Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry News

News Archive

• The Lawrence lab shows a new way to display 3D content in publications

• Singel and Larsen named associate provosts

• MSU researcher samples Chinese hot springs as part of international collaboration

• Recipients announced for latest Kopriva Graduate Student Fellowships at MSU

• Congratulations Seniors!
  

Seminars

• Dr Elias Arner will present a department seminar titled "Targeting selenocysteine - from thioredoxin reductase in cancer to imaging with positron emission tomography using Sel-tagged protein ligands." Dr. Arner is the guest of Edward Schmidt
  

• Dr. Connie Chang from Harvard University will present a research seminar May 28 at 3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium. The title of her seminar is "Droplet-Based Microfluidics for Biological Applications."
  
  Abstract: In this talk, I will present the use of droplet-based microfluidics for biological applications, such as for the creation of biomaterials, for the sensing of bacterial biofilms, and as an ultra high-throughput screening platform for the study of viral populations and virus evolution. Using microfluidic devices manufactured by soft-lithography methods, picoliter-sized aqueous drops in oil can be created, assayed, and sorted at kHz rates, allowing for highly sensitive and rapid detection of biological molecules or organisms.

• Dr. Brad Carrow from the University of Tokyo will present his research in a seminar today in the Byker Auditorium at 2:30 pm.
  Dr. Carrow is a candidate for the organic faculty position.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a Graduate Student Recognition and Achievement Celebration today at 4 pm in the Byker Auditorium. An informal reception will follow.
  

• Dr. Patrick Holder from M.I.T. will present a research seminar today in the Byker Auditorium at 2:30 pm.
  Dr. Holder is a candidate for the bioinorganic faculty position.

• Mr. Khoi Huynh will present his research today in the Byker Auditorium (3:10 pm). The title of his talk is "Group 3 Metal Catalysis and Asymmetric Hydroamination of the Unactivated Alkene."
  Mr. Huynh is a graduate student working in Professor Tom Livinghouse's Lab
  
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• Dr. Jay Neitz, Bishop Endowed Professor in Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington Medical School will deliver a Kopriva Science Lecture. The title of his talk is Reweaving the Rainbow: Gene Therapy and It's Potential for Treating Vision Disorders.
  
  Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
  4 pm- Procrastinator Theater
  

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a third year graduate student seminar from Ph.D candidate Ms. Katie Burbank. The title of her seminar is "Molecular basis of uranium toxicity." Ms. Burbank works with Professor Robert Szilagyi.
  3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium
  
  

• Dr. Rachel Newell, a Senior Research Chemist from Esterline - Defense Technologies will present a seminar entitled "Opportunities and Challenges for Research and Development in the Defense Industry".
  She will give an overview of the defense industry, and talk about Esterline specifically.
  A brief summary of products by Esterline and research conducted for the military will be given with the emphasis being on chemiluminescence.
  This is a brownbag seminar - please bring a lunch, drinks will be provided. NOON today!
  
  Dr. Newell is the guest of Professor Sullivan and Szilagyi.
  
  

• Professor Grant Mauk from the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of British Columbia will present a research seminar today at 3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium. The title of his talk is "New Reactivities and Inhibitors for an Emerging Drug Target: Indoleamine 2,3–Dioxygenase”
  
  Dr. Mauk is the guest of professor John Peters.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a seminar from Dr. David Chandler (Sandia National Laboratory-Livermore, CA). The title of his talk is "Quantum-State-Resolved Molecular Beam Scattering: Production and Use of Ultracold Molecules and Testing of Excited Electronic State Potential Energy Surfaces."
  Today at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  Dr. Chandler is the guest of Professor Tim Minton.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is honored to have retired Department Professor Reed Howald present a seminar titled "The truth about equations of state, the interior of earth, and nearly everything else". Friday August 31st at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  

• Ms. Anna Michel will present her third year research in a department seminar titled "Effects of glycodendrimers on galectin-3 induced cancer cell aggregation."
  3:10 pm Byker Auditorium
  Ms. Michel is a graduate student working with Professor Mary Cloninger

• Ms. Amanda Mattson will present her third year research in a department seminar titled "The Determination of Dendrimer End Group Functionalization Patterns Via EPR.
  Today at 3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium. Ms. Mattson is a graduate student working with Professor Mary Cloninger

• Ms. Candace Goodman will present her third year research in a department seminar titled "Studies of protein binding and aggregation using fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy."
  Today at 3:10 pm Byker Auditorium. Ms. Goodman is a graduate student working with Professor Mary Cloninger

• Mr. Brad Towey will present his third year research in a department seminar titled
  "Correlation between reactivity and structure in Mo-Fe-S clusters."
  
  3:10 pm Byker Auditorium. Mr. Towey is a graduate student working with Professor Robert
  Szilagyi.
  
  

• Mrs. Krista Shisler will present her third year research in a seminar with a title to follow. Mrs. Shisler is a graduate student working in the laboratory of Professor Joan Broderick.
  
  3:10 pm Byker Auditorium
  

• Mr. Mark Kleven will present his research today in the Byker Auditorium (3:10 pm). The title of his seminar is "Metalloreductases Linked to Cancer and Metabolic Syndrome: Structure-Function Studies of the STEAP Family." Mr. Kleven is a graduate student working in Professor Martin Lawrence's Lab.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a Ph.D defense from Ms. Joyce Shepard. The title of her research seminar is "NOVEL GUANIDE COMPOUNDS INHIBITING HIV INFECTION, CANCER METASTASIS, AND BACTERIAL GROWTH."
  
  Today at 10:00 am in the Byker Auditorium. Ms. Shepard is a graduate student working in Professor Martin Teintze's lab.

• Mr. Jacob Valenzuela will defend his PhD beginning with a research seminar. Today at 10 am in the Byker Auditorium. Mr. Valenzuela is co-advised by Professors Brian Bothner and Matt Fields.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a seminar from Dr. Ryan A. Shenvi (Department of Chemistry,
  The Scripps Research Institute). The title of his talk is "Chemical Synthesis of Secondary Metabolites." Today at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a PhD defense by Mr. Shourjo Ghose. The title of his talk is "Investigating the Mechanistic and Structural Parameters of Two Radical SAM Enzymes."
  10:00 am today in the Byker Auditorium. Mr. Ghose works in the laboratory of Professor Joan Broderick.

• Mr. Joshua Heinemann will present his research today in the Byker Auditorium (3:10 pm). The title of his seminar is "Understanding environmental adaptations through metabolites taken from Sulfolobus Solfataricus." Mr. Heinemann is a graduate student working in Professor Brian Bothner's Lab.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a research seminar from Dr. Nick Hud (Georgia Tech) today in the Byker Auditorium at 3:10 pm. The title of his talk is "A self-assembly approach to the origin of RNA."
  Dr. Hud is the guest of Professor John Peters.
  

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a special research seminar from Dr. Edwin Heilweil from NIST-Gaithersburg. The title of his talk is "Time-Resolved Infrared studies of Fe-Fe Hydrogenase Model Compounds and Organometallic Photoswitching Systems." Byker Auditorium at 1:10 pm

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a Ph.D defense from Mr. Adam Crain. The title of his talk is "Interactions and Electron Transfer Involved in Pyruvate Formate-Lyase Activation." Today at 9:00 am in the Byker Auditorium. Mr. Crain is a graduate student working in Professor Joan Broderick's lab.

• Ms. Katelyn Mason will give her third year graduate student seminar today at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium. The title of her seminar is "Interdisciplinary approach to understanding barley senescence."
  Ms. Mason is a graduate student working in Professor Valerie Copie's lab.

• Dr. Franz Geiger (Northwestern University) will present a seminar today in the Byker Auditoriium at 3:10 pm.
  
  Dr. Geiger is the guest of Professor Rob Walker.

• The Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a seminar from Dr. Joseph O'Connor (UC-San Diego- Department of Chemistry). The title of his seminar is "Metal-Catalyzed Dienyne and Enediyne Cycloaromatizations"
  
  3:30 pm Today in the Byker Auditorium

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host Dr. Greg Roth from the Sanford Burnham Institute. The title of Dr. Roth's seminar is "Design and Synthetic Approaches toward Medicinally Relevant Natural Products."
  3 pm in the Byker Auditorium
  Dr. Roth is the guest of Professor Brian Bothner.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a seminar from Dr. Mark Taylor (University of Toronto). The title of his talk "Noncovalent and reversible covalent interactions: fundamental studies and applications in catalysis."
  Today at 4:00 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  www.chem.utoronto.ca/ppl/faculty_profile.php?id=165
  

• The Department of Microbiology invites you to the Cooley Symposium and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony. Monday April 15th- 2013 1-3 pm Procrastinator Theater
  
  Please join us to celebrate the completion of the Cooley Laboratory renovation. The project, which was funded with a $14.9 million investment from the National Institutes of Health, transformed the 52-year old building into a state-of-the-art biomedical research facility. Researchers working in the renovated building are from three disciplines: Microbiology, Cell Biology and Neuroscience, and Immunology and Infectious Diseases.
  
  The event will feature a talk by world-renowned stem cell researcher and immunologist, Irving Weissman. The Montana native and MSU alumnus is the director of Stanford University's Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.
  
  If you have questions, or need additional information, please contact the Department of Microbiology at 994-2902.
  
  

• Ms. Brittany Fonner will give her third year graduate student seminar today at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium. The title of her research seminar is "NMR Solution Structure of the NEAT 1 Domain of IsdB: a protein involved in heme acquisition in Staphylococcus aureus."
  Ms. Fonner is a graduate student working in Professor Valerie Copie's lab.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a M.S. defense from Mr. Brad Reaman. The title of his talk is "Palladium Catalyzed Oxyallylation of Activated Carbonyl Compounds."
  Mr. Reaman is a graduate student working in Professor Trevor Rainey"s laboratory.
  
