Drexel University: College of Arts and Sciences: Chemistry Department Seminars

Winter / Spring Quarter 2008

Date	Speakers & Titles	Host
January 16	Prof. Patrick Walsh, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, "Asymmetric C-C and C-O Bond Forming Tandem Reactions"	Schweitzer-Stenner
January 30	Dr. Hansong Cheng, Computational Modeling Center, Air Products $ Chemicals, Inc. "Predictive Atomistic Simulations for Design and Development of Novel Materials for Hydrogen Storage and Semiconductor Applications"	Sohlberg
February 13
February 20	Dr. Gudrun Stengel, Division of Biological Physics, Chalmers University of Technology "Applications of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer in Biophysics"	Penn and Faculty
March 5	Prof. Edward Castner, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University "Interactions and Dynamics in Novel Ionic Liquids"	Schweitzer-Stenner
April 16	Dr. Bruce Maryanoff, Vascular Research Team, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R&D, "Biofunctional Collagen-Like Materials: Self-Assembling Peptides and Peptide-Decorated Nanoparticles"	Schweitzer-Stenner
April 23	Prof. Xiao Zeng You, Department of Chemistry, Nangjing University China "Single-Chain Magnets"	Wei
April 30	Prof. Daniel Raleigh, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, SUNY - Stony Brook "The Other Half of the Genetic Code: The Protein Folding Problem"	Schweitzer-Stenner
May 7	Prof. Frank B. Mallory, Department of Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College "Strategies for the Synthesis of Solubilized [n]Phenacenes of Unprecedented Lengths"	Penn
May 14	Prof. Tobias Baumgart, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania "Of Domains and Boundaries: Fluid Phase Coexistence in Biological Membrane Models"	Schweitzer-Stenner
May 21	Prof. David Smithrud, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati "From Protein Mimetics to Cellular Transport Agents"	Sohlberg
May 28	Prof. Liliya A. Yatsunyk, Department of Chemistry, Swarthmore College "Synthesis, Structure, and Magnetic Spectroscopies of Non-Planar Hemes as Models of the Cytochromes b Heme Centers"	Addison
June 4	Prof. Mallayan Palaniandavar, Dean, Faculty of Science Head and Coordinator, School of Chemistry, Bharathidasan University "Non-covalent DNA Binding and Anticancer Activities of Mixed Ligand Copper(II) and Ruthenium(II) Complexes of Diimines" *cancelled*	Addison

All seminars are open to the public and are scheduled on Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m. They are held in Disque Hall room 109 unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are available at 10:50 a.m. For further information please contact Ms. Virginia Nesmith, Office Services Coordinator, at 215-895-2638.

Find out what Drexel Chemistry Department faculty members are up to in their research. We welcome the chance to visit your department to speak. A list of available seminars for the 2007-2008 academic year and direct faculty contact information can be found here.