YSU-Chemistry-Seminar-Program-2007-2008

2007-08 Seminar Schedule


Fall 2007
#1 - August 31^st, 2007	Dr. Timothy R. Wagner 2007-08 Kickoff & Get Acquainted Meeting (Pizza & Soda Provided)
#2 - September 7^th, 2007	Seminar 1a: Dr. Peter Norris “Building Potential Antibiotics” Seminar 1b: Dr. Michael A. Serra “Free Radical Damage to Proteins” Seminar 1c: Dr. Sherri R. Lovelace-Cameron “Organometallics: Investigating Polymerization and Electrochemistrys” Seminar 1d: Dr. Timothy R. Wagner “Synthesis and Characterization of Mixed-Anion Rocksalts & Perovskites”
#3 - September 14^th, 2007	Seminar 2a: Dr. Brian D. Leskiw “From Wine Analysis to Metal Clusters: Interest in the Gas Phase” Seminar 2b: Dr. Josef B. Simeonsson “Environmental Applications of Analytical Laser Spectroscopy” Seminar 2c: Dr. Howard D. Mettee “Chemical Cushioning and Modeling” Seminar 2d: Dr. Daryl W. Mincey “Dietary Supplements”
#4 - September 21^th, 2007	Seminar 3a: Dr. Nina V. Stourman “Functional genomics studies of E.coli” Seminar 3b: Dr. Larry S. Curtin “Metallocenes: from Monolayers to Polymers" Seminar 3c: Dr. John A. Jackson “Synthesis and Reactions of Trifuoroethyl Phosphonates” Seminar 3d: Dr. Allen S. Hunter “Cybertechnology & Remote Instrumentation”
#5 September 28^th, 2007	Dr. Scott Bunge Kent State University; Dept. of Chemistry “Exploring the coordination chemistry of a new family of tetralkylguanidinate ligands”
#6 October 5^th, 2007	Dr. Steve Sucheck University of Toledo; Dept. of Chemistry “Synthesis of Glycopeptides by Decarboxylative Ligation”
#7 - October 12^th, 2007	Dr. Mike Jensen Ohio University; Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry “Biomimetic coordination chemistry at high-spin nickel(II) centers”
#8 - October 19^th, 2007	Dr. Nat Rosi Univ. of Pittsburgh; Dept. of Chemistry “Design and Assembly of New Materials from Biomolecular Precursors”
#9 - October 26^th, 2007	Christopher G. Gulgas University of Cincinnati, Department of Chemistry, Reinecke Research Group “Macrocyclic Eu(III) Chelates for Selective Anion Recognition”
#11 - November 2^nd, 2007	Dr. Gary Lorigan Miami University; Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
#12 - November 9^th, 2007	Dr. Rita Mihailescu Duquesne University; Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
#13 - November 16^th, 2007	Open
#14 - November 23^rd, 2007	University Closed
#15 - November 30^th, 2007	Mark (Klaus Markus) Peters General Manager, Fireline TCON Inc., A subsidiary of Fireline, Inc. 300 Andrews Avenue Youngstown, OH 44505 "Interpenetrating Phase Composites Produced Via Displacement Reactions"
#16 - December 7^th, 2007	Graduate Student Seminars
#17 - January 18^th, 2008	Dr. Howard Mettee YSU, Department of Chemistry “2006-2007 Sabbatical”
#18 - January 25^th, 2008	Dr. Claudio Verani Wayne State University, Department of Chemistry “Precursors for Molecular Electronics: Redox-driven Magnetic Switching in Metallorganic Complexes”
#19 - February 1^st, 2008	Dr. Shane Smith YSU, Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences To Be Announced
#20 - February 8^th, 2008	Dr. David Watson University at Buffalo, Department of Chemistry “Photoinduced Electron Transfer Processes of Self-Assembled Inorganic Nanomaterials”
#21 - February 15^th, 2008	Open
#21 - February 22^nd, 2008	Dr. Christopher Ziegler The University of Akron, Department of Chemistry The Metal Chemistry of the Carbaporphyrins: Organometallics at the Equator
#22 - February 29^th, 2008	Dr. William Feld Wright State University; Department of Chemistry “Novel Solid State Electrolytes for Lithium Ion Batteries”
#24 - March 7^th, 2008	Open
#25 - March 14^th, 2008	Spring Break
#26 - March 21^st, 2008	Dr. Roland Riesen Youngstown State University “Ladybug – Beauty or Beast? Chemistry, Sensory Impact, and remedial Treatments of Ladybug Taint in Wine”
#27 - March 28^th, 2008	Dr. John Protasiewicz Case Western Reserve University; Department of Chemistry To Be Announced
#28 - April 4^th, 2008	Dr. Irina Artsimovitch Ohio State University, College of Biological Sciences “Control of Transcription in Bacteria – From Cellular Factors to Antibiotics”
#29 - April 11^th, 2008	Dr. Patrick Woodward Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University “Complex Perovskites: Ferroelectrics, Ferromagnets and Half-metals”
#30 - April 18^th, 2008	Graduate Students: John Milo; Lucas Beagle
#31 - April 25^th, 2008	Graduate Students: Joelle Wells; Aimable Ngendahimana
#32 - May 2^nd, 2008	Graduate Students: Ravonne Maxon; Ashley De Pizzo; Lee Ann Rizzo





September 26^th, 2008	Dr. Jeffrey Evanseck Duquesne University; Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry "Design of New Minor Grove DNA Nopeptide Drugs"

November 7^th, 2008	Dr. Amar Flood Indiana University-Bloomington; Department of Chemistry “Using Mixed Valency to Control Molecular Electronics and Molecular Machines”



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