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
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
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