Visiting Seminar Speakers 2008-09

Professor Linda Shimizu, University of South Carolina
"Porous Materials from Self-assembling Cyclic Ureas"

Professor Michael Haley, University of Oregon
"It Takes Alkynes to Make a World - New Methods for the Formation of Annulenes, Cinnolines and Isoindazoles"

Professor George John, City College of the City University of New York
"Self-Assembled Soft Materials from Sugar Amphiphiles, and the In Situ Synthesis of Nanoparticles"

Professor Alan G. Marshall, Florida State University
"Connections and Luck: The Development of Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry" 

Professor Hilkka Kenttamaa, Purdue University
"Gas-Phase Reactivity Studies on Organic Polyradicals" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Professor Neil L. Kelleher, University of Illinois
"FTMS as a Major Driver of Precision Proteomics" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Professor Michael T. Bowers, University of California at Santa Barbara
"Recent Results from High Resolution Ion Mobility Studies" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Professor Jack Beauchamp, California Institute of Technology
"Picking the Right Tool for the Job: Probing Biomolecule Structure with Electrons, Protons, Metal Ions and Free Radicals" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Professor Roman A. Zubarev, Uppsala University, Sweden
"CHON-kin Isotopic Mystery" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Sir Harold Kroto, Florida State University (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1996)
"Kentucky Fried Creationism and Other Food for Thought" (Oesper Banquet Speaker)

Professor Alan G. Marshall, Florida State University
"Reading Chemical 'Fine Print': The Quiet Revolution of Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass Spectrometry" (Oesper Award Lecture)

Professor Sapna Deo, IUPUI
"Luminescence-Based MicroRNA Detection Technologies"

Professor Frank Schultz, IUPUI
"Understanding Multielectron Transfers and Other Concerted Chemical Events"

Professor Andrew Herr, UC, College of Medicine, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry & Microbiology
"Structural and Biophysical Studies of Receptor Signaling and Cellular Adhesion"

Professor Teresa Head-Gordon, University of California-Berkeley
"From Monomer Structure to Polymorphism: Computational and Experimental Studies of the Alzheimer's Abeta Peptide"

Dr. Juris Meija, Inst. for National Measurement Standards, National Research Council, Canada
"Atomic Weights of the Elements: Is there anything left for research?"

Professor Christopher Hadad, Ohio State University
"Development of a Novel Bioscavenger against Chemical Warfare Agents"

Professor Dan Mindiola, Indiana University
"Titanium Alkylidynes"

Dr. Michael Greig, Pfizer Global Research
"Biological Mass Spectrometry in Support of Drug Discovery"

Professor Anne McCoy, Ohio State University
"Using Vibrational Spectroscopy to Probe H+ Transport in Ion-Water Complexes"

Professor Alex Demchenko, University of Missouri-St. Louis
"New Approaches to Expeditious Oligosaccharide Synthesis"

Professor Cornelia Bohne, University of Victoria (Zimmer Int'l Scholar '04)
"Controlling Bimolecular Reactions in Supramolecular Systems"

Professor Manabu Abe, Hiroshima University, Japan (Zimmer Int'l Scholar)
"Generation of Long-lived Singlet 1,3-biradicals, and Their Related Chemistry"

Professor Scott Tanner, University of Toronto, Canada
"A Mass Cytometer for High Throughput Multi-Parameter Analysis of Single Cells"

Professor Guo-Min Li, University of Kentucky
"Mechanism of DNA Mismatch Repair"

Dr. Morris Bullock, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"Heterolytic Cleavage of Hydrogen in Metal-Catalyzed Ionic Hydrogenations and the Oxidation of Hydrogen"

Professor John Straub, Boston University
"Probing the Principles Governing Protein Aggregation"

Professor Alessio Accardi, University of Iowa  [sponsored jointly with the Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Physiology]
"Mechanisms of Ion Binding and Selectivity in the CLC Transporters and Channels"

Professor Stuart Rowan, Case Western Reserve University
"Supramolecular Chemistry in Polymeric Systems: From Nanoassemblies to Dynamic Materials"

Professor James E. Mark, University of Cincinnati
"Some Interesting things about the Polysiloxanes"