  Today at 11 am -Byker Auditorium.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a PhD defense by Mr. Jesse Therien. The title of "Draft genome and targeted transcriptional analysis of Clostridium pasteurianum (strain W5) provides insights into the relationship between hydrogenase expression and nitrogen fixation".
  3:10 pm today in the Animal Science Building. Mr. Therien works in the laboratory of Professor John Peters.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a Ph.D defense from Mr. Logan Giles. The title of his research seminar is "MULTI-EDGE X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY AND ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS OF BIOMIMETIC MODEL COMPLEXES TOWARDS THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE ACTIVE SITE OF [FeFe]-HYDROGENASE"
  
  Today at 11:30 am in the Byker Auditorium. Mr. Giles is a graduate student working in Professor Robert Szilagyi's lab.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a seminar from Dr. Glendon Parker (Utah Valley University-Department of Biology). The title of his talk is "Use of Proteins to Obtain Measures of Identity in the Absence of Usable DNA."
  Today at 3:10 am in the Byker Auditorium.
  Dr. Parker is the guest of Professor Brian Bothner.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a Ph.D defense from Mr. David Gardenghi. The title of his research seminar is "Synchrotron Radiation-Based Spectroscopic Investigation of the Electronic and Geometric structures of Iron-Sulfur Clusters, Particles, and Minerals."
  
  Today at 9:00 am -Byker Auditorium.
  Mr. Gardenghi is a graduate student working in Professor Robert Szilagyi's lab.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a M.S. defense from Ms. Cate Burgess The title of her talk is "Insights into Microbial Metabolism."
  Ms. Burgess is a graduate student working in Professor John Peter's laboratory.
  
  Today at 3 pm Byker Auditorium

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a M.S. defense from Ms. Neelambari Joshi, The title of her talk is 'Investigating the Role of Iron Sulfur Cluster Binding Residues of HydF." Ms. Joshi is a graduate student working in Professor John Peter's laboratory.
  
  Today at 9 am -Byker Auditorium.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a research seminar from Professor Gary Strobel (MSU). The title of his talk is "Antibiotics, Fuels and Endophytic Fungi." 3:10 pm Byker Auditorium

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and WISE will host Dr. Geraldine Richmond, Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon. The title of her talk is "At the Water's Edge: Experimental and Computational Studies of Environmentally Important Processes at Liquid Surfaces."
  3:10 pm Byker Auditorium
  WISE, MT INBRE and The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry are sponsoring this event.

• Mr. Vamseedhar Rayaprolu will defend his PhD beginning with a seminar in Byker Auditorium at 10 am. Mr. Rayaprolu is a graduate student in Professor Brian Bothner's lab.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a seminar from Ms. Jessica Whittman, an alumni from our department, and now a graduate student at University of Washington Chemistry Department. She will be presenting a seminar on her graduate research titled "PCET Reactivity Studies of Ruthenium Complexes with Separation Between the Proton and Electron Transfer Sites."
  Friday March 22, 2012 3:10 Byker
  Jessica is a 4th year chemistry graduate student at the University of Washington. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from Montana State University in 2009 where she did undergraduate research with Prof. Trevor Douglas and Prof. Robert Szilagyi. From her work in these labs, she developed a particular interest in inorganic chemistry. She now studies proton-coupled electron transfer reactivity of ruthenium complexes in Prof. Jim Mayer's lab.

• Ms. Alison O'Neil will defend her Ph.D beginning with a research seminar at 3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium. The title of her seminar is "Engineering Bacteriophage P22 as a Nanomaterial." Ms. O'Neil is in the laboratory of Professor Trevor Douglas.

• Dr. Nathan Scott will give a Department seminar today in the Byker Auditorium at 3:10 pm. The title of his talk will soon follow. Dr. Scott is post-doctoral scholar working with Professor Pat Callis.
  
  Sorry for the inconvenience-this seminar has been cancelled

• Mr. Fumihiro Ijima will defend his PhD beginning with a seminar. The title of his talk is "Expression and characterization of NosX from Achromobacter cycloclastes and Electron transfer reaction between NosX and N2O Reductase." Mr. Ijima is a graduate student working with Professor David Dooley.
  4:10 pm Byker Auditorium

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a third year graduate student seminar from Mr. Kevin Swanson. The title of his talk is "Towards Sustainable Photobiological H2 Production-Understanding Interactions between O2 and the
  [FeFe]-hydrogenases."
  Byker Auditorium at 3:10 pm today.
  Kevin is working in the laboratory of Professor John Peters.
  

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host Dr. Sofi Eriksson (IMID-MSU) today in the Byker Auditorium at 4:10 pm. The title of her talk is "Thioredoxin reductase as a target enzyme for electrophilic anticancer drugs." Dr. Eriksson is the guest of Professor Brian Bothner.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a third year seminar from graduate student Mr. Jesse Therien. The title of his talk is "Draft Genome of Clostridium pasteurianum W5 - New Insights into Hydrogen Metabolism and Nitrogen Fixation." Mr. Therien is working in the laboratory of Professor John Peters.
  3:10 pm Byker Auditorium
  
  

• Mr. John Kirtley will present his research in a Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry seminar. The title of his presentation is "Tracking the "C" in an SOFC: Understanding the Redox Processes of Biogases in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells." Mr. Kirtley is a graduate student working with Professor Rob Walker.
  
  3:10 pm Byker Auditorium

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a seminar today in the Byker Auditorium (3:10 pm) from Dr. Walid Maaty.
  The title of his talk is “Cellular Response of an Extremophile to Stress.”
  Dr. Maaty is a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Professor Brian Bothner.
  

• Ms. Alison O'Neil will present her research in graduate student seminar sponsored by the Kopriva Lecture Series. The title of her seminar is "Molecular Engineered Nano-Reactors: Enzymatic Enhancement Through Encapsidation"
  
  Today in the Byker Auditorium at 4:10 pm. Ms. O'Neil works in the laboratory of Professor Trevor Douglas.

• Mr. Adam Crain will give his third year seminar today at 3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium. The title of his talk is "Protein-protein Interactions Involved in Pyruvate Formate-Lyase Activation."
  Mr. Crain is a graduate student working in Professor Joan Broderick's Lab.

• George C. Schatz, the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry and of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University, will present "New Twists on DNA in Materials and Biology." He recently appeared on the "Times Higher Education list of Top 100 Chemists of the Past Decade." Schatz's lecture is sponsored by MSU's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and is presented by the College of Letters and Science's Distinguished Speakers Series.
  
  Today at 3:10 in the Procrastinator Theater

• Mr. Shourjo Ghose will give his third year seminar today in the Byker Auditorium at 2:10 pm. The title of his talk is "The Tale of Two Radical SAM Enzymes"
  Mr. Ghose is a graduate student working for Professor Joan Broderick.
  

• Mr. Anupam Goel will present his dissertation research in a seminar entitled "NMR INVESTIGATIONS OF THE ROLE OF INTRINSIC FLEXIBILITY OF THE TRYPTOPHAN REPRESSOR."
  
  Today at 3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.
  Mr. Goel is a graduate student working in Professor Valerie Copie's lab.

• Jonas Mulder-Rosi from the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience will present his research today. His seminar is entitled "Information and Anatomy: What Neuronal Morphology Can Tell Us About Neuronal Function."
  
  4:15 pm in the Byker Auditorium

• Dr. Eric Anslyn (University of Texas) will present a seminar today in the Byker Auditorium at 3:10 pm. The title of his talk is "Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry." Dr. Anslyn in the guest of Professor Mary Cloninger.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a research seminar from Dr. Zach Heiden from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
  2:30 pm- Byker Auditorium
  Dr. Heiden is a candidate for the bioinorganic faculty position.

• Professor Debbie Crans from the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University will present a seminar today at 12:45 pm in Byker Auditorium. The title of her talk is "pH in biological nanosized systems."
  
  Dr. Crans is the guest of Professor Joan Broderick.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a M.S. defense from Ms. Shannon Atkins. The title of her talk is "Synthesis of Disaccharides for the Functionalization of PAMAM Dendrimers.
  Today at 2 pm -Byker Auditorium
  Ms. Atkins is a graduate student working in Professor Mary Cloninger's laboratory.
  
  

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry announce a PhD defense from Mr. Travis Harris.
  The title of his seminar is "Development of Computational Methods for Iron-Sulfur Clusters: Application to the Elusive Structure of the Iron-Molybdenum Cofactor of Nitrogenase."
  
  Today at 11:00 am in the Byker Auditorium.
  Mr. Harris is a graduate student working in Professor Robert Szilagyi's lab.
  
  

• Dr. C. Richard ILL Amgen Inc. Thousand Oaks, CA.
  will give a seminar at 2 pm today in the Byker. The title of his seminar is “Therapeutic Antibodies: Potency and Biological Characterization.”
  There will also be a lunch for graduate students interested in learning about the transition from academics to industry. Dr. ILL has worked in the biotech industry for over 25 years in both small start up companies and large industry leaders.
  
  Dr. Ill is the guest of Professor Brian Bothner
  
  

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a third year graduate student seminar from Mr. Matt Queen. The title of his research seminar is "Come for the windows, stay for the science."
  4:10 pm Byker Auditorium
  Mr. Queen is in the laboratory of Professor Robert Szilagyi.

• Mr. Mark Epstein will defend his thesis research in chemistry beginning with a seminar today in the Byker Auditorium at 2:00 pm. The title of his talk is "Synthesis of Zwitterionic cyanine dyes for use in proteomics.
  Mr. Epstein is a graduate student working with Regents Professor Paul Grieco.

• Ms. Rachel Hutcheson will defend her Ph.D in biochemistry beginning with a research seminar. The title of her talk will follow. Ms. Hutcheson is a graduate student working with Professor Joan Broderick.
  
  4:30 pm - The Byker Auditorium
  
  

• Dr. Mike Adams Georgia Power Professor in Biotechnology
  Distinguished Research Professor
  Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Georgia will give a department seminar titled "Hunting for Metalloproteins." Byker Auditorium at 3:10.
  

• Dr. Mike Adams Georgia Power Professor in Biotechnology
  Distinguished Research Professor
  Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Georgia will give a research talk as part of the Letters and Science Distinguished Speaker Series. Today at 4 pm in the SUB room 235. The tile of his presentation is "Green Chemistry: Past, Present, and Future."
  

• Jacob Valenzuela will be presenting his research in a third year graduate student seminar "Discovering Potential Roles of Multiple Carbon Fixation Pathways During Lipid Accumulation in Phaeodactylum tricornutum via RNA-sequencing."
  
  Today at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Mr. Valenzuela works in the laboratory of both Matthew Fields and Brian Bothner.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a seminar from Professor Robert Cramer Jr., Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University. The title of his talk is "Host and Fungal Molecular Responses to Hypoxia: To Air or Not to Air?"
  
  Today at 3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.
  

• WISE Wednesday’s Research Snapshots-Prof. Sarah Codd
  "Magnetic Resonance Studies of Fluid Dynamics in a Complex System."
  November 2nd, 12 pm, Byker Auditorium
  
  The series’ motive is to showcase the inspiring and diverse research of
  female faculty at Montana State University. The seminars are open to all with a luncheon to follow for WISE members and the speaker.
  

