Senior Project & Chemistry Seminar

Chemistry Seminar Schedule for Winter/Spring 2010
Seminar meets on Monday's @ 5:30 pm in Valders Hall of Science room 262.
Everyone on the Luther College campus and beyond is welcome to attend chemistry seminars.
Winter/Spring 2010 Chemistry Seminar Facilitator: Prof. C. Mertzenich

Chemistry 490 students, please note that the Luther College Communication Studies department supports a speech lab, which serves any student preparing an oral presentation for a class, co-curricular organization, or outside group. Click here for details.

At least one sample seminar (Moore or Suzuki) should be viewed by chem 490 students. RealPlayer will be needed to view these videos.

Seminar Date	Speaker & affiliation	Titles (posted as they become available)
8 Feb	Meeting with chem 490 students
15 Feb	Professor Qianli (Rick) Chu (University of North Dakota)	"Using Molecules to Build Molecules: My Journal in Chemistry"
22 Feb
1 Mar	Nyssa Crompton (Luther College)	"Color Stability and Structural Transformations of Cyanidin 3,5-Diglucoside and Four 3-Deoxyanthocyanins in Aqueous Solutions"
8 Mar	Phuong V. Dau (Luther College)	"Lanthanide-based Helicates and other Inorganic Coordination Polymers available from Ligands Synthesized in the Solid State"
15 Mar	Brigitte Nelson (Luther College)	"Electrospray and Tandem Mass Spectroscopy As Tools for Anthocyanin Characterization"
22 Mar	SPRING BREAK
29 Mar	NO SEMINAR
5 Apr	EASTER BREAK
12 Apr	Gretchen Peters (Luther College)
19 Apr	Brad Foresman (Luther College)
26 Apr	Michael Pettengill (Luther College)
3 May	Wade Holland (Luther College)
10 May	Marie Wilson (Luther College)	"Anthocyanins are absorbed in glycated forms in elderly women: a pharmacokinetic study"

Schedule is subject to change. Check this website for updates.

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Chemistry Seminar Schedule for Winter/Spring 2009
Seminar meets on Monday's @ 5:30 pm in Valders Hall room 262.
Everyone on the Luther College campus and beyond is welcome to attend chemistry seminars.
Winter/Spring 2009 Chemistry Seminar Facilitator: Prof. C. Mertzenich

At least one sample seminar (Moore or Suzuki) should be viewed by chem 490 students. RealPlayer will be needed to view these videos.

Seminar Date	Speaker & affiliation	Titles (posted as they become available)
9 Feb	Les West (Kraft Foods)
16 Feb	Daniel D. Summerfield (Luther College)	The Use of an Electrochemical Microreactor for Cofactor Dependent Chiral Enzymatic Synthesis
23 Feb	Stephanie Lim (Luther College)	Plasmalogens and Alzheimer's Disease
2 Mar	Alison R. Douglas (Luther College)	Molecular Modeling of Ice via Electrostatic Switching
9 Mar	Kyle J. Lilly (Luther College)	Modeling of atmospheric ultrafine particle formation in the eastern United States using a photochemical box model
16 Mar	Julia E. Kieckhaefer (Luther College)	Crystal Structures of Oxidized and Reduced Mitochondrial Thioredoxin Reductase
23 Mar	SPRING BREAK
30 Mar	Kirsten L. Hoyme (Luther College)	Controversy Over Spore Photoproduct Lyase
6 Apr	Janet L. Brenton (Luther College)	The binding properties of porphyrin-protein complexes and their uses in photodynamic therapy
13 Apr	EASTER BREAK
20 Apr	Joshua R. Jorstad (Luther College)	General Drug Confirmation by GC/MS in Forensic Toxicology
27 Apr	Kwasi B. Twum-Fening (Luther College)	Determination of Nitrite and Nitrate in water samples by an Automated Hydrodynamic Sequential Injection Method
4 May	Amy E. Ekland (Luther College)	The Synthesis of Titanium Catalysts and their contributions in polymerization
11 May	Manza B. Atkinson (University of Iowa)	Towards a ‘Greener’ Future: Templated Solid-State Reactions Accessible via Solvent-free and Solvent-assisted Mechanochemistry

Schedule is subject to change. Check this website for updates.

