Dates
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Speaker (linked to their YSU departmental and individual home page(s)), YSU Chemistry Department

Presentation Title

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#1 - September 23^rd

Seminar 1a: Peter Norris (Peter's Home Page)
“Synthesis of Aminosugars,”

Seminar 1b: Mike Serra
“Metal Catalyzed Oxidation of Proteins,”       

Seminar 1c: Larry Curtin (Larry's Home Page)
“Ferrocene Containing Polymers and C60 Adducts”

#2 - September 30^th

Seminar 2a: Howard Mettee
“There's a Model in Your Future,”

Seminar 2b: Sherri Lovelace Cameron  (Sherri's Home Page)
“Organometallic Polymers,”

Seminar 2c: Jeff Smiley
“A Confused Enzyme: A Decarboxylase That Thinks its a Hydrolase”

#3 - October 7^th

Seminar 3a: Tom Kim (Tom Kim's Home Page)
“Proteomics”

Seminar 3b: Jim Mike
“Adventures in Separation Science”

#4 - October 14^th

Seminar 4a: Tim Wagner (Tim's Home Page)
“Inorganic Nitride Fluorides,”

Seminar 4b: John Jackson (John's Home Page)
“Synthesis & Reactions of Bis(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)phosphinoalkynes,”

Seminar 4c: Daryl Mincey (Daryl's Home Page)
“Forensic Analytical Chemistry”

#5 - October 21^st

Seminar 5a: Allen Hunter (Allen's Home Page)
“Remote Instrumentation and the STaRBURSTT CyberInstrumentation Consortium”
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Seminar 5b: Brian Leskiw
“A “Physical” View of Mass Spectrometry”

YSU Sabbatical & FIL Talks 2005-6

#26 - Allen Hunter
“Adventures with Organometallic NanoMaterials”

#27 - Peter Norris
“Synthesis of Amino Sugars”

#28 - Mike Serra
“The Use of Mass Spectrometry to Determine Sites of Oxidation”

6981 Seminar I Spring 2006

6982 Seminar II Fall 2005

Neilima Dobbala - “???????”

6982 Seminar II Spring 2006

3790 Undergrad. Seminar Spring 2006

  #6 - October 28^th, 2005

Rob Cicchillo, (YSU Alumni & graduating PhD student with S. J. Booker) Pennsylvania State University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

“Biochemical, Biophysical, and Mechanistic Investigations of Lipoyl Synthase from Escherichia coli: A Member of the “Radical SAM” Family of Enzymes”

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#7 - November 4^th, 2005

Ron Woodard, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Department of Medicinal Chemistry

“Mining New Microbial Pathways: Identification and Target Validation”

#8 - November 18^th, 2005

Chris Hadad, Ohio State University Department of Chemistry

“Reactive Oxygen Species in Chemistry: Experiment and Theory”

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#9 - December 2^nd, 2005

Cora Lind, University of Toledo Department of Chemistry

“Shrinking from the Heat: Negative Thermal Expansion Materials”

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#10 January 20^th, 2006

#11 - February 14^th, 2006

Tuesday

#12 - January 27^th, 2006

Danith Ly, Carnegie Mellon University  Department of Chemistry

“New Research Opportunities at the Chemistry-Biology Interface”
 
Lead Paper(s):
(LP1)  Zhou, P.; Wang, M.; Du, L.; Fisher, G. W.; Waggoner, A.; Ly, D. H.: "Novel Binding and Efficient Cellular Uptake of Guanidine-Based Peptide Nucleic Acids (GPNA)," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 6878-6879.
(LP2)  Dragulescu-Andrasi, A.; Zhou, P.; He, G.; Ly, D. H.: "Cell-Permeable GPNA with Appropriate Backbon Stereochemistry and Spacing Binds Sequence-Specifically to RNA," Chem. Comm., 2005, 244-246.

#13 - February 3^rd, 2006

Apryll Stalcup, University Cincinnati Department of Chemistry

 “Ionic Liquids in Separations”
 
Lead Paper(s):
(LP1)  Stalcup, A. M.; Cabovska, B.: "Ionic Liquids in Chromatography and Capillary Electrophoresis," J. Liquid Chrom. & Related Technologies," 2004, 27, 1443-1459.
(LP2)  Sun, Y.; Cabovska, B.; Evans, C. E.; Ridgway, T. H.; Stalcup, A. M.: "Rentention Characteristics of a New Butylimidazolium-Based Stationary Phase," Anal. Bioanal. Chem., 2005, 382, 728-734.
(LP3)  Cabovska, B.; Kreishman, G. P.; Wassell, D. F.; Stalcup, A. M.: "Capillary Electrophoretic and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Interactions Between Halophenols and IOnic Liquid or Tetraalkylammonium Cations," J. Chrom. A., 2003, 1007, 179-187.
(LP4)  Yanes, E. G.; Gratz, S. R.; Baldwin, M. J.; Robison, S. E.; Stalcup, A. M.: "Capillary Electrophoretic Application of 1-Alkyl-3Methylimidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids," Anal. Chem., 2001, 73, 3838-3844.

#14 - February 10^th, 2006

Tony Berdis, Case Western Reserve University,  Department of Pharmacology

“Non-Natural Nucleotides as Chemotherapeutic Agents”

Lead Paper(s): 
(LP1)  Allan, J. M.; Travis, L. B.: "Mechanisms of Therapy-Related Carcinogenesis," Nature Reviews - Cancer, 2005, 5, 943-955.

