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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" |