2/10/2004	03/09/2004
04/13/2004	05/11/2004

02/03/2004		02/17/2004	03/16/2004
04/06/2004	04/20/2004	05/04/2004	05/18/2004

The Organic cume exams will be given in room 1315 Chemistry Building, 7:00 PM on the following dates:

February 5	March 4
April 1	May 6

Tuesday, February 3^rd, 2004 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Mark Gordon, Iowa State. “A Cluster-Based Approach to Solvation”

Tuesday, February 3^rd, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Marcey Waters, University of North Carolina. “Pi-Pi and CH-Pi Interactions in Biomolecular Recognition”

Thursday, February 5^th, 2004 - Analytical Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Kimberly Kutz, Graduate Student. “Direct Tissue Analysis of Neuropeptides in Invertebrate Nervous Systems using Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry”

Thursday, February 5^th, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Justin Murray, Graduate Student. “Chemical Methods for Encoding Combinatorial Libraries”

Monday, February 9^th, 2004 - Biochemistry Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room B1118 Biochemistry. Carlos F. Barbas, III. “Polydactyl Zinc Finger Proteins: Developing Strategies to Control and Discover Genes”

Tuesday, February 10^th, 2004 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. John Dutcher, University of Guelph. “Glass Transition and Chain Mobility in Thin Polymer Films”

Thursday, February 12^th, 2004 - Analytical Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Keith Stevenson, University of Texas. “Spatially-Resolved Spectroelectrochemical Imaging of Polymorphous Metal Oxides”

Thursday, February 12^th, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Ratmir Derda, Graduate Student.

Monday, February 16^th, 2004 - Biochemistry Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room B1118 Biochemistry. Floyd Romesberg. “Evolution of Biomolecule Dynamics”

Tuesday, February 17^th, 2004 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Sunney Chan, Caltech. “Protein Folding and Unfolding: Probing the Free Energy Landscape of a Protein”

Wednesday, February 18^th, 2004 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Sunney Chan, Caltech. “Biological Controlled Oxidation of Small Alkanes”

Thursday, February 19^th, 2004 - Analytical Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Franz Geiger, Northwestern University. “Surface Processes Studied in Real Time Using Nonlinear Optical Laser Spectroscopy: from Geochemistry to Atmospheric Chemistry”

Thursday, February 19^th, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Beatriz DeGuia, Graduate Student.

Thursday, February 19^th, 2004 - Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy Seminar, 7:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Frank Drake, University of California-Santa Cruz. “Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence”

Monday, February 23^rd, 2004 - Biochemistry Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room B1118 Biochemistry. Richard Bergman. “Systems Biology and the Pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes”

Tuesday, February 24^th, 2004 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Weitao Yang, Duke University. “Simulation of Chemical Reactions in Enzymes with a Density Functional Theory QM/MM Free Energy Method”

Tuesday, February 24^th, 2004 - Organic McElvain Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Erik Sorensen, Princeton University.

Thursday, February 26^th, 2004 - Analytical Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Qiang Fu, Graduate Student.

Thursday, February 26^th, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Keunho Kim, Graduate Student.

Friday, February 27^th, 2004 - Chemistry Colloquium, 3:45 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Laura Kiessling, UW-Madison.

Monday, March 1^st, 2004 - Biochemistry Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room B1118 Biochemistry. Janet Wood. “Transporter ProP of Escherichia Coli: Osmosensor and Osmoregulator”

Tuesday, March 2^nd, 2004 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Igal Szleifer, Purdue University. “Kinetics of Protein Adsorption: Multiscale Molecular Approach”

Thursday, March 4^th, 2004 - Analytical Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Greg Swain, Michigan State University. “Optically Transparent Diamond Electrodes for Chemical Analysis”

Thursday, March 4^th, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Eric Hansen, Graduate Student.

Monday, March 8^th, 2004 - Biochemistry Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room B1118 Biochemistry. Sylvai Christakos. “New Insights into the Mechanisms of Vitamin D Action”

Tuesday, March 9^th, 2004 - Physical Chemistry Meloche Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Kevin Gardner, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. “PAS Domains: A Versatile Way to Build Protein-Based Switches”

Thursday, March 11^th, 2004 - Analytical Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Lu Shang, Graduate Student.

Thursday, March 11^th, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Emily Dykhuizen, Graduate Student.

Monday, March 22^nd, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Ben L. Feringa, Stratingh Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. “Progress in Asymetric Catalysis”

Monday, March 22^nd, 2004 - Biochemistry Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room B1118 Biochemistry. James A. Fee. “Those Amazing Iron-Sulfer Clusters”

Tuesday, March 23^rd, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Ben L. Feringa, Stratingh Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. “In Control of Molecular Motion and Organization”

Thursday, March 25^th, 2004 - Analytical Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Murray Johnston, University of Delaware. “Mass Spectrometry of Ultrafine Particles: What’s in the Air We Breathe?”

