Fall 2009

     The Departments of Chemistry at Haverford and Bry Mawr will host the following lectures in Fall 2009.   
                                               
 

SEPTEMBER

September 11 , 2009 at Bryn Mawr College
Monica Chander
Bryn Mawr College
"Redox sensing by SoxR: alerting the cell to oxidative stress (and more?)"

 

September 25, 2009 at Haverford College
Michael Massiah
Department of Biochemistry, Oklahoma State University
"How a protein structure reveals function: Midline-1 and Opitz G syndrome"

 

OCTOBER

October 2, 2009 at Bryn Mawr College
Adam Matzger with Leila Foroughi (BMC '05)
University of Michigan
"Controlling Crystal Polymorphism: Pharmaceuticals to Proteins"

http://www.umich.edu/~ajmgroup/members.html

 
October 30, 2009 at Haverford College
Clifford Kubiak
University of California, San Diego, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
"Important Things You Never Learned About Inorganic Mixed Valency: Ultrafast, Non-Arrhenius, Solvent, and Proton Coupled Electron Transfers"
http://kubiak.ucsd.edu

(Note:  Professor Kubiak will also offer a lecture entitled, "Fixing CO2," on Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 8:00 pm.  The location will be provided at a later date.)

 
 

NOVEMBER

November 6, 2009 at Bryn Mawr College
Cynthia A. Maryanoff
Distinguished Research Fellow, Convergent Product Development
Cordis, a Johnson and Johnson Company
"Split view:  Process Chemistry on KL4/ Toolbox for Drug-eluding Stents"

 

November 13, 2009 at Haverford College
Stefan Bernhard
Carnegie Mellon University
"Efficient Transition Metal Catalysts for the Photogeneration of Hydrogen"
 
November 20, 2009 at Haverford College
Veronika Szalai
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
"Metals in your Mind: How Copper Interacts with the Amyloid-beta Peptide
of Alzheimer's Disease"
http://www.umbc.edu/chem/general/user/vszalai

 

DECEMBER

December 4, 2009 at Haverford College
Pedro Marenco
Bryn Mawr College, Department of Geology
TBA

 

Haverford Seminars are at 3:00 p.m. in KINSC (Hilles) H109.  Bryn Mawr Colloquia are at 4:00 p.m. in the Park Science Building, Room 180.