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 16 |
Holiday | Host: |
| Monday, January 23 |
Amit Basu, Brown University "Probing carbohydrate-carbohydrate interactions with multivalent glycoconjugates" | Host: A. Demchenko |
| Monday, January 30 |
Courtney Aldrich, University of Minnesota "Design of Antibacterial Agents that Inhibit Siderophore Biosynthesis" | Host: C. Wong |
| Monday, February 6 |
Rory Waterman, University of Vermont "Zirconium Mediated Bond Formation: Molecules, Materials, and Methods" | Host: E. Bauer |
| Monday, February 13 |
George Christou, University of Florida "Manganese Carboxylate Chemistry: From Molecules as Nanoscale Magnets, to Models of the Photosynthetic Water Oxidation Center" | Host: S. Holmes |
| Monday, February 20 |
Michael Fried, University of Kentucky, College of Medicine "Substrate Interactions of a Human DNA Alkyltransferase" | Host: C. Dupureur |
| Monday, February 27 |
Georgii Nikonov, Brock University "Chemoselective Catalytic Reduction of Nitriles, Pyridines, and Acyl Chlorides (How to Turn a Curiosity into Catalysis)" | Host: J. Braddock-Wilking |
| Monday, March 5 |
Colleen Scott, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale "Development of Silicon Containing Fluorescent Biosensors" | Host: J. Braddock-Wilking |
| Monday, March 12 |
Lillian Chong, University of Pittsburgh "Molecular simulations of protein binding events" | Host: C. Wong |
| Monday, March 19 |
15th Annual Robert W. Murray Lecture Valentino J. Stella, University Distinguished Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas "The Case for Prodrugs" |
Host: L. Barton |
| Monday, March 26 |
Spring Break | Host: |
| Monday, April 2 |
Francesco Peri, University of Milano-Bicocca "Exploring biology with small organic molecules: new sugar-derived compounds targeting the LPS/TLR4 signaling in humans" | Host: A. Demchenko |
| Monday, April 9 |
Colleen Jonsson, University of Louisville "Strategies to discover small molecules as probes for biological systems and drug discovery" |
Host: L. Barton |
| Monday, April 16 |
Carol Deakyne, University of Missouri-Columbia | Host: J. Chickos |
| Monday, April 23 |
Grad Research Fair | Host: |
| Monday, April 30 |
25th Annual Distinguished Alumni Lecture Steven A. Kolodziej |
Host: L. Barton |
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