Southwest Speaker Exchange 2009-2010

The following is a list of seminars available from the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at UNM. If your program wishes to take advantage of any such presentation, please contact the faculty member directly by either clicking on their email address, or contacting them via phone using the provided number.

The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at UNM abides by the rules of the Southwest Regional Speaker Exchange.

Debra Dunaway-Mariano
dd39@unm.edu - 505.277.3383

• Enzyme Mechanisms
• Evolution of Enzyme Catalysis
• Genomic Enzymology

John Grey
jkgrey@unm.edu - 505.277.1658

• Structure-function relationships in nano- and microstructured photovoltaic materials
• Time-resolved single molecule spectro-electrochemistry at molecule-electrode interfaces
• Imaging charge transport and evolution of chemical structure in molecular optoelectronic materials

Hua Guo
hguo@unm.edu - 505.277.1716

• Chemical reaction dynamics
• Enzyme mechanisms

Richard Kemp
rakemp@unm.edu - 505.277.0510

• Reactions of CO2 and other small molecules with main group metal amides
• Development of a possible catalytic cycle for selective O2 activation using transition metal pincer complexes
• Main group metal diimine complexes and the preparation of multi-colored single crystals

Martin L. Kirk
mkirk@unm.edu - 505.277.5992

• Electronic Structure Contributions to Enzymatic Catalysis
• Spectroscopic and Electronic Structure Studies of Long-Range Interactions in Donor-Acceptor Systems
   

Patrick S. Mariano
mariano@unm.edu - 505.277.6390

• Applications of Photochemistry to natural Product Synthesis
• Mechanistic Studies and Applications of Electron transfer Photochemical Reactions of Acceptor-Polydonor Systems
• The Structural and Mechanism based Design of Novel Biomedically Important Enzyme Inhibitors

Robert T. Paine
rtpaine@unm.edu - 505.277.1661

• Design and Development of Selective Recognition Reagents for Metal Ions
• Main Group Molecules to Materials: Across the Valley of Death

David L. Tierney
dtierney@unm.edu - 505.277.2505

• bioinorganic spectroscopy
• metalloenzyme structure/function and modelling

Wei Wang
wwang@unm.edu - 505.277.0756

• Asymmetric organocatalysis
• Chemical biology and medicinal chemsitry
• Molecular imaging and recognition