Fall Semester 2007

Foster Chemistry Colloquium

FRIDAYS at 4:00 P.M. in Room 106 Jacobs Management Center (unless noted otherwise) Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in same room as the seminar (Download PDF version)

September 07, 2007 Professor Shuming Nie Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University Streaming Video: Cancer Nanotechnology: Adventures at the Interface of Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine
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September 14, 2007 Professor David S. Wishart Departments of Computing Science and Biological Science, University of Alberta Streaming Video: NMR and the Human Metabolome Project
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September 21, 2007 Professor Paul R. Hanson Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas Streaming Video: New Methods in Synthesis: Phosphate Tethers, Functional Oligomers and Sultam Libraries
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September 28, 2007 Professor Richard Cheng Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo Streaming Video: Two Tales of the alpha-Helix: Intrahelical Glu-Lys Interactions and Highly Fluorinated Amino Acids
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October 05, 2007

(in Room 220 NSC) Professor Sherry Chemler Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo Streaming Video: From Reaction Discovery to Catalytic Asymmetric Reactions: Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Intramolecular Addition of Amines to Alkenes: Carboamination, Diamination, Aminohydroxylation
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October 12, 2007 Professor Stefan Lutz Department of Chemistry, Emory University Streaming Video: Engineering Enzymes: New Tricks for Tailoring Biocatalysts' Selectivity and Specificity
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October 19, 2007

(in Room 220 NSC) Dr. Darrel F. Untereker V.P. of Research and Technology, Medtronic, Inc. Designing Implantable Medical Devices for Reliability*
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October 26, 2007

(in Room 220 NSC) Professor Gary A. Molander Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania Organotrifluoroborates-Robus Surrogates for Boronic Acids in Suzuki Coupling*
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CANCELLED - November 2, 2007 - CANCELLED

~~(in Room 220 NSC)~~ ~~Professor Jonathan E. Spanier~~
~~Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Drexel University~~ ~~Towards Chemical Control of Ferroelectrics via Molecular Adsorbates~~

November 9, 2007 Professor Marc Grynpas Dept. of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto Bone, A Living Material

(ABSTRACT)
Streaming Video: Bone, A Living Material
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November 16, 2007

(in Room 220 NSC) Professor Julia Y. Chan Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University Crystal Growth of Intermetallics: Challenges and Opportunities*
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November 30, 2007 Professor Brian M. Stoltz Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, CalTech Streaming Video: Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry
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WEDNESDAY, December 5, 2007

(3:45 PM in Room 330 Student Union)

(Co-sponsored with UB Dept. of Chemical & Biological Engineering) Professor Virginia Cornish Department of Chemistry, Columbia University Expanding the Synthetic Capabilities of the Cell*
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December 7, 2007

(2:00 PM in Room 106 Jacobs Hall) Dr. Frances S. Ligler Center for Bio/Molecular Science & Engineering, Naval Research Laboratory Streaming Video: Biosensors for Highly Multiplexed Analyses
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Fall Semester 2007

Foster Chemistry Colloquium