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, January 18 |
Holiday | Host: |
| Monday, January 25 |
Marcus Bond, Southeast Missouri State University "Copper(II) Halide Structural Chemistry in the Absence of NH Hydrogen Bonding" | Host: J. Wilking |
| Monday, February 1 |
Dion Cantu, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation Co-sponsored by the Center for Nanoscience and the Department of Physics & Astronomy |
Host: J. Liu |
| Monday,February 8 | Rakez Kayed, University of Texas Medical Branch "Amyloid and tau oligomers in neurodegenerative diseases" | Host: M. Nichols |
| Monday, February 15 |
Leah O'Brien, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville "Electronic Spectroscopy of Platinum-Containing Diatomic Radicals" | Host: C. Wong |
| Monday, February 22 |
Jackson Lay, University of Arkansas "Rapid MS Methods for Characterizing Peptide/Lipid Biomarkers, Protein Therapeutics, and Measuring Protein Folding Energies" | Host: W. Harris |
| Monday, March 1 |
Kevin Shaughnessy, University of Alabama "Designing Ligands for Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling: Importance of Steric and Electronic Properties" | Host: E. Bauer |
| Monday, March 8 |
13th Annual Robert W. Murray Lecture Daniel G. Nocera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Personalized Energy for 1 (x 6 Billion)" | Host: L. Barton |
| Monday, March 15 |
Scott Weinert, Oklahoma State University "Control Over the Architecture of Singly-Bound Oligogermanes and their Structure/Property Relationships" |
Host: S. Holmes |
| **Friday, March 19 **1:00 pm** |
Sean Bew, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England "Small Rings (Aziridines) to Big Rings (Calixarenes): Adventures in Asymmetric Synthesis" | Host: C. Spilling |
| Monday, March 22 |
ACS Meeting | Host: |
| Monday, March 29 |
Spring Break | Host: |
| Monday, April 5 |
Nathan Oyler, University of Missouri-Kansas City "Solid-State NMR Applications to Amyloid fibrils of β2-Microglobulin Fragments and Alzheimer's Αβ1-42 Oligomer-Drug Complexes" | Host: M. Nichols |
| Monday, April 12 **Cancelled** |
Mike DuBois Legislative Assistant Office of Senator Kit Bond Co-sponsored by the Center for Nanoscience and the Department of Physics & Astronomy |
Host: J. Liu |
| Monday, April 19 **3:00 pm** |
Liviu Mirica, Washington University "Renewable Energy Catalysis: The Study of Water Oxidation by Binuclear Metal Complexes" | Host: N. Rath |
| Monday, April 26 |
W. David Wilson, Georgia State University "Design and Analysis of Compounds That Can Recognize the DNA Minor Groove by Unique Modes: From Fundamentals to Therapeutics" |
Host: C. Dupureur |
| Monday, May 3 |
23nd Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Barbara Willis Brown, Manager, Student & Special Services, College of Optometry. UM-St. Louis "Unintended Outcomes" |
Host: L. Barton |
