Past Seminars Cumulative Index
2011-2012
Nicholas Reiter (’99), Northwestern University: Structure of the Ribonuclease P enzyme with transfer RNA (tRNA): A molecular fossil revealed!
Christopher Murray, University of Pennsylvania: Nanocrystal assembly: Multi-component superlattices and nanocrystal based devices
Carleton Chemistry Faculty and Academic Civic Engagement Staff: You Decided to Major in Chemistry – Now What? Volunteer Opportunities and Career/Grad School Information
Christopher Douglas, University of Minnesota: Building molecular complexity through catalytic processes involving carbon-carbon and carbon-oxygen bond activation
Carleton Science/Math Majors: Annual All-Science and Math Poster Session
Louise Charkoudian, Stanford University: Cracking the Polyketide Code: How Nature Controls the Synthesis of Structurally Complex Molecules
Christine Phillips-Piro, University of California, Berkeley: Bacterial Sensing of Nickel: A Molecular View
Emily Mundorff, Vassar College: Explorations in Substrate Space
Christina Vizcarra, University of California, Los Angeles: Functional studies of the actin regulators Cappuccino and Spire
Rebecca Taurog, The Scripps Research Institute: Multiscale Structural Studies of Viruses
Christopher Calderone, Macalester College: The Molecules of Iron Acquisition: It’s Hard Out Here for a Pathogen
Mark Deeg, Eli Lilly & Co.: The Chemistry of Diabetic Complications
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota: Einstein’s most revolutionary work: The young turk’s contributions to early quantum theory
Loren Williams, Georgia Institute of Technology: RNA: Still Folding after all these Years
Nicholas Ball, California Institute of Technology: Synthesizing Organofluorines: Harnessing the Power of Pd(IV)
Keith Kuwata, Macalester College: Computational Studies of Chemically Activated Species in the Troposphere
Christopher Larson (’89), Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America: Mitigating Cardiometabolic and Inflammatory Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases
Yolanda Vasquez, Harvard University: Two Short Stories in Nanomaterials: Synthesis and Bio-inspired Applications
Adrian Roitberg, University of Florida: Sometimes a pKa is not a pKa. Protein Simulations at constant pH.
Paul Chirik, Princeton University: Modern Alchemy: The Chemistry of Base Metal Catalysis
Antoine van Oijen, Groningen University: Under the hood: Single-molecule studies of DNA replication; The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Cathy Murray, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Surface Bioengineering of Gold Nanorods; The James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
Sarah Trimpin, Wayne State University: New Methods for Ionization in Mass Spectrometry and Applications
Amy Palmer, University of Colorado, Boulder: Fluorescent tools for live cell imaging: What can we monitor and what can we learn?
Lesley-Ann Giddings, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute: Alkaloid Biosynthesis in Madagascar Periwinkle
Senior Comps Talks:
Ryan Cammarota, Katie Deeg, Peter Dunn, Jon Raberg, Sean Roberts, Karen Robinson, Erika Warrick: Heavy Metal Sandwiches: Rocking Out at Room Temperature to Dinitrogen Functionalization
Cody Finke, Katie France, Brian Kempers, Ernesto Llano, Kenneth Lum, Eric Olson, Melody Zhou: DNA, I hear you’re single: How single-molecular techniques elucidate DNA replication
Owen Demke, Chelsea Modlin, James Morrissey, Puja Patel, Alison Smyth, Diane Walters, Alfred Yeung: Exploding Bacteria using Gold Nanorods
2010-2011
Academic Civic Engagement Staff; Brent Nystrom, Career Center; Chemistry Faculty: Volunteer and Career Exploration and Information Session
Ned Bowden, University of Iowa: Behave! How to Separate Unruly Catalysts and Reagents in One Pot Using Materials Chemistry
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science and Math Poster Session
Malika Jeffries-EL, Iowa State University: Design and Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers for Advanced Applications
Philippe Buhlmann, University of Minnesota: Polymeric Fluorous Phases: From the Ultimate Limits of Low Polarity to Biocompatibility
