Structure & Bonding

An interdisciplinary and interdepartmental seminar series. A community-building forum for informal and formal discussions and presentation by students and faculty interested in theoretical and computational approaches to structure and bonding.

Meeting Frequency: Every 2 weeks starting Thursday, February 1, 2001.
Meeting Time & Place: Chemistry Conference Room, 1-2 pm.

For more information, contact Rainer Glaser
Telephone: (573) 882-0331. Email: [email protected]


DATE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION / PRESENTATION
January 25 no meeting this week
February 1 Dr. Peter Tipton, Department of Biochemistry, "The Chemical Mechanism of the Urate Oxidase Reaction"
February 8 no meeting this week
February 15 Charles W. Caldwell, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, Director of Laboratories, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, "Biomedical Computing Research at MU"
February 22 no meeting this week
March 1 Dr. Lesa Beamer, Department of Biochemistry, "Structural Studies of Enzymes in Alginate Biosynthesis."
March 8 no meeting this week
March 15 Dr. Steven van Doren, Department of Biochemistry, "Structure, Motion, and Induced Fit of a Co-Chaperone from a Tumor Virus."
March 22 no meeting this week
March 29 SPRING BREAK
April 5 ACS Meeting, San Diego
April 12 Dr. C. S. Raman, Assistant Professor, Structural Biology Center, Dept. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Univ. Texas - Medical School, Houston, Texas. "Nitric Oxide Synthases"
April 19 no meeting this week
April 26 Sundeep Rayat, M.S., Dr. Glaser Group, "Cytosine Deamination - Theory and Experimentation."
May 3 no meeting this week
May 10 Dr. John Adams, Department of Chemistry, "Dynamics as a Probe of Structure in a Supercritical Fluid"
May 17 no meeting this week




Meeting Frequency: Every 2 weeks starting Thursday, September 7, 2000.
Meeting Time & Place: Chemistry Conference Room, 1-2 pm.

For more information, contact Rainer Glaser
Telephone: (573) 882-0331. Email: [email protected]


DATE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION / PRESENTATION
August 31 no meeting this week
September 7 Michael Lewis, Dr. Glaser Group, "Effects of Microsolvation on the Hydrolysis of Heterocumulenes: Catalysis and Rehybridization."
September 14 no meeting this week; Monday 9/18: MU Internet2 Day
September 21 Dr. Robert E. Harris, "Sulfur: Rings and Other Things"
September 28 no meeting this week
October 5 Raelene Lawrence, Dr. Plummer Group, "Highlights of my PhD Thesis."
October 12 no meeting this week
October 19 Xinfeng Gao, Dr. Wong Group, "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of an Adrenocortropin Hormone Peptide in a Solvated Dodecylphosphocholine Micelle"
October 26 Midwest Regional Meeting, St. Louis
November 2 Dr. Steven Keller, "Strange Coordination Environments in Extended Cu(I)-Bipyridine Networks".
November 9 no meeting this week
November 16 Leonid Breydo. Dr. Gates Group, "Mechanism of Activation of Leinamycin: A DFT Study".
November 23 Thanksgiving Break
November 30 Nancy Vosnidou, Dr. Worcester Group, "Computational Modeling of Large Biological Systems"
December 7 no meeting this week




Meeting Frequency: Every 2 weeks starting Thursday, January 13, 2000.
Meeting Time & Place: Chemistry Conference Room, 1-2 pm.

For more information, contact Rainer Glaser
Telephone: (573) 882-0331. Email: [email protected]


DATE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION / PRESENTATION
January 13 Introductions, Organizational Matters, Scheduling
January 20 no meeting this week
January 27 Dale Musser, Advanced Computing Environments
February 3 no meeting this week
February 10 Dr. Rainer Glaser, Chemistry, "Anisotropic Organic Materials"
February 17 no meeting this week
February 24 Dr. John Tanner, Chemistry, "Form, Function, and Flexibility of Biological Molecules."
March 2 no meeting this week
March 9 Dr. David Worcester, Biology, "Computation for Problems in Structural Biology" & Poster Session Molecular Biology Week
March 16 no meeting this week
March 23 Dr. Tuck Wong, Chemistry, "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Peptide-Membrane Systems"
March 30 SPRING BREAK
April 6 Dr. Patricia Plummer, Chemistry & Physics
April 13 no meeting this week
April 20 Dr. Tom Quinn, Biochemistry
April 27 no meeting this week
May 4 Final's week.