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11/20/2009
K.T. Valsaraj
Louisiana State University  Chemical Engineering
Eminar Fog Chemistry and Air Pollution in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region
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Host: Pierre Herckes
11/13/2009
Ann Valentine
Yale University  Chemistry
Bioinorganic Chemistry of Titanium in Medicine and the Environment

Host: Anne Jones
11/6/2009
Henry White
University of Utah  Chemistry
Chemical Analysis using Synthetic and Biological Nanopores
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Host: Anne Jones
10/30/2009
David Lilley
University of Dundee, UK  Cancer Research
How Does a Ribozyme Work?
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Host: Marcia Levitus
10/23/2009
Shiou-Jyh Hwu
Clemson University  Chemistry
New Extended Solids Containing Quantized Magnetic Nanostructures
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Host: Don Seo
10/16/2009
Sachdev Sidhu
University of Toronto  Institute for Cancer Research
Deciphering and Modulating Cellular Signaling with Combinatorial Biology
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Host: John Chaput
10/9/2009
Lei Zhu
Florida State University  Chemistry & Biochemistry
Fluorescent Probe MoleculesTargeting Zinc in biological systems with both high sensitivity and large dynamic ranges
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Host: Hao Yan
10/2/2009
Christopher Backhouse
University of Alberta, Edmonton  Electrical & Computer Engineering
Towards 'True' Lab on Chip
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Host: Alexandra Ros
9/25/2009
Valeria Molinero
University of Utah  Chemistry
Crystals and patterns that water makes, or that it could make

Host: Austen Angell
9/18/2009
Juli Feigon
University of California, Los Angeles  Chemistry & Biochemistry
A Tail of Two Pseudoknots: Structure and Dynamics of Telomerase and Riboswitch RNAs
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Host: Julian Chen
9/11/2009
Nate Lewis
California Institute of Technology  Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Eyring Technical Presentation - Sunlight-Driven Hydrogen Formation by Membrane-Supported Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
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Host: Kevin Redding
9/10/2009
Thursday
2:30 p.m.
Andrew Chizmeshya
ASU  Chemistry & Biochemistry
Tenure Seminar

Host: William Petuskey
9/10/2009
Thursday
7:30 p.m.
Nathan Lewis
California Institute of Technology  Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Eyring General Lecture - Where in the World Will Our Energy Come From?
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Host: Kevin Redding
9/8/2009
Tuesday
3:30 p.m.
Hilairy Hartnett
ASU  Chemistry & Biochemistry
Promotion Seminar - Environmental Biogeochemistry: Exploring the Source, Transformation, and Fate of Organic Carbon in Stressed Ecosystems

Host: William Petuskey
9/3/2009
Thursday
2:30 p.m.
Giovanna Ghirlanda
ASU  Chemistry & Biochemistry
Promotion Seminar - Design of Functional Proteins

Host: William Petuskey
9/1/2009
Tuesday
3:30 p.m.
Julian Chen
ASU  Chemistry & Biochemistry
Promotion Seminar - Structure, Function and Evolution of Telomerase: Implications for Cancer and Aging

Host: William Petuskey
8/27/2009
Thursday
2:30 p.m.
Pierre Herckes
ASU  Chemistry & Biochemistry
Promotion Seminar - Clouds in Desert, Dust Over the Ocean: New Insights into Atmospheric Chemistry

Host: William Petuskey
8/26/2009
Wednesday
3:30 p.m.
Ulrich Haussermann
ASU  Chemistry & Biochemistry
Promotion Seminar - Solid State/Materials Chemistry with Intermetallic Compounds - Potential and Challenges

Host: William Petuskey
5/1/2009
Tracy Handel
UC San Diego  School of Pharmacy
Chemokine Interactions and Function - Can It Get More Complicated?

Host: Giovanna Ghirlanda
4/24/2009
Svilen Bobev
University of Delaware  Chemistry & Biochemistry
Zig-zag Chains and Square-nets as Building Blocks. Crystal Chemistry of New (and some old) Rare-Earth Metal Germanides

Host: Don Seo
4/17/2009
Jongyoon Han
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Biological Engineering
Sorting Ions And Molecules Using Nanofilter Membrane: Utilizing Ion Concentration Polarization (Icp) In A Micro/Nanochannel System
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Host: Alexandra Ros
4/10/2009
John Parise
Stony Brook University  Chemistry & Geosciences
Structural Chemistry On Small Length Scales
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Host: Ulrich Haussermann
3/27/2009
Miguel Goni
Oregon State University  College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences
From the Mountains to the Sea: Sources, Transformation and Fates of Natural Organic Matter along a Source-to-Sink Continuum in Papua New Guinea
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Host: Hilairy Hartnett
3/25/2009
Wednesday
Jay Keasling
UC Berkeley  
Eyring General Lecture

