Seminars - archives

Spring 2010

Friday, February 19, 2010 Dr. Nils Walter, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Scientists Watching Action Movies: Real-Time Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging of Natural and Engineered Nucleic Acid-Protein Nanomachines

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

Fall 2007

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