CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE: SPRING 2008

ALL LECTURES ARE SCHEDULED AT 4:00 P.M., ROOM 304 CHEMISTRY BUILDING (unless noted otherwise)

DATE	SPEAKER (HOST)	TITLE
February 1
8	Second Year Exams
15	Professor Daniel Nocera Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Professor Cassandra Fraser)	Powering the Planet: Chemistry to the Rescue
22	Professor Marcey Waters University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Professor Jason Chruma)	Form and Function of Designed Mini-Proteins
29	Professor Robert J. Hamers University of Wisconsin (Professor John T. Yates, Jr.)	Molecular Monolayers as Tunable Interfaces to Nanoscale Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion
March 7
14	Professor Mary Roberts Boston College (Professor Linda Columbus)	Kinky Kinetics, Murky Membranes, Dynamic Dimers: Understanding How Interfaces Regulate PI-specific Phospholipase C
21	Professor Kurt Zilm Yale University (Professor Robert Bryant)	Solid State NMR Nanocrystallography: A Spectroscopic Window into the Physical Chemistry of Proteins
28	JEFFERSON LECTURE Professor Robert Grubbs California Institute of Technology (Graduate Student Council)	The Synthesis of Large and Small Molecules Using Olefin Metathesis Catalysts
April 4	Professor Alan Van Orden Colorado State University (Professor James Demas)	Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy and Scanning Probe Microscope for Probing the Dynamic Properties of Biomolecules and Nanoparticles
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18	Professor Ben Cravatt The Scripps Research Institute (Professor Linda Columbus)	Mapping Biochemical Pathways in Human Disease by Activity-Based Proteomics and Metabolomics
25	Professor David Crich Wayne State University (Professor Glenn McGarvey)	New Methods for the Synthesis of Oligosaccharides, Peptides, and Their Conjugates: Current Challenges and Potential Solutions

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