The Department of Chemistry's Spring 2016 seminars will be held in CHEM 101, 901 14th Street South, at 11:00 a.m., unless otherwise noted.
Tuesday, January 12
Thomas Leeper, PhD, Department of Chemistry, University of Akron
Molecular recognition of mRNA processing and IncRNA suppression signals by RRM domain proteins
Thursday, January 21
Krisztina Varga, Department of Chemistry, University of Wyoming
A Biophysical Study of Protein Structure and Function
Tuesday, January 26
Jun Zhang, PhD, Laboratory of Structural Biology, Natl Inst of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Triangle Park, NC
Structural and dynamic insights into RNA binding proteins: Stories of Nop9 and histone mRNA stem-loop binding protein
Thursday, January 28
David S. Libich, PhD, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, Natl Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD
The Dark State of GroEL: Direct Demonstration of Intrinsic Foldase/Unfoldase Activity by Solution NMR
Tuesday, February 16
Aaron Alford, Chemistry Graduate Student, UAB
Coordination polymers: modern molecular recognition chemistry with roots in the 18th century
Thursday, February 18
David M. Lynn, PhD, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Design of Soft Material Interfaces: From 'Conventional' to 'Covalent' Assembly
Tuesday, February 23
Miranda Trentle, Chemistry Graduate Student, UAB
Self-healing polymeric materials based on Diels-Alder reactions
Thursday, February 25
David Crich, PhD, Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Stereocontrolled glycosidic bond formation: A challenge and an inspiration for organic chemists
Tuesday, March 1
Shahriar Habib, Chemistry Graduate Student, UAB
TBA
Thursday, March 17
Martin P. Edwards, VP, Oncology, Worldwide Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer, Inc.
Latest Advances in Medicinal Chemistry in Cancer Drug Discovery
Thursday, March 31
Ilya Zharov, PhD, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah
Functional nanoporous materials by self-assembly of polymer brush nanoparticles
Thursday, April 7
Tania Betancourt, PhD, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas State University
Stimuli-Controlled Nanoparticles and Hydrogels: Integration of Synthetic Polymers, Polypeptides, and Oligonucleotides for the Detection and Treatment of Disease
Thursday, April 14
Jeffrey L. Urbauer, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia
Adjusting calmodulin structure and function by methionine oxidation
