Week of April 29, 2012 to May 5, 2012

1. Monday, April 30, 2012

   1. 4:00 pm   MatSE Department ColloquiumDr. Frances Ross, Watson Research Center, IBM, "Vapor and Liquid Phase Crystal Growth in the Transmission Electron Microscope"
      100 Materials Science and Engineering Building
   2. 4:00 pm   Reception immediately following in Atrium

      Professor Ada E. Yonath
      Nobel Prize in Chemistry Recipient, 2009                                                                                  The Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Professor of Structural Biology
      Department of Structural Biology
      Weizmann Institute of Science

      
      Nelson J. Leonard Distinguished Lecture, Professor Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, "A Remnant of a Prebiotic Catalytic Apparatus Functioning Within the Contemporary Ribosomes"
      Alice Campbell Alumni Center Ballroom, 601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana

2. Tuesday, May 1, 2012

   1. 1:00 pm   Analytical Chemistry Final Defense: Advisor - Prof. Ryan BaileyMr. Abraham Qavi, UIUC, "The Development of New Sensing Methodologies for Nucleic Acids using Arrays of Silicon Photonic Microring Resonators"
      117 RAL
   2. 2:00 pm   116 RALChBE 565 Seminar, "Nanoparticle Formation Processes and Targets of Opportunity", Professor Robert K. Prud'homme, Princeton University
      116 Roger Adams Lab
   3. 4:00 pmProf. Prashant Kamat, University of Notre Dame, "TBA"
      112 Chem Annex
   4. 4:00 pmProf. Prashant Kamat, University of Notre Dame, "TBA"
      112 Chem Annex

3. Wednesday, May 2, 2012

   1. 4:00 pm   Chemistry Informal SeminarDr. Boris Rybtchinski, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, "Water-based noncovalent materials: robustness, adaptivity, and function"
      217 Noyes Lab
   2. 4:00 pmEmilia Calvaresi - Carter Fellow - (Hergenrother Lab) - "Targeting Cancer's Sweet Tooth ' Development of Novel Anti-Glycolytic Therapeutics to Exploit the Warburg Effect."
      116 RAL
   3. 4:00 pmProfessor Emily Weiss, Northwestern University, "Nanoscale Interfacial Charge Transfer"
      112 Chem Annex

4. Thursday, May 3, 2012

   1. 4:30 pmHarlin Investiture: Prof. Eric Oldfield
      Alice Campbell Alumni Hall

5. Friday, May 4, 2012

   1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Ella Chan
      Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ella Chan, Oregon Health & Science University, "2010 Anne A. Johnson Work Award Seminar: Adaptor-mediated proteolytic control during the bacterial oxidative stress response"
      B102 CLSL
   2. 4:00 pm   Analytical Chemistry seminarProfessor David Weis, University of Kansas, "Untangling the Spaghetti of Disordered Proteins with Mass Spectrometry"
      162 Noyes Lab