Friday, March 26^th, 2004 - Chemistry Colloquium, 3:45 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Ron Raines, UW-Madison.

Monday, March 29^th, 2004 - Biochemistry Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room B1118 Biochemistry. Arthur Horwich. “Chaperonin-Mediated Protein Folding”

Thursday, April 1^st, 2004 - Analytical Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Xu Zhang, Graduate Student.

Monday, April 5^th, 2004 - Biochemistry Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room B1118 Biochemistry. Daniel Lane. “A Novel Mechanism for the Hypothalamic Control of Food Intake and Body Weight”

Tuesday, April 6^th, 2004 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. A. Ravishankara, University of Colorado, Boulder. “Laboratory Investigations of Free Radical Reactions: A Key Component of Atmospheric Chemistry”

Tuesday, April 6^th, 2004 - Biochemistry Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room B1118 Biochemistry. Claire Walczak. “Molecular Mechanisms of Mitosis: A Cellular Tug-Of-War”

Thursday, April 8^th, 2004 - Analytical Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Dr. Josheph Lakowicz, University of Maryland. “Radiative Decay Engineering: The Use of Metallic Particles to Control
Fluorescence Emission”

Thursday, April 8^th, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Chutima Jiarpinitnun, Graduate Student.

Monday, April 12^th, 2004 - Biochemistry Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room B1118 Biochemistry. Tim Ryan. “Dissecting Molecular Control of Presynaptic Function”

Tuesday, April 13^th, 2004 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. David Blank, University of Minnesota. “Probing the Local Environment During Reactive Dynamics in Solution”

Tuesday, April 13^th, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Huw Davies, SUNY-Buffalo.

Thursday, April 15^th, 2004 - Joint Analytical/Physical Chemistry Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Minh Cho, Korea University.

Thursday, April 15^th, 2004 - Organic McElvain Industrial Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. William Nugent, Bristol-Meyers Squibb.

Monday, April 19^th, 2004 - Biochemistry Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room B1118 Biochemistry. Paul F. Cook. “Mechanism of the Haemophilus Influenzae Serine Acetyltransferase”

Tuesday, April 20^th, 2004 - Physical Chemistry McElvain Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Michael Fayer, Stanford University. “Hydrogen Bond Dynamics Probed with Ultrafast Infrared Vibrational Echo Correlation Spectroscopy”

Tuesday, April 20^th, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Robert Sheridan, University of Nevada, Reno.

Thursday, April 22^nd, 2004 - Analytical Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Richard Caprioli, Vanderbilt University. “Tissue Imaging and Profiling of Proteins by Mass Spectrometry for Discovery in Clinical and Biological Research”

Monday, April 26^th, 2004 - Biochemistry Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room B1118 Biochemistry. ChulHee Kang. “Taming Calcium Ion: Its Implication on Drug Side Effects”

Tuesday, April 27^th, 2004 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Marsha Lester, University of Pennsylvania. “Significant OH Radical Reactions in the Atmosphere: A New View”

Tuesday, April 27^th, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Kyung Woon Jung, University of Southern Florida.

Thursday, April 29^th, 2004 - Analytical Meloche Lecture Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Carol Robinson, Cambridge University. “Mass spectrometry of dynamic multi-protein complexes”

Thursday, April 29^th, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Amanda Jones, Graduate Student.

Thursday, April 29^th, 2004 - Biochemistry Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room B1118 Biochemistry. Vern Schramm “Enzymatic Transition States, Analogues, Cancer and Malaria”

Friday, April 30^th, 2004 - Chemistry Colloquium, 3:45 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Jim Skinner, UW-Madison.

Monday, May 3^rd, 2004 - Biochemistry Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Room B1118 Biochemistry. William Theurkauf “The Mitotic Response To Geneotoxic Stress”

Tuesday, May 4^th, 2004 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Barry Lentz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “A View of Cell Membrane Fusion: Protein Machines Work on Lipid Materials”

Wednesday, May 5^th, 2004 - Inorganic McElvain Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Lou Noodleman, Scripps Research Institute.

Thursday, May 6^th, 2004 - Analytical McElvain Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Dr. Charles Cantor, Sequenom Inc. “Precise Quantitative Analysis of Nucleic Acids by Mass Spectrometry”

Thursday, May 6^th, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Emily Payne, Graduate Student.

Monday, May 10^th, 2004 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Akinobu Naka, Kurashiki University, Japan.

Wednesday, June 4^th, 2004 - Organic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Joel Schneider, University of Delaware.

