Gustaf H. Carlson School of Chemistry

News

  • Harry C. Allen Jr. Symposium, Friday, November 13, 2009.

  • Lincoln Muhoro '08 took 4th place in the poster session of the New England Science Symposium held at Harvard Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts on April 3rd, 2009.  Lincoln presented part of his Honors thesis on collagen VII and its role in epidermolysis bullosa.  He is completing the Accelerated B.A./Master's Degree Program at Clark and is a Research Associate at the Abbott Bioresearch Center in Worcester, Massachusetts.

  • 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: Fall 2009

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

October 7
Dr. Todd Emerick
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, UMass Amherst
"Novel hydrophilic and amphiphilic polymers and particles:  synthesis, conjugation, and materials repair"

October 14
Dr. Feng Gai
Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
"Ultrafast Protein Folding Dynamics"

October 16
Howard Wu
Chemistry Ph.D. Defense
"Folding of Amyloidogenic Protein and Human Telomerase RNA Pseudoknot"

October 21
Jeffrey Agar
Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University
"Mass Spectrometry Studies of InVivo Protein Modifications that occur in the disease ALS"

October 28 – Chemistry Graduate Student Seminar
• Subin Adhikari   "Modeling Single and Double Layered Nb-oxide Layer for
                             Understanding the Relationship Between 93-Nb Electric
                             Field Gradient and Structures in Various Niobates"
• Rob Doyle         "Functionalization of Linear Poly(ethylene Imine)"
• Jamie Towle      "The Generation of a T7/AMH Chimera" 

September 30 – Chemistry Graduate Student Seminar
• Kevin Robbins  "Using Ligand Detected NMR to Study the Aggregation and
                            Structure of IAPP"

September 23 – Chemistry Graduate Student Seminar
• Grace Liu  "Biophysical Studies of IAPP Aggregation"
• Ting Liu     "WURST-echo, WURST-QCPMG Pulse Sequence for Faster Acquisition
                    of Ultra-wideline NMR Spectra"
• Kai Peng    "The Study of Inhibitors Against Lysyl Oxidase"

September 16
Dr. Colin D. Abernethy
Department of Chemistry, Keene State College
"Investigations of N-heterocyclic Carbene and Germylene Complexes of Vanadium"

September 9 – Chemistry Graduate Student Seminar
•  Clara Chen  "Bovine Aorta Lysyl Oxidase Disulfide Bond Arrangements
                       Identification Using LC/MS/MS"
•  Ricky Meng  "Extract Translational Diffusion Information from PFG NMR Data"
•  Howard Wu  "A Network Approach to the Folding of hTR Pseudoknots"