Graduate Student Seminar Series

Graduate Student Seminars are held Wednesdays at 3:30 PM in Physical Sciences Building 240, unless noted otherwise.


FALL 2011


September 15, 2011 (Note this seminar is prior to the beginning of Fall Quarter 2011)
DISSERTATION SEMINAR
Spectroscopic Studies of Myoglobin Mutants and the Kinetics of Water Entry into the Heme Pocket 
Rosa Nguyen - UC, Santa Cruz 

September 23, 2011 (Note this seminar is on a Friday)
DISSERTATION SEMINAR @ 1:00 PM
'Marine-Derived Small Molecules: From Fungi and Sponges to Therapeutics and Chemical Probes'
Katherine Watts - UC, Santa Cruz

October 05, 2011
SECOND YEAR SEMINAR
'Organocatalysis: Methodology, Synthesis, and Pharmaceutical Applications'
Brian Leon - UC, Santa Cruz

October 12, 2011
'Title: TBD'
Speaker: TBD

October 19, 2011
'Title: TBD'
Speaker: TBD

October 26, 2011
"Title: TBD"

Debraj Ghosh - UC, Berkeley

November 02, 2011
SECOND YEAR SEMINAR
'Nanoantenna Plasmonic Sensing'
Liat Zavodivker, UC Santa Cruz

"Synthesis of Mn3CaO4: Inspired by the Heteronuclear Metal Cluster of the Oxygen Evolving Complex (OEC)"
Tara deBoer, UC Santa Cruz

November 9, 2011
"Title: TBD"
Speaker - TBD

November 16, 2011
SECOND YEAR SEMINARS
"Title: TBD"
RESERVED: BIOCHEMISTRY & PHYSICAL GRADUATE STUDENTS

November 23, 2011
"Title: TBD"
Speaker: TBD

November 30, 2011
SECOND YEAR SEMINAR
"Title: TBD"
RESERVED: SECOND YEAR SEMINARS - BIOCHEMISTRY & PHYSICAL GRADUATE STUDENTS

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WINTER 2012


January 11, 2012
"Beta-defensins and the Melanocortin System"
DISSERTATION SEMINAR
Matthew Nix, UC Santa Cruz

January 18, 2012
"Title: TBD"
Speaker: TBD

January 25, 2012
"Title: TBD"

Speaker: TBD

February 01, 2012
"Versatility and Adaptability of Phosphine Ligands in Catalysis"
Chris Murphy, UC Santa Cruz

Feburary 08, 2012
Title: TBD
Speaker: TBD

February 15, 2012
"Advances in Multicomponent Reactions: Stereoselectivity in Synthesis"
Christopher Bailey

February 22, 2012
Title: TBD
Speaker: TBD

February 29, 2012
RESERVED: BIOCHEMISTRY & PHYSICAL GRAD STUDENT SECOND YEAR SEMINARS
1. "Ligand exchange on colloidal CdSe nanocrystals using thermally labile tert-butylthiol for improved photocurrent in nanocrystal films"
Ke Liu, UC Santa Cruz

2. "Nanoporous Metal/Oxide Hybrid Electrodes for Electrochemical Supercapacitors"
Hanyu Wang, UC Santa Cruz

3. "Autonomous Controlled Synthesis of CdSe Nanoparticles Using Microfluidics"
Bruce Phebus, UC Santa Cruz

March 07, 2012
RESERVED: BIOCHEMISTRY & PHYSICAL GRAD STUDENT SECOND YEAR SEMINARS
1. Title: TBD
Speaker: TBD

2. Title: TBD
Speaker: TBD

March 14, 2012
RESERVED: BIOCHEMISTRY & PHYSICAL GRAD STUDENT SECOND YEAR SEMINAR
1. "Structural and Mechanistic Investigation of Heme Oxygenase"
Michelle Armstrong, UC Santa Cruz

2. "Selected Reaction Monitoring: A Tool for Quantitative Proteomics"
Rafael Palomino, UC Santa Cruz

3. "Measuring mechanical tension across membrane receptors with a fluorescent sensor"
Lily Le, UC Santa Cruz

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SPRING 2012


April 11, 2012
Title: TBD
Speaker: TBD

April 25, 2012
Title: TBD
Speaker: TBD

May 09, 2012
Title: TBD
Speaker: TBD

May 16, 2012
Approaching Permeability Oriented Synthesis (POS): Construction and Conformational Modeling of a Hybrid Peptide-Polyketide Library
Andrew Bockus, MSCB Third-Year Talk

May 23, 2012
RESERVED: BIOCHEMISTRY & PHYSICAL GRAD STUDENT SECOND YEAR SEMINARS
Title: TBD
Speaker: TBD

May 30, 2012
RESERVED: BIOCHEMISTRY & PHYSICAL GRAD STUDENT SECOND YEAR SEMINARS

1. "Whispering Gallery Mode Biosensing"
Josh Parks, Holger Schmidt Lab

2. "Nanopore DNA Sequencing"
Joe Parks, Stone Lab

Disclaimer: Speaker order is determined by order of sign-up. If presenters would like to alter the order presented on this page, they must coordinate it amongst themselves.

June 6, 2012
Title: TBD
Chris Smyrniotis, MSCB Third-Year Talk

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