| Monday, Feb 18 | |
| 3:30 pm - 4:20 pm Room: BRWN 4102 | Biochemistry Seminar “Protein Engineering and Directed Evolution for the Creation of Optogenetic Indicators” by Professor Robert Campbell (University of Alberta / University of Tokyo). Themes and styles also help keep your document coordinated.When you click Design and choose a new Theme, the pictures, charts, andSmartArt graphics change to match your new theme. When you apply styles, yourheadings change to match the new theme. Save time in Word with new buttons thatshow up where you need them. To change the way a picture fits in your document,click it and a button for layout options appears next to it. When you work on a table, click where you want to add a row or a column, and then click the plus sign. |
| Tuesday, Feb 19 | |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Room: BRWN 4102 | Inorganic Chemistry Seminar "Understanding Structure-Activity Relationships in Methanol Synthesis from CO and CO2" by Nicole Escorcia (Graduate Student, Purdue University) “Understanding the Superconductivity of Iron Arsenides through Chemical Approaches” by Robert Compton (Graduate Student, Purdue University). |
| 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Room: WTHR 320 | Analytical Seminar "Single-Entity Electrochemical Measurements with Nanoscale Pipettes” by Professor Lane Baker (Indiana University - Bloomington). On the other hand, recent advances of DNA sequencing techniques illuminate extraordinarily rich potential of microbial strains for drug discovery and development, of which we have only tapped the surface. Over the past five years, my research laboratory has focused on the exploitation of microbial genomes to access new enzymology and to develop synthetic biology approaches to synthesize valuable substances. |
| 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Room: WTHR 104 | Organic Seminar "Exploiting Microbial Genomes to Access New Enzymology and Valuable Chemicals" by Professor Yousong Ding (University of Florida). |
| Wednesday, Feb 20 | |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Room: BRWN 4102 | Physical Chemistry Seminar "Using Raman Spectroscopy to Probe the Vibrational and Electronic Properties of Atomically Precise Nanostructures: From Cadmium Selenide Quantum Dots to Graphene" by Professor Andrew Crowther (Barnard College). Natural products-based drug discovery has achieved tremendous successes, but the high rate of rediscovery and limited chemical supply are two major challenges the field is facing. On the other hand, recent advances of DNA sequencing techniques illuminate extraordinarily rich potential of microbial strains for drug discovery and development, of which we have only tapped the surface. Over the past five years, my research laboratory has focused on the exploitation of microbial genomes to access new enzymology and to develop synthetic biology approaches to synthesize valuable substances. In this talk, I will share our recent studies in the discovery of new enzymology and the production of chemicals. Specifically, we characterized the catalytic features of ATP-grasp ligases in modifying multiple core peptides within a single substrate in the biosynthesis of one ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide (RiPP) microviridin. |
| Thursday, Feb 21 | |
| 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Room: WTHR 104 | Departmental Colloquium in Materials Chemistry “A Designer’s Toolkit for Constructing Complex Nanoparticle Libraries” by Professor Raymond Schaak (Dept. of Chemistry, Penn State University). CANCELLED |