Departmental Seminar Series
Fall 2007

Seminars are at 4:00 PM in Room 137, Chemistry-Physics Building (directions), unless noted otherwise.
Refreshments at 3:30 PM.

DateSpeakerTitle
Thursday
Aug 23
Patrick Dotson
University of Kentucky
A Revised In Vitro and In Vivo Mechanism for the Trans Excision-Splicing Reaction
Friday
Aug 24
Joseph Thrasher
University of Alabama
The Wonderful Universe of Fluorine Chemistry: From Terraforming Mars to Fuel Cell Technology
Thursday
Sep 6
Anup Thakur
University of Kentucky
Capillary electrophoresis based methods for metabolite analysis of Clostridium thermocellum
Friday
Sep 7
Faculty poster session
Friday
Sep 14
Lucy Ziurys
University of Arizona
High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy: From Fundamental Interactions to Far-Out Interstellar Chemistry
Friday
Sep 14

6 PM
Room 223, College of Pharmacy
Tadhg Begley
Cornell University
Thiamin: a Simple Vitamin with a Complex Biosynthetic Pathway
Sponsored by the Lexington Section of the American Chemical Society
Note special time and place
Friday
Sep 21
Greg Szulczewski
University of Alabama
Spin-polarized electron tunneling through molecular junctions
Friday
Sep 28
Al Padwa
Emory University
Cascade Reactions for Alkaloid Synthesis
Friday
Oct 5
Michael Knapp
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Controlling redox chemistry in metalloenzyme/nanoparticle hybrids
Friday
Oct 12
Mike Bancroft
University of Western Ontario
High Resolution XPS of Non-Conductor Silicates: Surface Leaching and Glass Structure
Friday
Oct 19
Jeffrey Rack
Ohio University
Femtosecond to Nanosecond Isomerization in Photochromic Ruthenium and Osmium Sulfoxide Complexes
Thursday
Oct 25
Robin Ehrick
University of Kentucky
Modification of Biologically Relevant Surfaces with Biomolecules for Bone Regeneration
Thursday
Oct 25

5:30 PM
Room 106, Science Building
Berea College
Kenneth E. Kolb
Bradley University
Glass — Its Many Facets
Sponsored by the Lexington Section of the American Chemical Society
Note special time and place
Friday
Oct 26
Timothy M. Swager
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Polymer Electronics for Ultra-Trace Chemical Sensors
Dawson lecture
Friday
Nov 2
Lu Kang
Union College (Kentucky)
The Microwave Spectroscopy of Transient Molecular Species and the Broadband FTMW Technique
Thursday
Nov 8

6:00 PM
Room 102, Cowgill Hall
Transylvania University
Robert D. Blackledge
Naval Criminal Investigative Service
Glitter as Forensic Evidence
Sponsored by the Lexington Section of the American Chemical Society
Note special time and place
Friday
Nov 16
Tanea Reed
University of Kentucky
Oxidative Stress in Brain in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Alzheimer's Disease: Implications for the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease
Friday
Nov 30
Shelley Newman
University of Kentucky
S-Glutathionylation of Brain Proteins: A Post-translational Modification of Potential Importance in the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease
Friday
Dec 7
Yongfeng Wang
University of Kentucky
Synthesis and characterization of alternating thiophene-perfluoroarene copolymers and fully/partially fluorinated small molecules

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