| Monday, August 18 |
ACS National Meeting | Host: |
| Monday, August 25 |
Robert Hanson, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota "Computer Visualizations in Chemical Education" | Host: H. Harris |
| Monday, September 1 |
Holiday | |
| Monday, September 8 | Amy S. Mullin, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland "Dynamics of high energy molecules: collisions, energy transfer and chemical reactions" | Host: J. O'Brien |
| Monday, September 15 |
Xuefei Huang, Michigan State University, "Development of New Oligosaccharide Synthesis Methods" | Host: A. Demchenko |
| Monday, September 22 |
Ekaterina Kadnikova, University of Missouri-Kansas City, "Adventures in Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Esters" | Host: K. Stine |
| Monday, September 29 | Joseph Lambert, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL , "Amber and Resins: On the Interface of Chemistry, Biology, and Archaeology" | Host: J. Braddock-Wilking |
| Monday, October 6 | Rob Coalson, University of Pittsburgh "Computing Ion Permeation through Protein Channels" | Host: C. Wong |
| Monday, October 13 |
SonBinh T. Nguyen, Director of the Integrated Science Program Dept. of Chemistry, Northwestern University "Aluminum-Catalyzed Oxidation-Reduction of C-O/C=O bonds-Modern Applications Made Possible via Mechanistic Investigations" |
Host: E. Bauer |
| Monday, October 20 |
Martin Pelikan, Director, Missouri Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Laboratory, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis "Optimization via Probabilistic Modeling: Solving broad classes of hard problems quickly, accurately, and reliably" | Host: J. Liu |
| Friday, October 24 *3:30 p.m. |
Roberta L. Farrell, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand "Science in Antarctica: Studying the Historic Huts of the Heroic Era of Antarctic Exploration, To the Ice and back again, an UMSL Alumna's Holidays" | Host: L. Barton |
| Monday, October 27 |
Byron Caughey, Biochemistry Section, Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, NIH/NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories "Getting a Grip on Prions" | Host: M. Nichols |
| Monday, November 3 |
Michael D. Morse, The University of Utah "Laser Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Carbides and Organometallic Radicals" | Host: J. O'Brien |
| Monday, November 10 |
Carol Fierke, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, "Catalytic Mechanism and Metal Switching in Deacetylases (LpxC and HDAC)" | Host: C. Dupureur |
| Monday, November 17 |
Lai-Xi Wang, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD "Chemoenzymatic synthesis of homogeneous glycoproteins" | Host: A. Demchenko |
| Monday, November 24 |
Holiday break | Host: |
| Monday, December 1 |
Tammy Kielian, Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE "Toll-like receptors (TLRs): roles in bacterial recognition and immunity in the brain" | Host: M. Nichols |
| Friday, December 5 *3:30 p.m. |
12th Annual Robert W. Murray Lecture Philip P. Power, Department of Chemistry, University of California-Davis "Direct Hydrogenation of Main Group Compounds" |
Host: L. Barton |
