| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| June 5 |
Dr. Randy Miller |
"Summer Research Orientation" and "Tutorial on SciFinder and computational chemistry". Students, please bring laptops if you have one. |
| June 12 |
Dr. David Ball |
“Synthetic strategies for Oseltamivir Phosphate (AKA Tamiflu) ” |
| June 19 |
Dr. Lisa Ott |
"Biodiesel fuel from local agricultural waste products: preparation and analysis" |
| Dr. Chris Nichols |
"Compounds from Corydendrium Parasiticum" |
| June 26 |
Dr. Dan Edwards |
"New advances in natural product biosynthesis" |
| Dr. Dan Clark |
"It's all about Coenzyme M" |
| July 3 |
Dr. Larry Kirk |
"Synthesis of a biodegradable plastic (PLA) from agricultural waste" |
| Dr. Erik Wasinger |
"Oxidation state determination with a GIANT flashlight" |
| July 10 |
Dr. Jinsong Zhang and Dr. Randy Miller |
"Experimental and computational perspectives on IBX oxidations" |
| Wade Killingsworth |
"Concept analysis, the particulate nature of matter and submicroscopic chemical concepts" |
| July 17 |
Travis Mitchell (Kirk, Hanne, Greene) |
"Purification of lactic acid produced by bacterial fermentation" |
| Sandy Blair (Kirk, Hanne, Greene) |
"Synthesis and properties of the biodegradable plastic polylactate" |
| Jamie Mills and Charles Mansell (Killingsworth) |
"Chemical demonstrations for display cases" |
| July 24 |
Arjun Sandhu (Edwards) |
“Prospecting for Type III Polyketide Synthases in environmental Streptomyces isolates” |
| Sam Allen and Tim Shelton (Ott) |
"Preparation of biodiesel from agricultural waste products" |
| July 31 |
Erich Bowman (Zhang) |
"An investigation of chiral catalysts for inverse electron demand-hetero-Diels-Alder reactions and their applicability towards the construction of neolignans" |
| Rick Schulken (Zhang) |
"Asymmetric cycloaddition using amino acids to synthesize 1,4-benzodioxane based natural products" |
| Emily Skinner (Wasinger) |
"Further advances in the characterization of thiosalen complexes" |
| August 7 |
Amanda Jones (Nichols) |
"Identifying marine natural products with HPLC and NMR" |
| Nina McCulley (Ball, Miller) |
"Thermal rearrangements of allylic sulfinates to sulfones: a mechanistic study using molecular modeling" |
| Lacy Taylor (Clark) |
"Development and validation of a highly specific assay for the quantification of Coenzyme M" |
