Upcoming Seminars, Colloquia & Thesis Defense
TIME & LOCATION DETAILS

Biochemistry Seminar
Tuesday, November 10
12:00 PM
The Faculty Club
Professor Robert Tukey
University of California, San Diego
Title: Regulation of the Human UGT1 Locus in Mice: Hyperbilirubinemia and Brain Toxicity
Host: Professor Robert Tukey 858-822-4200
Comment: Lunch provided
Inorganic Seminar
Thursday, November 12
10:00 AM
4500 Pacific Hall
Professor Masahiro Yamashita
Tohoku University, Japan
Title: Perspectives in Multi-Functional Single-Molecule Magnets and Single-Chain Magnets
Host: Professor David Hendrickson 858-534-5580
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, November 12
12:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Gianluigi Veglia
University of Minnesota
Title: Role of Internal Dynamics in Substrate Recognition, Catalysis, and Inhibition of Protein Kinase A
Host: Professors Susan Taylor 858-534-3677 and Ulrich Muller 858-534-6823
Comment: Refreshments will be served
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, November 13
4:00 PM
3500 Pacific Hall
Professor Ed Solomon
Stanford University
Title: Spectroscopic Methods In Bioinorganic Chemistry: Blue To Green To Red Copper Sites
Host: Professors Akif Tezcan 858-534-4862 and Mike Tauber 858-534-7334
Physical/Analytical Seminar
Friday, November 13
4:00 PM
3500 Pacific Hall
Professor Ed Solomon
Stanford University
Title: Spectroscopic Methods In Bioinorganic Chemistry: Blue To Green To Red Copper Sites
Host: Professors Mike Tauber 858-534-7334 and Akif Tezcan 858-534-4862
Comment: Joint Inorganic/Physical Seminar
Organic Seminar
Monday, November 16
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor John E. Cronan, Jr.
University of Illinois
Title: Fatty Acid Synthesis - Not Only For Lipids
Host: Professor Mike Burkart 858-534-4466
Physical/Analytical Seminar
Tuesday, November 17
4:00 PM
3500 Pacific Hall
Professor Ann Walker
University of Arizona
Title: Dynamics of the Nitrophorins of a New World Blood-Sucking Insect
Host: Professor Judy Kim 858-534-8080
Organic Seminar
Wednesday, November 18
2:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Weibo Cai
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Peptides, Proteins, and Nanoparticles: Molecular Imaging of Integrin ±v²3 Expression
Host: Professor Yitzhak Tor 858-534-4466
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, November 19
12:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Xiaojiang Chen
University of Southern California
Title: The Mechanisms of a Ring-shaped Nano-machine: The Structure and Function of a Double-hexameric Helicase in DNA Replication
Host: Professors Partho Ghosh 858-822-1139 and Ulrich Muller 858-534-6823
Comment: Refreshments will be served
Organic Seminar
Monday, November 23
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Qing Lin
University at Buffalo-SUNY
Title: Photoinducible Bioorthogonal Chemistry: A New Tool for Chemical Biology
Host: Professor Jerry Yang 858-534-6006
Organic Seminar
Monday, November 30
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Robert Glaser
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Title: 'Symmetry versus Energy and the Role of the Environment on Molecular Structure: Symmetrical Arrangements versus Pseudo-symmetrical Arrangements in the Solid-state
Host: Professor Yitzhak Tor 858-534-6401
Physical/Analytical Seminar
Tuesday, December 01
4:00 PM
3500 Pacific Hall
Professor Mark Ratner
Northwestern University
Title: TBA
Host: Professor Misha Galperin 858-246-0511
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, December 03
12:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Dr. Patrick Hogan
Harvard Medical School
Title: Signalling via ORAI1 Calcium Channels, Calcineurin, and NFAT
Host: Professors Susan Taylor 858-534-3677 and Ulrich Muller 858-534-6823
Comment: Refreshments will be served.
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, December 04
11:00 AM
4500 Pacific Hall
Dr. Daniel DuBois
Institute for Interfacial Catalysis  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Title: A Modular Energy-Based Approach to the Catalysis of Multiproton and Multielectron Reactions
Host: Professor Cliff Kubiak 858-822-4442
Physical/Analytical Seminar
Tuesday, December 08
4:00 PM
3500 Pacific Hall
Professor Steve Mezyk
California State University, Long Beach
Title: TBA
Host: Professor Judy Kim 858-534-8080
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, December 11
11:00 AM
4500 PACH
Professor Christopher L. Cahill
George Washington University
Title: Hybrid Materials from the F-Elements: Synthesis, Structure and Spectroscopy
Host: Professor Seth Cohen (858-822-5596)
Physical/Analytical Seminar
Tuesday, January 05
4:00 PM
3500 Pacific Hall
Professor Tobias Baumgart
University of Pennsylvannia
Title: TBA
Host: Professor Judy Kim 858-534-8080
Special Seminar
Monday, February 08
TBA
Garren Auditorium
Dr. Paul A. Wender
Stanford Medical School
Title: TBA
Host: Professor Yitzhak Tor 858-534-4466
Comment: 2010 Goodman Endowed Lecture
Physical/Analytical Seminar
Tuesday, February 09
4:00 PM
3500 Pacific Hall
Professor Peter Rossky
University Texas Austin
Title: TBA
Host: Professor Mike Tauber 858-534-7334
Comment: Distinguished Lecture in Computational/Theoretical Chemistry
Physical/Analytical Seminar
Tuesday, May 04
4:00 PM
3500 Pacific Hall
Professor Alexei Stuchebrukhov
University of California Davis
Title: TBA
Host: Professor Misha Galperin 858-246-0511
Physical/Analytical Seminar
Tuesday, May 18
4:00 PM
3500 Pacific Hall
Professor Abe Nitzan
Tel Aviv/Northwestern University
Title: TBA
Host: Professor Misha Galperin 858-246-0511
 
 
Thesis Defense
Monday, November 16
2:00 p.m.
Room 1186, Pharmacy School Bldg (PSB)
Structural Basis for the Biological Diversity of the Human Chemokine CCL27
Ariane Jansma
Chair: Tracy Handel
Co-Chair: Patricia Jennings, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Members: Susan Taylor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Faik A. Tezcan, Chemistry and Biochemistry
William Gerwick, School of Pharmacy
Thesis Defense
Tuesday, November 17
11:00 a.m.
Room 3211, Natural Science Bl. (NSB 3211)
Marine-Derived Heterocycles. Structural, Synthetic and Biological Investigations
Colin Skepper
Chair: Tadeusz Molinski
Co-Chair: ,
Members: Michael Burkart, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Judy Kim, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Jerry Yang, Chemistry and Biochemistry
William Fenical, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Thesis Defense
Friday, November 20
2:00 p.m.
Urey Room, Urey Hall
Ultraviolet resonance Raman and Fluorescence Studies of Folded and Unfolded Conformations of the Membrane Protein OmpA
Katheryn Sanchez
Chair: Judy Kim
Co-Chair: ,
Members: Robert Continetti, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Douglas Magde, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Mark Thiemens, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Hector Viadiu-Ilarraza, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Melvin Okamura, Physics
Thesis Defense
Monday, November 23
3:00 p.m.
Pacific Hall, Room 4500
Mapping The Interface Between ApoE And It's Receptors
Miklos Guttman
Chair: Elizabeth Komives
Co-Chair: ,
Members: Susan Taylor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Kimberly Prather, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Hector Viadiu-Ilarraza, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Tracy Handel, Pharmacology

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