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UM Chemistry/Seminar - Spring 2013 |
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Except as noted below, seminars are held on Friday afternoon at 1:30 PM in Smith Chemistry Building, room 102, preceded by refreshments (starting at 1:00 PM). Contact Xiaohua Huang (678-1728) for more information. If you would like to receive e-mail announcements of upcoming seminars, send an e-mail to
Dr. Zhao. |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| January 11 | Dr. Anang Shelat | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | Multi-scale Modeling of Biological and Chemical Data |
| January 18 | Dr. Stephen White | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | Structure-assisted Design of Novel Infectious Disease Therapeutics |
| January 25 | Dr. Ngee Chong | Middle Tennessee State University | Development of Chromatographic, Spectroscopic, and Microscopic Methods for Environmental Analysis and Materials Characterization; |
| February 1 | Dr. Ming Zheng | The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | DNA-Carbon Nanotube Hybrids: Fundamentals and Applications |
| February 8 | Dr. Janet Macdonald | Vanderbilt University | Nanoparticle Properties and Applications for Solar Energy |
| February 15 | Dr. Jeffrey North | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | Design, Synthesis and Structure Activity Relationships of Adamantyl Ureas as Anti-tuberculosis Agents |
| February 22 | Dr. Craig Barnes | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | New Ways of Making Single Site Heterogeneous Catalysts: The Marriage of Synthetic Chemistry, Materials Science and Chemical Engineering |
| March 1 | Dr. Kattesh V. Katti | University of Missouri | Design and Development of Tumor Specific Gold Nanoparticles For Molecular Imaging and Therapy |
| March 8 | Dr. Patrick Frantom | University of Alabama | Mechanisms of Functional and Regulatory Diversity in an Enzyme Superfamily |
| March 15 | Spring Break! | ||
| March 22 | Dr. Daruka Mahadevan | Uiversity of Tennessee Health Science Center | Structure-based Drug Discovery of Novel Kinase Inhibitors for Human Malignancies |
| March 29 | Dr. Charles Garner | Baylor University | New Nitrogen and Phosphorus Ligands: Pyrazolylpyridines and the First C2-Chiral Phosphinine |
| April 5 | Dr. Harry Frank | University of Connecticut | Structure and Function of Carotenoid Pigments: Nature’s Ubiquitous Solar Energy Collectors |
| April 12 | Dr. Hang Lu | Georgia Institute of Technology | Microfluidic Technologies for High-Throughput High-Content Developmental Biology and Neurogenetics |
| April 19 | Dr. Leaf Huang | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Nanoparticle Delivery of Genes and siRNA to Hepatocytes in vivo |
| April 26 | Dr. Morris Bullock | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) | Design and Development of Molecular Electrocatalysts for the Production and Oxidation of Hydrogen: Shoving Protons Around With Proton Relays; |
| May 3 | Jacob McMillan | University of Memphis | Student Seminar |
Department of Chemistry, The University of Memphis
| 213 Smith Chemistry Bldg, Memphis, Tennessee 38152-3550
phone 901.678.2621 | fax 901.678.3447