School of Chemical Sciences - Seminars of Interest http://illinois.edu/calendar/list/81 School of Chemical Sciences Seminars plus other seminars of possible interest to SCS faculty and students. Mr. Sherzod Madrahimov, UIUC, "Mechanistic studies on Iridium catalyzed allylic substitution" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/18522881 Seminar http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/18522881 Fri, 18 May 2012 09:00:00 CDT Dr. Lucinda Buhse, FDA, "Identification and Detection of Impurities and Contaminants in Heparin Sodium" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19243318 Seminar http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19243318 Thu, 24 May 2012 16:00:00 CDT Cindy Buhse is the division director of the FDA lab in St. Louis. She leads a laboratory based division in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) responsible for providing a strong scientific and analytical base to support FDA investigations and enforcement actions and conducting research programs to advance the application of new technologies and methods for assessing the quality and authenticity of human drugs. Mr. Daniel Robbins, UIUC, "TBA" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19148470 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19148470 Tue, 29 May 2012 14:30:00 CDT Ms. Nicole Honesty, UIUC, "TBA" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19380002 Seminar http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19380002 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:00:00 CDT Mr. Ian Dailey, UIUC "TBA" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19790173 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19790173 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:30:00 CDT Mr. Lee Cremar, UIUC, "TBA" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/20129833 Seminar http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/20129833 Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:00:00 CDT Final Defense: Using microscale flow cells to study the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/18480947 Academic http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/18480947 Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:00:00 CDT Mr. Yuan Fu, UIUC "TBA" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19790172 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19790172 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:00:00 CDT Ms. Jung-un Baek, UIUC, "TBA" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19502876 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19502876 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:00:00 CDT Final Defense: Optimizing Pentose Sugar Utilization in Escherichia Coli for the Production of Biofuels http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19101013 Academic http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19101013 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:00:00 CDT Final Defense: Systems approaches to identify molecular signatures from high-throughput expression data: Towards next generation patient diagnostics http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/20034818 Academic http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/20034818 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:30:00 CDT Mr. Sumit Ashtekar, UIUC "TBA" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/17853011 Seminar http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/17853011 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:00:00 CDT Ms. Stacie Richardson, UIUC, "TBA" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19502875 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19502875 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:00:00 CDT Mr. Adam Langenfeld, UIUC "TBA" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19502874 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/19502874 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:00:00 CDT Mr. Thomas Anderson, UIUC "TBA" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/20040376 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/20040376 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:30:00 CDT Prof. Michael Shatruk, Florida State University, "Controlling Magnetic Bistability in Solid State and Molecular Materials: Itinerant Magnets and Spin-Crossover Complexes" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/17811134 Seminar http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/17811134 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:00:00 CDT 8th Annual CBI-TP Symposium, Prof. Alice Ting, (MIT) & CBI Trainees, "Titles to be announced" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/15182505 Symposiums http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/15182505 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:00:00 CDT Keeling Lecture, Prof. Ralph Keeling, Scrips Institute of Oceanography, UCSD, " TBA" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/17280134 Seminar http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/17280134 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:00:00 CDT TBA Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Victor Munoz, Spain National Research Council (CSIC) Professor, University of Maryland Adjunct Professor, "The Downhill Folding Scenario: Resolving Protein Folding Motions and Landscapes with Nanosecond, Single-Molecule, and Atomic Resolutions" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/18478148 Seminar http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/18478148 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:00:00 CDT ABSTRACT: Protein folding is a daunting problem. Difficulty resides in the extremely limited information provided by experiment. Protein domains fold into specific, structurally rich, three-dimensional patterns stabilized by myriads of weak interactions. In spite of such inherent complexity, protein domains appear to fold via a deceivingly simple two-state process in which individual molecules slowly alternate between the native 3D structure and an ensemble of unfolded conformations. Obtaining any mechanistic insight thus involves resolving the rare, but sudden, transitions between the native and unfolded states on single molecules with atomic detail and ultrafast time resolution. Meeting these three requirements simultaneously is inaccessible to experiment. For molecular dynamics simulations the limitation is how to access the long timescales required to observe folding and unfolding. However, the discovery of the downhill folding scenario drastically changes this state of affairs. This is so because downhill folding domains fold fast (in microseconds) via a gradual, structurally continuous, process. Therefore, downhill folding offers the opportunity of dissociating the three requirements. Our research efforts over the last decade have focused on developing methods to beat the structural, time, and single-molecule resolution limits on downhill folding proteins. In this presentation I will discuss some of these methods, our proof of principle results on a paradigmatic downhill folding domain, and how they can be generalized to other single-domain proteins. Finally, I will summarize some of the important findings that are emerging from our studies as well as their application for benchmarking the new large-scale molecular dynamics simulations capable of reaching the millisecond timescale. GF Smith Lecture, Professor James Anderson, Harvard University,"TBA" http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/15052360 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/81/15052360 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:00:00 CDT