Nano@Wayne

All Nano@Wayne Seminars are held at the Welcome Center Auditorium located at 42 West Warren Avenue at 2:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Tuesday, April 17 — Dr. Jayanth Panyam, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Topic: Nanotechnology-Based Approaches to Overcome Tumor Drug Resistance

September 18 — James R. Baker, Jr., M.D.
Ruth Dow Doan Professor and Director, Center for Biologic Nanotechnology
Chief, Division of Allergy and Immunology
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Michigan/Ann Arbor

October 2 — Eric Jakobsson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Biochemistry Department, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, Bioengineering Program, Neuroscience Program, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Director, National Center for Biomimetic Nanoconductors
University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign

November 6 — Stephen K. Gray, Ph.D
Senior Chemist, Chemical Dynamics in the Gas Phase and Computational Nanophotonics
Chemistry Division and Center for Nanoscale Materials
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL

December 4 — Ranganathan Kumar, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical Materials and Aerospace Engineering
University of Central Florida/Orlando

Molecular Biophysics Seminar Series

The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to announce the Molecular Biophysics Seminar Series, which aims to bring together scientists with diverse interests and expertise in the general area of biophysics. The series is intended to enhance cohesion among WSU scientists wanting to learn and apply the collective resources of the molecular biophysics community, leading to improved communications and strengthening ties across disciplinary boundaries and University units.

The first seminar will be held on Thursday, April 26th from 3 to 4:00 p.m. in Room 3125 of Scott Hall. The guest speaker will be Dr. James Penner-Hahn, professor of Chemistry and research professor of Biophysics at the University of Michigan. Dr. Penner-Hahn will present, “Inorganic Physiology: Distribution and Speciation of Metal Ions in Biological Systems.”

We invite everyone working at the interface between physics, chemistry, molecular biology, engineering and medicine to join us at these symposia for conversation and presentation of research from leaders in the field of molecular biophysics.

For more information about Dr. Penner-Hahn, please see his website at http://www.umich.edu/~jphgroup/.

Physical Chemistry Seminar

The Department of Chemistry is hosting a Physical Chemistry Seminar on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 from 3 to 4 p.m. at 1500 Engineering Auditorium.

Professor Paul Barbara from the University of Texas at Austin will be the guest speaker.

His topic is: “Single Molecule Spectroscopic Studies of Protein Nucleic Acid Interactions in the Reverse Transcription of HIV-1 in Vitro”.

Further information can be obtained from David Rueda, Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, rueda@chem.wayne.edu, (313) 577-2580.