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Fall 2010

GSU Department of Chemistry Seminars
All seminars are in 101 PSC at 3:15 pm unless otherwise indicated.

 

Fall 2010

 

 

 

 

 

August

August 20, 2010
Speaker: Dr. Edward Balog-Georgia Institute of Technology (http://www.ap.gatech.edu/Balog/)
Title: "S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine Regulation of the Cardiac Ryanodine Receptor".
Host: Dr.Jenny Yang.

August 27, 2010 
Speaker: Dr.Tom Meek-GSK
Title: Case Studies in "Industrial Enzymology"
Host: Dr. Giovanni Gadda

September
September 3, 2010
Speaker:Dr.Pengfei Wang University of Alabama at Birmingham (http://main.uab.edu/chemistry/show.asp?durki=83382)
Title: Development of  Photolabile Protecting Groups

Host: Dr.Binghe Wang


Special Seminar   Tuesday, September 7, 2010  PSC255  1:00pm-2:15pm

Speaker: Zhengwei Pan--UGA (http://www.physast.uga.edu/people/zhengwei_pan)

Title: Controlled Growth of One-Dimensional Nanostructures: The Art of Nanoscience

Host: Dr. Binghe Wang

 

September 10, 2010
Speaker: Dr.Haian Fu -Emory University (http://www.pharm.emory.edu/hfu/index.html)
Title: Harnessing the Power of Chemistry for Biology and Medicine
Host: Dr.Yujun George Zheng.

September 17, 2010
Speaker: Dr.Jim C.Spain-Georgia Institute of Technology (http://www.ce.gatech.edu/fac_staff/faculty-listing/research-interests/?active_id=js614)
Title: Biodegradation of Natural Organic Compounds Reveals New Metabolic Diversity

Host: Dr. Giovanni Gadda

Special Seminar   Thursday September 23, 2010, PSC 255  10:00am-11:15am
Speaker: Dr. Lai-Xi Wang--University of Maryland School of Medicine (http://www.ihv.org/faculty.html)
Title: "Chemoenzymatic synthesis of glycoproteins for functional studies"
Host: Dr.Binghe Wang

September 24, 2010
Speaker: Dr.Milton Lee-Brigham Young University (http://people.chem.byu.edu/mllee)
Title: "Instrumentation and Methodology for Field-Portable Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry"
Host: Dr.Shahab Shamsi

 

Special Seminar

Wednesday,september 29,2010
Location:441 NSC at 2:45 pm.
Speaker:Dr.Daniel Rabinovich -The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (http://www.uncc.edu/drabinov/Home.htm)
Title:"Hooked on Sulfur: Novel Metal Complexes and Unexpected Applications."

Host:Dr.Kathryn Grant.

 

Special Seminar   Thursday, September 30, 2010  PSC255  3:00pm-4:15pm

Speaker: Dr. Peng George Wang- Ohio State University (http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/department/personnel/faculty/pgwang)

Title:Glyco-Chemical Biology - From Synthesis to Mechanism to Applications

Host: Dr. Binghe Wang

 

 


October
October 1, 2010
Speaker: Dr. Frederick A. Villamena-Ohio State University (http://biomed.osu.edu/pharmacology/8224.cfm )
Title:Designing Spin Traps for Radical Detection and Therapeutics

Host: Dr.Aimin Liu.

October 8, 2010
Speaker: Dr. Mike Koval -Emory University (http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~mhkoval/)
Title: To be announced
Host: Dr.Jenny Yang.


October 15, 2010
Speaker: Dr.Jake D. Soper-Georgia Institute of Technology (http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/faculty/Soper/)
Title:Almost Alchemy: Radical Ligands Facilitate Palladium-Like Coupling Reactions at Manganese, Iron and Cobalt

Host: Dr.Aimin Liu.

 

October 22, 2010
Speaker: Dr.Wei Zhan-Auburn University (http://www.auburn.edu/~wzz0001/)
Title: Lipid-Bilayer Assembled Photocurrent-Generating Systems
Host: Dr.Gangli Wang.

October 29, 2010
Speaker: Dr.Robert Corn-University of California,Irvine (http://corninfo.ps.uci.edu/)
Title:"New methods for ultrasensitive DNA and protein biosensing with plasmons, nanowires and surface enzyme chemistries".
Host: Dr.Zhen Huang.

November
November 5, 2010
Speaker: Dr.Craig A.Aspinwall- University of Arizona (http://www.chem.arizona.edu/faculty/profile/profile.php?fid_call=aspi )
Title: Polymerized phospholipid membranes for chemical sensing and beyond
Host: Dr.Shahab Shamsi and Dr. Gangli Wang.

November 12, 2010
Speaker: Dr.Timothy M. Dore-University Of Georgia (http://www.chem.uga.edu/doc/ResFacTMD.html)
Title: Designing Chemical Tools to Explore Biological Systems
Host: Dr.Yujun George Zheng.

Special Seminar   Thursday, November 18, 2010  PSC255  2:30pm-3:45pm

Speaker: Dr. Katsunori Tanaka- Osaka University, Japan

Title: A New Strategy in Synthetic Biology: From Enzyme Inhibition, Natural Products Synthesis to PET Imaging by 6pai-Azaelectrocyclization

Host: Dr. Binghe Wang

 

 


November 19, 2010
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Angerhofer University of Florida (http://webby.chem.ufl.edu/people/faculty/contact.php?id=56)
Title: "EPR Studies of the Mn-dependent enzyme oxalate decarboxylase"
Host: Dr.Aimin Liu.

November 26, 2010

Thanksgiving holiday--no seminar


December
December 3, 2010

Cancelled

All-day Biotech symposium


Speaker:Dr.Charles Z. Ding-Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(http://www.anacor.com/)
Title:"organoborons as potential therapeutics".
Host: Dr.Binghe Wang