Visiting Seminar Series 2009-2010
- Professor Anthony Berdis, Case Western Reserve University
"Translesion DNA Synthesis: Understanding how Polymerases Make Mistakes to Develop New Chemotherapeutic Agents" - Professor Mahdi Abu-Omar, Purdue University
"Catalyst Design Based on Mechanistic Understanding" - Dr. Jay Grate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"Sensors and Monitors for Environmental and Security Applications" - Professor Muhammad Ashraf, UC/Dept. of Pathology
"Can Stem Cells Fix the Infarcted Heart" - Professor Susan Lindquist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Insights on the Elusive Nature of Prion Proteins" - Professor Elaine Fuchs, The Rockefeller University
"Stem Cells: Biology and Promise for Regenerative Medicine" (Oesper Banquet Speaker) - Professor Susan Lindquist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Prion Proteins: Surprising Conformations and Surprising Functions" (Oesper Award Lecture) - Professor Thomas J. McGarry, Northwestern University
"Balancing the Proliferation and Differentiation of Stem Cells" (Oesper Speaker) - Professor Elaine Fuchs, The Rockefeller University
"Our Body Surface: From Keratins to Stem Cells" (Oesper Speaker) - Professor Kent Golic, University of Utah
"Our Modeling a Reductive Stress Protein Aggregation Disease in Drosophila" (Oesper Speaker) - Professor Peter M. Tessier, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Molecular Insights into Interactions, Structures and Small Molecule Regulators of Prions and Amyloids" (Oesper Speaker) - Professor Tricia R. Serio, Brown University
"Prion Dynamics and Protein-Only Inheritance" (Oesper Speaker) - Professor Luke Whitesell, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
"Unfolding Progress in Cancer Chemotherapy" (Oesper Speaker) - Professor Claudia Schmidt-Dannert, University of Minnesota
"Engineering Microbes for Biosynthesis and Bioenergy Applications" - Professor Jose Onuchic, University of California at San Diego
"The Energy Landscape for Folding and Function of Biomolecules" - Professor Carlos Garcia, University of Texas, San Antonio
"Microchips, Robots, and Nanomaterials: Novel Strategies for the Analysis of Biologically Active Compounds" - Dr. Jiun-Chan Yang, Northwestern University
"Chemical and Biochemical Sensing: From Solid-State Electrochemistry to Nanoplasmonics" - Dr. Martha Sibrian-Vazquez, Portland State University
"The Chemical Detection of Biological Thiols and Their Post-translational Modification of Proteins" - Professor Peng Zhang, New Mexico Tech
"Bio-related Applications for Photon Upconverting Nanoparticles" - Professor Mark Foster, The Ohio State University
"Structure and Dynamics in Ligand-Mediated Regulation" - Professor Steven Sucheck, University of Toledo
"The Sticky World of Glycoconjugates: Design, Synthesis and Function" - Dr. John C. Warner, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry
"Entropic Control in Materials Design" - Professor Terry Kirley, UC, Dept. of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics
"Ecto-Nucleotidases: What they are, what they do, and how they do it" - Professor Robert B. Grubbs, Stony Brook University
"Controlled Radical Polymerization as a Tool for the Preparation of Nanomaterials" - Professor Melanie T. Cushion, UC, Dept. of Internal Medicine
"The Biology and Chemistry of Preclinical Drug Development" - Professor Xiaodong Michael Shi, West Virginia University
"Cascade Reaction from Lewis Base Catalyzed Nitroalkene Activation and Beyond" - Professor Jan-Uwe Rohde, University of Iowa
"Metal- and Ligand-centered Redox Chemistry and Dioxygen Activation with Iridium and Nickel" - Prof. Dr. Gunther Wittstock, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany (return visiting Zimmer Int'l Scholar)
"Moving Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy from Model Samples to Real World Problems" - Professor Christian Reber, University of Montreal, Canada (2010 Zimmer Int'l Scholar)
"Optical Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Compounds: From Coordination Geometries and Excited-state Properties to Tunable Intermolecular Effects" - Dr. Robert T. Hembre, Eastman Chemical Co.
"Resources -> Products: Evolving Challenges in Catalysis" - Professor Zucai Suo, Ohio State University
"Kinetic, Dynamic, and Sequencing Studies of A Model Lesion Bypass DNA Polymerase" - Dr. Gerhard Hummer, NIH
"Hydrophobic Effect: From Icebergs to Molecular Fluctuations" - Professor Malcolm Chisholm, Ohio State University
"New Generation Polymers from Renewable Resources: New Opportunities for Single-Site Metal Alkoxide Catalysts"
Professor Eugene Mueller, University of Louisville
"Pseudouridine Synthases: Revisiting a Reaction Mechanism that Seemed Settled" - Professor Peter Hesketh, Georgia Institute of Technology
"The Promise of Nanoporous Metal Organic Framework Films for Cantilever Based Chemical Sensing" - Professor Kyungsoo Oh, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
"Orthogonal Enantioselectivity Approaches in Catalysis" - Professor Kevin Weeks, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The Chemical Biology of Whole Transcript RNA Structure Analysis" - Dr. Lev A. Sviridov, The City College of New York
"Synthesis and Characterization of New Transition-Metal Nitrides" - Professor Martin Pomerantz, University of Texas at Arlington
"Studies of Polythiophenes and Model Compounds"