Previous Visiting Seminar Speakers 2001-02

Prof. Carol Caperelli, UC, College of Pharmacy,
"Enzyme Substrate Specificities: Implications Requiring a Structural Confirmation"

Prof. Jeffrey Zaleski, Indiana University,
"Designing Transition Metal Activated Diradicals as Unimolecular Biological Reagents"

Prof. Mary Rodgers, Wayne State University,
"Threshold Collision-induced Dissociation from Dynamics to DNA Bases"

Prof. Gary Lorigan, Miami University, Ohio,
"Magnetic Resonance Studies of Membrane Protein Systems"

Dr. Bobby Barnett, Procter & Gamble,
"Structure-based Drug Design of Matrix Metallo-protease Inhibitors for Osteoarthritis"

Prof. Michael Chan, Ohio State University,
"Protein Crystallography at OSU: Molecular Enzymology and Evidence"

Dr. Vinit Rastogi, Procter & Gamble,
"How Proton Translocation Drives Rotation in the ATP Synthase"

Dr. Steve Wendelken, EPA,
"Current Issues in Drinking Water Method Development at the U.S. EPA"

Dr. Petr Sennikov, Nizhny Novogorod, Russian Academy of Sciences,
"Molecular Complexes of SiF4 with H2O, CH3OH and O(CH3)2"

Dr. Kenneth Tomer, NIEHS/NIH,
"Application of Mass Spectrometric Techniques to Structural Biology, especially of HIV-related Proteins"

Prof. Lisa Holland, Kent State University,
"Tackling Biological Probelms with Capillary Separations"

Prof. Lisa Kelly, University of Maryland,
"Dual Luminescent Polymers as Temperature and Pressure Sensors"

Dr. Anny-Odile Colson, Procter & Gamble,
"Molecular Modeling of G Protein-Coupled Receptors"

Prof. Debi Evans, University of New Mexico,
"Electron Transfer Through Dendrimers"

Prof. Hong You, UC College of Medicine,
"In-situ Atomic Force Microscopic Study of Saposin C-Membrane Interaction and its Effect on Membrane Structure"

Prof. Anne-Frances Miller, University of Kentucky,
"How Proteins Control the Thermodynamics of Electron Transfer Proteins: 1-protons"

Prof. Kenneth Murphy, University of Iowa,
"Protein-Protein Interactions"

Prof. Bradley Smith, University of Notre Dame,
"Towards Molecular Machines: Using Salt Binding Receptors to Make Rotaxanes"

Prof. Gary Hieftje, Indiana University,
"Evolution and Revolution in Instrumentation for Plasma-Source Mass Spectrometry"

Dr. Fred Fricke, FDA,
"Detection of Counterfeit Drugs and Product Tampering"

Dr. Jana Pika, Firmenich & Dr. Beth Piocos, Procter & Gamble,
"Balancing Family and Professional Life"

Prof. David Yang, Georgetown University,
"RNA-Protein and Protein-Protein Interactions: Aminacyl-tRNA Synthetases as the Models" 

Prof. Karl Seff, University of Hawaii,
"Two New Polyatomic Cations of Sulfur"

Prof. Howard Mayne, University of New Hampshire,
"Thermodynamic Properties of Mixed Lennard-Jones Atomic Cluster"

Prof. Ken Shimizu, University of South Carolina,
"Controlling Shape and Conformation at the Molecular Level"

Prof. Thomas Kim, Youngstown State University,
"Model Systems for Proteomics"

Dr. William Budde, U.S. EPA,
"The Determination of Blue-green Cyanobacteria Toxins"

Prof. Jakob Wirz, University of Basel, Switzerland,
"Unprecedented Photochemistry of Aromatic Ketones in Aqueous Solution"

Prof. Craig Wilcox, University of Pittsburgh,
"Studies of Selenium Speciation in Accumulating Plants by Liquid Chromatography with ICP-MS and ES-MS Detection"

Prof. Edward Solomon, Stanford University,
"Geometric and Electronic Structure/Function Correlations in Non-heme Iron Enzymes"

Prof. John Endicott, Wayne State University,
"The Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Electron Transfer"

Professor Susan Olesik, Ohio State University,
"Critical Chromatography - Finding Order Among Incredible Disorder"

Prof. Phil Castellano, Bowling Green State University,
"Properties and Applications of Luminescent Metal-Organic Chromophores"

Dr. Osamu Niwa, NTT Lifestyle & Environmental Technology Laboratories,
"Microfluidic Device for Measuring Environmental Monitoring"

Prof. Mike Ogawa, Bowling Green State University,
"Electron-transfer in Synthetic Metalloproteins"

Professor David Modarelli, The University of Akron,
"The Synthesis and Time-Resolved Optical Spectroscopy of Novel Porphyrin-Containing Dendrimers"

Dr. James Mack, Boston College,
"Synthesis of Bowls, Balls and Tubes"

Professor Janet Del Bene, Youngstown State University,
"A Chemical Odyssey"