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Chemistry Seminar Schedule for Spring 2008
Seminar meets @ 5:30 pm in Valders Hall room 264
Everyone is welcome to attend chemistry seminars.

Feb. 4       Introduction to the course by Prof. Carolyn Mottley, Luther College
Feb. 11     Use of End Note - Prof. Olga Rinco, Luther College
Feb. 18     Leann McDowell - Illinois State Crime Lab. "Forensic Science: From Education to Employment."
Feb. 25     Rachael Vaubel - MD/PhD student at Mayo Medical School. "DLD: A Multifunctional Enzyme Involved in Mitochondrial Iron Homeostasis and Friedreich's Ataxia"
Mar. 3      Tom Lutz - Chemist at Central Garden and Pet, Franklin, WI. "I Have A Science Degree from Luther College: Now What?"
Mar. 10    Jordan Stracke, Luther College - "Farnesyl Pyrophosphate Analogs Containing Benzophenone for the Study of
Protein Prenylation"
Mar. 17     Britta Anderson, Luther College - "Nanometre-sized molecular oxygen sensors prepared from polymer stabilized phospholipid vesicles." Cookies will be served.
Mar. 24     Spring Break
Mar. 31     Spring Break
Apr. 7        Jay Dicke, Luther College - "Computational Quantum Mechanical Studies of the Vibrational Spectra of Charged Octahedral Transition-Metal Carbonyls"
Apr. 14      Joel Schrock, Luther College - "Role of γ-Carboxyglutamic Acid: An Unusual Protein Transition Required for
the Calcium Dependent Binding of Prothrombin to Phospholipid"
Apr. 21      Carson Bruns, Luther College - "An Investigation of the Lamellarin Family"
Apr. 28      Greg Sorenson, Luther College
May 5        Sean Breaux, Luther College - "Influences of calcium on the proteolytic activity and formation of biofilms"

The communication studies department also supports a speech lab, which serves any student preparing an oral presentation for a class, co-curricular organization, or outside group. Click here for details.

Spring 2007 Facilitator: Dr. C. Mertzenich. Chemistry seminar meets @ 5:30 pm in Valders 264

Spring 2007 Facilitator: Dr. C. Mertzenich. Chemistry seminar meets @ 5:30 pm in Valders 264

	Spring 2007 Chemistry Seminar Schedule
5 Feb	NO SEMINAR
12 Feb	Kristi Peterson, Luther College: A Report on Structure-Based Design and Characterization of Novel Platforms for Ricin and Shiga Toxin Inhibition
19 Feb	Michelle Henderson, Luther College: A Report on Detection of Malaria Parasites in Blood by Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry
26 Feb	Ryan Snell, Luther College: A Report on Temperature Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry: Theory and Use
5 Mar	Eric Freeburg, Luther College: A Report on Analysis of formononetin from black cohosh (Actaea racemosa)
12 Mar	Amanda Hannemann, Luther College: A Report on Inclusion Complexation of Novocaine by beta-Cyclodextrin
19 Mar	No seminar: Spring break
26 Mar	No seminar: ACS meeting
2 Apr	Paul Stellmacher, Luther College: A Report on Biophysical Properties of the Extra-cellular Domain of the Calcium-sensing Receptor
9 Apr	No seminar: Easter break
16 Apr	Karen Downs, Luther College: A Report on Recent Advances in Electrochemical Studies of Pi-Conjugated Polymers
23 Apr	No seminar: ACS Local Section Banquet on Monday 23 April in La Crosse
30 Apr	Joan Widin, Luther College: A Report on Acid-Base Properties of Chlorin e6: Relation to Cellular Uptake
7 May	Heidi Schwanz, Luther College: A Report on Improving the Viability of Bio-based, Biodegradable Polymers

Course Description: The chemistry seminar meets during the academic year for lectures and discussions led by students, faculty, and visiting scholars. Students participate both semesters for one credit hour. Chem 485 meets at 5:30 p.m. each Monday in Valders 264. Students registered for Chem 485 are required to attend scheduled seminars and events, except under extenuating circumstances.

