Fall 2006 Seminar Schedule

1-Sep-06    Molly Carpenter C'09 and James Sonne  C'07
"Preparation and Characterization of Monolayer-Protected CdSe and ZnSe Quantum Dots and their Use as Nanoscale Avidin Biosensors"

8-Sep-06    Elise Traversa    C'07
"An Introduction to Solid State NMR Spectroscopy and Applications in the Development of Lithium Batteries"

15-Sep-06    No speaker - Woods building activities  
 
22-Sep-06    Dani Barker    C'07
"The Other Side of Nicotine: Targeting Nicotinic Receptors fro Alzheimer’s Therapeutics"

29-Sep-06    Carmen Scholz    University of Alabama, Huntsville   
"Retinal Implants:  Materials Aspects of Encapsulants"
http://www.bostonretinalimplant.org

6-Oct-06    Christoph Fahrni    Georgia Tech University   
Research interests:  metals in biological systems; fluorescence probes and chelators for the investigation of intracellular storage, trafficking, and homeostasis of trace elements; bioorganometallic catalysis.

13-Oct-06    Tibor Koritsanszky    Middle Tennessee State University   
Research interests:  experimental charge density determination; high-resolution crystallography; interpretation of atomic displacement parameters from diffraction data; crystallographic computing.

20-Oct-06    Mahnaz El-Kouedi    University of North Carolina, Charlotte   
"Novel Nanomaterials for Chemical and Biological Sensing"

27-Oct-06    James Martin    North Carolina State University
"Metallotropic Liquid Crystals:  Designing Structure in Molten Metal-Halide Networks"
   
10-Nov-06    Kent Pryor    Kemia, Inc.
"A Walk on Biotech Beach" - The presentation described experiences working in San Diego at an academic research institute, a small public pharmaceutical company, and a startup, venture capital-backed pharmaceutical firm.

17-Nov-06    John Turner    University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"Electrons, Neutrons, and the Structure of Matter - Applications of Neutron Scattering in Inorganic Chemistry"

24-Nov-06    Thanksgiving Holiday   

1-Dec-06    Edward Meehan    University of Alabama, Huntsville
"Research in the Laboratory for Structural Biology at UAH"