Chemistry Summer Research Institute (CSRI) 2011
All seminars held on Friday at 9 a.m. in the room indicated
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Mon, June 6 PHSC 301 | Dr. Randy Miller | "Summer Research Orientation" and "Computational Chemistry using WebMO/Gaussian" Students please bring laptops |
| June 10 | No Seminar | |
| June 17 PHSC 301 | Dr. Dave Ball | "Preparation of chiral propargyl alcohols: the chiral pool or chiral auxiliaries" |
| Dr. Ben Taft (Chico State 2004; now a post-doc at Stanford) | "Designer Surfactants for Transition Metal Catalyzed Cross-Couplings at Room Temperature in Water" | |
| June 24 PHSC 301 | Dr. Dan Edwards | "Tweaking the Scaffold: Tailoring Enzymes in Cyanobacterial Natural Product Biosynthesis" |
| Dr. Lisa Ott | “Current Sources for and Preparations of Biodiesel Fuel” | |
| July 1 PHSC 301 | Dr. Erik Wasinger | "Radical Delocalization as Probed by Sulfur K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy" |
| July 8 PHSC 301 | Dr. Jinsong Zhang | "Application of the Diels-Alder reaction in natural product synthesis" |
| July 15 PHSC 301 | Dr. Dan Clark | "Curriculum Development and Refinement in the Biochemistry Lab" |
| Mr. Wade Killingsworth | "The Lack of and need for Chemistry at Science Museums and Centers and a Proposed Solution" | |
| July 22 PHSC 109 | Kyle Almlie (Ott) | “Preparation and Analysis of Biodiesel Fuel from Agricultural Products” |
| Adam Taylor (Ott/Nishio) | “Preparation of Biodiesel Fuel using a Two-Step, Supercritical Method” | |
| July 29 PHSC 109 | Ally Erlendson (Edwards) | "Natural product prospecting from Streptomyces species" |
| Andy Chang (Zhang) | "Synthesis of 1,4-benzodioxane via a hetero-Diels-Alder reaction" | |
| August 5 PHSC 109 | Rebecca Mulligan (Chico State 2005; now a Ph.D. student in Env. Tox. at UC Davis) | “Determination of physicochemical properties of clothianidin in California rice field conditions” |
| Ryan Fedrizzi (Ball) | “Synthesis of the degradation products of the insecticide clothianidin” | |
| August 12 PHSC 109 | Michael Shaffer (Wasinger) | "Toward the synthesis of tetrabutylated thiosalens" |
| Devin McBain (Wasinger) | "Electrochemical and biochemical explorations of thiosalens" | |
| Kyle May (Clark) | "Refinement of the biochemistry lab experimental procedures and development of an assay for coenzyme M" | |
| Daniel Lane (Killingsworth) | "24/7 Monitoring of Chemistry Reactions via Web Cams and Some Geosciences Chemistry for The Gateway Science Museum" | |
| Tori McDermott (Killingsworth) | "Development of The Breathalyzer Reaction for The Gateway Science Museum" | |
| Travis Wulff (Zhang) | "Enamine Formation and the Synthesis of 1,4-Benodioxane" |