The Department of Chemistry's Fall 2015 seminars will be held in CHEM 101, 901 14th Street South, at 11:00 a.m., unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, September 10
Reza A. Ghiladi, PhD, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University
The Role of Porphyrins in Biology: From Protein Biochemistry to Antimicrobial Materials

Wednesday, September 16
JiaBei Lin, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, UAB
Examination of the Dynamic Assembly Equilibrium for E. coli ClpB
PEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME AND LOCATION: CHEM 320, 1:00 p.m.

Thursday, September 17
Daniel A. Savin, PhD, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida
Bottom-up Design in Responsive Polypeptide-based Block Polymer Assemblies

Thursday, September 24 
Daniel A. Savin, PhD, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida
Bottom-up Design in Responsive Polypeptide-based Block Polymer Assemblies

Thursday, October 1 
Igor Alabugin, PhD, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Florida State University
Three stories starting with a triple bond: Design of alkyne reactions for DNA-photocleavage, bioorthogonal click chemistry and construction of graphene nanoribbons

Thursday, October 8
Open

Thursday, October 15
Elfi Kraka, PhD, Department of Chemistry, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas,TX
TBA

Thursday, October 22
R. Karl Dieter, PhD, Department of Chemistry, Clemson University
Synthetic Methods: Serendipity and Design

Thursday, October 29
John Pascal, PhD, University of Montreal, Canada
Regulation of Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases during the Cellular Response to DNA damage

Thursday, November 12
Suzanne E. Lapi, PhD, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine
TBA

Thursday, November 19
James Shorter, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Protein Disaggregases to Counter Human Disease

Tuesday, December 1 (4 p.m., Ryals School of Public Health Building, Room 107)
Karen G. Fleming, PhD, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University
Special Seminar Series: Outstanding Women in Science