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
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| April 18 | David Castner University of Washington Structure and Hybridization Properties of DNA Surface | | April 25 | Marty Zanni University of Wisconsin, Madison TBA
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| 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)
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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
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| 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
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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."
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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
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| April 13 | Jim Hurst, Ph.D. Washington State University Metal ion catalysis of water oxidation - what we can learn from ruthenium μ-oxo dimers
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| 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
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| May 18 | Mamoun Alhamadsheh and Nadaraj Palaniappan
PSU Department of Chemistry Combinatorial Biosynthesis of Novel Phoslactomycin Analogs asPotent PP2A Inhibitors
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| 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
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| 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"
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| 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
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| Oct 13 | Dave Tyler University of Oregon " Coordination Chemistry of H2 and N2 in Aqueous Solution; Environmentally Benign Production of Ammonia "
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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
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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"
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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
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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 | |
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Seminars Fall 2005
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Sep 30th |
Michael Detty
University at Buffalo "Novel Cationic Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy ofMultidrug-Resistant Cancer and Viral and Bacterial Pathogens." |
Oct 7th
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Peter Ulrich Ulrich Consulting "Fun with Aminoguanidine"
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Oct 14th
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Ken Kustin Brandeis University "Chemical Oscillators: Design and Mechanism"
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Oct 21st | James Werner
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"An approach to tracking single molecules in 3-D"
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Oct 28th
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Bice Martincigh
TBA
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Nov 4th | Andy Berglund University of Oregon “Molecular mechanisms of myotonic dystrophy.” |
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Nov 11th | Veteran’s Day |
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Nov 18th |
Graduate Student Talks
– Rosalia Dodean, Steve Burgess
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| Dec 2nd |
Graduate
Student Talks –Simeon Andrews, Ian Barr |
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