Chemistry Department Seminar Series Spring 2009

(all seminars are in ISAT 159 at 3:30 pm unless noted)

date

speaker
(Affiliation)

title
(Click on Title for Abstract)

Friday, Jan 30

Dr. Kevin W. Davies
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
James Madison University

Applications of the Photoacoustic Effect in Physical/Organic Measurements and Biomedical Imaging

Friday, Feb 6

Dr. Debbie Mohler
Dr. Gina MacDonald
Drs. Donna Amenta and John Gilje
Dr. Kevin Minbiole
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
James Madison University

ACS Student Affiliates Presents:
JMU Faculty Research Opportunities Part I

Thursday, Feb 12

 Dr. Jingzhi Pu
Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University

Coupling Mechanisms in F1-ATPase

Friday, Feb 13

Dr. Thomas DeVore
Dr. Vicki Mariani
Dr. Kevin Caran
Dr. Katy Layman
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
James Madison University

ACS Student Affiliates Presents:
JMU Faculty Research Opportunities Part II

Friday, Feb 20

Dr. Charles S. Elmore
Isotope Chemistry, CNS-Chemistry
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals

The Use of Radioactivity in Drug Discovery

Friday, Feb 27

Dr. Richard G. Weiss
Department of Chemistry
Georgetown University

Serendipity in Soft Matter Science—Simple Chemistry Yields Complex Materials

Monday Mar. 9 - Friday Mar. 13

Spring Break

Thursday, Mar 19
3:45 pm
Memorial Hall 6125

Dr. Abe Springer
Department of Geology
Northern Arizona University

Aridland springs of Western North America: Diverse yet abused
(cosponsored with JMU Geology and Environmental Science)

Friday, Mar 20

Dr. Edwin A. Lewis
Department of Chemistry
Mississippi State University

Deconvoluting the Structural Diversity in G-Quadruplex and i-Motif DNA's Formed in Oncogene Promoter Regions

Friday, Mar 27

Dr. Amit Galande
Center for Advanced Drug Research
SRI International

Peptides and Proteins in Therapeutics and Diagnostics

Friday, Apr 3

Dr. Guillermo Moyna
Dept of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

Structure, Solvation, and Dynamics in N,N’‑Dialkylimidazolium Ionic Liquids: Insights from NMR Experiments and Molecular Modeling

Thursday, Apr 9 - Friday, Apr 10

34^th Annual Spring Symposium

Dr. Mark Minton
(retired)
New Mexico Highlands University

Organic Synthesis with Multiply-Carbon-13-Labeled Compounds and their Unusual NMR Spectra