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 17 |
Holiday | |
| Monday, January 24 |
Brent Znosko, Saint Louis University "Predicting RNA secondary and tertiary structure from sequence" | Host: M. Nichols K. Stine |
| Monday, January 31 |
Matthew Holden, University of Massachusetts-Amherst "Building Biology Drop by Drop" | Host: G. Gokel |
| Monday, February 7 |
James Janetka, Washington University "Structure-Based Design and Synthesis of Biaryl Mannosides as Anti-Virulence Therapeutics" | Host: C. Spilling |
| Monday, February 14 |
Wenbin Lin, University of North Carolina "New Functional Materials via Crystal- and Nano-engineering" | Host: S. Holmes |
| Monday, February 21 |
Qun (Treen) Huo, University of Central Florida "A New Platform Technology for Biomolecule Detection and Analysis Using Gold Nanoparticles Coupled with Dynamic Light Scattering" Co-sponsored by the Center for Nanoscience |
Host: G. Gokel |
| Monday, February 28 |
Xiaoqin Zou, University of Missouri-Columbia "Chemistry and Physics in Protein Interactions and Rational Drug Design" | Host: C. Wong |
| Monday, March 7 |
Brian Pagenkopf, The University of Western Ontario "Synthesis of Functional Organic Molecules, from Natural Products to Materials" | Host: J. Wilking |
| Monday, March 14 |
John-Stephen Taylor, Washington University "Towards Nucleic Acid-based Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agents and Delivery Systems" Co-sponsored by the Center for Nanoscience |
Host: J. Liu G. Gokel |
| Monday, March 21 |
Jonathan B. Chaires, University of Louisville "Structure and Stability of Human Telomeric G-quadruplex DNA" | Host: C. Dupureur |
| Monday, March 28 |
Spring Break | |
| Monday, April 4 |
14th Annual Robert W. Murray Lecture Steven V. Ley, BP Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge "New Tools for Molecule Makers" |
Host: L. Barton |
| Monday, April 11 |
Aaron Sadow, Iowa State University "Oxazolinylborate Compounds for Catalytic C-N, Si-N, and Si-O Bond Formations" | Host: J. Braddock-Wilking |
| Monday, April 18 |
Michael Summers, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland "New insights into the mechanism of HIV-1 genome packaging and virus assembly"NOTE NEW TIME 2:45 - 3:45 pm | Host: C. Spilling |
| Monday, April 25 |
John P. Selegue, University of Kentucky "Cyclopentadienyl-Fused Heterocycle and Polyacene Complexes of Transition Metals" | Host: E. Bauer |
| Monday, May 2 |
24th Distinguished Alumni Lecture Elizabeth Amin, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota "Chemistry and Homeland Security" |
Host: L. Barton |
