Visiting Seminar Series 2005-2006
- Professor J.S. Yadav, Director, Indian Inst. of Chemical Technology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Hyderabad, India
"Desymmertrization Strategy Towards the Total Synthesis of Polypropionate Containing Natural Products" - Professor Yeshayahu "Ishi" Talmon, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
"Cryo-TEM Imaging of Self-Aggregation in Solution" - Professor Ahmed Abdo, University of Cairo, Egypt
"Effect of Surfactants on the Voltammetric Response of Some Organic and Biological Compounds" - Dr. John C. Lechleiter, President and COO, Eli Lilly & Company
"A Chemist's Progress: Lessons Learned and Futures Imagined in Drug Development" (Awards Day Seminar) - Dr. Barry Farmer, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
"Atomistic and Mesoscale Modeling of Polymer Nanocomposites" - Professor William R. Heineman, University of Cincinnati (CGSA speaker)
"34 Years of Electrochemistry: One Thing Leads to Another" - Professor Michael Paulaitis, Ohio State University
"Role of Hydration in Weak Protein-Protein Interactions" - Dr. Paul O'Maille, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
"The Evolving Field of Protein Engineering" - Professor Elliot Chaikof, Emory University/Georgia Inst. of Technology
"Engineered Biomaterials for Reparative Medicine, Organ Fabrication, and the Design of Living Systems" - Professor Peter J. Sadler, University of Edinburgh, UK
"The Chemical Elements of Life and Medicines: A Web of Health?" (Zimmer International Scholar) - Professor Peter J. Sadler, University of Edinburgh, UK
"Organometallic and Photactivated Metal Anticancer Complexes" (Zimmer International Scholar) - Professor Kenny Marcus, Clemson University
"Capillary-Channeled Polymer (C-CP) Fibers - A Novel Stationary Phase for Biomolecule Separations" - Dr. Robert G. Laughlin, Retired Procter & Gamble Research Fellow
"Frontiers in Surfactant Phase Science" - Professor Robert J. Linhardt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Heparin: Structure, Activity and Synthesis" - Professor Ruxandra Dima, University of Massachusetts
"A Glimpse into Hidden Worlds: Allosteric Sites in Proteins and the First-steps in Protein Aggregation " - Professor Stephen Holmes, University of Kentucky
"Clusters, Networks, and Molecule-Based Devices Derived from Poly(pyrazolyl)borate Cyanometalates" - Professor Israel Rubinstein, Dept. of Materials and Interfaces, Weismann Inst. of Science, Rehovot, Israel
"Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Branched Coordination Nanostructures" - Professor Panagiotis "Peter" Smirniotis, Head, UC, Dept. of Chemical & Materials Engineering
"Transition Metal Modified TiO2-loaded MCM-41 Catalysts for Visible UV-Visible Light Driven Photodegradation of Aqueous Organic Pollutants" - Dr. Wenjun Zheng, National Institutes of Health
"Decrypting Macromolecular Dynamics with a Simple Physical Model" (Physical Chemistry Faculty Candidate) - Dr. Jianhan Chen, The Scripps Research Institute
"Folding Proteins from First-Principles" (Physical Chemistry Faculty Candidate) - Dr. Margaret Cheung, University of Maryland
"Life in a Crowd: Macromolecular Crowding and Confinement Effects on Protein Interactions in Living Systems" (Physical Chemistry Faculty Candidate) - Dr. George Stan, National Institutes of Health
"Biological Nanomachines at Work: Chaperonin-Mediated Protein Folding" (Physical Chemistry Faculty Candidate) - Professor Richard VanDuyne, Northwestern University
"Molecular Plasmonics for Surface Enhanced Sensing and Spectroscopy" - Professor Timothy Long, Virginia Tech
"Synergies of Topology and Non-Covalent Interactions" - Professor Mark E. Davis, California Institute of Technology
"Systemic Delivery of Short-Interfering RNA (siRNA)" - Professor Richard Nagorski, Illinois State University
"Structure/Reactivity Studies for the Aqueous Reaction of Carbinolamides" - Professor Martin Kirk, The University of New Mexico
"New Insights into the Mechanism of Xanthine Oxidase and CO Dehydrogenase" - Dr. V. Adrian Parsegian, NIH
"Nourished by Noise: The Organizing Power of Random Fluctuation" (Oesper Symposium Awardee) - Professor Peter Rand, Brock University, Emeritus
"Scientific Delights" (Oesper Banquet Speaker) - Dr. Joshua Zimmerberg, NIH
"Using Surface Chemistry to Understand Biological Processes: Adrian's Kind of Science" (Oesper Symposium Speaker) - Professor Barry Ninham, Institute of Advanced Studies, Canberra, Australia
"The Present State of Molecular Forces in Colloid Science" - Professor Sol Gruner, Cornell University
"Putting the Squeeze on Biology: Biomolecules under Pressure" (Oesper Symposium Speaker) - Professor William Gelbart, University of California - Los Angeles
"Making Viruses" (Oesper Symposium Speaker) - Professor Helmut Strey, State University of New York at Stony Brook
"Single DNA Molecule Genotyping" (Oesper Symposium Speaker) - Professor David Smith, University of York
"Dendritic Supermolecules - Towards Controllable Nanomaterials" - Dr. V. Adrian Parsegian, NIH
"Forces Driving Molecular Assembly" - Professor Patrick Holland, University of Rochester
"Breaking Bonds with Low-Coordinate Iron: Chemistry Inspired by Nitrogenase" - Professor William B. Jenesn, University of Cincinnati
"Preserving the Past While Planning for the Future: The Legacies of Ralph Oesper and Else Schulze" (Dedication of the Else L. Schulze Info Commons & The Oesper Collections in the History of Chemistry) - Dr. Vassilios Galiatsatos, Equistar Chemicals, LP
"Simulations of Complex Polymer Systems"