Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Queens College – CUNY, Flushing, NY 11367

Fall 2008 Seminars

Seminars are held in Remsen 105 at 12:15 PM on the days indicated below. If you require parking on campus, call the department at 718-997-4191.

Sep. 8 -Prof. Michael Mirkin, Queens College

“Having fun with nanoelectrodes”

Sep. 15 -Prof. Michael Drain, Hunter College (Jang)

“Self-organization of hierarchical materials”

Sep. 22 -Dr. David Grills, Brookhaven National Laboratory (Gafney)

“Towards the photocatalytic reduction of CO2 in supercritical CO2 ”

Oct. 6 -Prof. Maribel Vazquez, City College (Rotenberg)

“A nano-microfluidic approach to understanding Medulloblastoma dispersal”

Oct. 14 -Prof. Henry White, University of Utah (Mirkin)

“Electrochemistry in Synthetic and Biological Nanopores”

Oct. 20 -Dr. James Muckerman, Brookhaven National Laboratory (Jang)

“A computational chemist’s adventures in artificial photosynthesis”

Oct. 27 -Prof. Gregory Scholes, University of Toronto (Jang)

“Light harvesting and coherence in multichromophoric systems: From Nature to nanoscale”

Nov. 3 -Prof. Elizabeth Boon, SUNY, Stony Brook (Kumar)

”The H-NOX family of heme sensor proteins:
A new role for nitric oxide signaling in bacteria”

Nov. 10 -Prof. Steven Porcelli, Einstein College of Medicine (Bittman)

“Harnessing protective T cell responses against tuberculosis”

Nov. 17 -Prof. Giuseppe Petrucci, University of Veremont (Liu)

“Analysis and heterogeneous chemistry of atmospheric organic particles”

Nov. 24 -Prof. Alexander Greer, Brooklyn College (Liu)

“Generation of Singlet Oxygen as a Therapeutic and Disinfecting Agent"

Dec. 1 -Prof. Dale Deutsch, SUNY, Stony Brook (Kumar)

“How the activity of the endocannabinoids (the Body’s THC) is terminated”

Dec. 8 -Prof. Peer Fischer, Harvard University (Genack)

“Chirality at the Nanoscale” (Physics-Chemistry Joint Seminar)