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Chemistry 465
Senior Seminar in Chemistry and Biochemistry
Professor Steven D. Brown
Office: 105 BrL
Office phone: 831-1247
E-mail: sdb@udel.edu
Text: None
Location: All Chem 465 sessions will be held in BrL 214 at 2:30
on Wednesdays.
Format: Seminar-based. Grading is Pass/Fail, based on seminar quality,
discussion and attendance. The grading criteria are as follows:
seminar quality:
80%
discussion
10%
attendance
10%
A grade of "pass" will be entered in C465-011 if a student earns 60% of
the possible score or higher.
Evaluation
Form (Print out as needed for seminar evaluations)
Chem 465 Seminar Schedule
| Week of |
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| 2/10/99 | lottery | lottery |
| 2/17/99 | topics(articles) due | topics (articles) due |
| 2/14/99 | Sujata Bhatia "The Role of Cysteines in the Folding Pathway of P22 Tailspike Protein" |
Nathan Hammel "Superionic and Metallic States of Water and Ammonia at Giant Planet Conditions" |
| 3/3/99 |
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Katherine Filippino "Arsenic Speciation in the Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River and Surrounding Tributaries" |
| 3/10/99 | Shawn Springfield "Synthesis of Nk2 Antagonist Standard" |
Laura Braack "Reovirus Therapy of Tumors with Activated Ras Pathway" |
| 3/17/99 | Alison Liechty "Effect of Polymyxin B on Hyperosmotic Stress in Escherichia coli" |
Suzanne Bauman "Photoaffinity Labeling of Rat Liver Glutathione S-Transferase, 4-4, by Glutathionyl S-[4-(Succinimidyl)-Benzophenone]" |
| 3/24/99 | -no seminars - | -no seminars - |
| 4/7/99 | Brian Pippin "Regulation of the Cyanide-Resistant Alternative Oxidase of Plant Mitochondria" |
Joesph Venglik "Miniaturized Carbon Monoxide Sonde for Atmospheric Measurements" |
| 4/14/99 |
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Jenn Eye "BRCA1 Required for Transcription-Coupled Repair of Oxidative DNA Damage" |
| 4/21/99 | Amanda Simmons "The Role of the Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 in Recombination" |
Stacey Sheasley "Studies on Substrate Specificity of Sulfhydryl Oxidase from Chicken Egg White" |
| 4/28/99 | John Dueber "Expression, Purification, and Refolding of Tailspike Protein" |
Radhika Rao "Amino Acid Transformation of Oscillatory Ca(II) Signals in Mouse Pancreatic ß-Cells" |
| 5/5/99 | Twla Briddell "Enantioselective Carbocyclic Ring Construction by Rhodium Mediated Intramolecular C-H Insertion: The Synthesis of a Chiral Ligand" |
David Werner "Environmentally Friendly Adhesives for the US Army" |
| 5/12/99 | Tony Blewett "Bimetallic System for Nitrogen Fixation: Ruthenium Assisted Protonation of Coordinated N2 on Tungsten with H2" |
Matt Eager "A New Class of Fluorinated Polymers by a Mild, Selective and Quantitative Fluorination" |
| 5/19/99 | Deepak Pradhan "Embryonic Folate Metabolism and Mouse Neural Tube Defects" |
Alex Obaitau "Signal Transduction in Rat Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells: Control of Osmotically Induced Aldose Reductase Expression by Cell Kinases and Phosphatases" |
Material used in the seminar is due to the discussant on Monday prior to the presentation. Discussants present the seminars on the following meeting of the class.
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Last updated: February 11, 1999.