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Silvia Cavagnero, University of Wisconsin, Madison: How Do Proteins Acquire a 3D Structure in the Cell? An Interdisciplinary Journey across Organic, Physical and Biological
Matthew Whited, University of Southern California/Carleton College: Excitation Management in Solar Dyes Using Singlets and Triplets
Daniela Kohen, Carleton College: Can a computational chemist help curb carbon dioxide emissions? (or Atomistic simulations of carbon dioxide in zeolites)
Amy Palmer, University of Colorado, Boulder: Development of fluorescent sensors to monitor metal ions in living cells
Marion Cass, Carleton College: Mechanisms that Interconvert Enantiomers in Chiral Metal Tris Chelate Molecules
Richard Caprioli, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine: Imaging Mass Spectrometry: Providing New Insights to Biology and Medicine
Isiah Warner, Louisiana State University: NanoGUMBOS: A New Breed of Nanomaterials
Jess Adkins, California Institute of Technology: Journey to the Bottom of the Sea: How Deep-Sea Corals Calcify and Why We Care; James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
William Jones, University of Rochester: Strong C-H and C-C Bond Cleavage Reactions Using Homogeneous Transition Metal Complexes; James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
Jeanne Pemberton, University of Arizona: Rhamnolipid Biosurfactants from Nature’s Bacterial Microsynthetic Factories; Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Kirk Williams, University of Alabama, Birmingham: Approaches to Understanding Obesity: Computational Chemistry and Molecular Dynamics
Barbara Imperiali, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Chemical Tools for the Study of Complex Biological Systems; Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Aaron Massari, University of Minnesota: Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Organic Electronic Interfaces
Cora MacBeth, Emory University: Bioinspired Ligand Systems for Transition Metal Mediated Small-molecule Binding and Activation
Senior Comps Talks:
Ben Cotts, Ken Ellis-Guardiola, Anna Gallagher, Nolly Gibbs, Eric Manley, Alexandra Schefter, Kaz Skubi: Transition Metal-Catalyzed C-H and C-C Activation: How Hydrocarbons Go Boom, Gracefully
Sam Althauser, Grace Cooper, Dan Cremons, Sophie Hines, Andrew Hooker, Duncan Olsen, Samantha Thompson, Celine Yeh: The Role of Past Ocean Processes in Abrupt Climate Change: Secrets Held by Deep-Sea Corals and Sediments
Ryan Babbush, Grant Bowen, Kevin Cannaday, Martin Granick, James McMenimen: Surface Characterization by Raman Spectroscopy
Michael Bonin, Chris Choo, Caitlin Dole, Sara Doyle, Sarah Duane, Jeremy Grevet, Liz Hecht: A Sweet Biomarker: Asparagine-Linked Glycosylation
John Davis: Solar Hydrogen from Nanostructured Titanium Dioxide
2009-2010
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Graduate School Information Session
Tamara Hendrickson, Wayne State University: Indirect Biosynthesis of Gln-tRNA(Gln) in the Human Pathogen Helicobacter Pylori
David Alberg and Gretchen Hofmeister, Carleton College: Metal-less Methodology: Making Carbon-Carbon Bonds Using Purely Organic Reaction Components
J. Christopher Thomas, 3M Company: (Phosphino)borates and transition metals: Electronic effects resulting from a zwitterionic ligand framework
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science and Math Poster Session
Daron Janzen, St. Catherine University: Electronic, Steric, and Anion Control of Solid-State Luminescence in Cyclometallated Platinum(II) Complexes
Jesse Edwards, Florida A&M University: Molecular Dynamic Simulations of a HIV Polypeptide Protease Inhibitor and the HIV I Protease Subtypes B vs. C
Matthew Whited, University of Southern California: A Multiple C–H Activation Approach to Iridium-Catalyzed Oxidations
Laura Kaufman, Columbia University: Design and Characterization of Collagen Gels for Cell Migration Studies
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Daniel Kim-Shapiro (Physics ’84), Wake Forest University: Nitric Oxide Bioavailability in Health, Disease and Therapeutics
T. Andrew Mobley (’91), Grinnell College: Synthesis, Structural and Reactivity Studies of Organotungstenstannyl Complexes
