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Chemistry Seminars at Albion College

Seminars are held in Norris 102 at 3:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. All are welcome.

Fall 2009

  • Friday, September 11, 2009    Rose-Anne Meissner ('03), Northwestern University
    - Genetic Control of Circadian Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster
     
  • Friday, September 18, 2009    Bakthan Singaram, UC Santa Cruz
    - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydride – The Dual Personality of Lithium Aminoborohydrides
  • Friday, October 2, 2009          Jayme Cannon ('04), Merck
    - Pharmaceutical Vaccine Formulation
  • Friday, October 2, 2009          Craig Streu ('04)
    -
    Bioactive Organometallic Complexes: From Structure to Function
     
  • Friday, October 16, 2009        Mike Lammers, Johnson-Diversy, Inc.
    - The specialty chemical industry, specifically focused on the food, beverage and pharmaceutical sectors served by the Johnson Diversey Food & Beverage Group
  • THURSDAY, October 29, 2009    Wilfred Van der Donk, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    - Title TBA
     

 

Spring 2009

  • Friday, February 13, 2009    Gabrielle Bielak Thurlow('00), On Assignment, Inc.
    - A Path Less Taken... A Road Less Traveled
     
  • Friday, February 27, 2009    Bruce Baldwin, Spring Arbor University
    - Carrots, Ferrocene and Biodiesel: Current Organic Chemistry Research at Spring Arbor University
  • Friday, March 20, 2009         Matt Allen, Wayne State University
    - Increasing the Utility of Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Lanthanide Chemistry
  • Friday, March 27, 2009         Bryan Kusiak, Huron Technologies
    - Chemistry in Industry: Putting that Albion College Education to Work

 

Fall 2008

  • Friday, September 5, 2008
    Robert Halcomb, IBM
    - Disruptive Innovation
     
  • Friday, October 3, 2008
    Valerie McCarthy, BASF
    - A computational study of chemical systems: I. A theoretical investigation of clathrate hydrates II. Conformational potential energy surface of tryptamine
     
  • Friday, October 17, 2008
    Kevin J. Kubarych, University of Michigan
     
  • Friday, November 14, 2008
    Greg Girolami, UIUC

Spring 2008

  • Friday, February 8, 2008
    Bryce Marquis, University of Minnesota
     
  • Friday, February 22, 2008
    Chris Marshall, Argonne National Laboratory
    - "Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane over Nanostructured Membrane Catalysts"
  • Friday, March 28, 2008
    Prof. George Garcia, University of Michigan

 

Fall 2007

  • Friday, September 28, 2007
    P.V. Ramachandran, Purdue University
    - "Boron Chemistry"
     
  • Friday, October 12
    Amanda Boye, University of Illinois
    - "Poly(ADP-ribose) Metabolism: From PARP Substrates to PARG Inhibitors."
     
  • Friday, November 9
    Andrew Knight, Loyola University
    - "Green Chemistry"

 

Spring 2007

  • Friday, February 9, 2007
    Bradley Stish - University of Minnesota Cancer Center
    "Design Purification and Evolution of a Recombinant Immunotoxin for Carcinoma Therapy"
     
  • Friday, February 23, 2007
    Jackie Day (Albion 2001) - Senior associate scientist for Pfizer Research Global Research & Development.
    "From Gene To Structure: Structure Based Drug Design"

     
  • Friday, April 13, 2007
    Scott Silverman - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    "DNA as a Catalyst, Constraint, and Sensor"

Fall 2006

  • Friday, September 15, 2006
    Shauna Paradine,
    - "Synthesis and development of chiral hypervalent iodine compounds: an international collaborative project"
    Sarah Simmons
    - "Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry in Wales"
     
  • Friday, September 22, 2006
    Brandon Morrill, Jacob Skeans
    "The Oxidation of Imidazolium-based Ionic Liquids with Potassium Permanganate"
     
  • Friday, September 29, 2006
    Erin Marasco - University of Minnesota
    Tim Johnson - General Mills
     
  • Friday, October 27, 2006
    Robert B. Grubbs - Dartmouth
    "Building Nanomaterials from the Bottom Up with Block Copolymers"
     
  • Friday, November 3, 2006
    Carrie Hensel - Inner Circle Media, Ann Arbor
     
  • Friday, November 17, 2006
    Charles Hoogstraten - Michigan State University

 

Seminars at other schools:

Michigan State University
University of Michigan
Wayne State University
Western Michigan University

Last Modified 3/30/07 by Vanessa McCaffrey

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