Facilitator: Dr. C. Mertzenich

	Spring 2004-2005 Seminar Schedule
7 Feb	Lippert; Heeger, MacDiarmid and Shirakawa (2000). Changing electronics: the beginnings of conductive organic polymers.
14 Feb	Koskie: Rutherford (1908). The disintegration of the atom and the chemistry of radioactivity.
21 Feb	Vaubel; Altman and Cech (1989). Catalytic RNA: the discovery of the group I self-splicing intron.
28 Feb	McCreight; Boyer, Walker, and Skou. The elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of ATP.
7 Mar	Distin; Frederick Sanger (1958 Nobel Prize for his work with determining the structure of insulin). Identification of the structure of insulin.
14 Mar	Gierlus: Crutzen, Molina, Rowland (1995). Depletion of the ozone by chlorofluorocarbons.
21 Mar	Easter break
28 Mar	Easter break
4 Apr	Brian Deegan, Enrico Fermi (physics, 1938). Radioactivity induced by neutron capture with applications to anti-cancer therapy.
11 Apr	Moore: Vincent Du Vigneaud (1955). For his work on biologically important sulfur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone.
18 Apr	Gibbons: van't Hoff (1901). The role of osmotic pressure in the analogy between solutions and gases; and, the foundations of stereochemistry.
25 Apr	Trullinger, Langmuir (1932)
2 May	Holland, Mulliken (1966)
9 May	Tryggestad: Gerhard Herzberg (1971)
16 May	Agbotse: Flory

	Fall 2004-2005 Seminar Schedule
6 Sep	Mike Anderson , Luther alum 1992, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Iowa. Title: "X-Ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy of melanosomal properties contributing to pigmentary glaucoma: a story of synchrotrons and genetics."
13 Sep	Meeting with Chem 485 students
20 Sep	Leonard MacGillivray, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Iowa. Title: “Molecular Crystals as Media for Constructing Molecules.”
27 Sep	No seminar
4 Oct	No seminar
11 Oct	Meeting # 1 with students: Bailey; Lippert; Koskie; Vaubel; McCreight
18 Oct	Erin Hilton, Luther alum 2002, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
25 Oct	Fall break
1 Nov	Meeting # 1 with students: Distin; Gierlus; Deegan; Moore.
8 Nov	No seminar
15 Nov	No seminar
17 Nov	ACS Seminar @ 7:30 pm in V264. See http://perth.uwlax.edu/chemistry/ACS/Newslett.PDF for details.
22 Nov	Tomislav Friscic, Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa
29 Nov	Kristen Bailey, Luther College. Topic: Kary Mullis, 1993 Nobel Laureate in chemistry. Unlocking the Joys ofThe Polymerase Chain Reaction. Also this week: Meeting # 1 with students: Gibbons; Trullinger; Holland; Tryggestad. Meeting # 2 with students: Lippert; Koskie; Vaubel; McCreight. Note: These brief meetings will take place during my office hours over the course of the week. Those of you listed here should plan to visit me some time over the course of the week; just stop in; no appointments are being made. Meetings will continue during the second semester.
6 Dec	William S. Jenks, Iowa State University. Title: "Deconstructionist Organic Chemistry: Cleaning up Water with Light"
9 Dec	Michael Feldman, Computational Scientist at the Army High Performance Computing Research Center in Minnesota. Title: TBA (as of 30 Nov). For more information, click here.

Nobel Laureate Seminars during 2003-2004:

Nobel Laureate	Year
van Baeyer	1905
Grignard	1912
Diels and Alder	1950
Corey	1990
Olah	1994
Curl, Kroto, Smalley	1996
Wuthrich	2002

2002-2003 Schedule

	SPRING 2002-2003 SCHEDULE
10 Feb	Physics/Chemistry joint seminar. Seminar participants should also attend physics/chemistry seminars later this week.
Th 13 Feb	Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: William Reinhardt, Chaos, A New Science / 7 pm / Olin 102. Chem 85 students should plan on attending; this lecture is considered to be part of Chemistry 85.
17 Feb	A. Morrisey
24 Feb	No seminar
3 Mar	No seminar. N. Litchfield's seminar, originally scheduled for today, is postponed.
6 Mar	La Crosse-Winona Local Section ACS meeting @ 7:30 pm in Valders 168. Click link for details; then view latest edition of the newsletter. Chem 85 students are encouraged, but not required, to attend.
10 Mar	C. LeMaster
17 Mar	Professor J. Jefferson, Luther College
Th 20 Mar	Guest Lecture: Eric Cornell, 2001 Physics Nobel Prize winner / 7 pm / CFL. Chem 85 students should plan on attending; this lecture is considered to be part of Chemistry 85. See http://publicinformation.luther.edu/cornelldistinguishedlecture.html for more information.
24 Mar	No seminar--Spring Vacation
31 Mar	B. Runge
7 Apr	N. Litchfield
14 Apr	A. Martinson
21 Apr	No seminar--Easter Vacation
28 Apr	A. Peters
5 May	R. Hollenbeck
12 May	No seminar

