Seminars for Spring 2008

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Seminars take place in the Constance & Thomas D'Ambra Auditorium in the Life Sciences Building at 4:30 PM. All seminars are free and open to the public.

February 12, 2008

Prof. Nils Walter, University of Michigan

Don’t FRET for the Future: From Single Molecule RNA Enzymology to Systems Biology

February 26, 2008

Prof. Stavroula Sofou, Polytechnic University

Lipid membrane heterogeneities controlled by pH: applications in liposome-based drug delivery

March 4, 2008

Prof. Wayne Jones, SUNY at Binghamton

Molecular wires and devices: New materials for nanoscale molecular electronics

March 11, 2008

Prof. Karena McKinney, Amherst College

Do Trees Pollute? The Emission and Photooxidation of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds at Harvard Forest

March 18, 2008

Prof. Ken Dill, University of California, San Francisco

Protein folding physics and structure prediction.

March 25, 2008

No seminar – spring break

April 1, 2008

Prof. Eugene Shakhnovich, Harvard University

Evolution: from atoms to organisms

April 8, 2008

No seminar – ACS meeting

April 15, 2008

Prof. Anna Larsen, Ithaca College

Carborane cluster anions for low-melting ionics and electrophilic [Cp*(NO)Ru] chemistry

April 22, 2008

Prof. Mike Knapp, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Controlling O2: Hypoxia sensing and metalloenzyme/nanoparticle hybrids

April 29, 2008

Prof. Elizabeth Papish, Drexel University

Sterically Bulky Water-Soluble Ligands for Modeling Metalloenzyme Active Sites