Seminars & Colloquia : Chemistry : UMass Lowell

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.

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

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"

Seminars and Colloquia