Fall 2011
Fall 2011
GSU Department of Chemistry Seminars
All seminars are in 101 PSC at 3:15 pm unless otherwise indicated.
August
August 19, 2011
Special Event: Chemistry Graduate Students Fall Welcome - 101 PSC- Noon
Host: Will Lovett
August 19, 2011
No seminar
August 26, 2011
Speaker: Dr. Osvaldo Delbono- Wake Forest University School of Medicine (http://www.wfubmc.edu/Faculty/Delbono-Osvaldo.htm)
Title: To be Announced
Host: Dr. Jenny Yang
September
September 2, 2011
Title: Quantum chemical detail of structural changes and spectral tuning in the first vision event of invertebrates
Host: Donald Hamelberg
September 9, 2011
Speaker: Dr. Yujun George Zheng- Georgia State University (http://chemistry.gsu.edu/Zheng.php)
Title: To be Announced
Host: Dr. Al Baumstark
September 16, 2011
Speaker: Dr. Amit Basu--Brown University (http://chemistry.brown.edu/people/facultypage.php?id=1106970113)
Title: Probing carbohydrate-carbohydrate interactions with multivalent glycoconjugates
Host: Dr. Binghe Wang
September 23, 2011
Speaker: Prof. Paul F. Fitzpatrick - University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio( http://biochem.uthscsa.edu/faculty.php?displayID=56)
Title:Catalytic and regulatory mechanisms of tyrosine hydroxylase, the key enzyme in catecholamine biosynthesis
Host: Dr. Giovanni Gadda
September 30, 2011
Speaker:Robert M. Dickson - Georgia Institute of Technology (http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/faculty/Dickson)
Title: To be Announced
Host: Dr. Gangli Wang
October
October 7, 2011
Speaker: Dr. Cynthia T. McMurray- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/staff/mcmurray_ct.cfm)
Title: "Genetics, Pathophysiology, and Therapeutics of Huntington’s Disease"
Host: Dr. Zhen Huang
October 14, 2011
Speaker:Dr. Bridgette A. Barry-Georgia Institute of Technology (http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/faculty/Barry/)
Title: Spectroscopic studies of light induced electron transfer in proteins
Host: Dr. Dabney Dixon
October 21, 2011
Speaker: Prof. Longqin Hu- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~longhu/)
Title: To be Announced
Host: Dr. Binghe Wang
October 28, 2011
Speaker: Prof. Wilson Francisco- Arizona State University (http://chemistry.asu.edu/faculty/WFrancisco.asp)
Title: To be Announced
Host: Dr. Yujun George Zheng and Dr. Aimin Liu
November
November 4, 2011
Speaker: Dr. Robert H. Kretsinger- University of Virginia (http://www.virginia.edu/nanostar/people/display_researcher.php?id=27)
Title: Calcium vs. Magnesium Coordination in Biological Systems
Host: Dr. Jenny Yang
November 11, 2011
Speaker: Dr. Norbert Reich--University of California Santa Barbara (http://www.chem.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/reich/)
Title: To be Announced
Host: Dr. Yujun George Zheng
November 18, 2011
Speaker:Dr. Jason Locklin - University of Georgia at Athens (http://www.uga.edu/jlocklin/)
Title: To be Announced
Host: Dr. Gangli Wang
November 25, 2011
Thanksgiving holiday--no seminar
December
December 2, 2011
Speaker: Dr. Yi Lu- UIUC (http://chemistry.illinois.edu/faculty/Yi_Lu.html)
Title: To be Announced
Host: Dr. Aimin Liu
December 9, 2011
Speaker: Professor Kian Tan - Boston College (https://www2.bc.edu/~tanka/index.html )
Title: A General Method for Controlling Regio- and Stereoselectivity
Host: Dr. Hao Xu