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Department Seminars 2012-2013

Department Seminars Fall 2012 *4:00 pm, Ladd 107 unless otherwise noted*
Date	Speaker	Host	Title
Sept 4	Guodong Liu Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo		Nucleic Acid-Based Lateral Flow Biosensors for Biomedical and Environmental Applications
Sept 6	Ameeta Kelekar Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis	Sangita Sinha	A novel mechanism for metabolic reprogramming in proliferating T leukemia cells and thymocytes
Sept 13	Angel A. Marti Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Light Switching Complexes, Neurodegenerative Diseases and Amyloid Aggregates: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Sept 27	Felix N. Castellano Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio	Wenfang Sun	Molecular Inorganic Photonics
Oct 25	Luke M. Rice Department of Biochemistry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas	Chris Colbert and Center for Protease Research	Conformation-Based Mechanisms in a Microtubule Polymerase
Nov 1	Jeremy E. Wulff Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	Pinjing Zhao	Wherefore Rigidity? Building the Case for Structural Complexity in Neuraminidase Inhibitors
Nov 8	Ranjit Koodali Department of Chemistry, University of South Dakota,Vermillion	Mukund Sibi	Cubic Periodic Mesoporous Materials
Nov15	Qianli (Rick) Chu Department of Chemistry, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks	Mukund Sibi	Construction of Nano-structures Using Symmetric Molecules as Building Blocks
Nov 29	Tamar Seideman Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois	Svetlana Kilina	Current-Driven Dynamics in Molecular-Scale Electronics
Dec 3	Dorothee Vinga Szabo Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Materials, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany	Kent Rodgers	Nanoparticles for Energy Relevant Applications: Li-ion Battery and Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Dec 6	Juan Manuel Ortiz-Sanchez Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany	Svetlana Kilina	Two Applications of Accelerated Molecular Dynamics: Drug Design & Photophysical Properties


Department Seminars Spring 2013 *4:00 pm, Ladd 107 unless otherwise noted*
Jan 24	Michael Sehorn Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina	Greg Cook and Center for Life Sciences	Mechanism of Homologous Recombination
Jan 29	Kirill A. Velizhanin Physics of Chemistry and Materials (T-1), Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico	Svetlana Kilina	“Defects” in Low-Dimensional Materials: From Multiple Exciton Generation in Semiconductors to Thermodynamics of Adsorbates on Graphene.
Jan 31	Kenneth Christensen Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina	Greg Cook and Center for Life Sciences	Spectroscopic Probes and Sensors for Analysis of Live Cells
Feb 7	Gregory K. Friestad Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA	Mukund Sibi	Taming Free Radicals and Carbocations for Asymmetric Synthesis of Bioactive Compounds
Feb 19	David Liu Penn State Cancer Institute, Penn State Neuroscience Institute, and The Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, University Park, Pennsylvania	Kent Rodgers	Mechanism of ATF5 to Promote Cancer-specific Cell Survival
Feb 21	John Wilkinson Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina	Kent Rodgers	Bringer of Death, Giver of Life: the Dueling Personalities of Apoptosis Inducing Factor
Feb 28 11:00 am	Matthew Gage Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ	Kent Rodgers	Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Understanding Function in the Absence of Structure
Feb 28	Roxanne A. Vaughan Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks	Sangita Sinha and Center for Protease Research	Dopamine Transporter Structure and Regulation in Drug Abuse and Disease
Mar 4 2:00 pm FLC 124	Stefan Vetter Pharmaceutical Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND	Kent Rodgers	A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms of the Receptor for Advanced Glycation Endproducts
Mar 7 11:00 am	Mi Hye Song Department of Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI	Kent Rodgers	Mechanisms of Centrosome Assembly and its Link to the Cell Cycle
Mar 7	Derek Gates Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada	Seth Rasmussen	P=C Bonds in Polymer Science and Catalysis
Mar 21	John Gladysz Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, Collage Station, Texas	Pinjing Zhao	From Molecular Gyroscopes to Homeomorphic Isomerization: Molecules that Turn Themselves Inside-Out
Mar 28	Rajendra Prasad Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India	Sangita Sinha	MULTIDRUG TRANSPORTERS IN CLINICAL DRUG RESISTANCE
Apr 4	Fedor M. Rudakov Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research (CASER), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee	Svetlana Kilina	Molecular Structure and Dynamics Probed by Photoionization out of Rydberg States
Apr 11	John B. Asbury Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA	Svetlana Kilina	Quantum Confinement, Materials and Molecules: Pathways to High Efficiency Solution Processable Solar Cells
Apr 18	Guodong Du Department of Chemistry, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks	Mukund Sibi	Chiral Amido-Oxazolinate Zinc Complexes for Production of Biocompatible Polycarbonates and Polylactides
Apr 25	Richard G. Weiss Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, DC	Sivaguru Jayaraman	Simple Molecules and Simple Chemistry Yield Complex Materials Through Self-Assembly
Apr 30	Ryan D. McCulla Department of Chemistry, Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO	Pinjing Zhao and Sivaguru Jayaraman	Developing O(3P) as an Oxidative Probe for Biological Systems
May 2	Barry C. Thompson Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angelses, CA	Seth Rasmussen	Optimization of Binary and Ternary Blend Organic Solar Cells
Department Seminars Summer 2013 *3:00 pm, Ladd 107 unless otherwise noted*
May 13 3:00 pm	Toshiaki Murai Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, Japan	Mukund Sibi	Thiocarbonyls: Key Species for New Reactions and Functional Molecules

Department Seminars Fall 2013 *4:00 pm, Minard 116 unless otherwise noted*