	Fall 2002-2003 Seminar Schedule
9 Sep	D. Wiser (Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Ill.)
16 Sep	C. Landis (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI)/Metallocene Catalysts and Polyalkenes or Why are My Running Shoes Lighter?
23 Sep	S. Franklin (University of Iowa)/Artificial Nucleases: New Chimeras from Unrelated Beasts
30 Sep	J. Schlueter (Argonne National Laboratory)
7 Oct	J. Jespersen/Structural Energetics and Protein-Protein Interactions
14 Oct	G. Richard Geier, III (Colgate University, Hamilton, NY)
21 Oct	Fall break
28 Oct
4 Nov	J. Kime/Enzyme Catalysis of O-glycosylation of MUC1 proteins by GalNAc transferases
11 Nov	A. Peter
18 Nov	Donald Dimmel (Institute of Paper Science & Technology)/EXPANDING YOUR CAREER OPTIONS: GRADUATE SCHOOL? THE PAPER INDUSTRY? Valders 264. 5:30 pm. Monday 18 Nov. Pizza will be provided free of charge. In order to keep this seminar time as informal as possible, this seminar will be for Luther chemistry students only with attendance by chem 85 students being required. No faculty will be present at the seminar so as to maximize the informal nature of the talk and because Prof. Dimmel has given many talks on paper chemistry to Luther faculty and students over the years. Luther has placed many chemistry graduates in the Institute for Paper Science and Technology graduate program over the years.
25 Nov	No seminar
2 Dec	R. Yow
9 Dec	D. Menke

CHEMISTRY SEMINAR SCHEDULE SPRING 2002

DATE	SPEAKER(s)/TOPIC
4 FEB
11 FEB	B. Chamberlain (Luther College)/ "Plastic Forks & the Family Farm: a New Crop of Eco-Friendly Polymers Derived from Agricultural Feedstocks"
18 FEB
25 FEB
4 MAR	Trip to Ticona (4-to-5 hour trip)
11 MAR
18 MAR
8 APR	D.-E. Dilley (Luther College)/"Synthesis of Second Order Nonlinear Optics Crystals with Second Harmonic Capabilities"
15 APR	American Chemical Society Local Section Meeting & Talk (7:30 pm, Valders 264): Joe Vinson (Univ. of Scranton)/"Analysis of Cannabinoids in Physiological Fluids". For more information, click here. Luther seminar students are NOT required to attend this talk.
22 APR
29 APR
6 MAY	D. Kahl (Stillwater Junior High School, Stillwater, Minnesota)/�Atomic Models and their effective use in Science Education�
13 MAY

DATE, TIME, LOCATION	SPEAKER(s)/TOPIC
Monday 05 February	Brice Hansen (practice)/TBA; Mikki Post (formal)/Synthesis of New Calcitriol(Vitamin D₃) Analogues
Monday 12 February	Bryan Kopaska (practice)/TBA; James Neal (formal)/Synthesis and Anti-HIV Activity of Aminoglycosides and Guanidinoglycosides
Monday 19 February	Christopher Folk (practice)/TBA; Paul Nelson (formal)/Development of Quantum Dot Optical Gain and Stimulated Emission
*Thursday 22 February, 5:30 p.m. Shirley Baker Commons	Professor Matt Horn/Ultrafast Studies of Photoactive Yellow Protein: From Egypt to Iowa in Eight Years
Monday, 26 February	Susan Buckheister (formal)/Pentafluorobenzaldehyde: A Potent New Inhibitor of Human Mitochondrial Aldehyde Dehydrogenase
Monday, 5 March	Dan Drasher (formal)/Synthesis of a Dielectric Polymer Using an Azulene Derivative
Monday, 12 March
Monday, 26 March	Joshua Richard Korth (formal)/MTBE: Problematic; or Public Misconceptions
Monday, 2 April	Jacob Bjork (formal)/The Hopping Mechanism: Charge Transport in DNA Tim Edwards (formal)/Sensing Materials Based on Novel Azulene Containing Molecules
Monday, 9 April	Meghan Caulum (formal)/Verapamil: A Way to Combat Multidrug Resistance in Chemotherapy
Monday, 23 April	Brice Hansen (formal)/Acyl Coenzyme A: Cholesterol Acyl Transferase
Monday, 30 April	Bryan Kopaska (formal)/Schiff Base Ligands
Monday, 7 May	Christopher Folk (formal)/Microtubule Polymerization
Monday, 14 May	Art Trimble (formal)/Superconductivity in C₆₀ Compounds