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a seminar from Professor Tim Minton (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry-MSU). The title of Dr. Minton's seminar is "Unusual Dynamics in High-Energy Gas-Phase and Gas-Surface Collisions.”
  
  Today at 3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry presents a Ph.D defense from Mr. Ramon Tusell. The title of his talk is "Computation of tryptophan fluorescence quenching by amide and histidine."
  9:30 am in the Byker Auditorium. Mr. Tusell is a graduate student working with Professor Patrik Callis.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a seminar from Professor John Peters (MSU). The title of his talk is "Insights into the biosynthesis of complex iron-sulfur cofactors shift the paradigm for iron-sulfur enzyme evolution"
  3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a seminar from Professor Alex Evilevitch, Associate Professor of Physics and Biochemistry at Carnegie Mellon University. The title of his talk is "Physical Chemistry of Viral Evolution."
  Today at 3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium. Professor Evilevitch is the guest of Professor Brian Bothner.
  
  

• Professor David D. Weis from the
  Department of Chemistry & Adams Institute for Bioanalytical Chemistry,
  University of Kansas, will present a seminar today at 3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium. The title of his talk is "Untangling the spaghetti of intrinsically disordered proteins with mass spectrometry."
  Dr. Weis is the guest of Professor Brian Bothner.
  
  
  
  

• Professor Valerie Copie will present "Identification of Cellular Metabolites using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Mass Spectrometry" Wednesday, Oct. 12, at noon in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  The presentation is the first seminar of the "WISE Wednesday's Research Snapshots Seminar Series" for the 2011-2012 academic year. The goal of the series is to highlight research opportunities at MSU.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a seminar from Dr. Mark Fleming (Harvard Medical School). The title of his talk is "The molecular genetics of iron metabolism: new genes and novel therapeutics."
  Today at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Dr. Fleming is the guest of Professor Martin Lawrence.

• Amy Servid, a doctoral candidate in Professor Trevor Douglas' lab will present her graduate student research in a seminar sponsored by the Kopriva Lecture Series from the College of Letters and Science. The title of her talk is "Engineering Protein Cages for Therapeutic and Materials Applications: Exploring the Interior and Exterior Surfaces."
  
  Please note the special time for this seminar -4:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  

• Dr. Paul Anastas from the Center for Green Chemistry and Green
  Engineering at Yale University will be this year's E. O. Wilson seminar speaker. The title of his seminar will follow.
  
  Byker Auditorium 2-4 pm.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a special seminar today from Dr. Tahei Tahara, Chief Scientist at RIKEN (Japan). The title of his talk is "Looking at the world with ultrashort light."
  Please note the time of this seminar is 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium. Dr. Tahara is the guest of Professor Rob Walker.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a seminar from Dr. Wayne Outten -University of South Carolina. The title of his talk is "The Suf pathway: An ancient system for Fe-S cluster biosynthesis with a modern role under stress"
  3:10 in the Byker Auditorium. Dr. Outten is the guest of Professor Joan Broderick.
  
  

• Professor John Weeks, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland will give a seminar today in the Byker Auditorium. The title of his talk will be “Screening, Structure and Simulation of Coulomb Systems: The Long and Short of It.”
  3:10 pm Byker Auditorium
  Professor Weeks is the guest of Professor Rob Walker.

• Dr. Caryn Outten from the University of South Carolina will present a seminar today at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium. The title of her seminar is "Glutathione and Fe-S Clusters: From Redox Control to Iron Sensing". Professor Outten is the guest of Professor Joan Broderick.

• The Graduate Student Society of the Department enthusiastically announces the first seminars of the semester. Join the Society in the Byker Auditorium at 2 pm to hear Alison O'Neil and Neelambari Joshi discuss their research. The seminar is open to graduate and undergraduate students. Pizza will be served!

• CoBRE will host a seminar today from Dr. Blaine Roberts from the Oxidation Biology Laboratory-Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, Australia. The title of his seminar is "Investigating the role of metals and membranes in Alzheimer's Disease: Why does amyloid beta have to be soluble to be toxic?"
  
  Byker Auditorium 3:10 pm.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a Master's Thesis Defense from Mr. Casey Schlenker. The title of his talk is "NMR solution structure and biological activity of E73, A DNA binding protein from sulfolobus spindle virus ragged hills."
  
  Today at 1 pm-Byker Auditorium
  Mr. Schlenker is working in the laboratory of Professor Valerie Copie.
  
  
  

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will present a Master's thesis defense from Mr. Nicholas Boswell. The title of his presentation is "Biochemical Characterization of the [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Maturation Protein HydE".
  
  Today at 10 am in the Byker Auditorium. Mr. Boswell is a graduate student of Professor Joan Broderick.

• Professor Tony Dean from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines will give the seminar "The Role of Free Radical Kinetics in Energy Research."
  
  Today-3:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Professor Dean is the guest of Professor Rob Walker.

• Prof. Mohammad Movassaghi from MIT will present a seminar today in the Byker Auditorium, Prof. Movassaghi is the guest of Prof. Trevor Rainey. More information about Prof. Movassaghi can be found at web.mit.edu/movassag/www/"

• Dr. Stephanie Hurst from the
  Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Northern Arizona University is scheduled to present a seminar today at 3:10 in Byker. The title of her talk is "Everything I ever needed to know about chemistry I learnt from Lego: Adventures with palladium and platinum sandwich complexes"
  
  Dr. Hurst is the guest of Professor Brian Bothner.
  

• Dr. R. Kip Guy from the Division of Chemical Biology & Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will give the seminar
  "Discovery and Development of Novel Antimalarials."
  May 6, 3:10 pm
  Byker Auditorium
  
  Dr Guy is the guest of Professor Mary Cloninger.

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry presents a seminar from Ms. Alison O'Neil. The title of her talk is "Genetically programmed encapsulation and controlled release of protein cargo from bacteriophage P22."
  
  3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium. Ms. O'Neil is a graduate student working with Professor Trevor Douglas.

• Dr. Ja-Hyoung Ryu (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) will give a seminar today in the Byker Auditorium at 3:00 pm.
  
  The title of his talk is "Nanogels for Stable Intracellular Drug-Delivery Vehicles." Dr. Ryu is a candidate for the organic faculty position in the department.

• Ms. Janice Lucon will give the seminar "Nanocomposite Materials Utilizing Protein Cage Architectures" at 3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Ms. Lucon is a graduate student working with Professor Trevor Douglas.

• Dr. Philip Sullivan from the University of Washington will give a seminar "Organic Electro-optic Materials: From Design to Device"
  Today at 2:30 pm in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Dr. Sullivan is a candidate for the organic faculty position in the department.

• Dr. Khaled Aamer, a Research Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology will give a seminar today entitled
  "Hierarchical Nanostructures and Self-Assembly of Polymers Containing Metal Complexes in the Side Chain"
  
  3:00 pm Byker Auditorium
  
  Dr. Aamer is a candidate for the organic faculty position in the department.

• Professor John Wood from Colorado State University will present a seminar entitled
  "Recent Efforts in the Synthesis of Oxindole Containing Natural Products"
  
  Today at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Prof. Wood is the guest of Prof. Trevor Rainey. More information about Prof. Wood can be found at Colorado State University/Wood
  
  Prof. Wood's seminar is sponsored in part by the Abbott Laboratories

• Professor Michele McGuirl from the Division of Biological Sciences-University of Montana will give a seminar today in the Byker Auditorium at 3:10 pm today. The title of her talk is "Intermediates of Prion Amyloidosis"
  Professor McGuirl is the guest of Professor Brian Bothner

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Ph.D. Defense by Mr. Jared Bowden.
  "Investigating the Cargo Contents of Serum Albumin In Search of Biomarkers for T2D"
  Today at 11:00 am in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Mr. Bowden is a graduate student working in Professor Ed Dratz's laboratory.
  
  

• Prof. Aaron Massari from the University of Minnesota will present a seminar titled "Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Electronic Organic Interfaces"
  3:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Prof. Massari is the guest of Prof. Rob Walker.

• Mr. Vamsee Rayaprolu will give a seminar today at 3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium. The title of his talk is "Understanding the biophysical properties of icosahedral virus capsids for use as nanovehicles in biomedical applications"
  
  Mr. Rayaprolu is a graduate student with Professor Brian Bothner.
  

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry presents a Master's Thesis Defense from Mr. Benjamin Johnson. The title of his seminar is "Monitoring protein cage nanoparticle morphology for applications in medicines and materials.
  
  9:30 am Byker Auditorium
  
  Mr. Johnson is a student in Professor Trevor Douglas's lab.

• BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!
  
  The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a seminar from Trinity Hamilton Ph.D. (MSU-Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry). The title of her presentation is "Defining the ecological interactions that drove the evolution of biological nitrogen fixation."
  3:10 pm Byker Auditorium
  Ms. Hamilton is a post-doctoral student working with Professor John Peters.

• Dr. Nick Pace from Department of
  Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas will present a seminar entitled
  
  "Urea denatured state ensembles contain extensive secondary structure that is increased in hydrophobic proteins"
  
  Byker Auditorium, 3:10 pm
  
  Dr. Pace is the guest of Professor Pat Callis

• Mr. Nathanael Lintner will defend his dissertation today at 1 pm in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  The title of his seminar is "CRENARCHAEAL VIRUS-HOST SYSTEMS: STRUCTURE-FUNCTION STUDIES OF CRENARCHAEAL VIRUSES AND PROKARYOTIC ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY"
  
  Mr. Lintner is a graduate student of Professor Martin Lawrence

• Dr. Brian Bennett from the National Biomedical EPR Center, Department of Biophysics,
  Medical College of Wisconsin will give a seminar today in the Byker Auditorium at 3:10 pm. The title of his talk is "Biological Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR): Old Tricks and New Horizons"
  Dr. Bennett is a guest of Professor John Peters.

• Several departments on campus will be hosting prospective graduate students at MSU's Annual Recruitment Weekend. Please join us for a poster session that showcases exciting research on the Bozeman campus.
  
  12-2 pm- MSU Football Stadium. More details to follow.

• A research poster session showcasing our current graduate students in the department will take place between 12-2 pm.

• Ms. Trinity Hamilton will give a seminar today in the Byker Auditorium at 3:10 pm.
  Ms. Hamilton is a graduate student working with Professor John Peters

• The College of Letters and Science-Kopriva Science Seminar Series continues with a presentation today from Mr. Travis Harris. The title of his talk is "Unlocking the Mysteries of Biological Nitrogen Fixation with Quantum Chemistry".
  