Eric Guttag (’74), IP Law Office: Chemistry and Law: A Combustible Career Combination
Carla Mattos, North Carolina State University: Allosteric Modulation of Ras: A Direct Role for Glutamine 61 in Catalysis
Justin Gallivan, Emory University: Reprogramming Bacteria with Small Molecules and RNA
Christopher Cramer, University of Minnesota: Dioxygen Activation at Mono- and Binuclear Copper Enzyme Site Models
Neena Grover, Colorado College: Thermodynamic Analysis of Small RNA Motifs
Benjamin Cravatt, The Scripps Research Institute: Activity-based proteomics - Applications for enzyme and inhibitor discovery
Kenneth Raymond, University of California, Berkeley: Metal-Ligand Supermolecular Clusters as Nanoscale Flasks; The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Geri Richmond, University of Oregon: At the Water’s Edge; The James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
F. Dean Toste, University of California, Berkeley: Hypothesis Driven Reaction Discovery; The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Karen Goldberg, University of Washington, Seattle: Catalysis for Today’s Fuels and Chemicals: “Green” Solutions
Senior Comps Talks:
Adrian Chow, Tina Cich, Ross Hamilton, Emily Kobernik, Jingjing Ling, Christopher Staral: Activity-Based Protein Profiling: Fishing in the Sea of Proteins
Grant Buckingham, Greta Kringle, Michael Lysonski, Sicelo Masango, Kevin Pollock, Bryan Rosett, Leng Sok, Mia Zutz: Probing the Interface Using Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy
Chris Clark, Henry Heitzer, Lindsey Madison, Colin Russell, Laura Sofen: Molecular Catch and Release: Metal-Ligand Coordination Chemistry
Claire Brookmeyer, Sam Cross-Knorr, Adam Fagin, Alfredo Guzman, Musetta Steinbach, Lisa Wang: The Midas Touch: Au(I) Catalysts in Organic Synthesis
2008-2009
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Graduate School Information Session
Douglas Beussman, St. Olaf College: Proteomics and Date-Rape Drugs: Mass Spectrometry Research at St. Olaf College
Claudio Margulis, University of Iowa: Room Temperature Ionic Liquids, a New Solvation Paradigm
Steven Drew, Carleton College: A Platinum(II) Extended Linear Chain Material That Selectively Uptakes Benzene
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science and Math Poster Session
John Enemark, University of Arizona: Changing SOX in a Flash: Chemistry of a Vital Molybdenum Enzyme (Joint St. Olaf/Carleton Seminar)
Gary Nicholas (’94), Bell’s Brewery: Tales from Industry: Managing the Eccentricities of Fermentation
Keith Woo, Iowa State University: Use of DNA for the Development of Homogeneous Catalysts
Christine Morales (’98), Iona College: Modeling the Infrared Spectrum of a Nanoconfined Liquid
Mark Ratner, Northwestern University: Transport in Molecular Junctions: Thoughts Coherent and Incoherent
Laura Iraci, NASA Ames Research Center: Particles in the Earth’s Atmosphere: Chemistry, Photochemistry, and Climate Implications
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Penny Beuning, Northeastern University: Regulation of DNA Damage Responses by a DNA Polymerase Manager Protein
Nate Lewis, California Institute of Technology: Sunlight-Driven Hydrogen Formation by Membrane-Supported Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting;The James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
Christopher Loss, The Culinary Institute of America: Culinary Chemistry: An Entrée to the Sciences at The Culinary Institute of America
David Tirrell, California Institute of Technology: Reinterpreting the Genetic Code: Non-Canonical Amino Acids in Protein Design, Evolution and Analysis;The Jerry and Jean Mohrig Lecture
Tom McMurry, Ascent Pharmaceuticals: Pepducin Technology: A New Paradigm for Modulating G Protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) Activity
Garry Crosson, University of Dayton: A Solid-State NMR Study of Zeolite Formation in Hyperalkaline Aluminosilicate Suspensions
James Patterson (’97), University of Alabama, Birmingham: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Alpha-Synuclein with Detergents and Small Unilamellar Vesicles
Daniel J. Cziczo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Which Aerosol Particles End Up Inside Clouds?
