UAH The University of Alabama in HuntsvilleThe University of Alabama in Huntsville

Interdisciplinary Seminars Series

Biology/Biotechnology
Chemistry/Chemical & Materials Engineering
Materials Science
2007

   Departmental Seminars are scheduled in room MSC 100 starting at 1:30 pm on Friday at the date given. Students who have signed up for CH/MTS 780 are required to attend departmental seminars. Information for other seminars may be provided as circumstances allow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring
Date Speaker Affiliation Title

Jan. 12th

 

Dr. R. C. Orlando

 

 Associate Professor Department of Chemistry,
University of Georgia		 Biomedical Applications of Proteomics, Glycoproteomics, and Glycomics

Jan. 19th

 

 

Faculty/Graduate Student Luncheon

 

Jan. 26th

 

 

Dr. G. N. Tew

 

 

Assistant Professor
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Designing Polymers with Protein-like Function and Structure

Feb. 2nd

 

Dr. E. M. Harth

 

 Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry,
Vanderbilt University 		Multifunctional Nanosized Objects Tailored for Drug Delivery Approaches in Cancer, Imaging and Device Technology

Feb. 9th

 

Dr. M. Neurock

 

Professor
Department of Chemistry,
University of Virginia

First-Principles Elucidation and Design of Catalytic Sites and their Environments

Feb. 16th

 

Dr. K-D. Kreuer

 

Staff Scientist
MPI for Festkorperforshung
University of Stuttgart

Exploring the Limits of Sulfonic Acid Based Ionomers: From Fundamental Considerations to New Membrane Materials for PEM Fuel Cells

Feb. 23rd

 

Dr. J. B. Vincent

 

Professor
Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama

Recent Advances in the Nutritional Biochemistry of Chromium(III)

Mar. 2nd

 

Dr. M. E. Tuckerman

 

Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry,
New York University

 Anomalous Transport Mechanisms of Hydronium and Hydroxide Ions in Aqueous Solution Probed via ab initio Molecular Dynamics

Mar. 9th

 

Dr. R. P. Camata

 

Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham 		Laser Physics and Chemistry in the Synthesis of Novel Calcium Phosphate Bioceramics
Thursday
Mar. 15th
6:00pm

Dr. J. N. BeMiller

 

Professor
Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research,
Purdue University		 Those Wonderul Useful Carbohydrates

Mar. 16th

 

Dr. J. R. Duan

 

Research Associate
Department of Medicinal Chemistry,
University of Mississippi 		Computer Modeling of Solvation and Biopolymers in Aqueous Systems and Diffusion Mechanisms in Ordered Binary Crystals

Mar. 30th

 

J. Sparks

 

Biotechnology Science and Engineering Ph.D. Program, UAH Modified Bacterial Polyesters for Gene Delivery

Apr. 6th

 

 

Dr. H. C. Cheung

 

 

Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics,
University of Alabama at Birmingham 		Calcium Regulation of Cardiac Muscle: FRET Studies of Activation of Myofilaments
Thursday
Apr. 12th
3:45pm

Dr. B. A. Finlayson

 

Professor Emeritus
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Washington		 Visions Realized: Using Comsol Multiphysics to Prepare Students for the Modern World

Apr. 13th

 

Dr. A. E. Russell

 

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, Tuskegee University		 Lewis Base Promoted Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds

Apr. 20th

 

 

Dr. C. K. Payne

 

 

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
Georgia Institute of Technology 		Role of Diffusion in Vesicle-Mediated Transport: Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy for Quantitative Cellular Imaging

Apr. 27th

 

S. Madrahimov

 

Chemistry M.S. Program, UAH Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Bifunctional Materials