Fall 2014
All seminars held on Friday at 1:00pm in HOLT 170 unless indicated otherwise. Refreshments served just prior to the presentation.
Week 1
Friday August 29
Mr. Trevor Hunter
Dept. Chem. & Biochem., CSU Chico
"Summer Internship at Utah State University: Characterizing the Adenylation and Methyltransferase Domains from Two Beauveria bassiana Non-Ribosomal Peptide Synthetases"
Mr. Carter Holt
Dept. Chem. & Biochem., CSU Chico
"Summer Internship at Utah State University: Catalysis in Loop-Exchanged Chimeras of Protein-Tyrosine Phosphatases"
Week 2
Friday September 5
Ms. Monica Gonzalez
Dept. Chem. & Biochem., CSU Chico
Summer Internship in the lab of Dr. Bruce Lipshutz at UCSB: "Copper Catalyzed Suzuki Couplings"
Ms. Megan Keener
Dept. Chem. & Biochem., CSU Chico
Summer Internship in the lab of Dr. Bruce Lipshutz at UCSB: "Peptide Coupling in Water"
Week 3
Friday September 12
No Seminar
Week 4
Friday September 19
Mr. Wayne Tikkanen(opens in new window)
Dept. Chem. & Biochem., CSU Los Angeles
"HIP's: From Technical Merit to Broader Impact"
Week 5
Friday September 26
No Seminar
Week 6
Friday October 3
No Seminar
Week 7
Friday October 10
Dept. Chem. & Biochem., CSU Chico
A Presentation of Spring 2014 Sabbatical Research at CSUC:
"Progress in the Development of New Lab Experiences for Biochemistry Majors-
Analysis of Proteins Using Electrospray Mass Spectrometry"
Week 8
Friday October 17
Dept. Chem., CSU Humboldt
"Proteins at the Interface: Membrane and Surface Proteins"
Week 9
Friday October 24
Dept. Chem. & Biochem, Utah State University
"Unraveling RNA: Structural and Functional Studies of a Multi-Domain RNA Helicase"
Week 10
Friday October 31
No Seminar
Week 11
Friday November 7
Dept. Chem. & Biochem., CSU Chico
A Presentation of Spring 2014 Sabbatical Research:
"Bifunctional Organic Linker Molecules to Connect Nanomaterials"
Week 12
Friday November 14
Dr. Thomas Butler, Pharmacyclics
"Imbruvica - Breakthrough Therapy"
Week 13
Friday November 21
No Seminar
Week 14
No Seminar- Thanksgiving Break
Week 15
Friday December 5
Ms. Maisha Kamunde
Graduate Student, Dr. Darren Johnson Lab, Dept. of Chem. & Biochem., University of Oregon
"On the Study and Development of Aqueous Inorganic Hydroxo-Aquo Tridecamers: Structural Observations in the Solid and Solution States"
Week 16
Friday December 12
No Seminar
Week 17
No Seminar- Finals Week