Colloquium Schedule
for Spring Semester, 2008
If you wish to arrange a meeting with a speaker, contact the host listed.
Colloquium lectures are presented at the times and locations as indicated below and open to the
public. A reception follows each Friday colloquium at 3rd floor north corridor of the Chemistry
Building.
FEBRUARY 15 - 3:30 P.M – C125 PBB
Professor Jonathan Doorn
Medicinal & Natural Products Chemistry
University of Iowa
"Protein Modification and Parkinson’s Disease:
Role of a Reactive Intermediate of Dopamine Catabolism"
Host: Professor D. Quinn, 335-1335
FEBRUARY 22 - 3:30 P.M – C125 PBB
Professor Mookie Baik
Department of Chemistry
Indiana University
“Understanding and Rationally Designing
Transition Metal Catalyzed
Redox Reactions: How to Split Water
and Make Fused Carbocycles with Ease”
Host: Professor C. Margulis, 335-0615
MARCH 14 - 3:30 P.M. – W307 PBB
Professor Christian Stevens
Department of Chemistry
Ghent University
“Straightforward Synthetic Approaches to
Functionalised Amino Phosphonates and
Azaheterocyclic Phosphonates”
Host: Professor D. Wiemer, 335-3124
MARCH 28 - 3:30 P.M - W128 CB
Professor Christopher Landry
Department of Chemistry
University of Vermont
"Bifunctionally Modified Nanoporous Silica Spheres:
Devices for Improved Molecular Transfection of Cells"
Host: Professor S. Larsen, 335-1346
APRIL 18 - 3:30 P.M - W128 CB
Professor Mark Shannon
Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Micro-Gas Chromatograph Analyzers and
Molecular Gate Detectors”
Host: Professor L. Geng, 335-3167
APRIL 25 - 3:30 P.M. – W128 CB
Professor Ken Johnson
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Texas, Austin
“DNA Polymerase Dynamics and the
Effectiveness Versus Toxicity of Nucleoside
Analogs Used to Treat HIV Infections”
Host: Professor A. Kohen, 335-0234
Co-Sponsored with Center for Bioctalysis & Bioprocessing
MAY 2 - 3:30 P.M. – W128 CB
Professor Bill Heineman
Department of Chemistry
University of Cincinnati
“Sensors Based on Spectroelectrochemistry:
Strategies for Improved Selectivity”
Host: Professor J. Leddy, 335-1720
MAY 9 - 3:30 P.M. – W128 CB
Professor Wenbin Lin
Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Metal-Organic Hybrid Materials for Catalytic
and Biomedical Applications”
Host: Professor L. MacGillivray, 335-3504
