GSU Department of Chemistry Graduate Students Seminars

Fall Semester, 2006
Room 218 NSC
Thursdays from 1:00 to 3:00 PM

Date	Presenter	Title
Aug. 31	Steffan Finnegan	The Importance of Residue His310 in Choline Oxidase
Aug. 31	Jia Sheng	Synthesis of Selenium-Derivatized Thymidine and Oligonucleotides for X-ray Crystallography
Sept. 7	Sarah Spencer	T.B.A.
Sept. 7	Sarah Shealy	Predicting Antidepressant Response in Major Depressive Disorder with Genetic Markers
Sept. 14	Professor Dixon	How to give a seminar
Sept. 21	Yun Huang	Dissecting Calcium Binding Sites in the Extracellular Calcium Sensing Receptor (CaR)
Sept. 21	Jin Shan	Synthesis and Binding Study of a Series of Long-Wavelength Fluorescent Boronic Acid Reporters
Sept. 28	Ning Chen	Design of Protease Sensors with a Single EGFP for Living Cell Imaging
Sept. 28	Xiaochuan Yang	Pre-SELEX Modification of ssDNA Aptamer for Fibrinogen with Fluorescent Boronic Acid Moiety
Oct. 5	Exam	Midterm for those not presenting (Critiquing a seminar)
Oct. 12	Kunchala Rungsrisuriyachai	Investigation of the Roles of His 351 in the Active Site of Choline Oxidase
Oct. 12	Senol Akay	An Unprecedented Dual Fluorescent Boronic Acid that Changes Emission Wavelength in One Band and Intensity in the Other upon Sugar Binding
Oct. 19	Osbourne Quaye	Mechanistic Investigation of Glutamate 312 in Choline Oxidase
Oct. 19	Yao Xin	Electrokinetic Transport of a Spherical Gel-layer Model Particle
Oct. 26	Diem Nguyen	Up-Converting Phosphor and Its Application
Oct. 26	Julianne Caton-Williams	Synthesis of 4-Selenothymidine 5'-Triphosphate, its Enzymatic Incorporation into DNAs and Effects on a Selected Polymerase
Nov. 2	Regional ACS - no meeting
Nov. 9	Yubin Zhou	The Calmodulin-Binding Domain of Gap Junction Protein Connexin 43
Nov. 9	Suazette Reid	Design and Synthesis of PDE4 inhibitors
Nov. 16	Miki Kassai	Tuning Zirconium(IV)-assisted Peptide Amide Bond Hydrolysis at Neutral pH
Nov. 16	Kevin Francis	Mechanism of 2-Nitropropane Dioxygenase: Involvement of a Flavosemiquinone in Catalysis