SPRING 2012
JANUARY
January 20, 2012 at Haverford College
Jebrell Glover, Ph.D.
TBA
January 27, 2012 at Bryn Mawr College
Joel Rosenthal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Delaware, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
"Chemistry of Consequence to Renewable Energy: Multielectron Catalysts for Conversion of Sun Light to Liquid Fuels"
FEBRUARY
February 10, 2012 at Bryn Mawr College
Cherie Kagan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Electrical And Systems Engineering,
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Associate Professor of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania
"Understanding
and Engineering the Surface of Semiconductor Quantum Dots For
Low-cost High Performance Solar Cells"
February 24, 2012 at Bryn Mawr College
William Dichtel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Cornell University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical biology
TBA
MARCH
March 23, 2012 at Bryn Mawr College
Alison J. Frontier, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry
University of Rochester, Department of Chemistry
TBA
March 30, 2012 at Bryn Mawr College
Geoffrey Hutchinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry
TBA
APRIL/ CANCELLED
April 13, 2012 at Bryn Mawr College
Erin Pelkey, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Department of Chemistry
TBA
Fall 2011
Haverford Seminars are at 3:00 p.m. in KINSC (Hilles) H109. Bryn Mawr Colloquia are at 4:00 p.m. in the Park Science Building, Room 180.
SEPTEMBER
Friday, September 9, 2011 at Haverford College
E. James Petersson, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemistry
"Toward Protein Motion Capture: Thioamides as Minimalist Chromophores to Monitor Protein Dynamics"
Friday, September 16 , 2011 at Bryn Mawr College
Michael J. Zdilla, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Temple University, Department of Chemistry
"Exploration of Low Coordinate Manganese Cluster Chemistry: Reactive
Clusters Inspired by the Tetramanganese Water Oxidation Catalyst of
Photosystem II"
Friday, September 16 , 2011 at Haverford College
Jannette Carey, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry
Princeton University, Department of Molecular Biology
TBA
Friday, September 23 , 2011 at Bryn Mawr College
Gerald J. Meyer, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Chemistry
TBA
Friday, September 30 , 2011 at Haverford College
Sheila Jaswal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Amherst College, Department of Chemistry
TBA
OCTOBER
Friday, October 21 , 2011 at Haverford College
Michael Hagerman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry
Union College, Department of Chemistry, NY
"Self-assembled clay/polymer nanoassemblies for LED and solar applications"
Friday, October 28 , 2011 at Haverford College
John Asbury, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Penn State University, Department of Chemistry
TBA
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Spring 2011
APRIL
April 1 , 2011 at Bryn Mawr College
Michael F. Summers, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore
"New Insights into the Mechanism of HIV-1 Assembly"
April 8, 2011 at Bryn Mawr College
David M. Chenoweth, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemistry
"Modulating Nucleic Acid Structure with Small Molecules"
April 15 , 2011 at Haverford College
Steve Corcelli, Ph.D.
University of Notre Dame, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
TBA
April 22 , 2011 at Haverford College at 2:45
Ken Brown, Ph.D.
Georgia Tech, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
TBA
Haverford Seminars are at 3:00 p.m. in KINSC (Hilles) H109. Bryn Mawr Colloquia are at 4:00 p.m. in the Park Science Building, Room 180.
FALL 2010
The Departments of Chemistry at Haverford and Bryn Mawr will host the following lectures in Fall 2010.
SEPTEMBER
September 10 , 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
THE POSTER SYMPOSIUM FOR SUMMER SCIENCE RESEARCH
Campus Center Main Lounge, 11:00 am -2:00 pm
Refreshments will be served.
September 17 , 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
Mark F. Reynolds, Ph.D.
Saint Joseph's University, Dept. of Chemistry
SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION BY NOVEL HEME=BASED GAS SENSING PROTEINS
September 24 , 2010 at Haverford College
Shelli Frey '01, Ph.D.
Gettysburg College, Dept. of Chemistry
TBA
OCTOBER
October 22, 2010 at Haverford College
Jeffery G. Saven, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Chemistry
TBA
October 29, 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
Patricia C. Ryan, Ph.D.
