Faculty Seminar Titles for F09 & S10

Our Faculty are happy and honored to speak at your school. Please peruse the faculty seminar titles, and contact either the faculty member directly or the seminar coordinator, Jen Durkin jenws@udel.edu, in order to invite a speaker.

Faculty Name Division Phone/Email/URL TITLE(s)
 
Brian Bahnson Biochemistry
(302) 831-0786
bahnson@mail.chem.udel.edu
Web Page

HDL and LDL Associated Esterases: Targets for Atherosclerosis and Chemical Warfare Agents
Thomas Beebe Analytical (302)831-1888
beebe@udel.edu
Web Page
Neuron Pathfinding: Restoring and Stimulating Nerve Cell Attachments
Molecule Corrals: Nanometer-Sized Containers with Plenty of Uses
Modern Surface Analysis Tools for Nanoscience and Biotechnology
Svilen Bobev Inorganic (302) 831-8720
bobev@udel.edu
Web Page
Chemistry in the solid state: What is so special about it?
Long-range vacancy ordering in binary rare-earth germanides
Karl Booksh
Analytical

(302) 831-2561
KBooksh@udel.edu
Web Page

Fiber Optic Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors: Detection of Chemical Markers in Biological Fluid
Development of Field Portable Sensors for Environmental Proces Monitoring
Steven Brown
Analytical
(302) 831-6861
sdb@udel.edu
Web Page
Chemometrics and Process Analytical Technology: Helping Pharmaceuticals become Commodities
Theoretical Analytical Chemistry" - Oxymoron or a New Growth Industry?
John Burmeister
Inorganic
(302) 831-1130
jlburm@mail.chem.udel.edu
Web Page
The Modern Academic Scientist: Mentor, CEO or Welfare Queen in a White Lab Coat?
Good Teachers versus Good Teaching
Junghuei Chen
Biochemistry
(302) 831-1035
junghuei@udel.edu
Web Page
The Mechanism of Homologous Recombination
Douglas Doren
Physical
(302) 831-1070
doren@udel.edu
Web Page
Principles of Silicon Surface Chemistry from First-Principles Calculations: Using Theory to Guide Experiments
Accurate Predictions When Accurate Measurements are Impossible: Theoretical Problems in Geochemistry and Atmospheric Chemistry
Cecil Dybowski
Physical
(302) 831-2726
dybowski@mail.chem.udel.edu
Web Page
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Applied to Solids
Pb-207 NMR Spectroscopy
Ion-Molecule Interactions in Activated Zeolite Catalysts
Xenon NMR Spectroscopy as a Probe of Porous Materials
Joseph Fox
Organic
(302) 831-0191
jmfox@udel.edu
Web Page
Asymmetric synthesis with strained molecules
Murray Johnston
Analytical
(302) 831-8014
mvj@udel.edu
Web Page
Mass Spectrometry of Airborne Particles: What's in the Air We Breathe?
John Koh
Organic
(302) 831-1947
johnkoh@udel.edu
Web Page
How to design molecules to restore function to mutant receptors associated with genetic disease.
Sharon Neal
Analytical
(302) 831-0719
sneal@udel.edu
Web Page
Unraveling Structural Clues from Multivariate Protein Fluorescence
Characterizing Novel Model Membranes using Multi-State Fluorescence Probes
Sandeep Patel Physical

(302) 831-6024
sapatel@udel.edu
Web Page

Next-Generation Polarizable Force Fields for Biomolecular Simulations: Development and Applications to All-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins in Solution
Studies of Ion Conduction in the Gramicidin A Channel: Novel Insights Using Polarizable Force Fields Coupled with Enhanced Sampling Methods
Tatyana Polenova
Physical
(302) 831-1968
tpolenov@mail.chem.udel.edu
Web Page
Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Protein Interfaces and Metal Sites in Metalloproteins
Douglas Ridge
Physical
(302) 831-1197
dougr@udel.edu
Web Page
Gas Phase Transition Metal Clusters: Reactivity and IR Spectroscopy.
Polymer Mass Spectrometry: Fundamental Studies
Applications of Mass Spectrometry to Mechanistic Biochemistry
Charles Riordan
Inorganic
(302) 831-1073
riordan@udel.edu
Web Page
Biomimetic and Bioinspired Nickel Coordination Chemistry: A Role for Organometallics in Biology
Dioxygen Activation by Low Valent Nickel Complexes
Sharon Rozovsky Biochemistry (302) 831 7028
rozovsky@UDel.Edu
Web Page
Single Molecule Kinetics of ENTH Binding to Lipid Membranes
Membrane Targeting, Binding, and Deformation by the ENTH Domain
Kate Scantlebury Chemistry Education (302) 831-4546
kscantle@UDel.Edu
Web Page
Coteaching: Restructuring science student teaching to establish learning communities

This talk will introduce how teachers and student teachers use coteaching in the high school chemistry classes to critically analyze teaching and learning and improve practice to enhance student learning.

Douglass Taber
Organic
(302) 831-2433
taberdf@udel.edu
Web Page
Computational Organometallic Chemistry: Synthesis of the Isofurans
Andrew Teplyakov
Physical
(302) 831-1969
andrewt@udel.edu
Web Page
Surface and Interface Chemistry in Multilayered Materials
Surface chemistry of confined nanostructures and disordered substrates
Klaus Theopold
Inorganic
(302) 831-1546
theopold@udel.edu
Web Page
Oxygen Activation with Tris(pyrazolyl)borate Metal Complexes
Homogeneous Polymerization Catalysis with Paramaqnetic Chromium Alkyls
Colin Thorpe
Biochemistry
(302) 831-2689
cthorpe@udel.edu
Web Page
A New Enzyme Family for Oxidative Protein Folding: from Blue Hens to Human Growth Factors
Donald Watson Organic (302) 831-8728
dawatson@udel.edu
Web Page
 
Mary Watson Organic (302) 831-1529
mpwatson@udel.edu
Web Page
 
Harold White
Biochemistry
(302) 831-2908
halwhite@udel.edu
Web Page
What Color is Egg White? (A popular interactive biochemical demonstration on the nature of scientific inquiry using observation and fundamental chemical concepts. Appropriate for freshmen as well as seniors.)
Classic Articles as Problem-Based Learning Problems
Zhihao Zhuang Biochemistry (302) 831-8940
zzhuang@udel.edu

Web Page
 
Neal Zondlo
Organic
(302) 831-0197
zondlo@mail.chem.udel.edu
Web Page
Functional Molecular Recognition by Designed Architectures

Department News

Department Awarded CBI Grant for Fourth Time Details

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14th CHEM/BIOC Graduation Convocation: Pearson Hall, May 30, 2009 Details


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