DBI March 2006 Events
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Materials Science & Engineering Seminar 10:30 am

Analytical/Physical Seminar 4:00 pm

Biological Sciences Seminar 4:00 pm

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DBI Luncheon Seminars Series 12:00

Computational Biology Afternoon Tea (CBAT) 3:00 pm

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Chemical Engineering Seminar 10:00 am

Physical Ocean Science and Engineering 3:00 pm

Inorganic/Organic Seminar 4:00 pm

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Biochemistry Seminar 4:00 pm
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Center for Catalytic Science & Technology Seminar 10:00 am

Marine Studies Seminar 4:00 pm

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Bioscience Breakfast 7:30am

Materials Science & Engineering Seminar 10:30 am

Analytical/Physical Seminar 4:00 pm

Biological Sciences Seminar 4:00 pm

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DBI Luncheon Seminars Series 12:00
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Chemical Engineering Seminar 10:00 am

Physical Ocean Science and Engineering 3:00 pm

Inorganic/Organic Seminar 4:00 pm

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Biochemistry Seminar 4:00 pm
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Center for Catalytic Science & Technology Seminar 10:00 am

Chemical Engineering Seminar 10:00 am

Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminar 12:30 pm

Marine Studies Seminar 4:00 pm

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Analytical/Physical Seminar 4:00 pm

Biological Sciences Seminar 4:00 pm

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Plant & Soil Interface Seminar 9:30 am

DBI Luncheon Seminars Series 12:00

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Chemical Engineering Seminar 10:00 am

Physical Ocean Science and Engineering 3:00 pm

Inorganic/Organic Seminar 4:00 pm

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Biochemistry Seminar 4:00 pm
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Marine Studies Seminar 4:00 pm
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Materials Science & Engineering Seminar 10:30 am

Analytical/Physical Seminar 4:00 pm

Biological Sciences Seminar 4:00 pm

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DBI Luncheon Seminars Series 12:00
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Chemical Engineering Seminar 10:00 am

Inorganic/Organic Seminar 4:00 pm

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Plant & Soil Interface Seminar 11:00 am
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Inorganic/Organic Seminar 4:00 pm

DBI Luncheon Seminars Series

March 2

12:00pm, DBI Main Conference Room 102
"Life on the Edge: Phytoplankton Diversity and Photosynthetic Adaptation in the Dry Valley Lakes of Antarctica"
Rachel Kiss, Post Doctoral Researcher - College of Marine and Earth Studies
Advisor:  Thomas Hanson, Assistant Professor - Marine Studies
Lunch provided at 11:45am

March 9

12:00pm, DBI Main Conference Room 102
Rebekah Helton & Kurt Williamson – Graduate Students
Advisor:  Eric Wommack, Assistant Professor – Plant & Soil Sciences
Lunch provided at 11:45am

March 16

12:00pm, DBI Main Conference Room 102
Kathy Maddox & Chad Blamey - Graduate Students
Department of Biological Sciences
Advisor:  Ulhas Naik, Associate Professor - Biological Sciences
Lunch provided at 11:45am

March 23

12:00pm, DBI Main Conference Room 102
Luis Ralat & Stephanie Misquitta - Graduate Students
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Advisor:  Roberta Colman, Professor - Chemistry & Biochemistry
Lunch provided at 11:45am

Bioscience Breakfast

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7:30am – 9:00am, 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute
7:30 am Breakfast and Networking
8:00 am to 9:00 am Presentations

Analytical/Physical Seminars

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/a_pseminarspeakers.pdf

March 1

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
"Atmospheric Organic Aerosol Formation from the Oxidation of Hydrocarbons"
Professor Paul Ziemann
Host: Murray Johnston

March 8

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
Professor John Williams
Host: Tatyana Polenova

March 15

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
Professor Beat Meier
Host: Tatyana Polenova

March 22

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
Professor Jory Yarmoff
Host: Andrew Teplyakov

