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Seminars: Fall 2012

Departmental Seminars are held on Thursdays, from 9:30 to 10:30 AM in CHE 100.
For more information, contact: Jianfeng Cai

Drug Discovery Colloquiums are held on Tuesdays, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm in CHE 302.
For more information, contact: Kirpal Bisht


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For readability, all of the seminars are listed below:

Seminar TypeSpeaker/TitleDateHost
Drug Discovery Colloquium
Introduction



Introduction
2012-08-28 
Departmental Seminar
Mandatory Graduate Student Meeting



New graduate students will be introduced
2012-08-30 
Drug Discovery Colloquium
Prof. Dennis E. Kyle
Global Health, USF
http://health.usf.edu/publichealth/gh/Dennis+Kyle.htm

Drug Discovery for Brain-Eating Amoebae
2012-09-04 
Departmental Seminar
Marcia Levitus
Arizona State University
http://www.public.asu.edu/~mlevitus/dr_levitus.html

FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY: The study of kinetic processes in equilibrium conditions
2012-09-13van der Vaart, Arjan
Drug Discovery Colloquium
Prof. Lori Hazlehurst
Moffitt Cancer Center
http://www.moffitt.org/research--clinical-trials/individual-researchers/lori-a--hazlehurst-phd

Targeting CD44 and necrotic cell death in Multiple Myeloma
2012-09-18 
Departmental Seminar
Dr. Weibo Cai
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://mi.wisc.edu/

Molecular Imaging with Peptides, Proteins, and Nanoparticles
2012-09-20Cai, Jianfeng
Drug Discovery Colloquium
Prof. Jon Antilla
Chemistry, USF
http://chemistry.usf.edu/faculty/antilla/

Chiral Phosphates in Catalysis: Moving Beyond The Activation of Imines
2012-09-25 
Drug Discovery Colloquium
Prof. Anupam Pradhan
Global Health, USF
http://health.usf.edu/publichealth/gh/Anupam+Pradhan.htm

Chemical genetics of piggyback mutants: A new tool for antimalarial drug discovery
2012-10-02 
Drug Discovery Colloquium
Dr. Leila Albers
Draper Labs


Engineered Nanoparticle for Virus Elimination by Opsonization (ENVELOP)
2012-10-09 
Departmental Seminar
Dr. Aloysius Siriwardena
Université de Picardie Jules Verne
http://www.u-picardie.fr/labo/LG/equipes_de_recherche/SUPRA/Aloysius%20Siriwardena.html

TIME AND LOCATION OF THIS SEMINAR IS TBA.
2012-10-09Antilla, Jon
Departmental Seminar
Krista Walton
Georgia Tech
http://walton.chbe.gatech.edu/Walton.html

2012-10-11Zaworotko, Mike
Drug Discovery Colloquium
Ryan Young
Chemistry, USF
http://chemistry.usf.edu/faculty/baker/

Synthetic and Bioactivity Studies of Antiplasmodial and Antibacterial Marine Natural Products
2012-10-16 
Departmental Seminar
William Dichtel
Cornell University
http://www.williamdichtel.com/

2012-10-18Ma, Shengqian
Drug Discovery Colloquium
Prof. Niketa Patel
James A. Haley Veterans Hospital


Splicing keys to unravel obesity
2012-10-23 
Drug Discovery Colloquium
Biplob Bhattacharya
Chemistry, USF
http://chemistry.usf.edu/faculty/turos/

Altering Microbiological Activity and Bacterial Cell Targeting with C3 Ring Functionality in N-Thiolated β-Lactams
2012-10-30 
Departmental Seminar
Marc Giulianotti
Torrey Pines Institute
http://www.tpims.org/meet-our-scientists/florida-scientists/marc-giulianotti

2012-11-01Baker, Bill
Departmental Seminar
T. V. (Babu) RajanBabu
The Ohio State University
http://chemistry.osu.edu/~babu/vitae.php

Development and Applications of Asymmetric Hydrovinylation Reaction
2012-11-08Zhang, Peter
Drug Discovery Colloquium
Dr. Niranjan Namelikonda
Chemistry, USF
http://chemistry.usf.edu/faculty/manetsch/

4(1H)-Quinolones and N-acylsulfonamides in modern medicinal chemistry approaches targeting malaria and cancer
2012-11-13 
Departmental Seminar
Dr. Ah-Lim Tsai
University of Texas Medical School at Houston
http://www.uth.tmc.edu/bmb/faculty/ah-lim-tsai.html

Gas ligand selectivity by hemeproteins----- a "sliding scale" hypothesis.
2012-11-15Ming, Li-june
Drug Discovery Colloquium
Faeez Mahzamani
Chemistry, USF
http://chemistry.usf.edu/faculty/turos/

Research Update: The study of chiral polyacrylate nanoparticles, and the development of clodinafops as anti-malarial drugs
2012-11-20 
Departmental Seminar
Adam Matzger
University of Michigan
http://www.umich.edu/~ajmgroup/

2012-11-29Ma, Shengqian
Drug Discovery Colloquium
Prof. Mark Novak
Florida Institute of Technology
http://cos.fit.edu/chemistry/faculty/novak/

Bridging the Gap between Theory and Experiment: Use of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy to Refine Predictive Modeling of Potential Therapeutics at the Molecular Level
2012-11-6 
Departmental Seminar
Thomas Kodadek
Scripps Florida
http://www.scripps.edu/kodadek/lab_members.html

