Department of Chemistry at SUNY Stony Brook


PAST SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA - 2005-6
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August 8	Song Li	Biomedical Engineering Department, UC Berkeley
*Mechanical-Chemical Regulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells*

September 2	Yu-Shin Ding	Brookhaven National Laboratory & SBU
*New Generation Radiotracer Development: Application to PET Imaging Studies of Substance Abuse, ADHD, and Depression*

September 9	Stanislaus Wong	SBU Chemistry
*Rational Chemical Strategies for Carbon Nanotube Functionalization*

September 22	Jose Rodriguez	Brookhaven National Laboratory
*The Activation of Gold on Oxides: Chemical Properties of Au/CeO₂(111) and Au/TiO₂(110) Surfaces*
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September 23	Richard Gross	Polytechnic University
*Chemo-Enzymatic Routes to a Diverse Family of Glycolipids and Structure-Bioactivity Studies*

September 27	Mark Knecht	Texas A & M
*Synthesis, Characterization, and Magnetic Properties of Dendrimer-Encapsulated Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel Nanoparticles Containing < 150 Atoms*
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September 27	Clare Grey	Stony Brook
NANOSCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES - at Brookhaven
*NMR Studies of Local Structure and Motion in Zeolites, Surfaces, and Materials for Lithium Batteries and Fuel Cells*

September 29-30	Various
NEW HORIZONS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY SYMPOSIUM

October 12	Jiangyong Jia	Columbia
*Probing the Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC with Jets*
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October 13	Orlando Schärer	Stony Brook
*Chemical Biology of Complex Mammalian DNA Repair Pathways*

October 17	Ralf Averbeck	Stony Brook - Physics
Big Bang Chemistry - Exploring the Properties of Primordial Matter at RHIC

October 21	Chris Cahill	George Washington University
*Recent Advances in the Synthesis and Structural Chemistry of f-Metal Containing Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials*

October 27	Uzi Landman	Georgia Tech
*Emergent Chemical Behavior in the Nanoscale: Gold Nanocatalysis and Ionization Damage in DNA*

Biological Physics and Biophysical Chemistry Seminar
October 31	Daniel Raleigh	SBU
*Protein Folding*

November 2	Elizabeth Boon	University of California, Berkeley
*Molecular Basis for Ligand Discrimination in Soluble Guanylate Cyclase and the H-NOX Family of Heme Sensor Proteins*

Chemistry Day Keynote Presentation
November 4	Nicole Sampson	SBU
*Molecular Basis for Ligand Discrimination in Soluble Guanylate Cyclase and the H-NOX Family of Heme Sensor Proteins*

November 7	Hening Lin	Harvard Medical School
Molecular Arms Race Between Pathogenic Bacteria and Mammalian Host: The Story of Bacteria Iron Acquisition

November 9	Wendy Kelly	Harvard Medical School
Heterocyclization and Tailoring Modifications in Non-ribosomal Peptide Antibiotic Biosynthesis

November 10	Rebekka Wachter	Arizona State University
*Mechanistic and Structural Analysis of GFP Chromophore Biogenesis*

November 11	Kendall Houk	University of California at Los Angeles
*Computational Organic Chemistry: Mechanisms and Dynamics*

Biological Physics and Biophysical Chemistry Seminar
November 14	David Green	SBU - Applied Mathematics and Statistics
*Exploring Protein-Protein Interactions With Computational Biophysics*

November 15	Kirill Filiminov	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
*Recent Discoveries at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider*

November 17	Pieter Dorrestein	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
*Substrate and Activity Analysis of Non-Ribosomal and Polyketide Biosynthetic Pathways by Large Molecule Mass Spectrometry*

November 17	David Schuster	New York University
*Long-Range Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Porphyrin-Fullerene Electron Donor-Acceptor Systems: Rotaxanes, Catenanes and Molecular Wires*

November 22	Oksana Cherniavskaya	Columbia University
*Nanoscale Arrays for Exploring Polyvalent Interactions in Cytoskeletal Proteins*

November 28	Ilyas Washington	Columbia University
*Seeing in the Dark*

November 30	Wayne F. Reed	Physics - Tulane University
*Recently Developed Methods for Characterizing Macromolecular Solutions*

December 1	Isaac Carrico	U. California - Berkeley
*Expanding Nature's Toolkit: Introducing Non-native Functionality Into Biopolymers*

SEMINAR - JOINT WITH BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS and BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
December 8	Eric Siggia	Rockefeller University
*Fluctuations and the Cell Cycle in Yeast*

January 23	Nathaniel Rosi	Northwestern University
*Controlling the Assembly of Molecular and Nanoparticle Building Blocks into Functional Materials*

January 25	Ji Yu	Harvard
*Single Molecule Studies of Noise in Living Cells*

February 6	H. Peter Lu	Pacific Northwest Laboratory
*Exploring Single-molecule Dynamics and Site-specific Spectroscopy of Nanoscale Systems*

February 8	Liang-shi Li	Northwestern University
Biologically Inspired Molecular Self-assembly in Organic Solvents

February 9	Adrian Whitty	Biogen Idec
*Flatland: Protein-Protein Interactions and Receptor Activation in the Two-Dimensional World of the Cell Membrane*

February 24	R. Stephen Berry	U. Chicago
*Toward Understanding How Molecules Find Their Way in Many, Many Dimensions*

March 3	Gabriela Weaver	Purdue
*Authentic Research Experiences for the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum*

Biological Physics and Biophysical Chemistry Seminar
March 6	Nicholas Nassar	SBU - Physiology & Biophysics
*Structure and Function of Ras Proteins*

March 10	Stuart Rice	U. Chicago
*Explorations of Optical Control of Quantum Dynamics in the Liquid Phase*

March 17	Francisco Balta Calleja	Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC
*Advances in Microhardness-Nanostructure Correlations: Polymer Materials and Composites*

Biological Physics and Biophysical Chemistry Seminar
March 27	Jay Shendure	Harvard Medical School
*Human Genome Sequencing Technologies: The Next Generation*

April 7	Robert K. Prud’homme	Princeton
*Drug Nanoparticle Formation by Flash NanoPrecipitation Using Block Copolymer Directed Self-Assembly*

April 11	Christian Burger	SBU
*Structure, Function, and Visualization of Nanostructured Materials*

Bigeleisen Lecture
April 17	François Diederich	ETH, Zurich
*Acetylenic Scaffolding in One, Two, and Three Dimensions: Towards New Optoelectronic Materials*

April 20	Kan Ma	SBU
*Integrating Proteomics, Biophysics and Structural Biology: Approaches to Studying Biologically Important Molecules*

Biological Physics and Biophysical Chemistry Seminar
April 24	Marilyn Gunner	CUNY - Physics
*Evaluating When and Where Electrostatic Interactions are Important in Proteins*

April 28	Maria Oliver-Hoyo	North Carolina State University
*Making Student-Centered Instruction Work Effectively in Large-Enrollment Classes*

Biological Physics and Biophysical Chemistry Seminar
May 5	Julie MItchell	U. Wisconsin - Madison
*Mathematical Approaches to Protein Re-Design*

May 9	Steven Meech	U. East Anglia
*Ultrafast Photophysics in The Green Fluorescent Protein and Its Chromophore*

May 11	John Straub	Boston University
*Probing the Principles of Amyloid Aggregation*


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