URI Department of Chemistry

Dec. 14, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Dr. Erik Berda
Eindhoven University of Technology

Well-defined Polymers and Supramolecular Chemistry

Pastore 234
Bill Euler

Dec. 10, 2009 (Thursday) 3:00pm

Dr. Benjamin Gorske
Department of Chemistry
Yale University

Molecular Architecture: Mimicking Nature's Machines

Pastore 122
Bill Euler

Dec. 3, 2009 (Thursday) 3:00pm

Dr. Shelli Waetzig
Department of Chemistry
University of California-Irvine

New Methods in Pd- Catalysis

Pastore 122
Bill Euler

Nov. 30, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Dr. Mindy Levine
Department of Chemistry
MIT

1. Extra-Terrestrial Transaminations
2. Energy Transfer in Thin Films

Pastore 234
Bill Euler

Nov. 18, 2009 (Wednesday) 3:00pm

Kyle Pereira
Department of Chemistry
University of Rhode Island

Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Applications of the 21^st Century

Pastore 234
Chris Brown

Nov. 9, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Amy Zhou
Graduate student Chemistry Department, URI

Photovoltaic Systems for Solar Cells

Pastore 234
Chris Brown

Nov. 4, 2009 (Wednesday) 3:00pm

Li Yang
Department of Chemistry
University of Rhode Island

The Improved Electrolyte System for Lithium Ion Batteries

Pastore 234
Brett Lucht

Nov. 2, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

David R. Sadowski
Assistant Vice President, Research URI

Intellectual Property Management and Commercialization at URI

Pastore 234
Sze Yang

Oct. 28, 2009 (Wednesday) 3:00pm

Matthew Belisle
Department of Chemistry
University of Rhode Island

Life Saving Chemical Sensors

Pastore 234
Chris Brown

Oct. 26, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Prof. Catherine J. Murphy
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL

Three Short Stories about Gold Nanorods

Pastore 234
Radha Narayanan

Oct. 19, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Dr. Roy A. Fava
Microbiology & Immunology Dept Dartmouth Medical College Lebanon, NH

Traffic-Control in Lymph-Nodes and Ectopic Lymphoid Follicles by the Cell Membrane Receptor for Lymphotoxin-Beta Complex

Pastore 234
Louis Kirschenbaum

Oct. 14, 2009 (Wednesday) 3:00pm

Swapna Addagulla
Department of Chemistry
University of Rhode Island

Functional Silane Based CoPolymers for Biofunctionalization Studies, Chemical Sensing and Separations

Pastore 234
Jaycoda Major

Oct. 12, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Patricia O’Hara
Amanda and Lisa Cross Professor of Chemistry
Amherst College

Phytoestrogens and Xenoestrogens Act as Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators

Pastore 234
Sze Yang

Oct. 9, 2009 (Friday) 3:30pm

Prof. Nathan Lewis
California Institute of Technology

Explosive Detection

Pastore 124
Bill Euler

Oct. 8, 2009 (Thursday) 7:30pm

Prof. Nathan Lewis
California Institute of Technology

Global Energy Perspective

Cherry Auditorium
Bill Euler

Oct. 7, 2009 (Wednesday) 3:00pm

Morgan Turano
Department of Chemistry
University of Rhode Island

UV Rearrangement: Green Flash Paper of the Future

Pastore 234
Chris Brown

Oct. 5, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Prof. Jason Dwyer
Chemistry Department
URI

Nanopores: Portals to the Molecular World

Pastore 234
Radha Narayanan

Sep. 30, 2009 (Wednesday) 3:00pm

Wendy Wang
Pfizer

Two-Dimensional Liquid Chromatography for Pharmaceutical Separations: Principle and Recent Applications

Pastore 234
Chris Brown

Sep. 28, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Prof. Radha Narayanan
Chemistry Department
URI

Designer Metal Nanoparticles for Sensing and Catalysis Applications

Pastore 234
Sze Yang

Sep. 14, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Barbara Ray
Safety and Risk Management URI

Laboratory safety and chemical waste management

Pastore 234
Andrew Clapham

Apr. 27, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Prof. Timothy Elgren
Department of Chemistry
Hamilton Coll

Harnessing the Power of Enzymes: Functional Biomaterials

Pastore 234
Cindy Brittain

Apr. 22, 2009 (Wednesday) 3:00pm

Vanina Guidi
URI

Mechanism of an Organocatalytic Diels/Alder Reaction

Pastore 234
Bill Rosen

Apr. 20, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Dr. David Nelson
Aerodyne Research Corporation
Billerica, MA

Monitoring Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases with Isotopic Specificity

Pastore 234
Sze Yang

Apr. 13, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Dr. Jason Dwyer
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of British Columbia

Capturing Ultrafast Structural Dynamics with Femtosecond Electron Diffraction and Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopy

Pastore 234
Bill Euler

Apr. 9, 2009 (Thursday) 2:00pm

Dr. Huiping Zhang
Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute

From Biocompatible Materials for Implanted Sensors to Chromatin Analysis by Probing Quadruplex DNA in Cells

Pastore 124
Bill Euler

Apr. 6, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Dr. Yanju Wang
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
UCLA

Miniaturizing Chemistry and Biology Laboratories in Microfluidics Devices

Pastore 234
Bill Euler

Apr. 2, 2009 (Thursday) 2:00pm

Dr. Gerd-Uwe Flechsig
Department of Chemistry
University of Rostock

Heated and Nanostructured Electrochemical Biosensors

Pastore 124
Bill Euler

Mar. 30, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Prof. Nasser Zawia
Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
College of Pharmacy
University of Rhode Island