Senior Comps Talks:
Emily Ruff: The Dynamics of Electron Tunneling in Electron Transfer Proteins: Determination of a Decay Constant
Nick Brom, Michael Henneberry, Fred Kieley, Dan Mammel, Seiya Medrano, Andrew Olson, Bobby Schmitz, David Selassie: Interfacial Electron Transfer at Semiconductor-Liquid Junctions: Implications for Powering the Planet
Jennifer Bigelow, Joe Brown, Mia Brown, Jamie Chen, Robert Kennedy, Jennie Miller, Fumiko Yashiro: Dy(e)ing to Save the Planet: Exploring Dye-Sensitized Nanocrystalline TiO2 Solar Cells
Eamon Flynn, Sarah Kunelius, Kristine Mackin, Keven Tell, Sarah Toews, Xia Xiong: The Maillard Reaction or How I learned to stop worrying about acrylamide and love the flavor
Claire Buckler, John Hanks, Claire Liepmann, Jonathan McMurry, Cassandra Olson, Katherine Stanchak, Jia-Shyuan Su, Yirong Zhu: The Work of David Tirrell
2007-2008
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Seminars Kick-Off/Careers Discussion
Rebecca Jockusch, University of Toronto: Intrinsic Conformations of Biomolecules Probed by Mass Spectrometry, Optical Spectroscopy and Computations
Neil Sbar, SAGE Electrochromics, Inc.: Electrochromic Smart Window Technology
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science and Math Poster Session
Robert Coates, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Stereochemistry and Mechanism of Terpene Synthase Cyclizations
Jimmy Blair (’02), Carleton College and University of California, Berkeley: Harnessing the Power of Chemical Genetics: Rationally-designed Affinity Probes for Tyrosine Kinases Report EGFR Inhibition in Cells
David Reingold, Juniata College: Aromatic Systems with Gaps and Holes
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Nancy Mills, Trinity University: Understanding Aromaticity Through Antiaromaticity: How a Failed Research Project Turned Golden
Kathryn Splan, Macalester College: Bivalent Peptide Antagonists of Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins (IAPs)
Scott Larsen, Cephalon, Inc.: Research Chemistry Beyond the Bench: A Practical Guide to Inventorship and U.S. Patent Law
Lisa Berreau, Utah State University: Dioxygen Reactivity of Ni(II) Enolate and Enediolate Complexes
Geoff Coates, Cornell University: Development of New Catalytic Routes to Benign Polymeric Materials
Jennifer Al-Rashid, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Synthesis and Cycloadditions of Chiral Allenamides
Jeffrey Carney, University of Notre Dame: Intramolecular Hydroamination of Aminoalkynes with Silver-Phenanthroline Catalysts
Peter Gittins, St. Mary’s University: Branching in New Directions: An Introduction to Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers
Launa Lynch, Grinnell College: Isoflavones and Their Novel Analogues: Effects on EGFR Mediated Signaling Pathway in Glioblastoma Multiforme Cells
Clark Landis, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Construction, Application, and Mechanism of Enantioselective Hydroformylation Catalysts Based on 3,4-Diazaphospholanes
John Hartwig, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Organometallic Chemistry of Carbon Heteroatom Bond Formation
Steven Boxer, Stanford University: Re-engineering Photosynthetic Reaction Centers; The James D. and Julia P. Morrison Lecture
Kristopher McNeill, University of Minnesota: Natural Photochemical Nanoreactors in Aquatic Systems
Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins University: Quality Control on the Ribosome Following Peptide Bond Formation
Jerry Mohrig, Carleton College: Achieving More Effective Learning in Undergraduate Laboratories; 2008 Brasted Award Seminar
Senior Comps Talks:
Felix Amankona-Diawuo, Matt Cich, Maraia Ener, Bill Mitchell, Eric Nordland: Hey guys, guess what! I just saved a bunch of money on asymmetric hydrogenation research by switching to computational methods!
Adam Goetz, Carrie Hurd, Sam Lemonick, Laura Marinelli, Ryan Martinez, Yui Takeshita, Kit Zall: Doctor John Hartwig/Optimizing catalysts/For the greater good
Julie Brown, Nick Brown, Hanna Dijkstal, Michael Duyzend, Beth Friedman, Matt Haffner, Olivia Jee, Hana Podhoretz, Eunice Sapp: Investigating Electron and Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers
2006-2007
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Seminars Kick-Off/Careers Discussion
Martin Zanni, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Femtosecond 2D IR Spectroscopy – A New Technique for Studying Structures and Dynamics
Colin Nuckolls, Columbia University: Reaction Chemistry Meets Lithography
Carleton Science Majors: Sigma Xi All-Science Poster Session
Kara Bren (’91), University of Rochester: Impact of Dynamics on Heme Protein Redox Properties
Kevin Freeman-Cook (’94), Pfizer Pharmaceutical: Organic Chemistry at Pfizer: New Compounds as Treatments for Arthritis, Oncology, and Bacterial Infections
