Chemistry Seminars Fall 2014

Announcements CAS News January 03, 2014

Venue: CHEM 101 - 901 14th Street South at 11:00 a.m. (Thursdays unless specified)

Date	Speaker	Title
Aug 22 (Friday)	Mrs. Kate Hayden, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, UAB - FINAL DEFENSE CHEM 101 at 10:00 a.m.	Understanding Non-Helical Nuclease Resistant DNAs and Their Roles in TLR9 Mediated Cellular Invasion

Aug 28	Dr. Kurt R. Zinn, Department of Radiology, UAB	Molecular Imaging, Personalized Medicine, and the Importance of Chemistry

Sep 4	Dr. Jeffrey Albert, CEO and Director of Chemistry, IntelliSyn, Montreal, Canada	Fragment Based Drug Discovery (FBDD): Emergence, methodology, and impact as a fundamental tool in drug discovery

Sep 11	Dr. Kathryn Kloepper, Department of Chemistry, Mercer University, GA	Participation strategies that improve student engagement and learning

Sep 18	Dr. Jimmy W. Mays, Department of Chemistry, Univ of Tennessee at Knoxville	Advances in Thermoplastic Elastomers

Sep 25	Mr. Nathaniel Scull, Chemistry graduate student, UAB	Enzyme Design: Utilizing Computational and Directed Evolution Methods

Oct 2	Ms. Bing Xue, Chemistry graduate student, UAB	Celluloses: Chemical Modification and Applications

Oct 9	Dr. Jack Dunkle, Department of Biochemistry, Emory University	The structural basis for recognition and modification of the 30S ribosomal subunit by an antibiotic resistance methyltransferase

Oct 23	Dr. Peng George Wang, Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University	Novel Chemical Biology Approaches to Glycobiology

Monday	FINAL DEFENSE
Oct 27	Ms. Thao Nguyen, Chemistry graduate student, UAB	Dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors-applications to Chagas disease and dental caries
		in CHEM 320 at 8:30 a.m. - Public Defense - private meeting to follow in CHEM 269
Wednesday	FINAL DEFENSE
Oct 29	Ms. Samantha D. Hastings, Chemistry graduate student, UAB	Phosphorus-donor substituted transition metal complexes: coordination and alkene hydroformylation
		in CHEM 320 at 2:00 p.m. - Public Defense - private meeting to follow in CHEM 269

Oct 30	Dr. Charles Lake, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University of Pennsylvania	Resonant Diffraction, Rietveld Analysis and Charge Density. The Trials and Tribulations of the Solid-State

Nov 6	Mr. Robert Hammond, Chemistry graduate student, UAB	Proanthrocyanidin Function and Diverse Utility in Both Industry and Medicine

Nov 13	Dr. Amala Dass, Department of Chemistry, University of Mississippi	Gold Nanomolecules: Atomically Precise Gold Nanoparticles of Molecular Definition

Nov 20	Dr. Yuping Bao, Ctr for Mat for Info Tech, Chem and Bio Eng, University of Alabama	Shape-controlled Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Bio-imaging

Dec 4	Dr. Martin Edwards, VP, Oncology, Worldwide Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer, Inc	Discovery of XALKORI^®: a potent dual cMET / EML4 ALK RTK inhibitor - A Cancer Drug Discovery Case History

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