  4 pm Byker Auditorium
  
  Mr. Harris is a doctoral candidate in Professor Robert Szilagyi's research group.

• Dr. Koyu Fujita will give a seminar today in the Byker Auditorium at 3:10 pm. The title of his talk is "A Possible Solution for the Climate Crisis? Mechanistic Insights into Nitrous Oxide Reductase from Achromobacter cycloclastes."
  
  Dr. Fujita is a post-doctoral scholar in Professor David Dooley's research group.

• Professor Hiroshi Matsui from CUNY/Hunter College will give a seminar today at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium. The title of his talk will be "Peptide Nanotechnology for Device Building Blocks, 3D Directed Self-Assembly, and Sensing"
  
  Dr. Matsui is the guest of Professor Trevor Douglas

• Mr. Ben Duffus will give his third year seminar today in the Byker Auditorium. The title of his seminar is "Role of the Radical SAM Enzyme HydG in [FeFe]-hydrogenase H-Cluster Biosynthesis." Mr. Duffus is a graduate student in the laboratory of Professor Joan Broderick.

• Prof. David Ballou from the University of Michigan will give a seminar today in the Byker Auditorium at 3:10 pm.
  
  The title of his talk is "Rieske Oxygenases Are Not P450s, But They Are Still Interesting"
  
  Prof. Ballou is the guest of Prof. Joan Broderick

• Professor Mary Cloninger will present a Kopriva Science Seminar today entitled "Using Dendrimers to Mediate Multivalent Intercellular Recognition Events"
  
  4 pm Procrastinator Theater
  
  

• Mr. Ben Bolduc will present a seminar entitled "Searching for the first Archaeal RNA Viruses from Yellowstone Hot Springs" today in the Byker Auditorium at 3:10 pm.
  
  Mr. Bolduc is a student of Professor Mark Young.

• Professor Gerhard Wagner
  Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School
  will present a seminar entitled "Protein interactions in translation initiation that maintain or destabilize cellular homeostasis" at 11:00 am in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Visit his website at - gwagner.med.harvard.edu

• Ms. Gal Keren-Aviram will giver a seminar today at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  Ms. Keren-Aviram is a graduate student working with Professor Ed Dratz.
  

• President Cruzado and Provost Potvin invite the campus community to attend the first annual Spring Convocation on Tuesday, Jan. 11, from 10:30 a.m.-noon in Reynolds Recital Hall.
  
  The event will give special recognition to MSU's outstanding faculty members.
  

• Prof. Christopher Jaroniec from Ohio State University will give a seminar at 4:10 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium entitled "Atomic-resolution studies of protein structure and dynamics by magic-angle spinning solid-state NMR spectroscopy"
  
  Prof. Jaroniec is the guest of Prof. Bern Kohler. More information about Prof. Jaroniec may be found on his web site, Prof. Christopher Jaroniec

• Mr. David Gardenghi will give his seminar "Iron-Sulfur Clusters, Particles, and Minerals - Bridged By X-rays" today at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium. Mr. Gardenghi is a graduate student working with Professor Robert Szilagyi.

• Mr. Logan Giles will present a seminar at 2:10 today in the Byker Auditorium entitled "Creating a blueprint of [FeFe]-Hydrogenase using biomimetic model complexes, XAS and DFT."
  
  Mr Giles is a graduate student working with Professor Robert Szilagyi.

• Prof. Steve Sprang from the University of Montana will present a Seminar "Stimulus through disorder: a curious mechanism of G protein activation"
  at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium. Prof. Sprang is the guest of Prof. Brian Bothner.
  
  More information about Prof. Sprang can be found on his website.

• Mr. Fumihiro Ijima, a graduate student in Professor David Dooley's group will present a seminar entitled "NosX and Pseudoazurin: Electron Transfer Proteins for Nitrous Oxide Reductase" today in the Byker Auditorium at 10 am.
  

• Prof. Valerie Pierre from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota will give her seminar today entitled "Imaging cellular process: Inorganic chemistry to the rescue."
  
  2:10 - Byker Auditorium
  
  Prof. Pierre is the guest of Prof. Trevor Douglas.

• Dr. Thomas Angel will present a seminar on “Investigations of the cerebrospinal fluid proteome employing the AMT tag label free quantitative bottom-up analytical method”, at 4:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Dr. Angel is a Postdoc at PNNL and former graduate student with Professor Dratz.

• Mr. Carl Fahlstrom will present a seminar entitled "Fluorescence of tryptophan and 5-fluoro-tryptophan dipeptides" at 3:10 today in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Mr Fahlstrom is a graduate student working with Lee Spangler and Pat Callis.
  
  
  

• Professor Viresh Rawal from the University of Chicago will give a seminar entitled "Design and Development of New Scaffolds for Hydrogen Bonding Catalysis"
  today at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Professor Rawal is the guest of Professor Tom Livinghouse

• Ms. Julie Sprenger will defend her Masters thesis today at 3:30 pm in the Byker Auditorium. The title of her talk is "Glycodendrimer Mediation of Galectin-3 Induced Cancer Cell Aggregation"
  
  Ms. Sprenger is the student of Prof. Mary Cloninger.

• Mr. Anupam Goel, a graduate student in Prof. Valerie Copie's research group, will present a seminar "Flexibility in DNA-binding Proteins: An NMR Perspective" today at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.

• Dr. Wolfgang Schreier, a post -doc in Prof. Bern Kohler's group and formerly at LMU Munich, will present a seminar, "Time Resolved Spectroscopy on Light induced Molecular Reactions"
  at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Please note time change

• Ms. Sunshine Silver will defend her Ph.D. Dissertation today beginning with her seminar "Kinetic, Mechanistic and Spectroscopic Studies of the DNA Repair Enzyme Spore Photoproduct Lyase"
  at 8:30 am in Gaines Hall room 101.
  
  Ms. Silver is the student of Prof. Joan Broderick.
  
  Please note time and place
  

• Prof. Gil Nathanson from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will give a seminar "Molecular Beam Studies of Acid Dissociation: How Does HCl Dissolve in Water?" today at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Prof. Nathanson is the guest of Profs. Tim Minton and Rob Walker

• Dr. Eckard Münck from Carnegie Mellon University will present a seminar "Mössbauer, EPR and DFT Studies of High-Valent Diiron Complexes: Gaining Insights into Magnetism and Reactivity"
  at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium. He is hosted by Prof. John Peters.

• The newly remodeled Gaines Hall will have its Grand Opening Celebration today

• Dr. Michael Reidy from the Department of History and Philosophy here at MSU will give a seminar "Three Case Studies in the History of Science, or, Why History is so Damn Important"
  today at 5:30 in the Byker Auditorium. This will be followed by a recognition and celebration of our outstanding graduate students.
  
  More information about Prof. Reidy can be found at www.montana.edu/history/2009/faculty/38/reidy-michael

• Prof. Paul Blakemore from Oregon State University will present a Seminar "Stereospecific Reagent Controlled Homologation of Boronic Esters" at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium. Prof. Blakemore is the guest of Prof. Tom Livinghouse.
  
  More information about Prof. Blakemore can be found on his website.

• Mr. Kristian Schlick will defend his Ph.D. beginning with his seminar "Evaluating Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions Induced by Multivalent Carbohydrate-Functionalized Dendrimers", at 1:10 today in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Mr. Schlick is the student of Prof. Mary Cloninger.

• Today begins two-day ceremonies celebrating the inauguration of Dr. Waded Cruzado as the 12th President of Montana State University. See the MSU web page, www.montana.edu, for more details.

• Mr. Scott Laffoon will present his Ph.D. seminar "Type-2 Diabetes and Innate Immunity: New Connections Discovered by Multidimensional Fractionation of Blood Plasma Prior to Proteomic Analysis" at 2:00 pm today in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Mr. Laffoon is the student of Prof. Ed Dratz.

• "Small Molecule Discovery by High Throughput Flow Cytometry for the NIH Molecular Libraries Program"
  Presented by Professor Larry Sklar, SOM Pathology Department, University of New Mexico

• Prof. Judy Kim from UC San Diego will present a seminar "Spectroscopic studies of tryptophan residues as electron transfer radical
  intermediates and membrane protein anchors" at 2:10 p.m today in the Byker Auditorium
  
  More information about Dr. Kim may be found at
  http://chemistry.ucsd.edu/research/profile.cfm?cid=C04912

• Prof. Mary Kay Pflum from Wayne State University will give a seminar "Kinase Cosubstrate Promiscuity" today at 2:10 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium
  
  This seminar is hosted by Prof. Mary Cloninger
  
  More information about Prof. Pflum can be found on her web site; http://www.chem.wayne.edu/pflumgroup/

• Prof. Jeffrey Johnson from the University of North Carolina will give a seminar on April 23 at 2:10 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium as part of the Abbott Labs Lecture Series.
  
  This seminar is hosted by Prof. Trevor Rainey.
  
  More information about Prof. Johnson can be found on his web site; http://www.chem.unc.edu/people/faculty/johnson_je/index.html
  

• Mr. Egidius Zilinskas, a Ph.D. student of Professor Joan Broderick, will defend his dissertation beginning with his seminar, "Binding and Repair of DNA by Spore Photoproduct Lyase" ob Friday, April 23 at 10:00 a.m.. in the Byker Auditorium

• Dr. James Kaput, Director of Personalized Nutiotion and Medicine, FDA/National Center for Toxicological Research, will present a seminar "Research Strategies for Personalizing Nutrition Medicine and Healthcare" at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium
  
  This seminar is hosted by Prof. Ed Dratz
  
  More information about Dr. Kaput and the Division of Personalized Nutrition and Medicine can be found on his web site, http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/nctr/WhatWeDo/ResearchDivisions/ucm079056.htm

• Mr. Casey Schlenker will present a seminar "E73. Structural Investigation of a Hyperthermophilic Protein from Sulfolobus Spindle Virus, using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance" at 2:10 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Mr. Schlenker is a graduate student working in Prof. Valerie Copie's research group.

• Professor Carlito B. Lebrilla from the University of California - Davis will give a seminar at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Professor Lebrilla will be hosted by Professor Dratz.
  
  The focus of his group is in the development of analytical tools in two areas - nutrition and diseases.
  
