FUTURE COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULES
ALL LECTURES ARE SCHEDULED AT 4:00 P.M. IN ROOM 304, CHEMISTRY BUILDING
FALL 2008
DATE |
SPEAKER (HOST) |
TITLE |
September 5 |
Professor Brent Gunnoe University of Virginia (Professor Dean Harman) |
Development of Homogeneous Catalysts for the Conversion of C-H Bonds |
12 |
Professor Zeev Rosenzweig University of New Orleans and the National Science Foundation (Professor Jill Venton) |
Quantum Dot-Based Probes for Bioassys |
19 |
Professor Craig Forest Georgia Institute of Technology (Professor James Landers) |
Ultra-high throughput instrumentation for DNA mutation detection and sequencing |
26 |
Professor Christian Melander North Carolina State University (Professor Jason Chruma) |
TBA |
October 3 |
IRELAND LECTURE Dr. William Roush Scripps Research Institute (Professor James Marshall) |
Design and Applications of Bifunctional Allylboron Reagents for the Synthesis of Biologically ActiveNatural Products |
10 |
Professor Harald F. Hess Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Professor Kevin Lehmann) |
Novel Optical Imaging Techniques |
17 |
Professor Timothy S. Zwier Purdue University (Professor Kevin Lehmann) |
Single Conformation Spectroscopy and Isomerization Dynamics of Flexible Molecules |
24 |
Professor Michael Shirts University of Virginia (Department of Chemical Engineering) (Professor Linda Columbus) |
Noncovalent Molecular Design In Silico: Ligand Binding and Beyond |
31 |
Dr. Grant Dubois Coca Cola Corporation (Professor Mario Geysen) |
TBA |
November 7 |
Professor Helen E. Blackwell University of Wisconsin (Professor Cassandra Fraser) |
Translating and Expanding the Language of Bacterial Communication Using Organic Chemistry |
14 |
Professor Nick Hud Georgia Institute of Technology (Professor Linda Columbus) |
Harnessing Nucleic Acid Intercalation, A New Approach to Template-Directed Synthesis and the RNA World |
21 |
LUTZ LECTURE Professor Robert Crabtree Yale University (Professor Dean Harman) |
Molecular Recognition for High Selectivity in Homogeneous Catalysis |

List of Faculty