DNA Methylation and Alzheimer's Disease

Pastore 234
Sze Yang

Mar. 26, 2009 (Thursday) 2:00pm

Dr. Soma Chattopadhyay
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
MIT

Designing Functional Materials: I. Photoluminescent Porous Silicon, II. Self-Oscillating Polymeric Systems

Pastore 124
Bill Euler

Mar. 25, 2009 (Wednesday) 2:00pm

Swapnil Dalavi
Department of Chemistry
URI

Superhydrophobic Materials

Pastore 234
Sze Yang

Mar. 9, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Prof. Mostafa A. El-Sayed
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology

Gold Nanoparticles are More Precious on the Nanoscale: Some Properties and Applications of Gold Nanoparticles

Pastore 234
Radha Narayanan

Mar. 2, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Professor Kuang Yu Chen
Department of Chemistry
Rutgers University

Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 5A, an Essential Cell Protein Searching for a Function

Pastore 234
Sze Yang

Feb. 23, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Prof. Martin Case
Department of Chemistry
University of Vermont

Designing Stable Proteins by Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry

Pastore 234
Brenton DeBoef

Feb. 9, 2009 (Monday) 3:00pm

Dr. Maggie Gulbinska
Lithion, Inc.
Pawcatuck, CT 06379

Recent Efforts at Yardney Technical Products towards Domestically Produced Cathode Materials for Li-Ion Cells

Pastore 234
Brett Lucth

Dec. 8, 2008 (Monday) 3:00pm

Marcus Ewing
Pfizer

Gold Catalysis: A Promising New Tool in Organic Synthesis

Pastore 234
Bill Euler

Dec. 3, 2008 (Wednesday) 3:00pm

Swapna Addagulla
Department of Chemistry
University of Rhode Island

Nanotechnology in the World of Cancer

Pastore 234
Chris Brown

Dec. 1, 2008 (Monday) 3:00pm

Ivan Dmochowsk
Department of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Investigation of first fluorescent anesthetic molecule Ferritin-gold nanoparticle assemblies Gene photoregulation in zebrafish embryos

Pastore 234
Brenton DeBoef

Nov. 19, 2008 (Wednesday) 3:00pm

Grace Lincourt
Department of Chemistry
University of Utah

Red Wine Polyphenols as a Means to Reduce Harmful Compounds Such as Hydroperoxides and Malondialdehydes in the Body

Pastore 234
Chris Brown

Nov. 17, 2008 (Monday) 3:00pm

Maria Donnelly
Department of Chemistry
URI

Using Green Fluorescent Protein in Cancer Studies

Pastore 234
Chris Brown

Nov. 10, 2008 (Monday) 3:00pm

Prof. Rashid Zia
Division of Engineering
Brown University
Providence, RI

Changing the Color of Lanthanide Ions: Modified Selection Rules and Spectroscopy of the Local Optical Environment

Pastore 234
Sze Yang

Nov. 5, 2008 (Wednesday) 3:00pm

Champika Senevirate
Department of Chemistry
University of Rhode Island

Advances of RNA Interference

Pastore 234
Chris Brown

Nov. 3, 2008 (Monday) 3:00pm

Prof. Rainer Lohmann
Graduate School of Oceanography
URI

Global Air-Water Transfers of Organic Pollutants

Pastore 234
Bill Rosen

Oct. 29, 2008 (Wednesday) 3:00pm

Dinesh Chalasani
Department of Chemistry
University of Rhode Island

Applications of Monolithic Columns for the Isolation of Proteins

Pastore 234
Chris Brown

Oct. 27, 2008 (Monday) 3:00pm

T.Y. and Catherine Chang
Department of Biochemistry
Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, New Hampshire

Cellular Cholesterol Trafficking and Esterification in Atherosclerosis and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Pastore 234
Sze Yang

Oct. 22, 2008 (Wednesday) 3:00pm

Jonathan Canino
Department of Chemistry
University of Rhode Island

Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)

Pastore 234
Chris Brown

Oct. 20, 2008 (Monday) 3:00pm

Drew Brodeur
Department of Chemistry
URI

Exploring Alternative Energy Sources

Pastore 234
Chris Brown

Oct. 15, 2008 (Wednesday) 3:00pm

Christopher A. Latendresse
Department of Chemistry
University of Rhode Island

Modeling Zinc Finger Active Sites

Pastore 234
Chris Brown

Oct. 8, 2008 (Wednesday) 3:00pm

Alec LeBris
Department of Chemistry
University of Rhode Island

Seeing the Light: Greener Organic Synthesis Through Photocatalysis

Pastore 234
Chris Brown

Oct. 6, 2008 (Monday) 3:00pm

Prof. Yaña Reshetnyak
Department of Physics
University of Rhode Island

pHLIP – pH Low Insertion Peptide: from basic studies to applications in cancer diagnostic and therapy

Pastore 234
Sze Yang

Oct. 1, 2008 (Wednesday) 3:00pm

Lucus Steinkamp
Department of Chemistry
University of Rhode Island

The Future of the Photovoltaic Industry

Pastore 234
Chris Brown

Sep. 22, 2008 (Monday) 3:00pm

Prof. Weishan Li
College of Materials Science and Technology
South China Normal University

Canceled

Pastore 234
Brett Lucht

Sep. 15, 2008 (Monday) 3:00pm

Barbara Ray
Department of Safety and Risk Management
University of Rhode Island

Laboratory safety and chemical waste management

Pastore 234
Andy Clapham

Sep. 8, 2008 (Monday) 3:00pm

Prof. Thomas Hughes
Department of Chemistry
University of Vermont

Phenylene Macrocycles Containing Cyclopentadienone or Alkyne and Moieties: Precursors for Carbon Single-Wall Nanobelts

Pastore 234
Brett Lucht