Seminars and Colloquia
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The Chemistry Department offers seminars and colloquia on a regular basis. Speakers for the current semester will be posted here as the information becomes available.
Biochemistry Seminars (Spring 2012)
All seminars will be held on Thursdays in Olney 518 beginning at 12:30 p.m. sharp (unless otherwise noted).
| Date, Time & Location |
Description |
| February 15 12:00 p.m. Olney 518 |
Prof. Rudolf Seitz, Department of Chemistry, University of New Hampshire |
| February 16 3:30 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" |
| February 16 |
Mr. James Strand, Biochemistry Doctoral Student; Advisor Dr. Jin Xu; “Covalent Aggregation of an Extra-Cellular Domain Receptor Fc-Fusion Protein from CHO Cells” |
| February 23 4:00 p.m. Kitson 309 |
Dr. George M. Whitesides, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University; Hosted by Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology Program UMass Lowell; “Low-Cost Diagnostics for the Developing World" |
| March 1 3:30 p.m. Olney 218 |
Prof. Jessica Schiffman, Department of Chemical Engineering, UMass Amherst "Synthesis of Biocidal Nanofiber Mats" |
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March 1 |
Dr. Gavin Wang; Post-Doctoral Fellow; Chemistry, UMass Lowell; "Development of Electrochemical　Biosensors and Cell Based Quartz Crystal Microbalance Biosensors" |
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March 8 |
Prof. Bing Xu, Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University "Supramolecular Hydrogelators for Soft Nanomaterials" |
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March 8 |
Dr. Sanjeev K. Manohar, Associate Professor; Director of Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology Program; Chemical Engineering, UMass Lowell; "Advances in Nanostructured Soft Organic Electronic Materials" |
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March 15 |
Spring Break: No seminar this week |
| March 22 3:30 p.m. Olney 218 |
Prof. Ian Manners, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol "Functional Nanomaterials via Crystallization-Driven "Living Self-Assembly" |
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March 22 |
Dr. Hwai-Chen F. Guo, Professor of Biological Sciences, UMass Lowell; "Glycosylasparaginase: autoactivation, disease, and small molecule activator" |
| March 29 |
Ms. Karina Allen-Ludwig; Biochemistry Doctoral Student; Advisor Dr. Ed Jahngen; "Anaerobic to Respiring -　Promitochondria to Mitochondria" |
| April 5 |
Dr. Earl Ada Director, Materials Characterization Laboratory, UMass Lowell; "A Biochemist's Toolbox: Spectroscopic and Imaging Techniques at the Campus Materials Characterization Laboratory" |
| April 12 |
Ms. Junko Akiyoshi; Biochemistry Doctoral Student; Advisor Dr. Jahngen; "The Use of DNA Aptamers for the Detection of Endotoxin and b-Glucan" |
| April 12 3:30 p.m. Olney 218 |
Prof. Jeremiah Johnson, Department of Chemistry, MIT "Looking for Loops in Polymeric Materials" |
| April 13 2:00 p.m. Alumni Library |
Prof. Matthew Platz, Director, NSF Division of Chemistry "Ultrafast Time Resolved Studies of Excited States and Reactive Intermediates" |
| April 19 |
Mr. Nirmal Paliwal, Biochemistry Doctoral Student; Advisor Dr. Jin Xu; "An Intrinsic Protein Alleviates Abeta Cytotoxicity" |
| April 26 |
Ms. Maria Velasquez, Biochemistry Doctoral Student; Advisor Dr. Jin Xu; "2D-HPLC and Mass Spectrometry Characterization of　Recombinant Protein Charge Heterogeneities" |
| May 3 | Undergraduate Research Presentations |