Previous Visiting Seminar Speakers 2005-06

Professor J.S. Yadav, Director, Indian Inst. of Chemical Technology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Hyderabad, India
"Desymmertrization Strategy Towards the Total Synthesis of Polypropionate Containing Natural Products"

Professor Yeshayahu "Ishi" Talmon, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
"Cryo-TEM Imaging of Self-Aggregation in Solution"

Professor Ahmed Abdo, University of Cairo, Egypt
"Effect of Surfactants on the Voltammetric Response of Some Organic and Biological Compounds"

Dr. John C. Lechleiter, President and COO, Eli Lilly & Company
"A Chemist's Progress: Lessons Learned and Futures Imagined in Drug Development" (Awards Day Seminar)

Dr. Barry Farmer, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
"Atomistic and Mesoscale Modeling of Polymer Nanocomposites"

Professor William R. Heineman, University of Cincinnati (CGSA speaker)
"34 Years of Electrochemistry: One Thing Leads to Another"

Professor Michael Paulaitis, Ohio State University
"Role of Hydration in Weak Protein-Protein Interactions"

Dr. Paul O'Maille, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
"The Evolving Field of Protein Engineering"

Professor Elliot Chaikof, Emory University/Georgia Inst. of Technology
"Engineered Biomaterials for Reparative Medicine, Organ Fabrication, and the Design of Living Systems"

Professor Peter J. Sadler, University of Edinburgh, UK
"The Chemical Elements of Life and Medicines: A Web of Health?" (Zimmer International Scholar)

Professor Peter J. Sadler, University of Edinburgh, UK
"Organometallic and Photactivated Metal Anticancer Complexes" (Zimmer International Scholar)

Professor Kenny Marcus, Clemson University
"Capillary-Channeled Polymer (C-CP) Fibers - A Novel Stationary Phase for Biomolecule Separations"

Dr. Robert G. Laughlin, Retired Procter & Gamble Research Fellow
"Frontiers in Surfactant Phase Science"

Professor Robert J. Linhardt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Heparin: Structure, Activity and Synthesis"

Professor Ruxandra Dima, University of Massachusetts
"A Glimpse into Hidden Worlds: Allosteric Sites in Proteins and the First-steps in Protein Aggregation "

Professor Stephen Holmes, University of Kentucky
"Clusters, Networks, and Molecule-Based Devices Derived from Poly(pyrazolyl)borate Cyanometalates"

Professor Israel Rubinstein, Dept. of Materials and Interfaces, Weismann Inst. of Science, Rehovot, Israel
"Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Branched Coordination Nanostructures"

Professor Panagiotis "Peter" Smirniotis, Head, UC, Dept. of Chemical & Materials Engineering
"Transition Metal Modified TiO2-loaded MCM-41 Catalysts for Visible UV-Visible Light Driven Photodegradation of Aqueous Organic Pollutants"

Dr. Wenjun Zheng, National Institutes of Health
"Decrypting Macromolecular Dynamics with a Simple Physical Model" (Physical Chemistry Faculty Candidate)

Dr. Jianhan Chen, The Scripps Research Institute
"Folding Proteins from First-Principles" (Physical Chemistry Faculty Candidate)

Dr. Margaret Cheung, University of Maryland
"Life in a Crowd: Macromolecular Crowding and Confinement Effects on Protein Interactions in Living Systems" (Physical Chemistry Faculty Candidate)

Dr. George Stan, National Institutes of Health
"Biological Nanomachines at Work: Chaperonin-Mediated Protein Folding" (Physical Chemistry Faculty Candidate)

Professor Richard VanDuyne, Northwestern University
"Molecular Plasmonics for Surface Enhanced Sensing and Spectroscopy"

Professor Timothy Long, Virginia Tech
"Synergies of Topology and Non-Covalent Interactions"

Professor Mark E. Davis, California Institute of Technology
"Systemic Delivery of Short-Interfering RNA (siRNA)"

Professor Richard Nagorski, Illinois State University
"Structure/Reactivity Studies for the Aqueous Reaction of Carbinolamides"

Professor Martin Kirk, The University of New Mexico
"New Insights into the Mechanism of Xanthine Oxidase and CO Dehydrogenase"

Dr. V. Adrian Parsegian, NIH
"Nourished by Noise: The Organizing Power of Random Fluctuation" (Oesper Symposium Awardee)

Professor Peter Rand, Brock University, Emeritus
"Scientific Delights" (Oesper Banquet Speaker)

Dr. Joshua Zimmerberg, NIH
"Using Surface Chemistry to Understand Biological Processes: Adrian's Kind of Science" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Professor Barry Ninham, Institute of Advanced Studies, Canberra, Australia
"The Present State of Molecular Forces in Colloid Science"

Professor Sol Gruner, Cornell University
"Putting the Squeeze on Biology: Biomolecules under Pressure" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Professor William Gelbart, University of California - Los Angeles
"Making Viruses" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Professor Helmut Strey, State University of New York at Stony Brook
"Single DNA Molecule Genotyping" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Professor David Smith, University of York
"Dendritic Supermolecules - Towards Controllable Nanomaterials"

Dr. V. Adrian Parsegian, NIH
"Forces Driving Molecular Assembly"

Professor Patrick Holland, University of Rochester
"Breaking Bonds with Low-Coordinate Iron: Chemistry Inspired by Nitrogenase"

Professor William B. Jenesn, University of Cincinnati
"Preserving the Past While Planning for the Future: The Legacies of Ralph Oesper and Else Schulze" (Dedication of the Else L. Schulze Info Commons & The Oesper Collections in the History of Chemistry)

Dr. Vassilios Galiatsatos, Equistar Chemicals, LP
"Simulations of Complex Polymer Systems"