2008-2009
Winter 2009
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Speaker: Dr. Ian Hamilton, Department of Chemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University
Title: Computational Chemistry on Gold Clusters and Complexes
Room: N1042 - Science Building
Time: 3:30 - 5 pm
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THURSDAY February 5, 2009
Title: Agostic NSi…H…Mo Complexes: From Curiosity to Catalysis
Room: N1056 - Science Building
Time: 4 - 5:20 pm
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February 27, 2009
Speaker: Dr. Adrian Schwan, Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph
Title: Perspectives and Contributions of an Organic Chemist toward Novel and
Unnatural Phospholipids to Combat Lung Surfactant Deficiency
Room: N1042 - Science Building
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March 6, 2009
Speakers: Andrew Frank and Nicole Cathcart
Title: “Synthesis of Silver Nanoprisms & Potential Applications” by Frank
Title: "Size and Shape Control of Silver Nanostructures – Studies into Icosahedron and Thick Prism Morphologies" by Cathcart
Room: BA112 - Bricker Academic Building
Time: 3:30 - 5 pm
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TUESDAY MARCH 10, 2009
Title: Dynamics of soft and biological systems: lipid diffusion, micelle rupture and inhibition of crystal growth using peptides
Room: N1057 - Science Building
Time: 3:30 - 5:00 pm
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March 13, 2009
Speakers: Phil Scott and Phil Kerneghan
Department of Chemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University
Title 1: Determine Biologically Active Components in Pulp and Paper Mill Effluent
Title 2: New Network Topologies of Porous Covalent Organic Framworks from Rigid Iptycene Molecular Building Blocks
Room: N1042 - Science Building
Time: 3:30 - 5 pm
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Speaker: Dr. Pierre Lavigne, Department of Pharmacology, University of Sherbrooke
Title: Structural Biology of the Myc/Max/Mad Network of Transcription Factors: Application to the Development c-Myc Inhibitors in Colorectal Cancer
Room: N1044 - Science Building
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm
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FALL 2008
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September 19, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Cold Regions Research Centre
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
Title: Measurement and analysis of physical and hydraulic properties of peat soils using
3D Micro- CT Scanning
Room: N1042 Science Building
Time: 3:30 - 5 pm
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October 3, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Steffen Graether, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph
Title: Understanding how antifreeze proteins bind to ice
Room: N1057 Science Building
Time: 3:30 - 5 pm
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October 31, 2008
Title: Interaction of the Archetypal Cyclic Cationic Antimicrobial Peptide, Gramicidin S, with Biological Membranes
Room: N1057 Science Building
Time: 3:30 - 5 pm
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November 14, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Lee, Queen's University
Title: One Ring to Phosphorylate Them All - exploring bacterial tyrosine phosphorylation by the structure of E. coli tyrosine kinase Etk
Room: N1042 Science Building
Time: 3:30 - 5 pm
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MONDAY November 17, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Heinz Plaumann, BASF
Title: "From Laurier to BASF: Good Things happen to Chemists"
Room: N1057 Science Building
Time: 3:30 - 5 pm
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November 28, 2008
Speaker: Dr. François Lagugné-Labarthet, Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario
Title: Raman Imaging and the Use of Meso- and Nanostructured Metallic Platforms
Room: N1057 Science Building
Time: 3:30 - 5 pm