Deborah Gross, Carleton College: MS-CHAOS, Alpine Valleys, and Biofuels: Single Particle Measurements in Switzerland and Minneapolis
David Sholl, Carnegie Mellon University: Using Atomically-Detailed Models to Accelerate Materials Discovery for Hydrogen Purification and Storage
Elaine Marzluff, Grinnell College: Structure Determination of Biological Molecules in the Gas Phase
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Facundo Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology: Vacuum is not the Limit: Ions in Open Air Reveal the Composition of Counterfeit Drugs
Hal Van Ryswyk (’82), Harvey Mudd College: From Molecular Alligator Clips to Molecular Wires: Electron Transfer To, Through, and Within Metalloporphyrins
Sheila David, University of California, Davis: Dare to Repair: From Chemistry to Cancer
Michael Burand, University of Minnesota: Synthesis and Characterization of Oligothiophene-Based Compounds for use as Semiconducting Materials in Thin-Film Transistors
Stacey Stoffregen, Iowa State University: Sequence-Selective Cleavage of Peptide Bonds with Palladium(II) and Platinum(II) Complexes
Kelly Knutsen (’99), National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Towards Solving the World’s Energy Crisis: Ultrafast Charge Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Third Generation Solar Cells
Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley: Methods and Strategies Inspired by Seven-Membered Ring Containing Natural Products
Ronald Breaker, Yale University: Chemical Sensing and Gene Control by Riboswitches
R. Graham Cooks, Purdue University: Trace Organic Analysis: A Chemical Grail
Kevan Shokat, University of California, San Francisco: Chemical Genetic Analysis of Kinase Signaling in Normal and Disease Physiology
Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology: The Currents of Life: Electron Flow Through Metalloproteins
Terry Sheppard, Chief Editor, Nature Chemical Biology: Scientific Publishing as a Process and a Career
Jeffrey Roberts, University of Minnesota: Surface Functionalization and Passivation of Aerosolized Silicon Nanoparticles
Senior Comps Talks:
Erin Addison, Thayne Dickey, Danielle Hargreaves, Admire Kuchena, Christopher Ward (chemistry) and Yi An, Ron Hause, Jennifer See, Lauren Wagner (biology): Riboswitches
John Choiniere, David DeCresce, Ian Hill, and Rosie Molden: Dr. Quadrupole; or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Trap The Ion
Stephanie Vasko: “Less is More!”: The Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Dots: From First Principles to Current Applications
Jon Dozier, Jake Houghton, Ali Khaki, Claire Langton-Yanowitz, Yong Won Lee, Shayna Simmons, Will Van Story, Maya Warren, Peter Watson: Inside Shokat’s World: Exposing Signal Transduction Cascades
Caitlin Bowersox, Amy Gauger, Wade Johnson, Paul Klick, Matt Topeff, Ellen Valkevich: E.T. II: The Quantum Sequel
2005-2006
Stacey Bent, Stanford University: Bringing Organic Chemistry to the Surface
Jane Owens, Carleton College: Computational Studies of the Photodynamics of Retinal
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Careers Discussion
Ann McDermott, Columbia University: Enzyme Motions: TIM and P450
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science Poster Session
Shana Kelley, Boston College: Ultrasensitive Biomolecular Detection at DNA-Modified Nanostructures
Eric Person (’95), California State University: The Chemist’s Role in Clandestine Laboratory Investigation
Elizabeth Edblom (’83), 3M: Materials Research at 3M
Marion Cass, Carleton College: Examination and Animation of Fluxional Processes that Interchange Axial and Equatorial Atoms in Simple AXn Molecules
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Ron Kim (’86), Merck and Company: Glucagon Receptor Antagonists for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
Erik Sorensen, Princeton University: Reactivity and Applications of a New Diene for Organic Synthesis
Melissa Hines, Cornell University: In Search of Perfection: Controlling Surfaces with Chemistry
Dan Frisbie (’89), University of Minnesota: Organic Thin Film Electronics: A Materials Science Perspective
William Daub, Harvey Mudd College: Transition State Topologies in Claisen Rearrangements Involving Cyclic Substrates
Tobin Marks, Northwestern University: Self-Assembly Chemistry for Molecule-Based Organic and Organometallic Electronics
John Bercaw, California Institute of Technology: Alpha-Olefin Polymerizations with Metallocene Catalysts: Kinetics, Mechanisms, and Kinetic Resolutions
Carolyn Bertozzi, University of California, Berkeley: Chemistry in Living Systems: New Tools for Probing the Glycome
Karin Musier-Forsyth, University of Minnesota: Nucleic Acid Chaperone Activity of HIV Nucleocapsid Protein
David Oxtoby, Pomona College: From Greenhouse Warming to the Formation of Living Cells: A New Approach to Nucleation
Senior Comps Talks:
