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.
Fall 2008
Fall 2008
| 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 |
