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 Department Seminars

Fall 2006


The following list shows seminars that are currently scheduled in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for Fall 2006.  All seminars, unless noted, are on Friday beginning at 3:00 p.m. in Dobo-132 (please note change in room).  All are welcome to attend. For more information, or to participate in our seminar series, please contact Dr. Sridhar Varadarajan. The list of recent speakers in the department can be found here: Spring 2006, Fall 2005.

DATE

SPEAKER

TOPIC

Aug 25 No seminar - Organizational Meeting for students  
     
Sept 1 UNCW Faculty: Sridhar Varadarajan, Joan Willey, Brooks Avery, Rob Hancock, Carrie Miller, Pam Seaton Faculty Research
     
Sept 8 UNCW Faculty: Mike Messina, Chris Halkides, Bob Kieber, Steve Skrabal, Antje Almeida, Paulo Almeida, Bart Jones Faculty Research
     
Sept 15 Dr Masayuki Satake, Visiting Research Professor (from Tohoku University, Japan), Center for Marine Science, UNCW (Marine Natural Products) "Marine Toxins -Structures and Origins"
     
Sept 22 John Dorsey, Katherine Blood Hoffman Professor Editor, Journal of Chromatography A Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Florida State University (Analytical) "A Random Walk through Liquid Chromatography" 
     
Sept 29 Barry Gold, Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh (Bioorganic) "The Design of Molecules that Target Duplex DNA" 
     
Oct 6 Day before Fall Break No seminar
     
Oct 13 Ronald Viola, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Toledo (Biochemistry) "Targeting Metabolic Enzymes for Antibiotic Development" 
     
Oct 20 Philip Turnbull, Group Manager in Medicinal Chemistry, GlaxoSmithKline (Medicinal) "Small Molecules as Keys to Unlocking the Secrets of Androgen Receptor Modulation"
     
Oct 27 John Ferry, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina (Analytical/Environmental) "Focusing on the important stuff: how multifactorial experimental designs help us rank parallel processes that degrade contaminants in the aquatic environment." Abstract
     
Nov 3 Ken Jacobson, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology School of Medicine UNC-Chapel Hill (Biophysical) "Looking for Lipid Rafts."
     
Nov 10 Prasad Polavarapu, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University (Physical) "Exciting Developments in Studying Chirality: New Chiroptical Spectroscopic Methods" 
     
Nov 17 David Rockcliffe, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Kentucky State University (Inorganic) "Biomimetic Aspects of Ligand Binding in Copper-Peptide Complexes Developed to Mimic the Active Site of Oxyhemocyanin and Oxytyrosinase"
     
Nov 24 Thanksgiving break No seminar
 
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