Chemical tools to monitor and manipulate the proteome
2012-12-06Cai, Jianfeng
Departmental Seminar
Mandatory Graduate Student Meeting



2013-01-10 
Departmental Seminar
James Nowick
UC Irvine
http://www.chem.uci.edu/~jsnowick/groupweb/

The Supramolecular Chemistry of beta-Sheets.
2013-01-17Cai, Jianfeng
Departmental Seminar
Takahiko Akiyama
Gakshuin University, Tokyo
http://www-cc.gakushuin.ac.jp/~940020/akiyama_site/akiyama_E.html

2013-01-18Antilla, Jon
Departmental Seminar
Haipeng Liu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Research Presentation: Designing Molecular Self-delivering Vaccines, CHE 301, 2-3PM
2013-01-24Select
Departmental Seminar
Jim Morken
Boston College


2013-01-24Antilla, Jon
Departmental Seminar
Haipeng Liu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Further research plan. ISA 5020, 1-2PM
2013-01-25Select
Departmental Seminar
Natalia Shustova
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Research presentation. CHE 301, 2-3 PM.
2013-01-31Select
Departmental Seminar
Xumu Zhang
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
http://chem.rutgers.edu/~xumuweb/publication.html

TBA
2013-01-31Zhang, Peter
Departmental Seminar
Natalia Shustova
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Further research plan. ISA 5020, 1-2 PM
2013-02-01Select
Departmental Seminar
Vuk Uskokovic
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)


Research presentation. ISA 5020, 2-3PM.
2013-02-03Select
Departmental Seminar
Vuk Uskokovic
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)


Further research plan. ISA 5020, 1-2 PM.
2013-02-04Select
Departmental Seminar
Xin Wang
Princeton University


Research presentation. CHE 301, 2-3 PM.
2013-02-07Select
Departmental Seminar
Kent Kirshenbaum
New York University
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/kirshenbaum/

2013-02-07Cai, Jianfeng
Departmental Seminar
Xin Wang
Princeton University


Further research plan. CHE 301, 1-2 PM.
2013-02-08Select
Departmental Seminar
Dr. Jeremiah Tipton
USF CDDI
http://www.research.usf.edu/cddi/j-tipton-bio.asp

2013-02-14 
Departmental Seminar
Banglin Chen
University of Texas-San Antonio
http://utsa.edu/chem/chen.html

2013-02-21Ma, Shengqian
Departmental Seminar
Prof. Rebecca Butcher
University of Florida
http://www.chem.ufl.edu/~butcher/

2013-02-28Baker, Bill
Departmental Seminar
Christopher Douglas
University of Minnesota
http://www.chem.umn.edu/groups/douglas/

"Transition Metal Catalysis with Sigma Bonds Adjacent to Carbonyls"
2013-03-07Zhang, Peter
Departmental Seminar
Dr. Till Opatz
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
http://www.chemie.uni-mainz.de/OC/AK-Opatz/publ.php

From polarity switching of imines to bioactive natural products.
2013-03-08Turos, Edward
Departmental Seminar
Dr. Jin-Quan Yu
Scripps Institute
http://www.scripps.edu/yu/

Ligand-Accelerated C–H Activation: New Synthetic Disconnections
2013-03-21Zhang, Peter
Departmental Seminar
Dr. Matthew Bogyo
Stanford University
http://bogyolab.stanford.edu/

2013-03-28Cai, Jianfeng
Departmental Seminar
Dr. Li-June Ming and Dr. Ioannis Gelis
USF


In Memory of Professor Ivano Bertini, the legend of "paramagnetic NMR" goes on…
2013-04-04Select
Departmental Seminar
Prof. Matthew Rosseinsky
University of Liverpool
http://www.liv.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/matthew-rosseinsky/

2013-04-11Ma, Shengqian
Departmental Seminar
Francesco Paesani
UCSD
http://paesanigroup.ucsd.edu

2013-04-18Space, Brian
Departmental Seminar
Nathaniel L. Rosi
University of Pittsburgh
http://www.pitt.edu/~nrosi/nathanielrosi.htm

2013-04-25Ma, Shengqian
Departmental Seminar
Dr. Richard N. Zare (Martin Lecturer)
Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/group/Zarelab/

Desorption Electrospray Ionization Location: CHE 111.
2013-05-23Martin, Dean
Departmental Seminar
Dr. Adam Veige
University of Florida
http://veigeresearch.chem.ufl.edu/

2013-09-05Zhang, Peter
Departmental Seminar
Dr. Feng-Shou Xiao
Zhejiang University
http://www.chem.zju.edu.cn/xiaofs/Member-FSXiao-en.html

2013-09-12Ma, Shengqian
Departmental Seminar
Dr. Hendrik Luesch
University of Florida
http://pharmacy.ufl.edu/faculty/hendrikluesch/

2013-09-26Baker, Bill
Departmental Seminar
Dr. Bas de Bruin
Universiteit van Amsterdam
http://www.science.uva.nl/research/imc/HomKat/people/scientific%20staff/Bas%20de%20Bruin/Bas%20de%20Bruin.htm

2013-10-10Zhang, Peter
Departmental Seminar
Dr. Antonio Prieto
University of Puerto Rico
http://graduados.uprrp.edu/cnquimica/program/faculty/prieto/prieto.htm

2013-10-17Baker, Bill
Departmental Seminar
Dr. Robert Huigens
University of Florida
http://pharmacy.ufl.edu/faculty/robert-w-huigens-iii/

2014-04-03Baker, Bill