  More information can be found on his website;
  http://www.chem.ucdavis.edu/faculty/cf-info.php?id=24

• Matt Shipman a Ph.D. student of Professor Ed Dratz, will defend his dissertation beginning with his seminar, at 1:00 p.m.. in the Byker Auditorium

• Shawn McGlynn, a Ph.D. student of Professor John Peters, will defend his dissertation beginning with his seminar at 8:00 a.m. in room 126 of the EPS Building. Please note location difference.

• Ms. Shannon Lee, a Masters student of Professor Brian Bothner, will present a seminar, "Ebola Virus: Investigation of the Glycoprotein Receptor Dynamics Required for Host Infection" at 11:00 a.m. in the Byker Auditorium

• David Mulder, a Ph.D. student of Professor John Peters, will defend his dissertation beginning with his seminar, "Biochemical, spectroscopic, and structural investigations on [FeFe]-hydrogenase maturation and complex metallocluster assembly" at 9:00 a.m. in room 126 of the EPS Building. Please note location difference.
  

• Prof. Armen Zakarian from UC Santa Barbara Will give a seminar "Synthesis of Halogenated Natural Products" on April 2 at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium as part of the Abbott Laboratories Lecture Series
  
  This seminar is hosted by Prof. Trevor Rainey
  
  More information about Prof. Zakarian can be found on his web site, http://www.chem.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/zakarian/
  

• Prof. Richard Kriwacki from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will present a seminar today at 3:10 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium. To schedule time to meet with Prof. Kriwacki, please contact Brian Bothner.
  
  More information about Richard Kriwacki may be found on his web site,
  http://stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2cbe10e88ce70110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=7cc71436e3218010VgnVCM1000000e2015acRCRD

• Dr. Leroy Hood, President, Institute for Systems Biology is presenting a Master's Class relating to his lecture "Systems Medicine and Transforming Technologies: Cataloging the Revolution of Medicine from a Reactive to a Proactive Mode." at 2:10 p.m.
  
  More information about Dr. Hood may be found at
  http://www.systemsbiology.org/scientists_and_research/faculty_groups/Hood_Group/Profile

• Prof. Akif Tezcan from UC San Diego will present a seminar "Inorganic Control of Biological Self Assembly"
  at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Prof. Tezcan is the guest of Prof. Trevor Douglas.
  
  More information about Prof. Tezcan can be found on his website: http://www-chem.ucsd.edu/research/profile.cfm?cid=C04906

• Today the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry will host prospective graduate students.

• Prof. Jill Bargonetti-Chavarria from Hunter College will present a seminar "Pharmacogenomics for Cancers with Compromised p53"
  at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium
  
  Prof. Bargonetti-Chavarria is the guest of Prof. Mary Cloninger
  
  More information about Prof. Bargonetti-Chavarria can be found at http://sonhouse.hunter.cuny.edu/facultyDetailsDisplay.asp?id=2
  

• Mr. Nathanael Lintner form Montana State University will present a seminar "Prokaryotic Adaptive Immunity: Structure-Function Studies of the Sulfolobus solfataricus CRISPR-Cas System" at 2:10 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Mr. Lintner is a graduate student working in Prof. Martin Lawrence's research group.

• Prof. Aaron Massari from the University of Minnesota will give a seminar today in the Byker Auditorium. Prof Massari Is the guest of Prof. Rob Walker

• Mr. David Schwab will defend his Ph.D. Dissertation today at 10:00 a.m. beginning with his seminar "NO Hypoxic Vasodilation: EPR Investigation of Nitrite-Methemoglobin" in the Byker Auditorium
  
  Mr. Schwab is a student of Prof. David Singel

• Prof. Arno Hazenkamo from the University of Leiden will give a seminar today at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  "Cannabis as a medicine; a scientific overview"
  
  

• 8:30 H. Steven Wiley
  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  
  “Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) system as a model for cell signaling”
  
  9:10 David Fell
  Oxford Brookes University
  
  “General principles governing the regulation and control of metabolism”
  
  9:50 David Goodlett
  University of Washington
  
  “Precursor Acquisition Independent From Ion Count: How to Dive Deeper into the Proteomics Ocean”
  
  10:30 Break
  
  10:45 Jonathan Stamler
  Case Western Reserve http://ciganka-laura.ru/цыганская магия
  
  “The role of nitric oxide in the control of complex physiological responses”
  
  11:25 Louis Weiss
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  
  “The developmental biology of parasites using genomic and proteomic tools”
  

• Ms. Elizabeth Sanger will defend her Masters Thesis today at 10:30 a.m. beginning with her seminar "The Development of Fluorescent and Phosphorescent Dyes for Biochemical Applications" in the Byker Auditorium
  
  Ms Sanger is a student of Prof. Paul Grieco
  

• Professor Valérie Copié will give a seminar on NMR Metabolomics and its application to translational research at 2:10 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  This seminar is sponsored by the NIH CoBRE.

• This seminar has been postponed until spring 2010
  
  Prof. Mary Kay Pflum from Wayne State University will present a seminar "Kinase Cosubstrate Promiscuity" at 2:10 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Prof. Pflum is the guest of Prof. Mary Cloninger
  
  More information about Prof. Pflum can be found at http://chem.wayne.edu/faculty/pflum/

• Mr. Jonathan Hilmer will defend his Ph.D. Dissertation today at 3:30 p.m. beginning with his seminar "Solution-phase Dynamics of the Hepatitis B Capsid Protein: Structural Rearrangements and Motion Induced by Small Molecules" in the Byker Auditorium
  
  Mr. Hilmer is a student of Prof. Brian Bothner
  

• Prof. Adam Zlotnick from Indiana University will present a seminar at 2:10 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Prof. Zlotnick is the guest of Prof. Brian Bothner
  
  More information about Prof. Zlotnick can be found at http://www.bio.indiana.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/Zlotnick.html

• Dr. Michael Kort from Abbott Laboratories will present a seminar "Small Molecule Approaches to the Treatment of Chronic Pain" today at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  This seminar is sponsored by Abbott Laboratories.
  
  Dr. Kort is the guest of Prof. Mary Cloninger

• Dr. Gnana Sutha Siluvai, a post-doc fellow currently working in Prof. Robert Szilagyi's research group will present a seminar "Reactivity studies of the mononuclear red copper protein Sco from Bacillus subtilis" today at 4:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Dr. Siluvai was previously at the Oregon Health & Science University
  
  Please note the time change from the usual seminar schedule.

• Prof. Felicia Etzkorn from Virginia Tech will give her seminar "Pin1 Inhibition, Mechanism, and Cell Cycle Regulation" on October 23 at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium as part of the Abbott Laboratories Lectureship Series.
  
  More information about Prof. Etzkorn can be found on her web page, http://www.files.chem.vt.edu/chem-dept/etzkorn/homepage.htm
  
  Prof. Etzkorn is the guest of Prof. Mary Cloninger

• Dr. Gerard Ostheimer, senior scientist at MIT, will give a seminar "To Sleep or Die: Cell Fate after Chemotherapy" on October 16 at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  DNA damage induces cancer cells to arrest their cell cycle and then either repair the damage and proliferate, enter a state of permanent arrest
  (senescence) or apoptose. Using a combination of flow cytometry and high-content microscopy we have quantitatively monitored cellular signaling and phenotypic outcomes in response to DNA damage. We have quantified signaling within the DNA damage signaling pathways, the cell cycle machinery, the apoptotic machinery and the mitogen/stress activated kinase pathways. Partial Least Squares Regression of these data demonstrate a role for the mitogen activated protein kinase, Erk, in modulating the cellular response to DNA damage.
  
  This seminar is hosted by Prof. Robert Walker

• Prof. Brian Bothner from our Department will give a seminar "Some Like It Hot"
  today at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium

• Ms. Sunshine Silver, a 2008-2009 recipient of the Kopriva Fellowship, will give her seminar "Mechanistic and Spectroscopic Studies of the DNA Repair Enzyme Spore Photoproduct Lyase" today at 4:00 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  The Kopriva Fellowship was established in 1990 by Phil C. Kopriva to award a graduate student in the MSU College of Letters and Sciences who is studying in a broad range of biomedical-related disciplines.
  
  Ms. Silver is a student in Prof. Joan Broderick's research group.

• Prof. Christine Aikens from Kansas State will present a seminar "Optical Absorption,
  Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, and Chiroptical Properties of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles" at 2:10 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Prof. Aikens is the guest of Prof. Tim Minton
  
  More information about Prof. Aikens can be found at http://www.ksu.edu/chem/people/faculty/aikens.html

• For information about the Paul A. Grieco Symposium please go to this web link; http://www.chemistry.montana.edu/grieco/

• The final lecture in the Paul A. Grieco lecture series, "Solvent Effects in Organic Chemistry and Applications to Natural Products Synthesis" will be presented by Michael J. Harney and Benjamin D. Reeves at 4:10 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium

• The second lecture of the Paul A. Grieco Lecture series, "Organoselenium and Organosulfer Reagents and the Synthesis of Vernolepin" will be presented by Ben Skerik-Borg and Junwei Shen at 4:10 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium

• Beth Sanger and Lakshindra Chetia will present "Bicyclic Systems and the Synthesis of Prostaglandins" the ifrst in a series of lectures honoring Prof. Paul Grieco.
  
  All lectures begin at 4:10 in the Byker Auditorium

• Mr. Lars Liepold will defend his Ph.D. dissertation today beginning with his seminar "Exploring the Potential of Protein Cages as MRI Contrast Agents with an Emphasis on Protein Cage Characterization by Mass Spectrometry Techniques"" at 1:00 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium. Mr. Liepold is a student of Prof. Trevor Douglas.

• Prof. Seiji Mori from Ibaraki University, Japan, will give his seminar, "Theoretical Studies on Unusual Isomerization Reaction Mechanisms Catalyzed by Cytochrome P450" on September 11 at 4:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  More information about Prof. Mori can be found on his web page,
  http://www.ipc.ibaraki.ac.jp/~smori/index-e.htm
  
  Prof. Mori is the guest of Prof. Rober Szilagyi
  

• Ms Ranjana Sarma will defend her Ph.D. dissertation today beginning with her seminar "Investigation of Nucleotide-Dependent Electron Transfer in Nitrogen Fixation and Chlorophyll Biosynthesis " at 9:30 a.m. in the Byker Auditorium. Ms. Sarma is a student of Prof. Joh Peters.

