Graduate Student Seminar Program Spring 2006

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January 17		Mandatory Meeting for Seminar Presenters
January 24	Rajiv Luthra	Computer-Based De Novo Design of Drug-Like Molecule
January 31	Marcin Smiglak	Reactions and Properties of SmI2 in Synthesis
February 7	Yinghua Chen	Signaling Models for Excision-Initiation in DNA Mismatch Repair
February 14	Chuleekorn Chotsuwan	Nanofabrication by Printing
February 21	Jason Manning	Tyrosyl-RNA Synthetase: Target for Universal Antibiotics?
February 28	Dontaire Stallings (PhD Research)	Nutrition Supplement Chromium Picolinate Generates Chromosomal Aberrations and Impedes Progeny Development in Drosophila Melanogaster
March 7	Roger Campbell (PhD Research)	Synthesis and Characterization of Three-Dimensional Mesoporous Materials
March 14	Keith Gutowski (Ph.D. research)	Computational Studies of Actinide Complexes: Investigation of the Structure and Thermodynamics Behind the Uranyl:Water Exchange Reaction in Aqueous Solution
March 21	Spring Break	No Seminar
March 28	Huizhen Zhu	X-ray Photoemission Electron Microscopy
April 4	Luigi Iconaru	Is the CO Adduct of Myoglobin Bent, and Does it Matter?
April 11	Will Adams (PhD Research)	Photochemical Applications of Mesoporous Silica and Titania Thin Films
April 13 Thursday	Litao Bai	Fabrication and Applications of Photonic Crystals
April 18	Lensey Hill	Chemistry of Perfumes: From Discovery to Synthesis
April 25	Naval Bajwa	Pericyclic Reactions in Aqueous Media
May 2	Brad Bullock	Role of Molybdenum in Nitrogenase
May 4 Thursday	Raluca Craciun	Predicting Protein Structure
May 9		Finals Week
May 16	W. Scott Brown	Synthesis and Activity of Commercially Available Herbicides
May 23	Jeremy Carr	Atom Economy and its Role in the Pursuit of the Ideal Total Synthesis
May 30	Jesse Carrick	Recent Advances in the Construction of Carbocycles in Terpene Natural Product Total Synthesis
June 6	Lauren Cafiero	The Design, Synthesis and Applications of Statin Drugs
June 27 2:00 PM	Andrei Honciuc (PhD Research)	New Unimolecular Rectifiers and Through-Bond Electron Tunneling by IETS