Seminars and Colloquia

Spring 2012

External Speakers

Date	Time/Location	Speaker
Wednesday February 15	Noon Olney 518	Prof. Rudolf Seitz, Department of Chemistry, University of New Hampshire "Ratiometric Fluorescent Indicators Based on the Poly(N-isopropoylacrylamide) Thermal Phase Transition"
Thursday February 16	3 p.m. Olney 218	Prof. T. Alan Hatton, School of Chemical Engineering, MIT "Responsive Polymers and Gels for the Mediation of Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Solutes"
Thursday February 23	4 p.m. Kitson 309	Prof. George Whitesides, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University "Low-Cost Diagnostics for the Developing World"
Thursday March 1	3 p.m. Olney 218	Prof. Jessica Schiffman, Department of Chemical Engineering, UMass Amherst "Synthesis of Biocidal Nanofiber Mats"
Thursday March 8	3 p.m. Olney 218	Prof. Bing Xu, Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University "Supramolecular Hydrogelators for Soft Nanomaterials"
Thursday March 22	3 p.m. Olney 218	Prof. Ian Manners, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol "Functional Nanomaterials via Crystallization-Driven "Living Self-Assembly""
Thursday April 12	3 p.m. Olney 218	Prof. Jeremiah Johnson, Department of Chemistry, MIT "Looking for Loops in Polymeric Materials"
Friday April 13	2 p.m. Alumni Library	Prof. Matthew Platz, Director, NSF Division of Chemistry "Ultrafast Time Resolved Studies of Excited States and Reactive Intermediates"

UMass Lowell Speakers

Date	Time/Location	Speaker
Thursday February 16	12:30 p.m. Olney 518	James Strand, Ph.D. candidate, Biochemistry "Covalent Aggregation of an Extra-Cellular Domain Receptor Fc-Fusion Protein from CHO Cells"
Friday February 17	10:30 a.m. Olney 518	Surangi Jayawardena, Ph.D. candidate, Organic Chemistry "Synthetic Strategies and Applications of Small Molecules Libraries"
Friday February 24	10:30 a.m. Olney 518	Kalana Jayawardena, Ph.D. candidate, Organic Chemistry "Use of Porphyrin in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells"
Thursday March 1	12:30 p.m. Olney 518	Dr. Gavin Wang, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Chemistry "Development of Electrochemical Biosensors and Cell Based Quartz Crystal Microbalance Biosensors"
Thursday March 8	12:30 p.m. Olney 518	Prof. Sanjeev K. Manohar, Chemical Engineering "Advances in Nanostructured Soft Organic Electronic Materials"
Thursday March 22	12:30 p.m. Olney 518	Prof. Hwai-Chen F. Guo, Biological Sciences "Glycosylasparaginase: autoactivation, disease, and small molecule activator"
Thursday March 29	12:30 p.m. Olney 518	Karina Allen-Ludwig, Ph.D. candidate, Biochemistry "Anaerobic to respiring - Promitochondria to Mitochondria"
Thursday April 5	12:30 p.m. Olney 518	Dr. Earl Ada, Director, Materials Characterization Laboratory "A Biochemist's Toolbox: Spectroscopic and Imaging Techniques at the Campus Materials Characterization Laboratory"
Thursday April 12	12:30 p.m. Olney 518	Junko Akiyoshi, Ph.D. candidate, Biochemistry "The Use of DNA Aptamers for the Detection of Endotoxin and B-Glucan"
Thursday April 19	12:30 p.m. Olney 518	Nirmal Paliwal, Ph.D. candidate, Biochemistry "An Intrinsic Protein Alleviates Abeta Cytotoxicity"
Thursday April 26	12:30 p.m. Olney 518	Maria Velasquez, Ph.D. candidate, Biochemistry "2D-HPLC and Mass Spectrometry Characterization of Recombinant Protein Charge Heterogeneities"
Friday April 27	10:30 a.m. Olney 518	Sivappa Rasapalli, Ph.D. candidate, Organic Chemistry "TBA"
Thursday May 3	12:30 p.m. Olney 518	Undergraduate Research Presentations