Jason Acosta, Tommy Adams, Stephen Chapman, Mandy Chu, Whitney Kruse, Dorissa Lahner, Allison Smith, Melanie Yuen: The Research of Tobin Marks in the Area of Organic Electronics
Caitlyn Cornell, John Grotting, Aaron Lackner, Anna Larson, Alex Marston, Sarah Russell, Andrew Ullman, Nick Wiebelhaus, Andrew Young: Metallocene Catalyzed Polymerization
Andrew Berry, Disan Davis, Greg Ducker, Mark Ericson, Emily Johnson, Andy Nieuwkoop, Margaret Pain, Jack Rousseau, Kartik Sampath, Aki Uchida, Kate Waller: The Research of Carolyn Bertozzi in the Area of Chemical Biology
2004-2005
Franz M. Geiger, Northwestern University: Tracking Environmentally Important Processes at Surfaces: From Geochemistry to Atmospheric Chemistry
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Careers Discussion
David Alberg, Carleton College: Synthesis and Evaluation of Trypanothione Reductase Inhibitors
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science Poster Session
Mary Shepard Gin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Molecular Channels and Gates
Sigma Xi Panel – Joe Chihade (Chemistry), Nelson Christensen (Physics & Astronomy), Deanna Haunsperger (Mathematics & CS), Mark McKone (Biology), Mija Van Der Wege (Psychology): How We Got Where We Are: Carleton Science Faculty Discuss Their Careers
Jeff Schwinefus, St. Olaf College: Thermal Stability of the DNA Helix in Cosolvent Solutions: The Roles of Hydration and Cosolvent Binding
Jim Maher, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine: Transcription Factor Inhibition by RNA Decoys
Molly McGuire (’96), Bucknell University: Environmentally Relevant Redox Reactions at Iron-Bearing Mineral Surfaces
Angela Dickens (’97), Carleton College: Sources, Cycling and Preservation of Black Carbon in Marine Sediments from the Washington Margin
David C. Muddiman, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine: Clinical Proteomics: Making an Impact Through the Chemistry Porthole and Building Diverse Research Teams
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Bruce Ault, University of Cincinnati: Matrix Isolation Spectroscopic Studies of Reaction Intermediates: Reactions of High-Valent Transition Metal Oxo Compounds
Kevin Range, University of Minnesota: You Cannot Win, You Cannot Break Even, and You Cannot Leave the Game: An Introduction to the Laws of Thermodynamics
John Tully, Yale University: Chemical Dynamics at Surfaces
Jane Owens, Wabash College: Light and Matter – Wave/Particle Duality
Sylvia Ceyer, MIT: New Surface Reaction Mechanisms: Role of Bulk H in Catalytic Hydrogenation and F Atom Abstraction by Si
François Morel, Princeton University: Trace Metals and Ocean Productivity
Gregory Verdine, Harvard University: Enzymatic Recognition and Removal of Damaged Bases in DNA
John Battiste (’90), 3M Pharmaceuticals: Optimization of the Sensitivity of 2D NMR Experiments for Structure Elucidation of Impurities/Degradants in Pharmaceuticals
Laurie J. Butler, University of Chicago: Probing Radical Intermediates of Bimolecular Reactions; The 2005 James D. Morrison Lecture
Marc Snapper, Boston College: Cyclobutadiene as a Reagent: Using Molecular Strain to Access Complexity; The 2005 Lecture on Organic Synthesis, Sponsored by Organic Synthesis, Inc.
Senior Comps Talks:
Charlie Weiss: The Nonlinear Effect in Asymmetric Catalysis: Asymmetric Amplification and Mechanistic Probe
Andy Ault and Janel Uejio: Bulk Hydrogen: It’s Not Just a Wal-Mart Special
Meredith Cable, Eric Hamp, David Jackson, Micah Johnson, Adam Sunderland: Our Underwater Allies: How Ocean Phytoplankton Regulate Global Climate
Dave Farina, Margie Mattmann, Greg Poduska, Andy Ryan, Aistis Tumas: hOgg1: DNA’s Knight in Shining Armor
Kate Sammons: Pharmacognosy and the Effect of Developmental Stage on the Chemical Composition of Saussurea laniceps and medusa
Vickie Gunderson: Searching for the Ideal Molecular Wire: An Investigation of Electron Transfer Processes in Photoinduced and Self-Assemblied Monolayer Research
Katie Freeman: Hey Kids, Don’t Do Drugs: A Study of Methylphenidate As A Potential Therapeutic Agent for Cocaine Abuse
2003-2004
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Welcome Reception for Majors
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: What to do After Carleton
Greg Muth, St. Olaf College: The Puzzling Properties of Peptidyl Transferase
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science Poster Session
Paul Fischer, Macalester College: A Quest to Synthesize Intramolecular Amine-Stabilized Transition-Metal Boryl Complexes: The Adventure Begins
Camilla Lieske, Vet Toxicology Resident; Susan Roosenraad, Northfield High School Math Teacher; Steve Openshaw, Principal Scientist, Syngenta; Karissa Baker, Upper School Science Teacher; Brian Klawiter, Archeologist, Superior National Forest; Dave Watts, President and CEO, ACuTE, Inc.: Wondering What to do With Your Life?