Host: William Petuskey
3/20/2009
Sean Elliott
Boston University  Chemistry
A Closed Case? Ligand dynamics and reactivity in bacterial cytochrome c peroxidases
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Host: Anne Jones
3/6/2009
Gerald Meyer
Johns Hopkins  Chemistry
Photoinduced Charge Transfer in Efficient Molecular Solar Cells
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Host: Devens Gust
2/27/2009
11:00 p.m. C-101/103
Michael Grunze
University of Heidelberg  Applied Physical Chemistry
Special Seminar-The Solid/Water Interface- as Perceived by Ulva Spores
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Host: Alexandra Ros
2/27/2009
Vahe Bandarian
Vahe Bandarian, University of Arizona  
From primary metabolism to secondary metabolism and beyond: A role for intragenomic homologs

Host: Giovanna Ghirlanda
2/20/2009
12 Noon, Biodesign Auditorium
Matthew Hartman
Virginia Commonwealth University  Massey Cancer Center
Unnatural Peptides: Past, Present and Future
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Host: Sidney Hecht
2/13/2009
Alexander Pines
UC Berkeley  
Eyring Technical Presentation - Some Recent Developments in Unconventional NMR and MRI
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Host: Jeffery Yarger
2/12/2009
Thursday
7:30 pm
Alexander Pines
UC Berkeley  
Eyring General Lecture - NMR and MRI Wiith Laser Detection and No Magnet
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Host: Jeffery Yarger
2/6/2009
Barbara Turpin
Rutgers University  Environmental Science
Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Through Aqueous Photochemistry
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Host: Pierre Herckes
1/30/2009
Jonas Peters
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Chemistry
The Quest for Earth Abundant Catalysts that Generate Hydrogen
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Host: Anne Jones
1/23/2009
Jonathan Wilker
Purdue University  Chemistry
Biomaterials at the Beach: Characterization and Synthetic Polymer Mimics of Mussel and Barnacle Adhesives
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Host: Anne Jones
12/5/2008
Vincent Mauro
The Scripps Research Institute  Neurobiology
Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Translation Initiation
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Host: John Chaput
11/21/2008
David Rueda
Wayne State University  Chemistry
Laser-Assisted Single-Molecule Refolding
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Host: Marcia Levitus
11/14/2008
Michael Bowser
University of Minnesota  Chemistry
Applications of Micro Free Flow Electroporesis
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Host: John Chaput
11/7/2008
Michael Terns
University of Georgia  Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Biogenesis and Trafficking of RNA Modification Complexes and Human Telomerase
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Host: Julian Chen
10/31/2008
Michael Hecht
Princeton  Chemistry
1. Towards Synthetic Biology: Functional de novo proteins from a designed artificial proteome. 2. Alzheimer's Disease: Molecular underpinnings and the search for new therapeutics.
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Host: Giovanna Ghirlanda
10/24/2008
Zhengping Yi
Arizona State University  Center for Metabolic Biology
Insights into the Molecular Mechanisms of Insulin Resistance: Lessons from Proteomics
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Host: Jeffery Yarger
10/17/2008
Alexandra Navrotsky
University of California at Davis  Chemistry
Energetics of Oxide Nanomaterials
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Host: William Petuskey
10/10/2008
12:00 p.m.
Patrick Hatcher
Old Dominion University  Chemistry & Biochemistry
The Combined Application Of 2D NMR Techniques And Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Mass Spectrometry For Unraveling The Chemical Composition Of Natural Organic Matter: A New Analytical Approach
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Host: Hilairy Hartnett
10/7/2008
Tuesday
4:00 p.m. PS C-101/103
Randall W. Nelson
Arizona State University  The Biodesign Institute
Mass Spectrometric Immunoassay In Biomarker Development
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Host: William Petuskey
10/3/2008
12:00 p.m.
Paul Ziemann
UC Riverside  Chemistry
The Importance of Molecular Structure in Aerosol Formation from the Oxidation of Hydrocarbons
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Host: Pierre Herckes
9/26/2008
12:00 p.m.
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Host: TBA
9/19/2008
3:40 p.m. PS H-152
Klaus Schulten
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  Chemisry, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology
Eyring Technical Presentation - Physics of Photoynthesis in Purple Bacteria
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Host: Petra Fromme
9/18/2008
Thursday
7:30 p.m. PS H-150
Klaus Schulten
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  Chemistry, Center, Biophysics & Computational Biology
Eyring General Lecture - Computational Microscopy of the Living Cell
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Host: Petra Fromme
9/12/2008
12:00 p.m.
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Host: TBA
9/9/2008
Tuesday
4:00 p.m. PS C-101/103
Ranko Richert
Arizona State University  Chemistry & Biochemistry
Time-resolved Nonlinear Dielectric Relaxation in Supercooled Liquids: Microwave Heating at Low Frequencies

