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Events for November 2012

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  1. Week of October 28, 2012

    1. Thursday, November 1, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmCHEM 575 Seminar: Ms. Jahnabi Roy, UIUC, "Finding the Sweet Spot: Mechanism Guided Design of Glycosidase Inhibitors"
        163 Noyes Lab
      2. 12:00 pm   BioengineeringProfessor Andrew Smith, UIUC, "Engineering Quantum Dots for Multispectral cancer Imaging"
        2240 DCL
      3. 4:00 pmProfessor Corey Stephenson
        Professor Corey Stephenson, Boston University, "Photoredox catalysis: Enabling chemical synthesis with visible light"
        116 Roger Adams Laboratory
      4. 4:00 pm   Materials ChemistryProfessor Ning Fang, Iowa State University, "Science of Rock 'n' Roll: Deciphering Motions in Live Cells"
        112 Chem Annex

  2. Week of November 4, 2012

    1. Tuesday, November 6, 2012

      1. 2:00 pmChBE 565, Professor Andrew Putnam, University of Michigan, "Matrix, Mechanics, and Morphogenesis"
        116 Roger Adams Lab
      2. 3:00 pmProfessor Peter K. Liaw, University of Tennessee, "Fatigue Behavior of Bluk-Metallic Glasses"
        190 Engineering Sciences Building
      3. 4:00 pmProfessor Benjamin Cravatt
        Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Benjamin Cravatt, The Scripps Research Institute, "Activity-Based Proteomics: Applications for Enzyme and Inhibitor Discovery"
        116 Roger Adams Laboratory

    2. Wednesday, November 7, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmCSE Seminar: Construction of Non-equilibrium Hyrdodynamic Models for Atmospheric Entry Plasmas
      2. 3:30 pm   Chem 545 Literature SeminarMr. Joseph Courtney, University of Illinois, "Ultrahigh Resolution Neutron Protein Crystallography"
        112 Chem Annex
      3. 3:30 pm   Chem 545 Literature SeminarMr. Yuxiao Sun, University of Illinois, "Understanding reactive intermediates via infrared photodissociation spectroscopy"
        112 Chem Annex

    3. Thursday, November 8, 2012

      1. 1:00 pm   Final Defense, Professor John Hartwig, AdvisorMr. Patrick Hanley, UIUC, "New Carbon-Nitrogen Bond-Forming Reactions of Palladium"
        433 RAL
      2. 4:00 pm   CHEM 585 Lit SeminarMr. Gary Suseno, UIUC, "Tunable Properties from Structural Reversibility: Responsive Metal-Organic Frameworks"
        112 Chem Annex
      3. 4:00 pm   CHEM 585 Lit SeminarMs. Tracey Hitt, UIUC, "Transparent Conducting Materials: An Investigation into Replacements for Tin-Doped Indium Oxide"
        112 Chem Annex

  3. Week of November 11, 2012

    1. Monday, November 12, 2012

      1. 4:00 pmProfessor Bradley Moore
        Professor Bradley Moore, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, "Genomics-inspired discovery and engineering of natural product small molecules"
        116 Roger Adams Laboratory
      2. 8:00 pm   John C. Bailar Jr. Lectures2011-2012 John C. Bailar Jr. Lecture, Prof. Lawrence Que, Jr., University of Minnesota, "BIO-INSPIRED HYDROCARBON OXIDATIONS BY NONHEME IRON CATALYSTS"
        B102 CLSL

    2. Tuesday, November 13, 2012

      1. 4:00 pm   John C. Bailar Jr. Lectures2011-2012 John C. Bailar Jr. Lecture, Professor Lawrence Que, Jr., University of Minnesota, "High-valent Iron: Structures, Spin States, and Reactivity"
        112 Chem Annex

    3. Wednesday, November 14, 2012

      1. 3:30 pm   Chem 545 Literature SeminarMr. Bruno Giuliano Nicolau, University of Illinois, "Quantum Teleportation"
        112 Chem Annex
      2. 3:30 pm   Chem 545 Literature SeminarMr. William Shaw, University of Illinois, "Vibrational Spectroscopy: Probing the Dynamics of Interfacial Water" "
        112 Chem Annex
      3. 3:30 pm   Chem 545 Literature SeminarMs. Tuseeta Banerjee, University of Illinois, "Water in non polar confinement"
        112 Chem Annex

