DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY & BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINAR PROGRAM

 

Spring Semester 2008

3:00 pm Fridays in Oceanography, Room 200

Date	Speaker	From	Title
2/8/08	Ken Wynne Professor, VCU	Chemical & Life Sciences Engineering Dept. VA Commonwealth Univ. kjwynne@vcu.edu	Polyoxetane and Poly(Co-Oxetanes): Unexpected and Unprecedented Surface Science
2/15/08	OPEN
2/22/08	OPEN
2/29/08	Jeffrey Tibbitt Chemistry Ph.D. Student	ODU Chemistry Department	Active Site Loop Conformations of Dihydrofolate  Reductase
3/7/08	Kermit Jackson Chemistry Ph.D. Student	ODU Chemistry Department	Aspects and Applications of Digital Microfluidics
3/14/08	NO SEMINAR	SPRING BREAK WEEK
3/21/08	Dr. Craig Grapperhaus Associate Professor Univ. of Louisville	Inorganic Chemistry grapperhaus@louisville.edu	TBA
3/28/08	Georgina McKee Chemistry Ph.D. Student	ODU Chemistry Department	Identification of previously uncharacterised natural sediment organic matter using ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
4/4/08	Sergio Guillen Chemistry MS Student	ODU Chemistry Department	Determination of Copper Concentration and Speciation in North Pacific Ocean Using Competitive Ligand Equilibration/Adsorptive Cathodic Stripping Voltammetry.
4/11/08	Dr. Lawrence Pratt	Fisk University	Mechanisms of the  Fritsch-Buttenberrg-Wiechell (FBW) Reaction of  1-Halovinyllithium Carbenoids.
4/18/08	No Seminar
4/25/08	R. Bruce Weisman Professor of Chemistry	Rice University Department of Chemistry Houston, TX	Fluorescence of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes:Applications in Physics, Chemistry, and Bio-Medicine.
5/2/08	John Helms Chemistry Ph.D. student	ODU Chemistry Department	The photochemical interference in oxygen based measurements of primary production.