PhD Dissertation Defense

Thomas H. Graham

Thursday, January 05, 2006
9:30 AM - Room: n/a
Synthesis of Oxazole-Containing Natural Products

Thursday, January 05, 2006
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Melanie Sanford
University of Michigan
Synthetic and Mechanistic Investigations of Metal-Catalyzed C-H Bond Functionalization

Tuesday, January 10, 2006
7:15 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Andrew Phillips
University of Colorado
From Targets to Strategies and From Reactions to Targets: Cyanthiwigin, Cylindramide, and Dictyostatin

Thursday, January 26, 2006
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Jack A. Kampmeier
University of Rochester
Teaching Organic Chemistry with Peer-Led Team Learning

Thursday, February 02, 2006
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Robert A. Wolkow
University of Alberta, & National Institute for Nanotechnology, National Research Council of Canada
Field Regulation of Single Molecule Conductivity by a Charged Atom

Thursday, February 09, 2006
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Chulbom Lee
Princeton University
Formations of C-O and C-C Bonds via Transition Metal Catalysis

Thursday, February 09, 2006
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Mark Johnson
Yale University
Water from the Bottom up: The Cluster Perspective on Aqueous Chemistry

Thursday, February 16, 2006
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Geoffrey Strouse
Florida State University
Nanoscience and the Use in Biomolecular Applications

Thursday, February 16, 2006
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Dr. Brian Dyer
Los Alamos National Laboratory
The Mechanism of b-structure Formation in Peptide Models and in Proteins

Thursday, February 23, 2006
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Thomas P. Vaid
Washington University of St. Louis
Isostructural Dopants for Molecular Semiconductors: Organic Molecules in Unusual Oxidation States

PhD Dissertation Defense

Jingbo Xiao

Monday, February 27, 2006
1:30 PM - 307 Eberly
FROM CHEMICAL METHODOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT TO BIOLOGICAL TARGETS: SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATIONS OF (E)-ALKENE AND CYCLOPROPANE PEPTIDE ISOSTERES

Thursday, March 02, 2006
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Gregory L. Verdine
Harvard University
Adventures in Chemical Biology

Thursday, March 09, 2006
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Joseph Stetter
Illinois Institute of Technology, SRI International
Sensors, Arrays, Intelligence, and Analytical Measurements

FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS LECTURES

Professor Paul A. Wender
Stanford University
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
4:00 PM - Chevron Science Center 12
The Chemistry-Medicine Continuum: Function Oriented Synthesis, New Reactions, and New Therapeutics Leads

FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS LECTURES

Professor Paul A. Wender
Stanford University
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
4:00 PM - Chevron Science Center 12
Breaching Biological Barriers: In Vitro and In Vivo Studies on New Systems for Drug and Probe Delivery

Thursday, March 30, 2006
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Andrew Ewing
Penn State University
Neurochemical Studies with Capillary Electrophoresis of Cells, Single Fly Heads and Populations of Flies: Towards Understanding Behavior, Addictions, and Drugs of Abuse

Twenty-Sixth Annual
Pittsburgh Conference Lecture

MS Thesis Defense

Terry Kellar

Thursday, April 06, 2006
10:00 AM - Eberly 307
The Pederin Family: A Synthetic Overview

Twenty-Sixth Annual
Pittsburgh Conference Lecture

Professor Wayne L. Hubbell
Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA School of Medicine
Thursday, April 06, 2006
2:30 PM - Chevron Science Center 12
Molecular Mechanisms in Visual Signal Transduction: Lessons From Site-Directed Spin Labeling

Friday, April 07, 2006
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor Tohru Fukuyama
University of Tokyo

Tuesday, April 11, 2006
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12
Professor Milton Brown
University of Virginia
Voltage Gated Sodium Channels: A Therapeutic Target for Human Prostate Cancer

Wednesday, April 12, 2006
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B


Tripartite Symposium on Nanotechnology

Thursday, April 13, 2006
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Qiang Cui
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Theoretical and Computational Studies of Vectorial Processes in Biology

PhD Proposal Defense

Moon Chul Jung

Friday, April 14, 2006
2:00 PM - 135 Chevron
A microfluidic detection device using an electron transfer reaction at a flowing liquid/liquid interface

Tuesday, April 18, 2006
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12
Professor Nancy Allbritton
University of California, Irvine
Exploring Single Cells with Microanalytical Tools

Thursday, April 20, 2006
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Joseph Fox
University of Delaware
Strain as a Design Principle in Synthesis

Thursday, April 20, 2006
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor William Jackson
University of California, Davis
Probing Photochemical Processes in Comets Using Velocity Ion Imaging

MS Thesis Defense

Kyle R. Tilger

Friday, April 21, 2006
2:00 PM - 325 Eberly
ION/MOLECULE REACTIONS STUDIED WITH THE FLOWING AFTERGLOW AND THEORETICAL METHODOLOGY

PhD Dissertation Defense

Gregory Bird

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
10:00 AM - 307 Eberly
Applications of bis-amino acid oligomers

MS Thesis Defense

John P. Sonye

Thursday, April 27, 2006
9:00 AM - Chevron 132
Development of E and Z-selective base-catalyzed redox isomerizations

PhD Dissertation Defense

Rong Meng

Thursday, April 27, 2006
9:00 AM - 331 Eberly
Studies of Cu(II) Complexes of Bioactive Peptides