GSU Department of Chemistry Seminars
Spring 2008
All seminars are in
218 NSC at 3:15 pm unless
otherwise indicated
| Day/Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Friday, January 4, 2008 |
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| Friday, January 11, 2008 |
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| 4:15 pm Monday, January 14, 2008 |
Dr. Mary Hongying Cheng University of Pittsburgh |
"Modeling of neurotransmitter-gated ion channels"
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Dr. David Wilson |
| Friday, January 18, 2008 |
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| 1:00 pm Tuesday, January 22, 2008 |
Dr.
David L. Mobley UCSF |
"New insights into protein-ligand binding and solvation from atomistic simulations". | Dr. David Wilson |
| Friday, January 25, 2008 |
Dr. Donald Hamelberg
UCSD
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"Sampling slow conformational switches in proteins beyond the microsecond timescale" | Dr. David Wilson |
| 2:30 pm Monday, January 28, 2008 |
Dr. Aimin Liu The University of Mississippi Medical Center |
"Tryptophan
Catabolism: Mechanisms of Enzyme Action." |
Dr. Kathryn Grant |
| 3:30 pm Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
Dr. Lei Li University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
"Mechanism of Benzylsuccinate Synthase (BSS): a
Radical Solution to Toluene Metabolism."
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Dr. Kathryn Grant |
| Friday, February 1, 2008 |
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| Friday, February 8, 2008 |
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| 3:30 pm Thursday, February 14, 2008 |
Dr. Tarun Dam Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
"Multivalent Carbohydrate-Lectin Interaction: A
New
Paradigm of Molecular Recognition."
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Dr. Kathryn Grant |
| Friday, February 15, 2008 |
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| NSC 441 4:30 pm Monday, February 18, 2008 |
Dr. Kevin Plaxco University of California |
"Better living through biosensors" |
Dr. Jenny Yang |
| Friday, February 22, 2008 |
Dr. Roberta
Berry Georgia Institute of Technology |
"Law and chemistry" | Lita Malveaux |
| Friday, February 29, 2008 |
No
seminar |
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| Friday, March 14, 2008 |
Dr.
Richard Armstrong Vanderbilt University |
"Functional Genomics of Escherichia Coli: Experimental Approaches for the Assignment of Enzyme Function" | Dr. Giovanni Gadda |
| Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
Dr.
Phil Cole Johns of Medicine (MBD Seminar Series) |
"Chemical
approaches to sorting out histone modifications" |
Dr. Yujun George Zheng |
| Friday, March 21, 2008 |
Dr.
Kenton Rodgers North Dakota State University |
"Recent insights into the structure-function relationships in heme transport proteins from bacterial pathogens" | Dr. Dabney Dixon |
| Friday, March 28, 2008 |
Dr.
Juli
Feigon UCLA |
"Structure and function of human telomerase and H/ACA RNA" | Dr. Zhen Huang |
| NSC 441 Tuesday, April 1, 2008 |
Dr. Lin He North Carolina State University |
"Enriching the Analytical Toolbox with Materials-by-Design" | Dr. Gangli Wang |
| 1:00 pm Wednesday April 2, 2008 |
Dr. Erik De Clercq Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
"Acyclic nucleoside phosphonates in the scope of the current treatment regimes for the treatment of HIV and HBV infections" | Dr. Binghe Wang |
| Friday, April 4, 2008 |
Dr. Bryce
V. Plapp
The University of Iowa |
"Alcohol Dehydrogenase Dynamics and Catalysis" | Dr. Giovanni Gadda |
| Wednesday, April 16, 2008 |
Dr. Chad Mirkin Northwestern University |
"The
Polyvalent Oligonucleotide Nanoparticle Conjugate: A New Frontier in In
Vitro Diagnostics and Intracellular Gene Regulation" |
Dr. Zhen Huang |
| Friday, April 18, 2008 |
Dr.
Wayne Hendrickson Columbia University |
"Ligand Recognition and Plasticity in HIV Envelope Glycoprotein gp120" | Dr. Zhen Huang |
| Thursday, April 24, 2008 |
Dr.
Wayne Brouillette UAB Center for Biophysical Sciences & Engineering (MBD Seminar series) |
"Design & Preclinical Development of Retinoid UAB30 for Breast Cancer Chemoprevention." | Dr. Binghe Wang |
| Friday, April 25, 2008 |
Dr.
Alan
J. Kennan Colorado State University |
"Controlled
Self-Assembly of Coiled-Coil Peptides with Unnatural Side Chain
Structures" |
Dr. Yujun George Zheng |
| Friday, May 2, 2008 |
Dr. Kathryn Grant Georgia State University |
"Unprecedented Peptide Amide and Lipid
Phosphodiester Bond Hydrolysis by an
Early Transition Metal"
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Dr. A. L. Baumstark |
| Friday, May 9, 2008 |
Dr.
John Koh University of Delaware |
"Chemical Rescue of Hormone Receptor Mutations
by Molecular Complementation""
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Dr. Yujun George Zheng |