Fall 2009 Seminar Series

Our chemistry seminar series meets in Science 059 at 11:00 AM on Tuesdays. Students interested in attending graduate school are encouraged to meet with the academic seminar speakers on Tuesday afternoon.

Driving directions to the Department

Date Speaker
Sep 1 Chem 399/499 initial meeting
Sep 8 TBA
Sep 15 Boyd Goodson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, "Xenon, Liquid Crystals, and SPIONs: Tools for Enhancing Sensitivity and Information Content in NMR and MRI" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Sep 22 Gerald Hammond, Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, "What lies beyond traditional fluorine substitution? New vistas from a synthetic standpoint" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Sept 29 Christopher Hamaker, Department of Chemistry, Illinois State University, "Teaching old dogs new tricks: Investigation of novel Schiff bases for the remediation of heavy metals" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 6 Chem 399/499 student research introductions
Oct 13 Jay Siegel, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, IUPUI, "Research in Forensic Chemistry" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 20 Romualdo de Souza, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, "Learning about nuclei, supernovae, and neutron stars through nuclear collisions" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 27 Jean Chmielewski, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, "New generation therapeutic targets: Multidrug resistance and regenerative medicine" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Nov 3 Amy Lane, postdoctoral fellow, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, "Chemical and genomic approaches for understanding marine natural product structures and functions" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Nov 10 Chem 399/499 student research updates
Nov 17 Antonio Cancio, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, "Peaks and valleys in the search for the 'divine functional'" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Nov 24 James Poole, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University, "The unusual chemistry of azidopyridine N-oxides" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Dec 1 Chem 399/499 student research presentations
Feb 2 Adam Wasserman, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, "Density functional theory: Successes and challenges" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)


Spring 2009 Seminar Series

Date Speaker
Jan 20 Garth Simpson, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, "A Niche for Ultrafast Lasers in Protein Structure Determination" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Jan 27 No seminar
Feb 3 No seminar
Feb 10 Chem 399/499 presentations
Feb 17 Robert Clegg, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Illuminating Biology With Light" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Feb 24 Michael Nichols, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri - St. Louis, "Self-Assembly of the Alzheimer's Amyloid-Beta Protein and the Immune Response" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Mar 3 Chem 399/499 presentations
Mar 10 No seminar- spring break
Mar 17 Benjamin McCall, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Astrochemistry of H3+, the Simplest Polyatomic Molecule" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Mar 24 No seminar- National ACS meeting
Mar 31 Kraig Wheeler, Department of Chemistry, Eastern Illinois University, "Controlling Molecular Assemblies Via Quasiracemates" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Apr 7 Michael Baldwin, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, "New Chelates for Tight Binding and Light-triggered Release of Metals" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Apr 14 Marvin J. Miller, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, "Organic Chemistry and Utilizing Microbial Iron Assimilation Processes for the Development of New Antibiotics" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Apr 21 Chem 399/499 presentations
Apr 28 Chem 399/499 presentations


Fall 2008 Seminar Series

Date Speaker
Sep 9 Sapna Deo, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), "Luminescent Proteins in Bioanalysis"
Sep 16 No seminar
Sep 23 No seminar
Sept 30 Chem 399/499 presentations
Oct 7 Paul Wenthold, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, "Ion Chemistry and Electronic Properties of Pyridine"
Oct 14 Sara Skrabalak, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, "Synthesis of Catalytic Materials by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis"
Oct 21 No seminar
Oct 28 Chem 399/499 presentations
Nov 4 No seminar
Nov 11 Doug Gilman, Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, "Immobilization of Magnetic Beads in Microfluidic Devices for Bioanalysis: It Should Be Simple!"
Nov 18 No seminar
Nov 25 No seminar
Dec 2 Chem 399/499 presentations