The Pro-inflammatory Potential of Ambient Particle Types "
May 26th	Eric Clark, Oregon Department of Public Health Ted Haigh, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality & US Environemtal Protection Agency "Rapid Laboratory Emergency Response to Train Wreck Quantities of Nasty Chemicals"
June 2nd	PSU Graduate Student Talks: Kayode Morakimyo
June 9th	PSU Undergraduate Seminars & Chemistry Awards

Seminars Fall 2005

Sep 30th	Michael Detty University at Buffalo "Novel Cationic Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy ofMultidrug-Resistant Cancer and Viral and Bacterial Pathogens."
Oct 7th	Peter Ulrich Ulrich Consulting "Fun with Aminoguanidine"
Oct 14th	Ken Kustin Brandeis University "Chemical Oscillators: Design and Mechanism"
Oct 21st	James Werner Los Alamos National Laboratory "An approach to tracking single molecules in 3-D"
Oct 28th	Bice Martincigh TBA
Nov 4th	Andy Berglund University of Oregon “Molecular mechanisms of myotonic dystrophy.”
Nov 11th	Veteran’s Day
Nov 18th	Graduate Student Talks – Rosalia Dodean, Steve Burgess
Dec 2nd	Graduate Student Talks –Simeon Andrews, Ian Barr