Biochemistry Seminars

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/bseminarspeakers.pdf

March 6

4:00, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
"Dissecting long-range communication in an aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase"
Professor Rebecca Alexander
Host: Eugene Mueller

March 13

4:00, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
"Redox Control of a Moonlighting Enzyme in Proline Metabolism"
Professor Don Becker
Host: Eugene Mueller

March 20

4:00, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
"Notes from the underground: Dissecting heme homeostatic pathways in C. elegans"
Professor Iqbal Hamza
Host: Colin Thorpe

Biological Sciences Seminars

http://cgi.bisc.udel.edu/cgi-bin/cals/calendar.pl?calendar=deptcal

March 1

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD Campus
"Maternal Effects and the BMPs of Vertebrate Development"
Dr. Mary Mullins, Associate Professor - University of Pennsylvania
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Host: Erica Selva

March 8

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD Campus
"From Genes to Drugs - Bin 1 and IDO in Cancer Suppression and Immune Escape"
George C. Prendergast, Ph.D., President and CEO - Lankenau Institute of Medical Research
Host: Melinda Duncan

March 15

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD Campus
"Novel Gamete Receptors That Function During Mammalian Fertilization"
Dr. Barry Shur, Candler Professor and Chairman, Department of Cell Biology - Emory University School of Medicine
Host: Dan Carson

March 22

4:00pm, 318 Wolf Hall, UD Campus
"Elucidating the Small RNA Component of the Transcriptome"
Dr. Pamela J. Green, Crawford H Greenwalt Professor, Plant & Soil Science
Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Host: Dan Carson

Center for Catalytic Science & Technology Seminars

http://www.che.udel.edu/ccst/Seminars.html#anchor1

March 7

10:00am, 240 Colburn Lab
"Presentation of the Competence Centre Catalysis at Chalmers University in Sweden"
Professor Bengt Andersson, Chalmers University of Technology

March 14

10:00am, 240 Colburn Laboratory - UD Campus
“Nox Reduction in Car Exhaust”
Prof. Bengt Andersson – Chalmers University of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Catalytic Science & Technology
Refreshments available at 9:45am

Chemical Engineering Seminars

http://www.che.udel.edu/abstracts/seminarschedule.pdf

March 3

10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Lab, UD Campus
"Ostwald, Gibbs and Crystal Nucleation"
Dr. Daan Frenkel, Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics
Wohl Lecture Reception at 4:00pm

March 10

10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Laboratory - UD Campus
“Molecular Engineering Approaches to Permeability Issues in Whole-Cell Biocatalysis”
Prof. Rachel Chen – Georgia Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Department of Chemical Engineering
Refreshments available at 9:45am

March 14

University of Melbourne, Australia
10:00am, 366 Colburn Laboratory - UD Campus
“Compressional Rheology of Aggregated Suspensions”
Prof. Peter Scales – Head, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Light
Sponsored by the Center for Molecular & Engineering Thermodynamics
Refreshments available at 9:45am

March 16

1:00pm, 366 Colburn Laboratory - UD Campus
“True Intermediates and Spectators in Reaction Mechanisms:  A Kinetic and Spectroscopic Study”
Prof. Ted Oyama – Virginia Tech
Sponsored by the Center for Catalytic Science & Technology
Light refreshments available at 12:45pm

March 17

10:00am, 102/103 Colburn Laboratory - UD Campus
“From Silicon Oxide Nanodots to Artificial Vocal Folds: Advanced Materials by Design”
Prof. Xinqiao Jia – Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware
Sponsored by the Department of Chemical Engineering
Refreshments available at 9:45am

Chemistry-Biology Interface Seminar

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/interface06.pdf

March 14

12:30pm - 1:30pm, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
"Engineering Cell-Biomaterials Interfaces: Can You Hear Me Now?"
Dr. Andrés J. García , Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology

