Spring 2004

Monday January 12	Robert Bachman Host: MEK	University of the South	"Gold Thiolates: New Materials/New Medicines"
Friday January 30 11:00 am	Rachel Linck Dreyfuss Postdoc Applicant Host: BTD	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	"Active Model Sites for the Organometallic Enzyme Acetyl CoA Synthase (AcS): Nickel Carbonyl in Nature?"
Monday February 2 11:00 am	Marcetta Darensbourg Host: DR	Texas A&M University	"Natural Organometallic Catalytic Sites: H2-Activating Metalloenzymes"
Monday February 9	Daniel L. Reger Host: DR	University of South Carolina	"Supramolecular Architectures Organized by Multitopic Poly(pyrazolyl)Methane Ligands"
Monday February 16	David L. Carroll Host: KEG	Wake Forest University (Physics)	"Charge Transfer Nanocomposites: Advances in Organic Devices"
Monday March 1	James H. Geiger Host: JKK	Michigan State University	"Mechanism and Allosteric Regulation of ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase, the Rate-Limiting Step in Starch Biosynthesis"
Monday March 15	Charles M. Lukehart Host: KEG	Vanderbilt University	"Preparation of Nanocomposite Materials Using Sol-Gel Synthesis Strategies"
Monday March 22	Aja Andreu (MEK) Mike Barnard (TAS)	UNC Charlotte graduate students	Second mini-seminar presentations
Monday April 5	Linda McGown CANCELED	Duke University	"G-quartet DNA in Affinity Techniques for Protein Analysis"
Tuesday April 6	Heinrich Vahrenkamp Host: DR	Universität Freiburg	"Preparative and Mechanistic Zinc Chemistry: Modeling Biological Thiolate Alkylations"
Monday April 19	Tony E. Haynes Host: KEG	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	"The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences: A New User Facility for Nanoscience at ORNL"
Monday April 26	Marcus Weck Host: KEG	Georgia Institute of Technology	"Functional Polymeric Architectures via Multi-Recognition Site Self-Assembly"
Monday May 3	Richard Eisenberg Host: BTD	University of Rochester	"Seeing and Using the Light with Platinum and Gold Complexes"