Gustaf H. Carlson School of Chemistry

News

  • Professor Fred Greenaway has entered an Agreement with Nuclea Biomarkers for research on Inhibitors of Copper-Containing Quinoprotein Amine Oxidases.

  • Luis Smith has been awarded a five-year CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation for research on Solid State NMR Studies of Transition Metal Oxides: Correlation of Local Structure with Physical Properties. ($530,000)

Seminar Schedule, 2008-2009

Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 1:00 p.m. in S122, Sackler Sciences Center.  All seminars are open to the public. 

Dec. 3
Graduate Research Updates Seminar
Graduate Student Speakers

  • Yun Cao – "Mitochondrial Helicases"
  • June Fan – "Possible Global Downhill Folding Protein --- 1BBL"
  • Kai Peng – "Expression and Purification of Lysyl oxidase"

 


Nov. 19
Dr. Nayan Amin, Vice President for Research and Development
PCI Synthesis, Devens, MA
"Who Is PCI Synthesis"
 

Nov. 12
Graduate Research Updates Seminar
Graduate Student Speakers

  • Subin Adhikari – "Structural Investigation of a Layered Dion-Jacobson Phase, RbSr2Nb3010 Using Density Functional Theory"
  • Sue Shuqiu – "Huamn Islet Amyloid Polypetide With or Without Insulin in Model Lipid Membranes"
  • Jamie Towle – "Characterization of the Zinc Binding Domain of Mitochondrial Hilicase" 

Nov. 5 – Time:  1:30 p.m., Room S-121, Sackler Sciences Bldg.
Joint Colloquium, Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Education, Math/Computer Science, and Physics
Speaker:  Dr. Isa Zimmerman, UMass – Massachusetts STEM Initiative
Title:  "What STEM in Massachusetts Means to Higher Education"
 

Oct. 15
Graduate Research Updates Seminar
Graduate Student Speakers:

  • Grace Liu – "Inhibition of Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Aggregation"
  • Ting Liu – "Characterization of Aluminum Oxide Filled Mesopore"
  • Ricky Meng – "A Novel Single-Ion Lithium Polymer Electrolyte Based on the Polymer Blend of PMMA/PEG"
     

Oct. 8
Graduate Second Year Seminar
Graduate Student Speakers:

  • Kai Peng – "RNA Interference:  A Powerful Tool to Enhance Cancer Drug Discovery"
  • Jamie Towle – "Surface Plasmon Resonance:  Theory and Experimental Application for Protein-DNA Studies"


Oct. 3
20th Annual Harry C. Allen Jr. Symposium
1:00pm-5:30pm
 Sackler Sciences Center, Room S121

 Jeffrey Skolnick, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
"Novel Approaches to Drug Discovery and Cancer Metabolomics"

Lila Gierasch, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
"Towards an In-cell Protein Folding Landscape"

Yawen Bai, Center for Cancer Research, NIH, Bethesda, MD
"Protein Folding Mechanims:  Defined Folding Intermediates and Stepwise Energy Landscape"

Timothy A. Cross, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
"Why Structural Biology Needs Solid State NMR:  e.g. Membrane Proteins"


Oct. 1
Graduate Second Year Seminar
Graduate Student Speakers:

  • Yun Cao – "Single-molecule FRET and its Application in DNA Holliday Junction Structural Dynamics Studies"
  • Jue Fan – "Replica Exchange Method (REM) for protein folding"


Sept. 10
Graduate Research Updates Seminar
Graduate Student Speakers:

  • Clara Chen – "Purification and structural study of Lysyl Oxidase from Bovine Aorta"
  • Xuefeng Wang – "A new method for analyzing two-dimensional MQMAS spectra of half-integer quadrupole spins"
  • Howard Wu – "Human Telomerase RNA Folding Pathway Search Using Probabilistic Roadmap"


Sept. 3
Laboratory Safety Workshop Seminar
Speaker:  Frank Abell, Chemical Safety Officer, Clark University