Spring 2010
Seminar Schedule
All seminars held on Friday in AYRS 120 at 1:00 pm unless otherwise noted
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Jan 29 at 6:00pm in Selvester's Cafe on the Chico State campus | Dr. Bruce Roth, Inventor of Lipitor Genentech |
Keynote address at the NorCal ACS Subsection Dinner Biographical information and event flyer available here |
| Feb 5 | Mike Lodewyk Department of Chemistry UC Davis |
"Fun with molecular modeling: highlights and insights from a graduate career in theoretical organic chemistry" |
| Feb 19 | Alex Nickel Department of Chemistry University of Nevada, Reno |
"Guided Ion Beam Mass Spectrometry Investigation of the OO Bond Dissociation Energy in Peroxyformate Anion" |
| Feb 26 | Dr. Matt Kulzick British Petroleum Naperville, IL |
“Next Generation Oxidation Catalysts for the Production of Terephthalic Acid: Lessons in Modern Industrial Catalysis” |
| Mar 26 | Mark Carrier and Amber Ratcliff Hamilton Company Reno, NV |
"Bio process chemical sensors and liquid chromatography in industrial applications" |
| Apr 2 |
Postponed until Fall 2010 Dr. Janis Louie |
"Harnessing the Chemistry of Carbon Dioxide" |
| Apr 16 | Dr. Roger Linington Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry UC Santa Cruz |
"Chemical Biology in Neglected Disease Research; Natural Products as Biochemical Tools" |
| Apr 23 | Wade Killingsworth Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry CSU Chico |
"Mendeleev and the Periodic Law 1869 - 1905" |
| Apr 30 | Dr. Brad Pierce Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry UT Arlington |
"Pre-Steady State and Spectroscopic Characterization of Substrate-Gated Reduction of Stearoyl-ACP delta-9-Desaturase by [2Fe-2S] Ferredoxin" |
| May 7 1-3pm in BMU 100 |
6th Annual College of Natural Sciences Poster Session | |
| May 14 |
Sandra Blair | Honors Research Seminar "Experimental and computational studies of bromocyclohexanone systems" |
| Mon, May 17 12:00-1:50pm in PHSC 301 |
Dr. Cliff Harris Department of Chemistry Albion College |
12:00-1:00: Pizza and soda |