Seminars are held on Mondays at 4:00 pm in Room 451 Benton Hall, unless otherwise specified. Refreshments 15 minutes prior to seminar time. Seminars are typically attended by faculty, postdocs, and graduate students from all divisions, as well as undergraduate chemistry majors in their senior year.
| Monday, August 22 |
Harold Harris, UMSL Science Education From Here to There: Innovation in the Teaching of Chemistry Locally and Nationally |
Host: C. Spilling |
| Monday, August 29 |
ACS National Meeting | |
| Monday, September 5 |
Holiday | |
| Monday, September 12 |
Tony Mannino, Mallinckrodt What's in a Pill |
Host: C. Spilling |
| Monday, September 19 |
Matt McIntosh, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville Progress toward the Synthesis of the Eunicellin Diterpenes |
Host: C. Spilling |
| Monday, September 26 |
Shuqun Zhang, University of Missouri MAP Kinases in Plant Signaling: biochemistry meets genetics |
Host: C. Wong |
| Monday, October 3 |
David Lewis, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Fiat Lux: One Role of a Synthetic Organic Chemist in Molecular Biology |
Host: C. Spilling |
| Monday, October 10 |
Bijan Khazai, Manager of Technologies, Sentor Technologies Inc. Materials in Perspective: From Big Bang to Designed Intelligence |
Host: L. Barton |
| Monday, October 17 |
Carl Lovely, University of Texas-Arlington New Methods in Heterocycle Synthesis-Approaches to the Oroidin Family of Marine Alkaloids |
Host: C. Spilling |
| Monday, October 24 |
Carol Post, Purdue University Structural Plasticity in Signaling from NMR and Computational Studies |
Host: C. Wong |
| Monday, October 31 |
Christopher Hamaker, Illinois State Synthesis and Coordination Chemistry of New Sulfur-Containing Mixed-Donor Ligands |
Host: J. Wilking |
| Monday, November 7 |
Vladimir Birman, Washington University Design, Development and Applications of a New Class of Enantioselective Acyl Transfer Catalysts |
Host: C. Spilling |
| Monday, November 14 |
Honggao Yan, Michigan State University Role of Conformational Dynamics in Enzymatic Catalysis - A Tale of 6-Hydroxymethyl-7,8-dihydropterin Pyrophosphokinase |
Host: C. Dupureur |
| Monday, November 21 |
Fall Break | |
| Monday, November 28 |
David Mootoo, City University of New York Carbohydrates: Templates for the Discovery of New Synthetic Methodologies |
Host: A. Demchenko |
| Monday, December 5 |
Shelley Minteer, St. Louis University Designing Enzyme Immobilization Architectures for Electrodes Using Micellar Polymers |
Host: K. Stine |
