| Date | Time | Presentation | Speaker | Position |
| 11/13/2009 | 15:00 | Gaia’s Breath and Global Change | Dr. Paul Doskey | Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University |
| 11/06/2009 | 15:00 | High Spatial Resolution Chemical Imaging Applications in Biology, Geology and Art | Dr. Carol Hirschmugl | Professor, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
| 10/30/2009 | 15:00 | Fluorescent dissolved organic matter cycling reveals dynamic catchment interactions in Lake Superior | Dr. Rose Cory | Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health |
| 10/23/2009 | 15:00 | Modeling pH effects in protein folding and function | Dr. Charles Brooks III | University of Michigan |
| 10/16/2009 | 15:00 | Hydrogen Activation by Transition Metals | Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. N. Rösch | Technische Universität München, Department Chemie, Theoretische Chemie |
| 10/02/2009 | 15:00 | Large Scale Oligonucleotide Purification and Chiral Ferrocenyl Ligands for Enantioselective Catalysis | Dr. Shiyue Fang | Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University |
| 09/25/2009 | 15:00 | “When metabolism goes awry! The case of maple syrup urine disease” | Dr. Michael Gibson | Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University |
| 09/18/2009 | 15:00 | Structural Insights into New Epigenetic Mechanisms in Transcription | Dr. Ming Ming Zhou | Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport Professor and Chairman Department of Structural and Chemical Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| 07/10/2009 | 10:00 | Original Research Proposal | Martha J Barajas Meneses | Doctoral Student |
| 04/17/2009 | 16:00 | A 1,2,4-Triazole to Thiazole Transformation | Larry Mailloux | MS Defense |
| 04/17/2009 | 15:00 | To be announced | Mark Schoenfisch | Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, UNC Chapel Hill |
| 04/06/2009 | 16:00 | Atmospheric Organic Matter Composition Analysis by Ultra-high Resolution Mass Spectrometry | Dr. Lynn Mazzoleni | Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University |
| 04/06/2009 | 15:00 | A Review of the Physical and Chemical Fundamentals of Nuclear Power | Dr. Donald Daavettila | Emeritus Faculty, Department of Physics |
| 04/03/2009 | 15:00 | Orthogonal Space Random Walk to Acheive Long Timescale Sampling | Dr. Wei Yang | Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry |
| 03/27/2009 | 15:00 | Polymer Nanocomposites | Dr. Rani Joseph | Cochin University of Science and Technology |
| 03/20/2009 | 15:00 | An Atomic Resolution View of Histone Code Misinterpretation: A model for Autoimmune Disorder. | Dr. Suvobrata Chakravarty | Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| 02/20/2009 | 15:00 | “Synthesis and Evaluation of Tumor-targeting Anticancer Agents & Discovery of New Methods for Peptide Ligation” | Dr. Jin Chen | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| 02/16/2009 | 15:00 | Nickel-N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Synthesis and Reactivity with O2 | Dr. Benjamin Dible | University of Rochester |
| 02/10/2009 | 16:00 | Sparsely Substituted Hydroporphyrins – Simple Mimics of Photosynthetic Pigments | Dr. Marcin Ptaszek | North Carolina State University |
| 01/23/2009 | 15:00 | To be announced | Dr. Martin Thompson | Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University |
| 12/12/2008 | 15:00 | Designing Protease Inhibitors Against Resistant Strains of HIV | D. Eric Walters, Ph.D. | Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science |
| 12/5/2008 | 15:00 | Freeze Frame Flicks of Fleeting Intermediates in Heme Enzyme Reactions | James R. Kincaid, PhD | Pfletschinger Habermann Professor, Department of Chemistry, Marquette University |
| 11/21/2008 | | Seminar cancelled | | |
| 11/14/2008 | 15:00 | Studies of Protein Prenylation at Three Length Scales | Mark Distefano, PhD | Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota |
| 11/12/2008 | 19:00 | “From Garbage to Stuff: How We Recycle Plastics” | Dr. William F. Carroll | Vice President for Chlorovinyl Issues at OxyChem and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University, Bloomington |