*Not necessarily required as part of Chemistry 85, but attendance is strongly recommended.

DATE	SPEAKER(s)	TOPIC	TIME	LOCATION
Mon 04 Sep	--	Chem 85 Orientation	7:00 p.m.	Valders 264
Mon 11 Sep		No seminar
Mon 18 Sep		Biography: Roald Hoffmann	7:00 p.m.	V264
Mon 25 Sep	S. Buckheister & M. Caulum, Luther College	Practice talks	7:00 p.m.	V264
Mon 02 Oct	J. Bjork & A. Trimble, Luther College	Practice talks	7:00 p.m.	V264
Mon 09 Oct	M. Vermace, University of Alabama	MTBE Degradation Using Fenton's Reagent	7:00 p.m.	V264
Mon 16 Oct		No seminar
Mon 23 Oct*	R. Hoffmann	One Culture, The Commonalities and Differences Between the Arts and Science	7:30 p.m.	WSU
Mon 30 Oct	A. Rudie, Institute of Paper Science & Technology, Atlanta, Georgia	Metal complexes with black liquor: A research story	7:00 p.m.	V264
Mon 6 Nov	3 students, Luther College	Practice talks	7:00 p.m.	V264
Mon 13 Nov	3 students, Luther College	Practice talks	7:00 p.m.	V264
Wed 15 Nov (special date)	S. Thiran, Marquette University	Structure and function of neurotransmitter receptors	6:00 p.m. (special time)	V264
Mon 20 Nov	J. Robinson University of Kansas	TBA	7:00 p.m.	V264
Mon 27 Nov	1 practice talk and O. Aganga's formal seminar, Luther College	TBA	7:00 p.m.	V264
Mon 4 Dec	1 practice talk and H. Idrissi's formal seminar, Luther College	TBA	7:00 p.m.	V264.

DATE, TIME, LOCATION	SPEAKER(s)/TOPIC
3 September	C. Mottley/"Free Radicals from Tryptophan and Lipoic Acid"
10 September	M. Morgan/"Chemistry in Action: Formulation of Fuels"
17 September	B. Case/"Polymer-Assisted Solution Phase (PASP) Chemical Library Synthesis"
24 September	D. Dimmel; pizza after talk sponsored by IPST and the Luther Chemistry Department
1 October	Betsy Olsen/"Comparisons of Polymer Stability by Analysis of Thermal Degradation Rates Using Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry"
8 October	Erin Hilton/"Radical Cyclization with Chromium Hydrides: Exploring an Alternative to Tin"
15 October	Matt Ough/"Stereogenic Phosphorus: Preparing Enantiomerically Pure Phosphine Oxides and The Cyclization of Adenosine Diphosphate"
29 October	Paul Oldenburg/"New Transition Metal Based Diamondoid Networks Exhibiting Second Harmonic Generation"
5 November	Adam Goddard/"Anion Binding in Trimetalated and Tetrametalated Calixarenes"
12 November	Michael LaBelle/"Extracellular Polysaccharides Produced by Erwinia chrysanthemi: Analysis and Structural Comparison"
19 November	Nessa Miller/"An Investigation of Eukaryotic Plasma Membrane Microdomains: Their Existence and Possible Functions?
26 November	Gordon Hunter/"Inhibition of Acetylcholinesterase by (1S,3S)-Isomalathion: Kinetic and Mass Spectral Evidence for an Unexpected Primary Leaving Group"
3 December	No Seminar