    4. Thursday, November 15, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmCHEM 575 Seminar: Ms. Xi Zhao, UIUC, "Targeting the cloak of Mycobacterium tuberculosis via the sugar-processing enzymes"
        163 Noyes Lab
      2. 4:00 pmMarshall Brennan
        CHEM 535 Seminar, Mr. Marshall Brennan, UIUC, "FeMo Cofactor: The Characterization of Nature's Carbide"
        116 Roger Adams Laboratory

    5. Friday, November 16, 2012

      1. 9:00 am   11:00 am - Advisor: Paul J A KenisDaria Khvostichenko
        Final Defense: Mesophase-based approaches for on-chip membrane protein crystallization and structure determi
        117 RAL
      2. 9:00 am - 11:00 am   Advisor: Dr. Paul J. A. KenisDaria Khvostichenko
        Final Defense: Mesophase-based approaches for on-chip membrane protein crystallization and structure determination
        117 Roger Adams Lab
      3. 10:00 am   Advisor: Christopher RaoYuki Kimura
        Final Defense: Cellular strategies for chemotactic navigation in complex chemical environments
        401 RAL
      4. 3:00 pmProfessor Peter R. Taylor, Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative and University of Melbourne, "Keeping it Short: A Gzip for Wave Functions"
        165 Noyes Lab
      5. 4:00 pm   Analytical Chemistry Literature SeminarMr. David Wetzel, UIUC, "Boolean Based Biosensors"
        116 RAL
      6. 4:00 pm   Analytical Chemistry Literature SeminarMr. Philip Rabe, UIUC, "Detection of Allergenic Ingredients in Food Products"
        116 RAL

  4. Week of November 18, 2012

    1. Monday, November 19, 2012

      1. 4:00 pmProfessor Minkui Luo
        Professor Minkui Luo, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, " Tailoring Enzyme Cofactor to Profile Substrates and Inhibitors of Protein Methyltransferases"
        116 RAL

  5. Week of November 25, 2012

    1. Monday, November 26, 2012

      1. 4:00 pm   Reception immediately following in AtriumProfessor Kendall Houk
        Marvel Lecture, Professor Kendall Houk, University of California, Los Angeles, "Theory and Mechanisms of Cycloadditions - Applications in Synthesis, Chemical Biology, and Materials Chemistry"
        116 Roger Adams Laboratory

    2. Wednesday, November 28, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmCSE Seminar: Bringing Sound to the Big Data Age
      2. 2:00 pm   Final Defense, Prof. Taekjip Ha, AdvisorMr. Michael D. Brenner
        Mr. Michael Brenner, UIUC Force manipulation and single-molecule FRET of transcriptional regulatory processes".
        433 RAL
      3. 4:00 pmProfessor Kendall Houk
        Marvel Lecture, Professor Kendall Houk, University of California, Los Angeles, "Designing New Enzymes"
        100 Noyes Laboratory

    3. Thursday, November 29, 2012

      1. 12:00 pmCHEM 575 Seminar: Mr. Chih-Chi Chu, UIUC, Antibody-Recruiting Molecules: "New ARMs in the Battle Against Cancer"
        163 Noyes Lab
      2. 4:00 pmZachery Matesich
        CHEM 535 Seminar, Mr. Zachery Matesich, UIUC, "Divergent Reactions on Racemic Mixtures"
        116 Roger Adams Laboratory
      3. 4:00 pm   Materials CHEM 585Ms. Jennifer Esbenshade, UIUC, "Recyclable Magnetic Nanophotocatalysts"
        112 Chem Annex
      4. 4:00 pm   CHEM 585 Lit SeminarMs. Lu Xu, UIUC, "Magnetic Bistability on Molecular Scale : Single-molecule Magnet"
        112 Chem Annex

    4. Friday, November 30, 2012

      1. 4:00 pm   Analytical Chemistry SeminarProfessor Rohit Bhargava, UIUC, "Vibrational Spectroscopic Imaging - New Technology Enables Analytical Science in Cancer Pathology"
        116 RAL
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