Generation of AuPd22/Au2Pd21 analogues of the high-nuclearity Pd-23(CO)(20)(PEt3)(10) cluster containing 19-atom centered hexacapped-cuboctahedral (nu(2)-octahedral) metal fragment: structural-to-synthesis approach concerning formation of Au2Pd21(CO)(20)(PEt3)(10).

Nanosized Au2Pd41(CO)(27)(PEt3)(15) containing two geometrically unprecedented 13-coordinated Au-centered (mu(13)-Au)Pd-13 polyhedra connected by triangular face-sharing and three interpenetrating 12-coordinated Pd-centered (mu(12)-Pd)Au2Pd10 icosahedra: geometrical change in centered polyhedra induced by Au/Pd electronegativity-mismatch.

Surface plasmon resonance imaging as a tool to monitor biomolecular interactions in an array based format.

Upstream stimulatory factor but not c-Myc enhances transcription of the human polymeric immunoglobulin receptor gene.

A comparison of the ring conformational properties of two derivatives prepared from the same diene diacetate precursor.

ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C-CRYSTAL STRUCTURE COMMUNICATIONS, 59: O721-O723 Part 12 DEC 2003.

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Which course(s) in: General Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry.

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NMR Spectroscopist (Hiring Manager: GD) - CHE000435. Drug Metabolism plays a central role in drug discovery and development process at Merck. They are seeking a candidate who will be responsible for structure determination of drug metabolites and other unknown organic molecules in support of these activities. This represents a good career opportunity for a candidate to join an NMR group with state of the art facilities and of high repute. It also represents an opportunity to become integrated into a multi-disciplinary scientific environment that is Drug Metabolism. A Ph.D. in chemistry (or equivalent) with proven hands-on experience in small-molecule NMR spectroscopy and a strong background in organic chemistry / structure elucidation. Additional experience in chromatography, LC-MS, and/or LC-NMR is a plus. Strong communications skills and ability to work in fast-paced team environment is a must. For more information, use the Merck web site at: http://www.merck.com/careers/search_jobs.html [*Enter Keyword: NMR*].

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking qualified candidates to fill the. position of Supervisory Biologist/Toxicologist Environmental Scientist, GS-0401/0415/1301-14/15. The employee will serve as Branch Chief, Toxic Effects Characterization Research Branch (TECRB), at the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory's (NHEERL), Mid-Continent Ecology Division (MED) in Duluth, Minnesota. The Incumbent will report to the Division Director and be responsible for providing scientific leadership in planning and conducting research to extend and apply ecotoxicology principles to quantify adverse effects of chemicals, and their interaction with non-chemical stressors, on aquatic life and wildlife; to improve interspecies extrapolation and predictions of population responses; and to advance techniques to Incarcerate diagnostic (molecular, biochemical, histological) endpoints into assays used for single-chemical testing or monitoring complex mixtures, The ideal candidate will have strong technical skills in biology, toxicology, natural resources, environmental sciences or a closely related field, quantitative/analytic skills, as well as strong research team leadership skills. The incumbent will supervise research scientists, support scientists, technicians, and postdoctoral scientists, who work in interdisciplinary teams. The incumbent will represent EPA in intra-and inter-agency planning and other technical activities. This is a permanent, full-time position. U S. citizenship is required and candidates must meet U.S. Office of Personnel Management qualification requirements including specific educational course work. Candidates should have the required education and/or experience as described In the announcements referenced below. Salary ranges from $80,800 to $123,682 and is commensurate with qualifications. The selected candidates will be eligible for a full benefits package, including relocation expenses, health insurance, life insurance, retirement and vacation and sick leave. How to Apply: Vacancy announcements and application Instructions are posted on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's (OPM's) web site at: http://www.usajobs.opm.gov and on the EPA vacancy web site at: http://www.epa.gov/ezhire as of January 12 under the following titles and announcement numbers: Supervisory Biologist/Toxicologist/Environmental Scientist - RTP-DE-2004-0020 and RTP-MP-2004-0052. The application deadline is March 5. 2004. For further information, contact the EPA Human Resources Management Division at (800) 433-9633, and reference “MED Branch Chief Position.”

The Department of Chemistry at Oberlin College invites applications for two non-continuing one-year positions in organic chemistry and in physical chemistry to begin July 2004. Both positions have the possibility to be extended for a second year. We seek your help in bringing these openings to the attention of potential candidates. We are especially interested in attracting women and minority groups. The appointees will teach courses in organic and physical chemistry and will direct undergraduate research projects. The appointments normally will be at the rank of assistant professor at a salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. Complete job descriptions are enclosed. Requirements: Ph.D. in chemistry or be confident of completing one by fall 2004. Interested applicants should submit a c.v, undergraduate and graduate transcripts, research plans and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to: Professor Albert R. Matlin, Department of Chemistry, Oberlin College, 119 Woodland St., Oberlin, OH 44074.

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