Edward Grabowski, Merck Research Laboratories: The Design and Development of Practical Syntheses: A Potpourri of Process Research Problems
R. Lee Penn, University of Minnesota: Nanocrystal Growth by Oriented Aggregation
Brian Steer, Diversa Corporation: An Evolutionary Route to Xylanase Process Fitness
Omar Yaghi, University of Michigan: Design and Synthesis of Crystals Full of Nothing
Peter McMurry, University of Minnesota: Observations of New Particle Formation and Growth Rates in the Atmosphere
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Summer Research Recruiting
Helen Blackwell, University of Wisconsin, Madison: New Applications for Microwave-Assisted Organic Synthesis
James Skinner, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Ultrafast Vibrational Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics of Liquid Water
Benjamin Cravatt, The Scripps Research Institute: Activity-Based Protein Profiling: Chemical Approaches for Functional Proteomics; The 2004 Lecture on Organic Synthesis, Sponsored by Organic Synthesis, Inc.
Paul Cremer, Texas A & M University: Biomembranes on a Chip
Dennis Jacobs, University of Notre Dame: Dynamics of Ion/Surface Reactions in a Low-Earth Orbit Spacecraft Environment
Kate Queeney, Smith College: A Tale of Two (three, if you count hydrogen) Elements
Mike Baca, Sunny Choh, Linnea Engel, Earnie Kim, Nick Penner, Britta Veitenheimer, Carleton Chemistry Majors: Do Looks Matter? An Exploration of the Structural Similarities of AATase and ACC Synthase and the Diverse Fates of their Natural Substrates
Matt Simcik, University of Minnesota: Analysis of Perflurochemicals and Implications for Environmental Chemistry
Jack Kirsch, University of California, Berkeley: Pyridoxal Phosphate Enzymology - From Mechanism to Directed Evolution
Sally Charles, Margaret Lo, Martha Montgomery, Ben Petersen, Kristen Randall, Lexie Schmitt, Matt Sheldon, Jonathan Takahashi, Carleton Chemistry Majors: Making the Switch: Electronics on the Molecular Scale
Nick Boekelheide, Louisa Carr, Eric Feise, Renee Frontiera, Aaron Leconte, Travis Ruthenburg, Carleton Chemistry Majors: Getting Excited by Lasers: Vibrationally Mediated Chemistry
James Heath, California Institute of Technology: Nanosystems Biology; The James D. Morrison Seminar
Seth Cohen, University of California, San Diego: A Model-Based Approach to Metalloprotein Inhibitor Design
Sandra Rodriguez-Cruz, Southwest Laboratory of the Drug Enforcement Administration: A Day in the Life of a Forensic Chemist
F. Fleming Crim, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Using Lasers to Explore and Control Chemical Reactions
Charles Carlin, Carleton College: A Carleton Chemist at Scotland Yard
2002-2003
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Welcome Reception and Careers Seminar
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science/Math Poster Session
Martin Gruebele, University of Illinois, Urbana: Slow Energy Flow and Fast Folding: The Complex Dynamics of Molecules Small and Large
Lara Weinstein Szewczak, Yale University: Atoms matter! Nucleotide analogs reveal RNA-protein interactions in living cells
Peter J. Alaimo, University of California, San Francisco: Chemical-genetics: A Tool for Decoding Cellular Signaling Pathways
Joseph Chihade, Williams College: Freaks, Geeks, and the Second Genetic Code: Mitochondrial Alanyl-tRNA Synthetases
Scott D. Rychnovsky, University of California, Irvine: Prins Cyclization Reaction In Natural Product Synthesis
Dave Alberg, Steve Drew, Deborah Gross, Gretchen Hofmeister, Will Hollingsworth, Dani Kohen, Jerry Mohrig: Summer 2003 Research in the Carleton Chemistry Department
Douglas H. Ohlendorf, University of Minnesota: Structural Biology of Gram Positive Virulence
John Wright, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Coherent Multidimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy - The Optical Analogue to 2D-NMR
Natalia Tretyakova, University of Minnesota Cancer Center: Mass Spectrometry of Chemically Modified DNA
Robert Fecik, University of Minnesota Cancer Center: The Design of FtsZ Polymerization Inhibitors as Novel Antibacterial Agents
Robert Kennedy, University of Michigan: Analytical Chemistry of Neurotransmitters and Hormones
Eric Simanek, Texas A&M University: Dendrimers Based on Melamine: From Medicine to Materials for the Environment
Paul Archer, Jane Coughlin, Dominique Fontanilla, Will Myers, Laura Phillips, Julie Rivers, Carleton Chemistry Seniors: DEBS Does Erythromycin: The BEST and ONLY Chemistry Comps Talk of 2003!!!
