Week of November 25, 2012 to December 1, 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 pmHerbert E. Carter Fellow: Abhinav Luthra (Sligar Lab) - 'KINETIC SOLVENT ISOTOPE EFFECTS IN THE AROMATIZATION REACTION OF HUMAN AROMATASE'
      116 RAL
   4. 4:00 pmHerbert E. Carter Fellow: Sheena Smith (Kranz Lab) - "Engineering designer T cell receptors through the use of single-chain T cell receptor scaffolds"
      116 RAL
   5. 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