Prof. Justing Roth - April 17, 2008 - 8:30am

Justine Roth is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins. She is a bioinorganic/biophysical chemist who studies redox mechanisms in proteins; she will be giving a colloquium entitled "Oxygen Isotopes as Structural and Mechanistic Probes of Reactive Intermediates in Metalloenzymes" for the Chemistry Department in Havemeyer 209 at 4:30pm.
RSVP to Victoria

Prof. Dina Merrer - March 14, 2008 - 8:45am

Dina Merrer is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Barnard College. She will be giving a seminar in the Columbia Chemistry department on Thursday, March 13th. RSVP to Mindy if you would like to attend the breakfast.

Prof. Elsa Reichmanis - February 13 - 9:45am

Prof. Reichmanis recently moved to Georgia Institute of Technology from Bell Labs where she was the Director for Materials for Communications Research at Alcatel-Lucent. She received her PhD and BS degrees from Syracuse University. Her Bell Labs service includes Member of Technical Staff, Organic Chemistry Research and Development (1978); Technical Manager, Radiation Sensitive Materials and Applications (1984); and Director, Polymer and Organic Materials Research (1994).
Prof. Reichmanis' research programs include chemistry, properties and applications of polymeric materials with emphasis on the design of new materials concepts for photonic applications; and design of novel self-assembled hybrid materials structures for photonic and electronic applications. She has also contributed to programs aimed at the design of ultra low-dielectric constant materials, and has developed materials systems and processes for the fabrication of organic semiconductor devices via additive printing methodologies.

Prof. Melanie Sanford - September 18, 2007

Melanie Sanford grew up in Providence, RI. She received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Yale University in 1996 where she worked with Professor Bob Crabtree studying C-F bond functionalization. She then moved to Caltech where she worked with Professor Bob Grubbs investigating the mechanism of ruthenium-catalyzed olefin metathesis reactions. After receiving her PhD in 2001, she worked with Professor Jay Groves at Princeton University as an NIH post-doctoral fellow studying metalloporphyrin-catalyzed functionalization of olefins. Melanie has been a professor at the University of Michigan since the summer of 2003. She has received numerous awards including the AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award and a National Science Foundation Career Award.

Prof. Linda Hsieh-Wilson - March 22, 2007

Linda Hsieh-Wilson is an assistant professor at Cal Tech and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She got her Ph.D. at Berkeley in Bioorganic Chemistry. Her research combines organic chemistry and neurobiology to study the roles of carbohydrates and their associated proteins in regulating transcription, neuronal signaling, and development.

Prof. Gabriella Sciolla - February 12, 2007

Gabriella Sciolla received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Torino, Italy, in 1996. She joined the BaBar Collaboration as a SLAC Research Associate at Stanford University. She then went MIT in 2000, as a Research Scientist first, and then as Pappalardo Fellow in Physics. She joined the MIT faculty in the fall of 2003 as an Assistant Professor of Physics.

Sciolla's main goal is to study the physics that rules the interactions between elementary particles and to understand its cosmological implications. As an experimentalist, she studies the exotic and unstable particles produced in high energy collisions between electrons and positrons, and measures the tiny asymmetry between matter and anti-matter in the final state. This asymmetry, known as "CP violation," plays an important role in our understanding of why the Universe is made of matter instead of anti-matter.

Prof. Karen Wooley - February 1, 2007

Prof. Wooley will be presenting "Complex, amphiphilic polymer nanostructures, originating from combinations of living polymerizations, supramolecular assembly and regioselective crosslinking". She has been a professor at Washington University in St. Louis since 1999, and her group's work is in synthetic organic polymers.

In the words of her group's website:

"Just as typical synthetic chemists prepare molecules of specific stereochemistry and connectivity, using natural products as the targets to exercise their craft, the Wooley group is identifying nanoscopic natural products, e.g. viral capsids, lipoproteins, and even dolphin skin, as synthetic targets. They do not attempt, however, to synthesize exactly these structures, but rather, to produce synthetic materials that capture the basic structural and functional elements."

Prof. Licia Verde - October 23, 2006

Licia Verde is Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UPenn. She is a cosmologist well known for her work with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) science team.

Lunch with Electrical Engineer, Theresa Mayer - March 22, 2006

NSEC and WISC are sponsoring lunch with the NSEC seminar speaker, electrical engineer Theresa Mayer . Join us for free food, networking, and to speak with Dr. Mayer.

Prof. Xiaowei Zhuang - January 20, 2005

WISC Sponsored Chemistry Department Colloquium: "Imaging single bio-molecules and -particles in solution and in live cells" See Prof. Zhuang's website.