Host: William Petuskey
9/5/2008
TBA
Arizona State University  
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Host: TBA
4/24/2008
Thursday
3:00 p.m.
Thomas Gingeras
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY  Functional Genomics
New Classes of Functional Short RNAs and Chromosome-wide Transcriptional Networks

Host: Stephen Johnston for Neal Woodbury
4/17/2008
Thursday
3:00 p.m.
Marco Rito-Palomares
ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico  Departamento de Biotecnología e Ingeniería de Alimentos
Partitioning of Bioproducts from Algae
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Host: Wim Vermaas
4/10/2008
Thursday
3:00 p.m.
Richard Debus
UC Riverside  Biochemistry
FTIR Studies of Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolution
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Host: Thomas Moore
4/4/2008
3:00 p.m. PS H-150
Gérard Ferey
Université de Versailles  Institut Lavoisier
Eyring Technical PresentationThe Advantages Of The Breathing Effect In Mofs
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Host: William Petuskey
4/3/2008
Thursday
7:30 p.m. PS H-150
Gérard Ferey
Université de Versailles  Institut Lavoisier
Eyring General Lecture–Porous Solids : A New World
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Host: William Petuskey
3/31/2008
Monday
3:30 p.m., PS C-101/103
G. Jeffrey Snyder
California Institute of Technology  Materials Science
Complex Structures for Thermoelectric Applications
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Host: Ulrich Hausserman
3/28/2008
3:30 p.m., PS H-130
Thomas Faessler
Technische Universitaet Munich, Germany  Department of Chemistry
Germanium- and Tin-Atom Clusters in Intermetallic Compounds and as Discrete Anions
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Host: Ulrich Hausserman
3/27/2008
Thursday
Laurence H. Hurley
University of Arizona  Bio5 Institute
Secondary DNA structures in eukaryotic promoter regions: evidence for their presence and strategies for drug targeting
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Host: Edward Skibo
3/20/2008
Thursday
3:00
James Muckerman
Brookhaven National Laboratory  Chemistry Department
A Computational Chemist's Adventures in Artificial Photosynthesis
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Host: Timothy Steimle
3/6/2008
Thursday
3:00 p.m.
Vince Rotello
University of Massachusetts  Chemistry
Nanoparticles: Scaffolds and Building Blocks for Materials and Biology
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Host: Hao Yan
2/28/2008
Thursday
Jeffery White
Oklahoma State University  Chemistry
Untangling the Origins of Complex Phase Behavior in Amorphous Macromolecules: Dynamics and Thermodynamics in Polyolefin Blends
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Host: Jeffery Yarger
2/27/2008
Wednesday
TBA
 
From primary metabolism to secondary metabolism and beyond: A role for intragenomic homologs

Host: Giovanna Ghirlanda
2/25/2008
Monday
Scot Wolfe
University of Massachusetts  Medical School
Special Seminar Exploring & Engineering DNA-binding Specificity using a Bacterial One-hybrid System PS C-101/103
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Host: John Chaput
2/22/2008
Alexei Belik
National Institute of Molecular Science, Japan  
Special Seminar TBA

Host: Don Seo
2/21/2008
Thursday
Caroline S. Harwood
U of Washington  Microbiology
Development of a Model Photosynthetic Bacterium for Hydrogen Production
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Host: Ferran Garcia-Pichel
2/14/2008
Thursday
John Peters
Montana State University  
Hydrogenase Structure, Function, and Biosynthesis: Keys to Life's Origins and Alternative Energy Solutions
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Host: Anne Jones
2/7/2008
Thursday
Christopher Pickett
U of East Anglia, Norwich UK  School of Chemical Science and Pharmacy
Artificial Iron-only Hydrogenase Systems: Replacing Platinum
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Host: Anne Jones
1/31/2008
Thursday
Scott Miller
University of Montana  
Genetic Basis of RubisCO Adaptation at the Thermal Limit for Photoautotrophy
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Host: Ferran Garcia-Pichel
1/24/2008
Thursday
3:00 p.m.
Jorge Colon
University of Puerto Rico  Chemistry
Artificial Photosynthesis, Biosensors and Vapochromic Materials using Layered Inorganic Nanomaterials
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Host: Ana Moore