Salzberg Chemistry Seminars are held on Mondays; Biochemistry Seminars are held on Wednesdays. Links to each series are at the bottom of this page.

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC
Jan. 30
Eric Block
U. Albany
Garlic and Other Alliums: The Lore and the Science

Feb. 1
Bertrand Garcia-Moreno
Johns Hopkins
Charges in the hydrophobic interior of proteins

Feb. 6
Cristian Contescu
ONL
Nanoporous Carbons for Hydrogen Storage: Challenges, Misconceptions, and Perspectives
Feb. 8
Peter Friedman
U. Pittsburgh
Struct. physiology of NHERF1, a multifunctional PDZ protein

Feb. 13

College Closed

Feb. 15
Carlos Camacho
U. Pittsburgh
Interactive technologies for designing novel small molecules to target PPIs

Feb. 21
(TUE.)
Akira Kawamura
Hunter, CUNY
Benzophenone Photoprobes for Drug-target Identification

Feb. 22
Susan Taylor
UC, San Diego
Assembly of a dynamic scaffold

Feb. 27
Bob Engel
Queens College
Recent Adventures in the Chemical Architecture of Polycationic Organic Species
Feb. 29
Kevin Dalby
U Texas, Austin
Mechanisms of non-ATP competitive inhibitors of  MAP kinases

Mar. 5
Philip Batson
Rutgers
Aberration Correction: A Noisy Revolution in Electron Microscopy

Mar.       7
R. Andrew Byrd
Natl Cancer Inst., NIH
Exploring a ubiquitination machine using structural and chemical biology

Mar. 12
TBA

Mar. 14
Paramjit Arora
NYU
Synthetic strategies for targeting protein-protein interactions

Mar. 19
TBA

Mar. 21
Elizabeth Rhoades
Yale U.
Single molecule approaches to characterizing disordered proteins

Mar. 26
Alexander Neimark
Rutgers
Breathing Crystals: Adsorption-Induced Deformation in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Mar. 28

Steven O. Smith
SUNY Stony Brook
Ligand binding and helix interactions in GPCR activation

Apr. 2
faculty
special
Prof. Teresa Bandosz &
Prof. Stephen O'Brien
TB: Visible-Light-Enhanced Interactions of Sulfur Containing Gases with Composites of Zinc(Hydr)Oxide with Graphite Oxide and Graphene

SO: TBA

Apr. 4
Kenneth Dill
SUNY Stony Brook
How protein physics limits the behaviors of biological cells.

Apr. 9

Spring Recess

Apr. 11
Chungyu Wang
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Mechanism of Abeta aggregation and protein splicing

Apr. 16
faculty special
Prof. Zimei Bu & Prof. Urs Jans
ZB: TBA

UJ: TBA

Apr. 23
Kathryn Beers
NIST
TBA

Apr. 30
Vinod Manoharan
Harvard
Colloids and Clusters: Watching Self-assembly in the Simplest Complex Systems

May 2
Justine Roth
Johns Hopkins
Metals and catalytic amino acid radicals:
Cox I and II, inducible dioxygenases

May 7
Kay Brummond

U. Pittsburgh

TBA

May 9
Paul Falkowski, NA
Rutgers Discovering the electronic circuit diagram of life

May 14
Abigail Doyle
Princeton
New Approaches to C–F and C–C Bond Formation by Transition Metal Catalysis

May 16
Jeremy Dittman
Weill Cornell
Role of complexin in regulating vesicle fusion at the synapse