CHEMISTRY SPEAKERS AND GRADUATE-LEVEL TOPICS 2010/2011

Baylor University

Speakers should be contacted directly. Email addresses are given for each speaker, and the department address/phone number is as follows:

Department of Chemistry
Baylor University
One Bear Place #97348
Waco, TX 76798
Phone:254-710-3311
FAX:254-710-4272

• An Experimental Study of the Kinetics and Dynamics of Metal Ion Assisted C–C and C–H Bond Activation at Low Internal Energies

C. Kevin Chambliss
E-mail: Kevin_Chambliss@baylor.edu
Research Group

• Redox-Switchable Metal Complexes in Analytical Chemistry
• Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Fish. Novel Screening Methods and Results of a National Pilot Study in the U.S.
• Compositional Analysis of Biomass Feedstocks and Process Streams. The Role of Analytical Chemistry in Biomass-to-Ethanol Conversion

Patrick J. Farmer
E-mail: Patrick_Farmer@baylor.edu
Research Group

• The Biocoordination chemistry of HNO: from Warren Roper to Hemoglobin
• The Mysteries of Melanin
• Targeting Melanoma with Metal-based Drugs
• Photochemistry of Dithiomaltol Complexes: redox reaction of dark excited states

Charles M. Garner
E-mail: Charles_Garner@baylor.edu
Research Group

• Capillary Gas Chromatography: What You Can Do With 200,000 Theoretical Plates in Research and Teaching
• New Nitrogen and Phosphorus Ligands - Pyrazolylpyridines and the First C2-Chiral Phosphinine
• Structural Studies and Synthetic Applications of Internally Coordinated Chiral Organoboranes
• Simple Compounds with Unexpected Properties: Organic Gelling Agents

C. Alton Hassell
E-mail: Alton_Hassell@baylor.edu

• 252Cf Plasma Desorption Mass Spectrometry - Boiling Molecules by Nuclear Energy

Robert Kane
E-mail: Bob_Kane@baylor.edu

• The Organic Chemistry of Fresh Flesh
• Hedging our bets: Suppressing or Stimulating Immune Responses Using Organic Synthesis

Sung-Kun Kim
E-mail: Sung-Kun_Kim@baylor.edu
Research Group

• Screening and Characterization of High Affinity ssDNA Aptamers against Anthrax

Kevin K. Klausmeyer
E-mail: Kevin_Klausmeyer@baylor.edu
Research Group

• Coordination chemistry and reactivity of pyridyl containing phosphinites and phosphonites

Carlos E. Manzanares
E-mail: Carlos_Manzanares@baylor.edu
Research Group

• Atmospheric Chemistry Linked to Visible Light Absorption
• Planetary atmospheres: Spectroscopy and reactivity in cryogenic liquids

John A. Olson
E-mail: John_Olson@baylor.edu

• A Chemist's View of Surface Chemistry
• The P's and Q's of Model Construction
• Recent Developments in DIM: An Approximate Polyatomics in Molecule Treatment for Electron Transfer Reactions and/or a Second Quantized Form for Approximate Dynamical Treatments

Kevin G. Pinney
E-mail: Kevin_Pinney@baylor.edu
Research Group

• The Discovery and Development of Vascular Disrupting Agents (VDAs) for Cancer Chemotherapy and the Treatment of Related Vascular Specific Diseases

Bryan F. Shaw
E-mail: Bryan_Shaw@baylor.edu
Research Group

• Developing drug therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Why do some metallo-proteins regulate their net charge during metal binding?
• Understanding how electrostatic surface potentials affect the rate of hydrogen-deuterium exchange in proteins.
• Developing chemical tools to bridge proteomics and structural biology.

Mary Lynn Trawick
E-mail: Mary_Lynn_Trawick@baylor.edu
Research Group

• Specificity and Inhibition of Gamma-Glutamylamine Cyclotransferase