| 11/07/2008 | 15:00 | Alternative Splicing and Natural Antisense Transcription in Populus | Dr. Yinan Yuan | Postdoctoral Research Associate |
| 10/24/2008 | 15:00 | Mechanistic Analysis and Inhibition of Clostridium difficile Toxin A: Using Chemical Strategies to Develop New Treatments for Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea | Andrew Feig, PhD | Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University |
| 09/19/2008 | 15:00 | Hazard Communication Training | Dr. David Chesney | Associate Professor, Safety Officer, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University |
| 09/15/2008 | 19:00 | "Chemistry in Comics" | Dr. Al Hazari | University of Tennesee |
| 09/12/2008 | 15:00 | Informational Meeting for New Graduate Students | Dr. Pushpa Murthy | Chair, Graduate Programs Committee, Department of Chemistry |
| 06/16/2008 | 15:00 | Atmospheric Particles and Climate Change: Investigations of Water- Soluble Organic Compounds | Lynn R. Mazzoleni, PhD | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico |
| 04/16/2008 | 15:00 | Tools for Chemoenzymatic Synthesis in the MEP Pathway | Dr. Caren L. Freel Meyers | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences |
| 03/27/2008 | 16:00 | Coupled-Cluster Calculations for Many-Electron and Other Many-Fermion Systems: From Reaction Pathways in Chemistry to Atomic Nuclei | Dr. Piotr Piecuch | University Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University |
| 03/07/2008 | | No Seminar Today | | |
| 02/29/2008 | | No Seminar Today | | |
| 02/22/2008 | 15:00 | Solvent Polarity and Dynamics in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: Life Without the Dipole Moment | Dr. Mark N. Kobrak | Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York |
| 02/15/2008 | 15:00 | Counting and Tracking Single SNARE Molecules in Live Cells | Dr. Michelle Knowles | Postdoctoral Fellow, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University |
| 02/08/2008 | | No Seminar Today--Winter Carnival | | |
| 02/01/2008 | 15:00 | From Atoms to Nanoparticles and Surfaces:Atomically resolved models in Heterogeneous Catalysis. | Dr. Darío J. Stacchiola | Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| 01/25/2008 | 15:00 | Developing Nitric Oxide Releasing Polymers to Improve the In Vivo Biocompatibility and Performance of Implanted Sensors | Dr. Megan C. Frost | Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Michigan Technological University |
| 12/14/2007 | | NO SEMINAR TODAY -- Congratulations, graduates! | | |
| 12/07/2007 | 15:00 | Functional Conjugated Polymers for Noncovalent Engineering of Nanotubes and Biosensing Applications | Dr. Haiying Liu | Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University |
| 11/30/2007 | 15:00 | FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS: Tips and Tricks for Writing Your Thesis or Dissertation | Dr. Debra D. Charlesworth | Assistant to the Dean, Graduate School, Michigan Technological University |
| 11/23/2007 | | NO SEMINAR TODAY | | |
| 11/16/2007 | | NO SEMINAR TODAY | | |
| 11/09/2007 | 15:00 | Molecular Wires, Diodes, and Non-Platinum Hydrogen Electrodes: Coordination Chemistry Approach | Dr. Eugenijus Urnezius | Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University |
| 10/26/2007 | 15:00 | Synthetic and Mechanistic Study of the Ruthenium-Catalyzed C-H Bond Activation Reactions of Amines | Dr. Chae S. Yi | Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Marquette University |
| 10/19/2007 | 15:00 | "Synthesis and Biomedical Applications of Complex Glycoconjugates" | Dr. Zhongwu Guo | Professor, Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University |
| 10/12/2007 | 15:00 | NO SEMINAR—Provost visit with faculty and staff | Dr. Lesley Lovett-Doust | Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs |
| 10/05/2007 | 15:00 | Photodegradation of natural dissolved organic matter from a temperate estuary | Elizabeth C. Minor, PhD | Assoc. Prof., Large Lakes Observatory and Dept. of Chem. & Biochem., Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth |
| 09/28/2007 | 15:00 | "Synthesis and Study of Peptide Antibiotics that Inhibit Bacterial Cell Wall Biosynthesis" | Dr. Michael VanNieuwenhze | Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University |
| 09/21/2007 | 15:00 | Hazard Communication Training | Dr. David Chesney | Associate Professor, Safety Officer, Department of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University |
| 09/14/2007 | 15:00 | Academic Ethics and Integrity | Patricia A. Gotschalk, J.D. | Director of Student Judicial Affairs, Michigan Technological University |
| 09/07/2007 | 15:00 | | K-Day—No seminar | |
| 02/02/2007 | 15:00 | The Mode of Thermal Degradation of Poly(styrene) | B.A. Howell | Center for Applications in Polymer Science - Central Michigan University |
| 12/15/2006 | 16:00 | Polymers for Medical and Environmental Applications | Dr. Anja Meuller | Assistant Professor of Chemistry - Central Michigan |
| 12/08/2006 | 15:00 | Carbohydrate-Based, Diversity Oriented Synthesis | Dr. Peter Andreanna | Assistant Professor - Wayne State |
| 12/01/2006 | 15:00 | Bimetallic Transition Metal Complexes Built on Soft Donor (P, S) Ligands | Dr. Eugene Urnezius | Assistant Professor - Michigan Technological University |
| 11/10/2006 | 15:00 | Directed Evolution of Homogeneous Catalysts | Dr. Keith Woo | Professor and Associate Chair - Iowa State |
| 11/03/06 | 15:00 | Ocean acidification: the new ugly kid on the climate change block | Dr. Joan Kleypas | ISSE Scientist - University of Colorado |
| 10/27/2006 | 15:00 | Electrochemistry/Bioanalytical Chemistry | Dr. Adrian Michael | Associate Professor Electrochemistry/Bioanalytical Chemistry - University of Pittsburgh |
| 10/20/2006 | 15:00 | Protein-Protein Interactions and Neurodegenerative Disease | Dr. Jason Gestwicki | Research Assistant Professor - U Michigan |
| 10/06/2006 | 15:00 | The Fundamental Nature of the Electrostatic Potential in Atoms and Molecules | Dr. Peter Politzer | Professor of Chemistry - UNO |
| 5/8/2006 | 16:00 | Astrochemistry: What's New in the New Field of Astrochemistry | Dr. Yorke E. Rhodes | New York University |
| 4/7/2006 | 15:00 | Functional Conjugated Polymers for Noncovalent Engineering of Carbon Nanotubes and Sensing Applications | Dr. Haiying Liu | Assistant Professor - Department of Chemistry Michigan Technological University |
| 3/31/2006 | 15:00 | Functional Genomics of Secondary Metabolism in Populus | Dr. Chung-Jui Tsai | Associate Professor - School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science Michigan Technological University |
| 3/24/2006 | 15:00 | Unusual Oxetanes in Organic Synthesis | Dr. Amy R. Howell | Professor - Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut |
| 3/17/2006 | 15:00 | Decoding Protein-Protein Interactions through Combinatorial Chemistry | Dr. Dehua Pei | Professor, Department of Chemistry - The Ohio State University |
| 2/17/2006 | 15:00 | Mechanistic Environmental Chemistry: Photo-generated Reactive Species and Pollutant Degradation | Dr. Kristopher McNeill | McKnight Land-Grant Assistant professor, Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota |
| 11/11/2005 | 15:00 | Synthesis of Folate Analogs and Conjugates as Targeted Cancer Chemotherapeutics and BNCT Agents | Dr. Venjatram R. Mereddy | Assistant Professor - Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth |
| 10/10/2005 | 15:00 | Layer-by-Layer Assembled Composites: from Optoelectronics to Ultrastrong Materials and Tissue Engineering | Nicholas A. Kotov | Associate Professor - Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan |
| 9/23/2005 | 15:00 | Designer Ligands for Proteins: From Thermodynamic Analysis to Cellular Activity | Dr. Mark Spaller | Assistant Professor - Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University |
| 9/16/2005 | 15:00 | Human Histone Deacetylase Proteins: Intriguing Drug Target | Dr. Mary Kay Pflum | Assistant Professor - Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University |