• Mr. Anoop Sendamarai will defend his Ph.D. dissertation today beginning with his seminar "Structure of the Membrane Proximal Oxidoreductase Domain of Human Steap3, the Dominant Ferrireductase of the Erythroid Transferrin Cycle " at 9:30 a.m. in the Byker Auditorium. Mr. Sendamarai is a student of Prof. Martin Lawrence

• Mr. Shawn McGlynn will present his third-year seminar "New Insights into FeFe-Hydrogenase Biosynthesis" at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Mr. McGlynn is a student of Prof. John Peters

• Mr. Mark Wolfenden will defend his Ph.D. Dissertation today at 1:00 p.m. beginning with his seminar "Using PAMAM Dendrimer Frameworks to Investigate Multivalent Binding in Carbohydrate:Protein Interactions" in the Byker Auditorium
  
  Mr. Wolfenden is a student of Prof. Mary Cloninger.

• Ms. Rachel Hutcheson will present her third-year seminar at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Ms. Hutcheson is a student of Prof. Joan Broderick

• Ms. Lexxy Bueling will defend her Masters Thesis on Wednesday, July 15 beginning with her seminar "GTPase Activity of HydF and its Role in Hydrogenase Maturation" at 3:00 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Ms. Bueling is a student of Prof. Joan Broderick.

• Ms. Smita Menon will defend her Ph.D. Dissertation today at 10:00 a.m. beginning with her seminar "X-ray Crystallographic Studies of the Proteins from Sulfolobus Spindle-shaped Viruses (SSVs)" in the Byker Auditorium
  
  Ms. Menon is a student of Prof. Martin Lawrence.

• Ms. Joyce Brewer, a Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Prof. Martin Teintze, will present a seminar today at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.

• Mr. Ryan Hutcheson, a graduate student of Prof. Pat Callis, will defend his Masters Thesis today beginning with a seminar "Quantitative Prediction of Dye Fluorescence Quantum Yields in Proteins" at noon in Wilson Hall room 1-119.
  
  Please note room change.

• Mr. Jared Bowden, a Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Prof. Ed Dratz, will present a seminar "The Plasma Peptidome: Toward an Early Diagnostic for Type 2 Diabetes" today at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.

• Dr. Dean Toste from UC Berkeley, will present a seminar "Hypothesis-Driven Approach to Reaction Discovery: Gold(I)-Catalyzed Organic Reaction" at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  More information about Prof. Toste can be found at http://chem.berkeley.edu/faculty/toste/index.html
  
  Dr. Toste is the guest of Profs. Hien Nguyen and Tom Livinghouse. His visit is sponsored in part by a grant from Abbott Laboratories.

• Mr. David Mulder, a Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Prof. John Peters, will present a seminar "Biochemical and Structural Studies on [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Maturation and Activation" today at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.

• Mr. Pavel Tarlykov will defend his thesis beginning with his seminar "Chemistry Meets Archaeal Biology: Looking for Biomarkers of Environmental Stress" at noon today in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Mr. Tarlykov is a student of Prof. Brian Bothner.

• Mensur Dlakic, Assistant Professor in the Montana State University Department of Microbiology will present a seminar today at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Prof. Dlakic is the guest of Prof. Brian Bothner.
  
  More information about Professor Dlacik can be found on his website, http://myprofile.cos.com/mensur

• Dr. Richard Zare from Stanford University will present a seminar "H + D2 Collision Dynamics" at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Dr. Zare is the guest of Prof. Tim Minton.

• Professor Richard Zare from Stanford University will present a special lecture for the general public this evening in the Hager Auditorium at the Museum of the Rockies. "Cars: Chemistry in Motion" is a fun, insightful glimpse into how chemistry keeps America moving. This event is free and will include LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS. The presentation begins at 7:00 preceeded by a dessert and coffee reception at 6:30.
  
  The event is sponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and NSF EPSCoR.
  
  Prof. Zare is hosted by Prof. Tim Minton.

• Ms. Lisa Mellmann will defend her Ph.D. Dissertation today at 10:00 a.m. beginning with her seminar "Spin State Effects on S-Nitrosohemoglobin Formation in Reactions of Ferric Heme-Iron with Nitric Oxide" in the Byker Auditorium
  
  Ms. Mellmann is a student of Prof. David J. Singel.

• Ms. Sunshine Silver will present her third year seminar today "Spore Photoproduct Lyase: Radical Repair of the 5R Spore Photoproduct" at 2:10 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Ms. Silver is a Ph.D. student in Prof. Joan Broderick's Research Group.

• Dr. Janis Louie from the University of Utah will present a seminar "The versatility of Ni-catalyzed cycloaddition reactions" at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Dr. Louie is the guest of Prof. Hien Nguyen, her visit is sponsored in part by a grant from the Abbott Laboratories.
  
  More information about Prof. Louie may be found on her website: http://www.chem.utah.edu/faculty/louie/louie.html

• Prof. Benfang Lei from the MSU Department of Vet. Molecular Biology will present a seminar today at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Prof. Lei is the guest of Prof. Valerie Copie.
  
  More information about Prof. Lei can be found at http://vmb.montana.edu/faculty/lei/

• Цыганская магия

• David Lynn, Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry at Emory University will present a seminar "Molecular Recognition, Systems Chemistry, and the Origins of Evolution" today at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Prof. Lynn is the guest of Prof. Tom Livinghouse.
  
  More information about Professor Lynn can be found on his website, http://chemistry.emory.edu/faculty/lynn.html

• Brett Fors, an MSU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry graduate and current graduate student at MIT working with Stephen Buchwald, will present a seminar today at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Mr. Fors visit is sponsored by the Undergraduate Chemistry Society.
  
  More information about the Buchwald group may be found at http://mit.edu/chemistry/buchwald/

• Dr. Matt Francis from the Department of Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley will present a seminar “Using Biological Molecules to Build New Materials” today
  at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Dr. Francis is the guest of Prof. Trevor Douglas.
  
  More information about Prof. Francis will be found on his website; http://chem.berkeley.edu/faculty/francis/index.html

• Dr. Michael Marony from the University of Massechusetts willl present a seminar "The Ins and Outs of Nickel Trafficking" at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Dr. Marony is the guest of Prof. John Peters. His visit is sponsored in part by the Thermal Biology Institute.
  
  More information about Prof. Maroney can be found at the website: http://www.chem.umass.edu/Faculty/maroney.htm

• Professor Peter Prvelige, Jr. from the Department of Microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham will present a seminar "The Mechanism of Incorporation of Bacteriophage Packaging Motors" today at 3:10 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium. This seminar is sponsored by the Center for Bioinspired Nanomaterials.
  More information about Prof. Prevelige can be found at http://www.microbio.uab.edu/faculty/preveligep/index.html

• Mr. Ben Skerick-Borg, a Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Prof. Paul Grieco, will present a seminar “Statins: The Development of Lipitor and Related Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs” today at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.

• Mr. Enoch Mensah, a Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Prof. Hien Nguyen, will present a seminar "Cationic Palladium (II) - Catalyzed Stereoselective Glycosylation with Glycosyl Trichloroacetimidates" today at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium

• Dr. Todd Lowary from the University of Alberta will present a seminar “Synthetic and Biochemical Studies on Mycobacterial Glycosyltransferases” today
  at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Dr. Lowary is the guest of Profs. Hien Nguyen and Tom Livinghouse. His visit is sponsored in part by a grant from Abbott Laboratories.
  
  More information about Prof. Lowary can be found on his website, http://www.chem.ualberta.ca/~lowary/Todd.html.

• Mr. Ramon Tusell, a Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Prof. Pat Callis, will present a seminar "Ab Initio Prediction of Tryptophan Fluorescence Quantum Yield for Villin Headpiece Mutant N27H"
  today at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium

• Mr. Kristian Schlick, a Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Prof. Mary Cloninger, will present a seminar "Using Glycodendrimers to Evaluate Multivalent Binding Interactions" today at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.

• Stuart J. Rowan, Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University will present a seminar "Utilizing Supramolecular Chemistry in Polymeric Systems: A Route to Dynamic, Adaptive Materials?" today at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Prof. Rowan is the guest of Prof. Trevor Douglas. His visit is sponsored by the Center for Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials.
  
  More information about Professor Rowan can be found on his website,http://polymers.case.edu/people/faculty/rowan.htm

• Dr. Richmond Sarpong from UC, Berkeley, will present a seminar "Strategies and Tactics Inspired by Seven-Membered Rings in Natural Products" at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.
  Dr. Sarpong is the guest of Profs. Hien Nguyen and Tom Livinghouse. His visit is sponsored in part by a grant from the Abbott Laboratories.
  
  More information about Prof. Sarpong can be found on his website, http://chem.berkeley.edu/faculty/sarpong/index.html.

• Prof. Robert Szilagyi from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will present a seminar "Theoretically-Oriented, Biophysical and Structural Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry - a coherent presentation about my research activities in the past 5 years at MSU" today at 4:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Please note special time.

• Ms. Ranjana Sarma, a Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Prof. John Peters, will present a seminar "Nucleotide-dependent electron transfer in biological nitrogen fixation and chlorophyll biosynthesis" at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium. Ms. Sarma is the student of Prof. John Peters.

• Dr. Phil Garner from Washington State University will present a seminar "Natural Products, Organic Synthesis, and Drug Development" at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Dr. Garner is the guest of Prof. Paul Grieco. His visit is sponsored in part by a grant from Abbott Laboratories.

• Dr. Sergey Tetin from Abbott Laboratories, will present a seminar "Diagnostic Antibodies toward B-type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP): Structure, Binding Kinetics and Thermodynamics" at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Dr. Tetin is the guest of Prof. Pat Callis. His visit is sponsored in part by a grant from the MONTS - EPSCoR program.

• Dr. Jan Kubelka from the University of Wyoming, will present a seminar "Site-Specific Studies of Protein Folding Using Isotopically-Edited Infrared Spectroscopy" at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Dr. Kubelka is the guest of Prof. Pat Callis. His visit is sponsored in part by a grant from the MONTS - EPSCoR program

• Dr. Robert Walker from the University of Maryland will present a seminar "Solvation at Surfaces: Ordinary Chemistry in Unusual Places" at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  Dr. Walker is the guest of Drs. Mary Cloninger and Steve Holmgren. His visit is sponsored in part by a grant from Abbott Laboratories.

• Dr. Alison Hume from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland will present a seminar "Chemical Biology Approaches to Tagging and Imaging in Biological Systems" at 1:00 in the Byker Auditorium.
  More information about Dr. Hume may be found at http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic/hulme.html
  
  Dr. Hume is the guest of Dr. Mary Cloninger.
  