Principal Toxicologist, Biological Safety Assessment
MedImmune LLC
APPLYING CELL BIOLOGY RESEARCH TO PREDICT AN APPROPRIATE HUMAN DOSE FOR A NOVEL ONCOLOGY THERAPY
NOVEMBER
November 5, 2010 at Haverford College
Cara M. Santelli, Ph.D.
Smithsonian Institute, Dept. of Minerals Science
TBA
November 12, 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
Joshua Schrier, Ph.D.
Haverford College, Dept. of Chemistry
IMPROVING GRAPHENE WITH SCISSORS AND A HOLE-PUNCH
November 19, 2010 at Haverford College
Steven A. Corcelli, Ph.D.
University of Notre Dame, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
TBA
DECEMBER
December 3 , 2010 at Haverford College
D. Howard Fairbrother, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Chemistry
TBA
Haverford Seminars are at 3:00 p.m. in KINSC (Hilles) H109. Bryn Mawr Colloquia are at 4:00 p.m. in the Park Science Building, Room 180.
SPRING 2010
The Departments of Chemistry at Haverford and Bryn Mawr will host the following lectures in Spring 2010.
JANUARY
January 22 , 2010 at Haverford College
Rob Dickson
Georgia Tech
TBA
FEBRUARY
February 19 , 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
Scott McNeill Sieburth
Temple University, Department of Chemistry
FUN WITH PHOTOCHEMISTRY, OR HOW TO MAKE STRAINED, COMPLEX MOLECULES IN ONE EASY STEP
February 26 , 2010 at Bryn Mawr College / CANCELED
Patricia C. Ryan, Ph.D.
Principal Toxicologist, Biological Safety Assessment
MedImmune LLC
TBA
MARCH
March 19, 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
Phillip D. Hustad
The Dow Chemical Company
AN INDUSTRIAL R&D SUCCESS STORY: DISCOVERY, COMMERCIALIZATION, AND RECENT INNOVATIONS IN OLEFIN BLOCK COPOLYMERS
APRIL
April 9, 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
Cassandra L.Fraser
University of Virginia, Department of Chemistry
TBA
April 16, 2010 at Haverford College
David W. McCamant
University of Rochester, Department of Chemistry
TBA
April 23, 2010 at Bryn Mawr College
Karin Musier-Forsyth
Ohio State University, Department of Chemistry
EXPLOITING TRICKS VIRUSES USE AS NEW TARGETS FOR ANTI-HIV THERAPY
FALL 2009
SEPTEMBER
September 11 , 2009 at Bryn Mawr College
Monica Chander
Bryn Mawr College
"Redox sensing by SoxR: alerting the cell to oxidative stress (and more?)"
September 25, 2009 at Haverford College
Michael Massiah
Department of Biochemistry, Oklahoma State University
"How a protein structure reveals function: Midline-1 and
Opitz G syndrome"
OCTOBER
October 2, 2009 at Bryn Mawr College
Adam Matzger with Leila Foroughi (BMC '05)
University of Michigan
"Controlling Crystal Polymorphism: Pharmaceuticals to Proteins"
October 30, 2009 at Haverford College
Clifford Kubiak
University of California, San Diego, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
"Important Things You Never
Learned About Inorganic Mixed Valency: Ultrafast, Non-Arrhenius,
Solvent, and Proton Coupled Electron Transfers"
(Note: Professor Kubiak will also offer a lecture entitled, "Fixing CO2," on Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 8:00 pm. The location will be provided at a later date.)
NOVEMBER
November 6, 2009 at Bryn Mawr College
Cynthia A. Maryanoff
Distinguished Research Fellow, Convergent Product Development
Cordis, a Johnson and Johnson Company
"Split view: Process Chemistry on KL4/ Toolbox for Drug-eluding Stents"
November 13, 2009 at Haverford College
Stefan Bernhard
Carnegie Mellon
University
"Efficient
Transition Metal Catalysts for the Photogeneration of Hydrogen"
November 20, 2009 at Haverford College
Veronika Szalai
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
"Metals in your Mind: How Copper Interacts with the Amyloid-beta Peptide
of Alzheimer's Disease"
DECEMBER
December 4, 2009 at Haverford College
Pedro Marenco
Bryn Mawr College, Department of Geology
TBA
Haverford Seminars are at 3:00 p.m. in KINSC (Hilles) H109. Bryn Mawr Colloquia are at 4:00 p.m. in the Park Science Building, Room 180.