Computational Biology Afternoon Tea (CBAT)

www.dbi.tju.edu/CBAT

March 2

3:00pm 307, Jefferson Alumni Hall, 1020 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA
"De Novo Protein Design in Computational Genomics: Advances and Challenges"
Chris Floudas, Ph.D., Professor of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University
Contact Dr. Raj Vadigepalli at (215) 503-2969.
For directions and campus map please visit http://www.tju.edu/main/direct.cfm
Tea served at 2:45pm

Inorganic/Organic Seminars

http://www.udel.edu/chem/seminar/i_oseminarspeakers.pdf

March 3

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
Professor Bryan Eichhorn
Host: Svilen Bobev

March 10

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
Professor Rich Jordan
Host: Klaus Theopold

March 17

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
Professor Chulbom Lee
Host: John Koh

March 24

4:00pm, 210 Brown Lab, UD Campus
"Facilitated chemical genetics using tagged small molecule library"
Professor Young Tae Chang
Host: John Koh

March 31

4:00pm, 130 Sharp Hall, UD Campus
Colloquium
"Molybdenum, Zirconium and Lanthanide Clusters; On the Road to Molecular Magnets?"
Professor Tim Hughbanks
Host: Svilen Bobev

Marine Studies Seminars

http://www.ocean.udel.edu/seminars/

March 7

4:00 pm - 5:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Lewes via ITV 206 Robinson Hall, UD Campus

March 14

4:00 pm - 5:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Lewes via ITV 206 Robinson Hall, UD Campus
"The Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck: The archaeology of an 18th century merchant vessel"
Daniel Griffith, Director - Division of Historical & Cultural Affairs, State of Delaware & Charles Fithian, Curator of Archaeological Collections, Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs

Host: David Kirchman

March 21

4:00 pm - 5:00pm, 202 Cannon Lab, Lewes via ITV 206 Robinson Hall, UD Campus
"Surf and nearshore dynamics camera (SANDcam) at Rehoboth Beach, DE"
Dr. Jack Puleo, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Center for Applied Coastal Research - University of Delaware
Host: Wendy Carey

Materials Science & Engineering Seminars

www.udel.edu/mse

March 1

10:30-11:30am, 102 Colburn Lab, UD Campus
"Manipulating Block Copolymer Think film Ordering Through Substrate Directed
Self-Assembly"
Karim Alamgir , NIST

March 8

10:30-11:30am, 102 Colburn Lab, UD Campus
"New Views and New Uses of Wettability"
Tom McCarthy, University of Massachusetts

March 22

10:30-11:30am, 102 Colburn Lab, UD Campus
TBA
ILhan Aksay, Princeton

Physical Ocean Science and Engineering

March 3

3:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall, UD Campus
"Using Robots-Radar-Satellites to Study Biogeochemical Dynamics on the Midatlantic Bight"
Dr. Oscar Schofield, Associate Professor, Marine Biology and Ocean Optics, Rutgers University
Refreshments will be served following the seminar

March 10

3:00pm, 206 Robinson Hall/202 Cannon Lab, UD Campus
“The Effect of Double Diffusion in Fluids Where the Density Changes are Small”
George Veronis, Yale University

March 17

3:00pm, 203 Robinson Hall, UD Campus
"Realistic Simulation of Mediterranean Overflow Water Depth Penetration Using a Purely Z-Level Model"
Dr. David Dietrich, AcuSea - Albuquerque, New Mexico
Refreshments will be served following the seminar

Plant & Soil Interface Seminar

March 16

9:30am - 10:30am, 233 Townsend Hall – UD Campus
"To Build a Biofilm"
Dr. George O’Toole, Dartmouth Medical School
Refreshments will be served and all are welcome and encouraged to attend
Contact:  Dr. Harsh Bais, bais@dbi.udel.edu for more information

March 28

11:00am, Robinson 206/ITV to Cannon 202, UD Campus
"Revealing the Molecular Secrets of Marine Diatoms"
Dr. Chris Bowler, ENS/CNRS FRE 2910
Signalisation et Morphogenèse des Diatomées
Département de Biologie Ecole Normale Supérieure, Italy