  

• Mr. Matt Shipman from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Montana State University will present a seminar "Response of the monocyte proteome to infection by Coxiella burnetii and exposure to immune adjuvants" today at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.
  
  The Auditorium is located in the lower level of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Building.
  
  Mr. Shipman is a student in the research group of Prof. Ed Dratz.

• Mr. Jonathan Hilmer, a Ph.D. student of Prof. Brian Bothner will present his third year seminar "Automated Picomole Assays with Mass Spectrometry: Effects of Drugs on the Dynamic Motion of the Hepatitis B Virus Capsid" today at 2:10 in the Byker Auditorium.

• Kevin Spicka will defend his Ph.D. Dissertation begining with his seminar "Design and Synthesis of Fluorescent Dyes for Use in Proteomic Research" today at 11:00 a.m. in the Byker Auditorium

• Dr. Maaike Everts from the University of Alabama, Department of Pathology will give two seminars on Monday, June 30 in the Byker Auditorium of the Chmeistry and Biochemistry Building. The first seminar, directed to the undergraduates, will be at 11:00. The second seminar, "Multifuncional Potential of Nanotechnology and Gene Therapy for Cancer" will be at 4:00.
  
  For more information, contact Prof. Martin Lawrence at 406-994-5382.

• Professor Richard Schrock, one of the recipients of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will speak at Montana State University on Wednesday, March 26 and Thursday, March 27. On Wednesday he will gvie a Chemistry seminar "Monoalkoxide Monopyrrolide Olefin Metathesis Catalysts of Molybdenum. High Turnover, Variability, and Asymmetry at the Metal" at 2:10 p.m. in 108 Reid Hall. On Thursday he will give a general lecture "What is Metathesis" at 7:30 p.m. in the Hager Auditorium of the Museum of the Rockies. Dr. Richard Schrock, professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Robert H. Grubbs and Yves Chauvin, for his work in the area of olefin metathesis, an organic synthesis technique now used daily in the chemical industry for the efficient and more environmentally friendly production of important pharmaceuticals, fuels, synthetic fibers and many other products.

• Prof. William B. Tolman will present a seminar "Using Synthetic Chemistry to Understand Copper and Iron Protein Active Sites" today at 2:10 p.m. in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Building Seminar Room (Room 3). Refreshments will be served at 1:50.
  Professor Tolman is the Distinguished McKnight University and L. I. Smith Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Center for Metals in Biocatalysis at the University Of Minnesota. More information about Prof. Tolman may be found on his web site; http://www.chem.umn.edu/groups/tolman/

• FInals begin on Monday, December 10. Friday, December 14 is the last day of the fall 2007 semester

• Mr. David Schwab will present a seminar today at 2:10 p.m. in room 234 Gaines Hall.
  
  David is a student of Prof. David Singel

• Mr. Anoop Sendamarai will present a seminar today at 2:10 p.m. in room 234 Gaines Hall.
  
  Anoop is a student of Prof. Martin Lawrence

• November 21-23: Thanksgiving Day Holiday (no classes: offices open Wednesday, November 21)

• Professor Bruce C. Gibb from the University of New Orleans will present a seminar "The Complex Repertoire of Deep-Cavity Cavitands: How Molecular Concavity and the Hydrophobic Effect can Engender Unusual Physical Properties"
  today at 2:10 p.m in Gaines Hall Room 234. More information about Prof. Gibb can be found at http://chem.uno.edu/bgibb/
  
  Prof. Gibb is the guest of Prof. Mary Cloninger

• Ms. Smita Menon will present a seminar today at 2:10 p.m. in room 234 Gaines Hall.
  
  Smita is a student of Prof. Martin Lawrence

• Professor Robin Gerlach from the MSU Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering will present a seminar "Identification of Trinitrotoluene (TNT) Transformation Products using Liquid Chromatography Combined with Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry today at 2:10 p.m in Gaines Hall Room 234. More information about Prof. Gerlach can be found at http://www.mbprogram.montana.edu/faculty.asp?per_id=49&in_id=1
  
  Prof. Gerlach is the guest of Prof. Brian Bothner

• Mr. Casey Schlenker will present a seminar “Structural investigation of the E73 protein from Sulfolobus Spindle Virus using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance”
  today at 2:10 p.m. in room 234 Gaines Hall.
  
  Casey is a student of Prof. Valerie Copie

• Professor David Tyler from the University of Oregon will present a seminar "Coordination Chemistry of Hydrogen and Nitrogen in Aqueous Solution: Environmentally Benign Production of Ammonia" today at 2:10 p.m in Room 234. More information about Prof. Tyler can be found at http://www.uoregon.edu/~chem/tyler.html
  
  Prof. Tyler is the guest of Prof. Robert Szilagyi

• Professor Harry Gray from the Cal. Tech. will present a seminar “Bioinorganic Solar
  Photochemistry” today at 2:10 p.m. in the SUB room 275. More information about Prof. Gray can be found at http://www.cce.caltech.edu/faculty/gray/index.html
  
  Prof. Gray is the guest of Prof. David Dooley

• Professor Albert E. Stiegman from Florida State University will present a seminar "The Active Site of the Phillip's Ethylene Polymerization Catalyst" today at 2:10 p.m in Gaines Hall Room 234. More information about Prof. Stiegman can be found at http://www.chem.fsu.edu/stiegman/l
  
  Prof. Stiegman is the guest of Prof. Tim Minton

• Mr. Scott Laffoon will present a seminar “Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes:
  Our search for a new protein biological marker”
  today at 2:10 p.m. in room 234 Gaines Hall.
  
  Scott is a student of Prof. Ed Dratz.

• Dr. Charley Spangler will present a seminar "Noninvasive Targeted Two-Photon Photodynamic Therapy: A New Paradigm for the Outpatient Treatment of Subcutaneous Cancerous Tumors" today at 2:10 in Gaines Hall Room 234.

• Professor Matt Sigman from the University of Utah will present a seminar "Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions for Organic Synthesis" today at 2:10 p.m in Gaines Hall Room 234. More information about Prof. Sigman can be found at http://www.chem.utah.edu/directory/faculty/sigman.html
  
  Prof. Sigman is the guest of Prof. Hien Nguyen

• Professor Lance Seefeldt from Utah State University will present a seminar "Insights into the Nitrogenasa Mechanism" today at 2:10 p.m in Gaines Hall Room 234. More information about Prof. Seefeldt can be found at http://www.chem.usu.edu/pages/research%20pages/webpages/lanceseefeldt.html
  
  Prof. Seefeldt is the guest of Prof. John Peters

• Ms. Lisa Lee will present a seminar "Spin State Effects on S-Nitrosohemoglobin Formation in Reactions of Ferric Heme-Iron with Nitric Oxide" today at 2:10 p.m. in room 234 Gaines Hall.
  
  Lisa is a student of Prof. David Singel

• Mr. Karl Sebby will defend his Ph.D. Dissertation today at 2:10 p.m. beginning with his seminar "EPR of Spin-Label Functionalized PAMAM Dendrimers" in room 234 Gaines Hall
  
  Mr. Sebby is a student of Prof. David Singel.

• Professor Sunggak Kim from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology will present a seminar "Searching for New Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation:
  Radical versus Anionic Approach" today at 2:10 p.m. in room 234.
  
  Prof. Kim is the guest of Prof. Tom Livinghouse
  
  

• Fourth of July Holiday. All offices will be closed.

• Mr. Zachary Varpness will defend his Ph.D. Dissertation today at 2:10 p.m. beginning with his seminar “Biomimetic Synthesis of Catalytic Materials” in room 234 Gaines Hall
  
  Mr. Varpness is a student of Prof. Trevor Douglas.

• Ms. Arti Sharma Pandey will defend her Ph.D. Dissertation at 1:00 p.m. today in room 234 Gaines Hall beginning with her seminar "Probing the Mechanism of 2-Ketopropyl Coenzyme M Oxidoreductase/Carboxylase Through Structural Characterization of Mechanistically Relevant States".
  
  Ms. Pandey is a student of Prof. John Peters.

• Professor Ron Brisbois from Macalester College will present a seminar "Hexaazaanthracenes: New Fluorophores with Potential Material Science and Molecular Probe Applications" today at 2:10 p.m in room 234 Gaines Hall. More information about Prof. Brisbois can be found at http://www.macalester.edu/chemistry/faculty/brisbois.html
  
  Prof. Brisbois is the guest of Prof. Mary Cloninger

• Memorial Day Holiday. All offices will be closed.

• University Commencement Day. The main ceremoney will begin at 10:00 a.m. in Brick Breeden Fieldhouse

• Final exams begin this week

• Prof. Justine Roth from Johns-Hopkins University will present a seminar "Reactive Oxygen Intermediates in Metalloenzyme Catalysis" at 2:10 p.m. in room 234 Gaines Hall.
  
  Prof. Roth is the guest of Prof. Dave Dooley.

• This is the last day of classes for the spring 2007 term

• Dr. Gerrit Groenenboom will present a seminar "Ab initio Study of Warm Water and Cold Hydroxyl Radicals" today at 2:10 p.m. in room 234 Gaines Hall.
  
  Dr. Groenenboom is the guest of Prof. Tim Minton
  

• Prof. Matt Sigman's seminar is postponed until September 21

• Mr. Brandon Schuff, a student of Professor Hien Nguyen, will defend his Master's thesis today beginning with his seminar "Palladium (II)-Catalyzed Stereoselective Formation of alpha-O-Glycosides"
  Room 234 Gaines Hall at 2:10 p.m.

• Ms. Amy Brunsvold, a student of Professor Tim Minton, will defend her Ph.D. Dissertation today beginning with her seminar "Molecular Beam Studies of Hyperthermal Atomic Oxygen and Argon Interactions with Polymer Surfaces and Gas-Phase Molecules"
  Room 276 Strand Union Building
  12:00 noon

• There are no classes today, but all university offices will be open.

• Dr. Gary Siuzdak, Senior Director of the Center for Mass Spectrometry and Associate Professor of Molecular Biology from the Scripps Research Institute will present a seminar "The Challenges and Promise of Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics and Proteomics" today at 4:10 p.m. in room 234 Gaines Hall.
  
  Dr. Siuzdak is the guest of Prof. Brian Bothner.

• Dr. Berk Knighton will present a seminar "Real time Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds using Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry – Overcoming the water problem" today at 2:10 p.m. in room 234.
  Dr. Knighton is this year's ACS tour speaker and will also presenting seminars at the Unviersity of Montana, Carroll College and Montana Tech.