David E. Cane, Brown University: Mechanism and Structure of Biosynthetic Enzymes. How Nature Makes Vitamin B6; The James D. Morrison Seminar in Chemistry
Eric Jacobsen, Harvard University: Advances in Asymmetric Catalysis; The 2003 Lecture on Organic Synthesis, Sponsored by Organic Synthesis, Inc.
Andy Borovik, University of Kansas: Rigid Organic Frameworks Around Metal Ions: Controlling Metal Ion Reactivity via the Secondary Coordination Sphere
2001-2002
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Welcome Reception for New Majors: Fun, Food, and Festivities
Carleton Chemistry Faculty: Careers Seminar: Help on Thinking About Graduate School and Finding a Job After Carleton
Paul Wender, Stanford University: The Chemistry-Medicine Continuum: New Reactions, New Medicinal Leads, New Drug Delivery Systems (Joint seminar with/at St. Olaf)
Carleton Science Majors: Annual All-Science/Math Poster Session
Luke Lightning, Purdue University: Characterization of Mammalian Cytochrome P450 Active Sites
Carleton Science Faculty - Susan Singer (Biology), Chuck Carlin (Chemistry), Bereket Haileab (Geology), Arjendu Pattanayak (Physics): How We Got Here: Carleton Science Faculty Discuss Their Academic and Professional Choices (Sigma Xi Interdisciplinary Seminar)
Kevin J. Quinn, University of Pennsylvania: Synthetic Studies on the Marine Antitumor Agents Halichondrin B and Eleutherobin
Jennifer Swift, Georgetown University: Atomic Force Microscopy of Pathogenic Crystals
Gretchen Hofmeister ('85), Gustavus Adolphus College: Pharmaceuticals, Medical Sutures, and Plastic - The Titanium Connection
Dave Alberg, Steven Drew, Deborah Gross, Jerry Mohrig: Summer 2002 Research At Carleton
Andrew Mobley ('91), Grinnell College: Organometallics From an Organic Perspective: Progress Towards the Synthesis of Transition Metal Stannylenes
Robert Carlson, University of Minnesota, Duluth: Polyanions and Birch Bark: Disparate Sources of Valuable Natural Products
Scott Kaufmann ('75), Mayo Clinic: Telling Cells Their Time is Up: The Biology and Biochemistry of Apoptosis (Joint seminar with biology)
Vicki Grassian, University of Iowa: Laboratory Studies of Heterogeneous Atmospheric Reactions: Surface Reactions of HNO3 and N02 on Oxides, Carbonates, and Mineral Dust
Steven Drew, Carleton College: How to Build a Platinum Nose or What I Did on my Sabbatical
Chris Clark, Carolyn Ocampo, Nick Olson, Chris Rupp, Carleton Chemistry Students: Gimme sum MO Symmetry!
Matt Bush, Bill Galush, Laura Hmelo, Ben Markovitz, Amy Silverberg, Josh Vang, Carleton Chemistry Students: -OH -OH -OH!!
Shawn Balcome, Jimmy Blair, Hans Carlson, Angie Fleischhacker, Joel Guenther, Mia Lowden, Michelle Rasmussen, Salwa Salah, Emily Skowronek, Carleton Chemistry Students: CAOs (Cows), Colleges, and Klinman: The Story of Copper Amine Oxidase
Jack Calvert, The National Center for Atmospheric Research: The Rates of Light Initiated Reactions in the Atmosphere - A Comparison of Theory and Measurement
Judith Klinman, University of California, Berkeley: The Multi-Functional Topa Quinone Proteins: How a Single Active Site Performs Self Processing, Electrophilic and Redox Catalysis (The James D. Morrison Seminar in Chemistry)
Len Banaszak, University of Minnesota: Structural Biology - An Introduction to Lipid-Protein Interactions (Joint seminar with biology)