(LP2)  Zhang, X.; Lee, I.; Berdis, A. J.: "A Potential Chemotherapeutic Stratey for the Selective Inhibition of Promutagenic DNA Synthesis by Nonnatural Nucleotides," Biochemistry, 2005, 44, 13111-13121.
(LP3)  Henry, A. S.; Romesberg, F. E.: "Beyond A, C, G and T: Augmenting Nature's Alphabet," Current Opionion in Chem. Bio., 2003, 7, 727-733.

#15 - February 17^th, 2006

Jared Anderson, University of Toledo  Department of Chemistry

“Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: Applications in Analytical Chemistry”

Lead Paper (s):
(LP1)  Welton, T.: "Room Temperature Ionic Liquids. Solvents for Synthesis and Catalysis,"  Chem. Revs., 1999, 99, 2071-2083.
(LP2)  Anderson, J.L.; Armstrong, D.W.: “Immobilized Ionic Liquids as High Temperature/High Selectivity/High Temperature Gas Chromatography Stationary Phases,” Anal. Chem., 2005, 77, 6453-6462.

#16 - February 24^th, 2006

James Kiddle, Western Michigan University Department of Chemistry

“Chiral Multipurpose Organophosphorus Compounds for Asymmetric Synthesis”
 
Lead Paper(s): 

(LP1)  Rein, T.; Pedersen, T. M.:  "Asymmetric Wittig Type Reactions," Synthesis, 2002,  579-594.

(LP2)  Ager, D. J.; Prakash, I.; Schaad, D. R.: "1,2-Amino Alcohols and Their Heterocyclic Derivatives as Chiral Auxiliaries in Asymmetric Synthesis," Chemical Reviews, 1996, 96,  835-75.
(LP3)  Lidstrom, P.; Tierney, J.; Wathey, B.; Westman, J.: "Microwave Assisted Organic Synthesis: A Review," Tetrahedron,  2001,  57,  9225-9283.

#17 - March 3^rd, 2006

Peter Rinaldi, University of Akron Department of Chemistry

“Non-Biological Applications  of 3D-NMR Experments”
 
Lead Paper(s):

(LP1)  Rinaldi, P. L.: "Three-deminsional solution NMR Spectroscopy of Complex Structures and Mixtures," The Analyst, 2004, 129, 687-699.

#18 - March 10^th, 2006

Irene Lee, Case Western Reserve University Department of Chemistry

“Development of anti-bacterial agent through mechanistic enzymology of Lon Protease”
 
Lead Paper(s):

(LP1)  Schreiber, S. L.: "Target-Oriented and Diversity-Oriented Organic Synthesis in Drug Discovery," Science, 2000, 287, 1964-1969.

(LP2)  MacCoss, M.; Baillei, T. A.: "Organic Chemistry in Drug Discovery," Science, 2004, 303, 1810-1813.

#19 - March 24^th, 2006

Mike Freitas, Ohio State University Department of Chemistry

“Identification of Histone Post-Translational Modifications”

 
Lead Paper(s):
(LP1) 

#20 - March 31^st, 2006

Tim Mueser, University of Toledo Department of Chemistry

“X-Ray Crystallographic Studies of DNA Replication”
 

Lead Paper(s):
(LP1)  Mueser, T. C.; Nossal, N. G.; Hyde, C. C.: "Structure of Bacteriophage T4 RNase H, a 5' to 3' Exonuclease with Sequence Similarity to the RAD2 Family of Eukaryotic Repair and Replication Proteins," Cell, 1996, 85, 1101-1112.
(LP2)  Mueser, T. C.; Jones, C. E.; Nossal, N. G.; Hyde, C. C.: "Bacteriophage T4 Gene 59 Helicase Assembly Protein Binds Replication Fork DNA.  The 1.45A Resolution Crystal Structure Reveals a Novel Alpha Helical Two-Domain Fold," J. Molec. Biology, 2000, 296, 597-612.

#21 - April 7^th, 2006

Lead Paper(s):
(LP1) 

#22 - April 14^th, 2006
Postponed Until Fall 2006

Michael Sponsler, Syracuse University Department of Chemistry

“Stoichiometric Olefin Metathesis as a Connection Method for Molecular Electronics”

Lead Paper(s):
(LP1)  Williams, J. E.; Harner, M. J.; Sponsler, M. B.: "Ruthenium Alkylidenes: Fast Initiators for Olefin Metathesis,"   Organometallics, 2005, 24, 2013-2015.
(LP2)  Schuehler, D. E.; Williams, J. E.; Sponsler, M. B.: "Polymerization of Acetylene with a Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalyst," Macromolecules, 2004, 37, 6255-6257.
(LP3)  Niu, X.; Gopal, L.; Masingale, M. P.; Braden, D. A.; Hudson, B. S.; Sponsler, M. B.: "Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Z-E Alkene Isomerization in [(Cy3P)2Cl2Ru]2(µ-CHCH=CHCH) and Related Vinylalkylidenes," Organometallics, 2000, 19, 649-660.

#23 - April 21^st, 2006
Postponed Until Fall 2006

Christine Moravec, Cleveland Clinic Department of  Molecular Cardiology

“Reversing Human Heart Failure”

Sponsored by the YSU American Chemical Society Student Affiliates Chapter

 
Lead Paper(s):
(LP1) 

#24 - April 28^th, 2006

Pat Woodward, Ohio State University Department of Chemistry

“The NSF – Ohio REEL Project”