• Stefan Bernhard from the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University will present a seminar "Synthetically Tuned Luminophoric Materials: 3D Displays, Solar
  Energy Conversion and Beyond"
  today at 2:10 p.m. in room 234 Gaines Hall
  
  Prof. Bernhard is the guest of Prof. John Peters

• Stefan Bernhard from the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University will present a seminar "The Chemistry of Chocolate" at 4:10 p.m. in Reid Hall room 103.
  
  Dr. Bernhard worked in a Swiss chocolate factory for
  three years and teaches a class on this topic at Princeton.

• Spring Break week. There are no classes but all university offices will be open

• Prospective Graduate Students for the 2007-2008 school year are invited to visit the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry this weeknd.

• Dr. Y-Kuo Yu from the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the NIH will present a seminar "Mass Spectrometry and its Modern Evolution - from Atomic Bomb to Proteomics and Beyond" today at 3:10 in room 138 Gaines Hall

• There are no classes today but all university offices will be open.

• A special seminar presented by Dr. Arina Omer from the University of British Columbia will be given today at 4:10 p.m. in Gaines Hall room 324
  "Small non-coding RNAs in Archaea"

• Today's seminar is "High Resolution Protein Analysis by Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry (FTMS)" presented by Dr. Katianna Pihakari, Research Scientist from Varian, Inc. IonSpec FTMS Systems, Lake Forest, CA.
  
  Dr. Pihakari is the guest of Prof. Ed Dratz.

• Professor Robert Continette from UC San Diego will present a seminar today.
  “Photodetachment of Molecular Anions and Supercritical CO2 Sources of Nanomaterials”
  2:10 pm 234 Gaines Hall
  
  Prof. Continetti is the guest of Prof. Tim Minton.

• Professor Ron Stenkamp from the Department of Biological Structure at the University of Washington will present a seminar "Dimerization and activation of rhodopsin: Three new crystal structures of ground-state and photoactivated rhodopsin" at 2:10 pm in Gaines Hall room 234.
  
  Prof. Stenkamp is the guest of Prof. Ed Dratz.

• Welcome back students! Classes begin today for the 2007 spring semester.

• There are no classes today and all university offices are closed

• Prof. Mukund Sibi from North Dakota State University will present a seminar "A New Dimension to Enantioselective Catalysis: Templates Come to the Rescue" at 2:10 pm in Gaines Hall room 234

• Organic Faculty Candidate
  2:10 pm Gaines Hall room 234

• Prof. David Williams from Indiana University will present a seminar "Recent Developments in the Total Synthesis of Natural Products" at
  2:10 pm Gaines Hall room 234

• Nagwa Nawar, professor of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry from Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt will present a seminar "Synthesis and Reactivity of Homo- and Hetermetallic Complexes Using Bi- and Tri-Dentate Phosphine Ligands" at 4:10 pm in Gaines Hall room 234.

• Organic Faculty Candidate
  2:10 pm Gaines Hall room 234

• Organic Faculty Candidate
  2:10 pm Gaines Hall room 234

• November 23, Thanksgiving Day and November 24 are University Holidays. There will be no classes and offices will be closed.

• November 23, Thanksgiving Day and November 24 are University Holidays. There will be no classes and offices willbe closed

• There are no classes today, but University offices will be open at their usual times.

• Friday, November 10 is a University Holiday commemorating Veteran's Day . There will be no classes and offices will be closed.

• November 7, Election Day, is a University Holiday. There will be no classes and offices will be closed

• John Hoberg, who received his Ph.D. from MSU working with Prof. Wynn Jennings and is currently at the University of Wyoming in Laramie will present a seminar titled "Chiral ligands, auxiliaries and functionalized materials from carbohydrates" at 2:10 p.m. in room 234 Gaines Hall

• Prof. Catherine Drennan from MIT will present a seminar on Friday, October 20 at 2:10 in room 234 Gaines Hall. The title of her seminar is "Mechanistic Crystallography of Radical Enzymes".
  
  Prof. Drennan is the guest of Prof. Joan Broderick

• Prof. Sean Elliott fron Boston University will present a seminar on Thursday, October 19 at 4:10 p.m. in Gaines Hall room 234. The title of his seminar is "Voltammetric Tales: using electrochemistry to learn about enzymes".
  
  Prof. Elliott is the guest of Prof. Joan Broaderick

• Dr. Greg Gillispie from Fluorescence Innovations, Inc. will present a seminar titled "New Fluorescence Lifetime Instrument for Protein Physical Characterization: Can It Meet (or Beat?) Circular Dichroism in Usefullness?" at 2:10 p.m. in room 234 Gaines Hall.
  
  Dr. Gillispie is the guest of Prof. Pat Callis
  

• Professor John Straub from Boston University will present a seminar on Friday, October 6 at 2:10 in room 234 Gaines Hall. The title of his seminar will be "Probing the principles of protein aggregation"
  
  Prof. Straub, recipient of the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University is a visitng professsor in our Department this year.

• Dr. Andy Valkenburg from Energy Laboratories in Billings, MT will present a seminar on Wednesday, October 4 at 2:10 in room 234 Gaines Hall. The title of his seminar will be "EPA Analytical Environmental Methods - Perspectives and Opportunities"
  Dr. Valkenburg received his Ph.D. from MSU working with Prof. Eric Grimsrud.

• Professor Vicki Derose from the University of Oregon will present a seminar "Ribozymes: RNA Molecules That Do Chemical Reactions" on Friday, September 29 at 2:10 p.m. in room 234 Gaines Hall

• Prof. Sandy Ross from the University of Montana will present a seminar titled "Going round the Bend: DNA Flexibility and Protein-DNA Intgeractions" on Monday, September 25 at 2:10 p.m. in Room 234 Gaines Hall.
  
  Prof. Ross is the guest of Prof. Pat Callis.

• Dr. Philip Kim from Abbott Laboratories will present a seminar titled "Strategies and Tactics for Lead Optimisation of MCHr1 Antagonists" at 2:10 p.m. on September 22 in room 234 Gaines Hall

• Prof. Jannette Carey from Princeton University will present a special seminar on Monday, September 11 at 2:00 in room 234 Gaines Hall. The title of her seminar will be "Thermodynamics of Protein Ligand Binding"
  
  Prof. Carey is the guest of Prof. Valerie Copie

• Mr. Todd Rogers will defend his dissertation beginning with a seminar titled "Application of Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometry to Measure Hydrocarbon Emissions in Engine Exhaust" on Tuesday, Sept. 5 at 9:00 a.m. in room 275 of the Strand Union Building
  
  Mr. Rogers is a student of Prof. Pat Callis and Dr. Berk Knighton

• Monday September 4, Labor Day, is a University holiday. There will be no classes and offices will be closed

• Jonathan Hilmer from Montana State University will present a seminar on Friday, September 1 at 2:10 p.m. in room 234 Gaines Hall.
  Mr. Hilmer is a student of Prof. Brian Bothner

• Prof. Jan Linderberg from the University of Aarhus in Denmark will present a seminar "The Reaction Simplex - A Conceptual and COmputational Tool" at 2:10 p.m. in Room 234 Gaines Hall

• Professor Scott Grayson from Tulane University will present a seminar "Exploring Polymer Architecture for Drug Delivery" on Friday, August 25 at 2:10 p.m. in room 234 Gaines Hall

• Mr. Joel Morgan will defend his dissertation beginning with a seminar titled "The Synthesisi of Glycodendrimers and Their Applications in Carbohydrate-Protein Interactions and Catalysis" on Wednesday, July 12 at 4:10 p.m. in room 234.
  
  Mr. Morgan is a student of Prof. Mary Cloninger

• Dr. Jinbu Wang from Clark University (Worcester, MA) will present a seminar "A New Conformational Entropy Estimator for Studying Protein Stability" on Monday, July 10 at 2:00 p.m. in room 108 AgBioSciences.
  
  Dr. Wang is a guest of Prof. Valérie Copié

• Mr. Mark Allen will defend his dissertation beginning with a seminar titled "Protein Cage Architectures as Nano-Platforms for Materials Synthesis and Metal Binding" on Friday, July 7 at 2:10 p.m. in room 234.
  
  Mr. Allen is a student of Prof. Trevor Douglas

• Mark Wolfenden will present his seminar

• Fourth of July Holiday. All offices are closed

• Dr. Aaron Burns will give a department seminar today at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium. The title of his seminar is "Synthesis and Evaluation of Sea Lamprey Migratory Pheromone Analogs, Synthesis of Asteriscunolide D, and Progress Toward the Synthesis of Sieboldine A."
  

• Dr. Mingji Dai will give a department seminar at 3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium today. The title of his talk is "Synthesis of small-molecule natural products with neurotrophic and anti-angiogenic activities and development of ROS-perturbing compounds to selectively target cancer.”

• Dr. Eric Ashley (Merck) will give a department seminar at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium. The title of his seminar is "Synthesis and Catalysis: Tetrahydroisoquinoline Antitumor Antibiotics and Chiral Thioureas."
  

• Dr. Orion Berryman (Scripps Institute) will give a department seminar today at 2:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium. The title of his seminar is "Confining Molecules: From Anions to Catalysts".
  

• Mr. Navid Movahed will present his research today in the Byker Auditorium (3:10 pm). The title of his talk will follow. Mr. Movahed is a graduate student working in Professor Brian Bothner's Lab.

• Dr. Jennifer Dubois (University of Notre Dame-Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) will give a department seminar at 3:10 pm in the Byker Auditorium today.
  The title of her talk is "From O-O bond formation to heme metabolism: the CDE superfamily."

• Ms. Katelyn Mason will give her third year graduate student seminar today at 3:10 in the Byker Auditorium. Ms. Mason is a graduate student working in Professor Valerie Copie's lab.

• Spring Break week. There are no classes but all university offices will be open

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and WISE will host Dr. Geraldine Richmond, Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon. The title of her talk with follow.
  
  

• The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host a seminar from Dr. Basar Bilgicer from Notre Dame. Details will follow.

• Prof. Jeffrey Johnson from the University of North Carolina will give a seminar on April 23 at 2:10 p.m. in the Byker Auditorium as part of the Abbott Labs Lecture Series.
  
  This seminar is hosted by Prof. Trevor Rainey.
  
  More information about Prof. Johnson can be found on his web site; www.chem.unc.edu/people/faculty/johnson_je/index.html