Feb. 2

Dr. George Nora,  Scripps Institute, Jupiter, FL 

Title: "Progress in the Development of Novel Cysteine Protease Inhibitors as Medicinal Agents for the Treatment of Tropical Diseases" 

Feb. 9

Dr. David C. Johnson II,  Indiana University, Bloomington, IN       

Title: "Synthesis of Probes for the Investigation of Biological Processes"

Feb. 16

Prof. Richard C. Holz,  Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL

 Title: "Direct Patterning of Bacterial Cells and Oligonuclotides on Gold and Silicon Surfaces"

Feb. 23

Dr. Sergiy Rosokha, University of Houston, Houston, TX

Title: "Intermolecular Donor/Acceptor and Ion-Radical Interactions and Their Role in Chemical Reactivity, Molecular Recognition and Crystal Engineering"

Mar. 2

Prof. Jun Yin,  University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Title: "Enzyme Directed Evolution by Phage Display"

Mar. 9

Prof. James R. Kincaid, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

Title: "Looking at Fleeting Intermediates in the Reaction Cycles of Heme Proteins"

Apr. 6

Dr. Esen Ercan Alp, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL

Title: "Mössbauer Spectroscopy in the Synchrotron Age: From the Center of the Earth to Mars "