JMU Chemistry Seminars

	date	speaker (Affiliation)	title (Click on Title for Abstract)
	Thursday, September 27 (5 pm HHS 1302)	Dr. Linette Watkins Dept. of Chemistry Texas State University	Using Undergraduate Research to Increase the Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Students
	Friday, September 28	Dr. Linette Watkins Dept. of Chemistry Texas State University	Structure and Mechanism of a Novel Aromatic Desulfinase
	Monday October 1 (PH/CH Room 3216 3:15 - 4:15 pm)	Dr. Justin Gallivan Dept. of Chemistry Emory University	Reprogramming Bacteria with Small Molecules and RNA
	Friday October 5	Dr. Christy Landes Dept. of Chemistry Univ. Houston (TX)	Single Biomolecule Spectroscopy: Dynamic Complexity in Biological Processes
	Friday, October 12	Dr. Ram Mohan Dept. of Chemistry Illinois Wesleyan Univ.	Environmentally Friendly Organic Synthesis Using Bismuth(III) Compounds
	Friday, October 19	FALL BREAK
	Saturday, October 27 9 am ISAT 259	Class of '87 Reunion	Homecoming: Alumni Roundtable Mr. Scott Hamilton (pharmaceutical industry) Laura Irwin, M.D. Associate Professor Obstetrics/Gynecology Medical College Georgia (Augusta, GA) Dr. Jose Madelengotia Department of Chemistry Univ. of Vermont
	Tuesday, October 30 3:30 HHS 1210	Dr. Valeriy Smirnov Dept. of Chemistry Johns Hopkins Univ. (Md.)	"Oxygen Isotope Effects in Characterization of Reactive Enzymatic Intermediates"
	Monday, November 5 3:50 PH/CH 2212	Dr. Brad Price Biochemistry Department Univ. Wisconsin - Madison	Pre-Steady State and Spectroscopic Characterization of Substrate-Gated Reduction of Stearoyl-ACP D9-Desaturase by [2Fe-2S] Ferredoxin
	Thursday, November 8 3:30 ISAT 259 (nTelos)	Dr. Renee Henry Dept. of Chemistry Colorado State Univ. Pueblo	"Modulating Function with Secondary Coordination Sphere"
	Friday, November 9	Dr. Andrew Dattelbaum ('95) Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Los Alamos National Lab.	Nanocomposite Silica Materials at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology
	Monday, November 12 3:30 PH/CH 3216	Dr. Justin Lytle Naval Research Laboratory	Architecture and Chemistry: Why "3-D" and "Nano" Matter
	Wed., November 14 4:00 HHS 1302	Dr. John Gilje Dept. of Chemistry James Madison Univ.	2007 - 2008 Madison Scholar Lecture "My Five Decades with Phosphorus: Good Chemistry, Good Bonding"
D	Thurs., November 15 3:30 ISAT 259 (nTelos)	Dr. Petia Bobadova-Parvanova Department of Chemistry Whitman College	"Using First Principle Calculations to Answer Puzzling Experimental Questions. Hydrogenation of Dinitrogen Coordinated in Dinuclear Transistion Metal Complexes"

date

speaker
(Affiliation)

title
(Click on Title for Abstract)

Thursday, September 27
(5 pm HHS 1302)

Dr. Linette Watkins
Dept. of Chemistry
Texas State University

Using Undergraduate Research to Increase the Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Students

Friday, September 28

Dr. Linette Watkins
Dept. of Chemistry
Texas State University

Structure and Mechanism of a Novel Aromatic Desulfinase

Monday October 1
(PH/CH Room 3216
3:15 - 4:15 pm)

Dr. Justin Gallivan
Dept. of Chemistry
Emory University

Reprogramming Bacteria with Small Molecules and RNA

Friday October 5

Dr. Christy Landes
Dept. of Chemistry
Univ. Houston (TX)

Single Biomolecule Spectroscopy: Dynamic Complexity in Biological Processes

Friday, October 12

Dr. Ram Mohan
Dept. of Chemistry
Illinois Wesleyan Univ.

Environmentally Friendly Organic Synthesis Using Bismuth(III) Compounds

Friday, October 19

FALL BREAK

Saturday, October 27
9 am
ISAT 259

Class of '87 Reunion

Homecoming: Alumni Roundtable
Mr. Scott Hamilton
(pharmaceutical industry)

Laura Irwin, M.D.
Associate Professor Obstetrics/Gynecology
Medical College Georgia (Augusta, GA)

Dr. Jose Madelengotia
Department of Chemistry
Univ. of Vermont

Tuesday, October 30
3:30
HHS 1210

Dr. Valeriy Smirnov
Dept. of Chemistry
Johns Hopkins Univ. (Md.)

"Oxygen Isotope Effects in Characterization of Reactive Enzymatic Intermediates"

Monday, November 5
3:50 PH/CH 2212

Dr. Brad Price
Biochemistry Department
Univ. Wisconsin - Madison

Pre-Steady State and Spectroscopic Characterization of Substrate-Gated Reduction of Stearoyl-ACP D9-Desaturase by [2Fe-2S] Ferredoxin

Thursday, November 8
3:30 ISAT 259 (nTelos)

Dr. Renee Henry
Dept. of Chemistry
Colorado State Univ. Pueblo

"Modulating Function with Secondary Coordination Sphere"

Friday, November 9

Dr. Andrew Dattelbaum ('95)
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
Los Alamos National Lab.

Nanocomposite Silica Materials at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology

Monday, November 12
3:30 PH/CH 3216

Dr. Justin Lytle
Naval Research Laboratory

Architecture and Chemistry: Why "3-D" and "Nano" Matter

Wed., November 14
4:00 HHS 1302

Dr. John Gilje
Dept. of Chemistry
James Madison Univ.

2007 - 2008 Madison Scholar Lecture
"My Five Decades with Phosphorus: Good Chemistry, Good Bonding"

Thurs., November 15
3:30 ISAT 259 (nTelos)

Dr. Petia Bobadova-Parvanova
Department of Chemistry
Whitman College

"Using First Principle Calculations to Answer Puzzling Experimental Questions. Hydrogenation of Dinitrogen Coordinated in Dinuclear Transistion Metal Complexes"