Previous Visiting Seminar Speakers 2003-04

Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid, University of Texas at Dallas & University of Pennsylvania
"Science is People" (Industrial Affiliates Seminar)

Professor Joel S. Miller, University of Utah
"Organic Magnets: New Chemistry, New Bonding, and New Materials for the New Millennium" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Professor Art J. Epstein, Ohio State University
"Conventional and Unconventional Magnetism in Organic-Based Solids: New Opportunities in New Materials" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Professor Ray H. Baughman, University of Texas at Dallas
"Super Tough Nanotube Composite Fibers for Artificial Muscle and Electronic Textile Applications" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Professor Paras N. Prasad, The State University of New York at Buffalo
"Emerging Opportunities at the Interface of Photonics, Nanoscience and Biology" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Professor Tim M. Swager, MIT
"Polymer Electronics for Ultra-Sensitive Chemical and Biological Sensors" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Professor Wade Adams, Rice University
"Be a Scientist....Save the World" (ACS Oesper Award Banquet Speaker)

Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid, University of Texas at Dallas & University of Pennsylvania
"Electronic Polymers: New Materials for the 21st Century" (Oesper Award Lecture)

Professor Jim Espenson, Iowa State University
"Related Rhenium(V) Catalysts Adopt Different Mechanisms for Oxygen Atom Transfer"

Dr. George Russell, DuPont
"A Chemist's Life in Industry - A DuPont Perspective"

Professor Allison Snow, The Ohio State University
"An Ecologist's View of Genetically Engineered Crops" (Joint with Biology and Physics)

Professor Claudia Turro, The Ohio State University
"Excited State Properties, Photochemistry, and Photocytotoxicity of Bimetallic and Mononuclear Complexes"

Professor Irene Lee, Case Western Reserve University
"Combining Metabolic and Infectious Diseases by Targeting Lon Protease"

Professor Tony Berdis, Case Western Reserve University
"Non-Natural Nucleosides as Potential Chemotherapeutic Agents"

Dr. Art Ellis, National Science Foundation
"'Real-Time' Chemistry: Partnerships with the National Science Foundation"

Professor Michael Crowder, Miami University, Ohio
"Structural and Mechanistic Studies on the Metallo-B-Lactamases"

Dr. Hal Ebetino, Procter & Gamble
"Drug Design and Molelcular Modeling in Osteoporosis Research"

Dr. Harry Stern, Cornell University
"The Endgame of Protein Structure Prediction" (Faculty Candidate-PChem)

Dr. Haifeng "Frank" Ji, Louisiana Tech University
"Micro/Nanocantilever Sensor Technology" (Faculty Candidate-Sensors)

Professor Rick Danheiser, MIT
"Efficient Strategies for the Total Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products"

Dr. Henry "Hank" Ashbaugh, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"From Angstroms to Objects: Building Bridges between Micro and Macro Length Scales" (Faculty Candidate-PChem)

Dr. Ruxandra Dima, University of Maryland
"Surprising Instabilities in Prion Proteins: Evidence from Computational Approaches Applied to Sequences and NMR Structures" (Faculty Candidate-PChem)

Dr. Sergei Vinogradov, University of Pennsylvania
"Porphyrin-dendrimers: Making Use of Dendritic Encapsulation" (Faculty Candidate-Sensors)

Dr. Punit Kohli, University of Florida
"Transport Studies of Biomolecules Using DNA and Protein Tailored Abiotic Nanotube Membranes" (Faculty Candidate-Sensors)

Dr. "Jaimie" Kim, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
"Spectroscopic Investigations of Macromolecular Adsorption at the Solid/Liquid Interface" (Faculty Candidate-Sensors)

Dr. Robert Doerksen, University of Pennsylvania
"A Composite Computational Approach for Design of Nontoxic Antimicrobial Oligomers" (Faculty Candidate-PChem)

Dr. Suri Iyer, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Ligands, Membrane Anchors and Sialylmimetics. Enabling Chemistry for the Reagentless Los Alamos Biosensor" (Faculty Candidate-Sensors)

Professor Isiah Warner, Louisiana State University
"Chiral Separations: Using Polymeric Surfactants and Fluorescence Anisotropy to Understand Chiral Recognition"

Jay L. Zweier, M.D. , The Ohio State University Medical Center
"In vivo EPR Imaging of Free Radicals"

Dr. Kevin Peters , Procter & Gamble
"Role of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases in Endothelial Signaling and Angiogenesis"

Professor Eric Long, IUPUI
"DNA Recognition by Ni(II)-Gly-Gly-His Derived Metallopeptides"

Professor Fred McLafferty, Cornell University
"The Instrumentation and Science of Proteomics: Top Down Tandem Mass Spectrometry for the Characterization of Protein Modification" (Joint with Biology & Physics)

Professor Fred McLafferty, Cornell University
"Infrared Spectroscopy of Proteins in a Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer"

Professor Zongwu Guo, Case Western Reserve University
"Chemical Synthesis of CD 52, Glycopeptides and Other Related Glycoconjugates"

Professor Michael Freitas, The Ohio State University
"Cracking the Histone Code: A Mass Spectrometry Based Approach to Understanding Histone Posttranslational Modifications"

Dr. Lawrence R. Pratt, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"A Fresh Attack on the Molecular Theory of Liquids: Modeling Life's Matrix, Biomolecular Questions of Aqueous Solutions (and Some Answers)"

Professor Cornelia Bohne, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
"Mechanistic Studies on the Photochromism of Dimethyldihydropyrenes"

Professor Cornelia Bohne, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
"Dynamics in Supramolecular Chemistry: How can we understand function and complexity" (2nd Annual Hans & Marlies Zimmer International Scholar)

Dr. Donald A. Tomalia, Central Michigan University, Dendritic Nanotechnologies, Inc.
"Synthetic Control of Dendritic Nanostructures Both Within and Beyond Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimers"

Professor Craig Grapperhaus, University of Louisville
"Thiolates, Thioethers, and Thiyl Radicals: Model Complexes of Iron-Containing Nitrile Hydratase"

Professor David Leitner, University of Nevada, Reno
"Vibrational Energy Flow in Proteins"

Professor Julie Stenken, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"In situ Analysis of Chemical Signalling at Biomaterials Interfaces"